Margot, ray of pink sunshine My friend Margot passed away this week. Thinking back on our time together, I'm realizing Margot was a member of my pandemic pod. I wouldn't have called it that at the time because for me the term conjures up images of 20/30-somethings in the city picnicking, playing board games, drinking wine in puffers in...

HVD PC ❣ Cinephile pups watching News from Home 🍎 (ง’̀-‘́)ง everyone should be making art and displaying it in their front yards Every morning I sit among the plants and meditate; Ziggy follows my cue, jumping into my lap and closing his eyes with me. One morning I peeked at him and this is how he was looking at me 😭🫠 Room to Dream—Dav...

Homemade bolognese + Ziggy cuddles The best David Lynch tribute of the night…two of Lynch’s most famous leading ladies as dates, Rossellini/Dorothy Vallens wore blue velvet 💙 Very proud of Zoe Saldaña, who will always be my Eva Rodríguez (from Center Stage, her film debut) Also proud of Julian for beautiful, heart-wrenching film Sugarc...

better late than never // when you're watching too many movies to ever sit and think about them Favorite recent release Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World: We've had smartphones in wide use for about 15 years now, and yet somehow the smartphoniness of it all still hadn't been adequately represented! Some filmmakers have b...

Happy lunar new year Everyone says whatever they want when it comes to Zodiac symbolism—I've tried researching a definitive source, and have learned that Zodiac meaning is a complex interlocking science/mythology that defies distillation. So, for the year of the snake, I choose to see in the reptile a beautiful symphony of collectivism...

Rest in Peace, David Lynch (1946-2025) On Thursday, I was trying and failing to explain to someone what movies meant to me: how simply, at their best, they make me feel connected to humanity. Trying to understand, she elaborated on my point saying that it makes sense to love movies: they're predictable, they have satisfying character a...

Among the images and videos of devastation from Los Angeles' historic fires this week, a video of a young deer stood out to me: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j29vU6GUkz8 The deer is running through a smoky street in Altadena, its hind leg perhaps injured, looking for where it should go next. The video records a living thing trying to ...

source: Metalocus ---------------------------------- The Spirit of Hope, Byung-Chul Han What 15 Very Different People Hope to See in 2025 This reply from Colson Whitehead to the question "What do you hope to see in 2025" has been a sentiment building in my own heart and mind the last months of 2024. Peter and I had a conversation the o...

CODE KAPUTT is the best possible tech memoir name (the title of the German translation of Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley from 2020) Everyone should see Julian Brave Noisecat’s extraordinary doc Sugarcane Bday bb reid ❤ September 14 would have been David Wojnarowicz’ 70th birthday. We sat in the MoMA sculpture garden and took in his groun...

FKA Twigs, the creative polymath singer, dancer, artist, is currently showing a piece called “The Eleven” at Sotheby’s London: “The Eleven is a durational artwork, conceived by twigs and performed by a rotating group of eleven ‘movers.’ The piece, developed by twigs over many months, is a physical and artistic quest for self-healing, r...

This week, I finished reading the fantastic, enthralling book "Monsters" by Claire Dederer. In "Monsters", Dederer grapples with the question: can you separate the art from the artist? With the #metoo movement and victims' increasing ability to shed light on abuse suffered at the hands of people in power, this question has emerged as a...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

Holzer and mama and panisse and Pakistani Midwood mangos and Tenet and tendrils and Elmhurst and Auriea Harvey and 豆干炒肉絲 and a Tibetan circle dance and 空心菜 and Kitti at 22 and Kitti at 92 and Princess time and Algonquin Hotel and Yuzu-Matcha-Strawberry and NBetween and Tales of Hoffmann and The Lot Radio and hbd Abby and Tonal Fiction ...

BUMP Free book find: 1961 NYT Cookbook New York City summer 💚 Z: good with kids 👍🏻 sparkling childhood Una ❤ 💙 Many, many congrats to dear friend Cassandra Jenkins on her incredible new album, My Light, My Destroyer. Bravo 👏!! A note from the singular, the inimitable, the completely delightful Kitti Love jungle Did you know: David Bowi...

