Claire

April 4, 2023

oaxaca

oaxaca beautiful kinetic alive city the last 3 images are a boutique called Tienda Q a wedding chinese tea ceremony beautiful bride (on her 4th dress of the night) friends ❣❣❣ some of the places in these photos: Kiyo Cafe, Las Quinces Letras p&c xmas card pic time 👐👐👐 good good food food from left to right, top to bottom: Levadura de O...
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March 27, 2023

kwee’s weeks in photos

He was also wearing the Hereditary sweatpants Team Superset + badgalriri and badgalzizi I spy with my little eye,,, an Emmy in a window recent dinnertime companions Z the sun god Pi day praying mantis egg sac // all hail giger 2 different restaurants, floating noods abound BAM nights with sashie and her spacious pockets The 你幹什麼 specia...
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March 20, 2023

spring is springing

From left to right: - beginning to cut back the brown and dead on the High Line, to make way for new growth - the newest leaf on my fiddle leaf fig came in with a little window - every night I drink chia water, and in the morning I dump any leftover water into my watering can. It looks like a seed made it past my nightly slurping, and ...
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March 13, 2023

Alternative Academy

If you liked: Movie (year) Another Movie I'd Recommend (year) [IMAGE(S)] why: a thing about Movie that I think is better portrayed or honored in Another Movie I'd Recommend If you liked: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 1. Tampopo (1985) why: Asians doing random, frenetic things 2. Pushing Hands (1991) why: its depiction of the...
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March 6, 2023

kwee's week in photos

left: "Chester Pinning Ziggy" (2023) right: "Judith Beheading Holofernes" (Caravaggio c. 1598–1599 or 1602) late winter sun blur BRIC Poetry Slam led by Mahogany L. Browne and Jive Poetic FaceTimes with Reid TOILETPAPER's March what were once beets from bar b dog pile I luv magic 🪄♠♥♦♣🪄 lilo ❣ the old haunt I just got a ring from L'Enc...
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February 27, 2023

Florida

I went to Florida last weekend for a wedding: the sights The first night was at Margaritaville: channeling Jimmy Buffett à la Beach Bum Actual wedding was on a boat ⛴, I hung out on top for the views Back 🏡 Bonus: picture of Ziggy at boarding looking like a Chinese New Year lion ______________________________ I went to Florida last wee...
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February 20, 2023

Valentine

This endlessly funny, endlessly brilliant man. My safe place and harbor. With Peter, every morning, every day, and every night feels like a love affair, and also...a vaudeville show. Thank you for taking care of me ❤🔥 taking care in the way that Taiwanese people say it (screenshot from Ang Li's The Wedding Banquet) my personal movie lo...
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February 13, 2023

day of feel-good

square dancing for Steph bday at Jalopy, puppy boyfriends gently kissing, xiaolongbao beanie
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February 6, 2023

kwee's weeks in photos

I want this poster for the bedroom, but Peter's not sure about going to sleep every night and waking up every morning under the watchful eye of Klaus Kinski. The patron saint of destructive obsession...but I'm going to wear him down eventually (ง’̀-‘́)ง weirdest and worrying January weather here in NYC, but it made for a bright orange-...
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January 30, 2023

Rest in Peace, Tyre Nichols

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyre-nichols Tyre Nichols' Photography Website: ------------ https://twitter.com/shafinakhabani/status/1619082807585964033 ------------
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January 23, 2023

新年快樂

A terrible, dark cloud hanging over this year's Lunar New Year. Late last night as I was about to go to sleep, I saw that something had happened in Monterey Park; Jeong Park's brief but important context on what Monterey Park means to Asians in LA; trying to litigate my rage, confusion, grief. https://twitter.com/beyonkz/status/1617199...
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January 16, 2023

high line by the months

march Very gray-brown. Starting the season with Spring cutback april before/after; even though there is more green, still cutting back the dead always wanted to go to a shindig in the chelsea market passage space and I got to finally 🕺🏻. Altho, it was frigid, so it was a bit more stolid than I had always hoped may Finally, green happy ...
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January 9, 2023

2022 Movie and Book Round-up

Favorite movie of the year All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: A movie that unexpectedly cut to the core of why we make and need art. Yes, it’s also very importantly about the Sackler Family, Nan Goldin, and the opioid crisis; but the explicitly stated topics are woven together to illustrate the power when an artist such as Nan Goldin me...
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January 2, 2023

anti-resolution

Howdy, 2023 Whenever I've tried thinking about new year’s resolutions in the past, they've always felt like self-coercion, like there's a secret “better” version of myself beckoning from across the threshold of a new year. But, across that threshold, I always discover it's still me and I am me and there's not some magical version of me...
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December 26, 2022

kwee’s week in photos: Xmas edition

A case of the cozies A case of the cuddles A case of the sleepies A case of the tasties The delicate, inscrutable language of the Amtrak paper slips Because one Peter is not enough Issa double rainbow 🌈🌈 Christmas savories and/or The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows. Christmas sweets Happy Christmas to All and to...
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December 19, 2022

Went to Dave & Buster’s

For the first time, and had lots! of! fun! 👾🏀🎮🎳🕹 Also: my brothers used to love DDR and I got to try it for myself finally. Am wondering if I should get really into ~*the revolution*~ at this stage of my life
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December 12, 2022

kwee’s weeks in photos

Reid, such a constant heart ♥ The Washington Post is ending its magazine. From a recent round-up, a heartbreaking, poignant piece on animal abuse from Gene Weingarten. It made me want to be a better human, and especially more gentle to my little beastie. A lil puffer fish @ Singlish I met a very nice man recently who works for the ever...
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December 5, 2022

Criterion haul

It's been awhile since I took advantage of a Criterion 50% off sale, but a couple things have happened in recent months/years that made me begin buying physical media again: • HBO Max/Warner Bros. removed/didn't release content; I realized we take streaming content for granted as always being available to us, but it's under threat more...
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November 28, 2022

tks

What I’m grateful for: • thinking & feeling people The thinker-feelers that express things the most profoundly for me are the moviemaking philosophers 🎥 • chosen family A very stylish Taiwanese kid gang from Growing Up (1983) • family • Long, winding conversations, over food Over hot pot, most preferably • 55-70 degree days and sunshin...
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November 21, 2022

the silliest, but also very real, phobia

The Polish film poster for E.T. A lot of things scare me, but the image/thing that has dominated my fearscape the most: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. While not so common in an anecdotal or everyday way, you can find some recounting of the fear online. I relate intensely to what my fellow E.T.-phobics describe: • "I used to have dreams, r...
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November 14, 2022

eulogizing Twitter

Who knows what's going to happen to Twitter. But if it changes into something unrecognizable or goes kaputt entirely, I do want to honor how important it was to me for a ~10-year window of time, and take a snapshot of the public square as I loved it. To do this, I'm going to do what I do best, which is lurk, like, laugh, and learn, and...
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November 7, 2022

30 favorite movie-music moments

In no particular order: 1. Doing it to Death by The Kills > Titane https://youtu.be/X-GkUA_Bzp0, screenshot from hulu