This week, I finished reading What My Bones Know, an intense, beautiful memoir from the journalist Stephanie Foo about healing from Complex PTSD. Thoroughly researched and impossibly lucid, the book is a great service to the mental health profession and field, to all those suffering from complex PTSD, and to anyone in love, community, ...

I always had the impression Paul Verhoeven's 90's movies were glossy, entertaining, yet thoughtless schlock (e.g. RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers). A friend however recently insisted that I give Showgirls (1995) an honest, earnest watch. I ended up being swept off my feet by a movie that I felt was, ...

The Wacky and Wonderful World of the Westminster Dog Show Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Inside Light @ the Park Ave Armory: a reverent & meditative 2.5-hour snippet of a 29-hour opera. I hope to one day experience the opera in full 🌅 8:16pm in Connecticut on one of the longest days of the year A ~70-year old copy of Struwwelpeter, an early G...

Ballet class playlist, 30 songs I remember from a time in my life where I was in a ballet studio pretty much every day 🩰 This week, I had to write something for an old friend whom I first met when we did rather intense ballet together as children/teens. To get into the mindset of our old ballet memories, I searched for some nice playli...

Very Disco In 2004, when my brother went off to college in faraway Boston, he came back his first winter break a changed man. Always cool, he was somehow cooler and even more knowing, and I was desperate to be anything like him. He endowed upon me a hard drive with the following mysterious cultural gems, offered as small clues to his c...

~+70 years Engagement 🎉 a wine that supports auteurist filmmaking 💯 Twigs+Graham+PickleShirt+LadyWong @mahima Unwinged Victory of Samothrace Nest Qanoon videodrome The wide range of typographies, designs, and impressions people made with Chinese seals (A Square Space Incised with Emotions) Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Forever...

Thinking of the mothers who want the very best for their children, whatever that means and however they show it. Thinking of the mothers who want a better world for their children, and who extend that desire to all the world’s children. Thinking of the mothers who want to share a sense of identity, home, culture, history with their chi...

The above is excerpted from a Columbia professor/instructor's anonymous response to the question, “What are your students learning from all this?”. In full: “They continue to be reminded that older generations do not understand the violent world they’ve grown up in. Furthermore, they now believe the adults don’t care to understand.” Fo...

Beautifully shot, scored, paced; a blistering political-visual essay on the unyielding human will for dignity and self-determination. An inspiring call to continue to fight for liberation, no matter how unrelenting the oppressor and its systems and machines. An assertion that liberation is a hard-won, yet certain feature in the flow of...

I experienced a total solar eclipse on Monday (⌐■_■) A time of cosmic & geological overwhelm This rock was our viewing spot. 10 minutes before totality I knew things would ~get weird~, I knew the light would be nightmarish, I knew people often faint, scream, and cry during, but I was not prepared for: • How suddenly the world went from...

Required reading: https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/total-eclipse-annie-dillard Made our way to Saranac Lake to experience the ~path of totality~

A year ago March 28, Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away. I primarily know his work through the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, where he stars alongside David Bowie in this heart-wrenching, gorgeous film about humanity in wartime. The movie depicts the spiritual torture of realizing the humanity of your conflict-defined enemies, especial...

In Oppenheimer, we never understood why there was such a glaring typo as “trian crossing”. On my 3rd watch (!!), I realized the sign reads “pedestrian crossing” Versailles Rolo’s Calumet Can never get quite enough sleep The brilliant Ivo Dimchev NYT museum Clockwise: - an alternate NYT front page on November 9, 2016 - a letter explaini...

https://www.nypl.org/speakout Last week, leaders of NYC's three public library systems (NY, Brooklyn, Queens) launched a campaign against Mayor Eric Adams' and the NY City Council's proposed budget cuts in the coming FY 2025; these cuts would be the highest proposed budget cuts to the libraries in over a decade. If you're a NYC residen...

Bravo, bravo to Oppenheimer tonight, for its 7 wins, which included Best Picture. For me, it felt like the first time in a while that the Oscars have awarded cinematic achievement, for a movie that deserves to join the canon. Over the summer, there were early critiques of the movie that it didn't show what happened on the other side of...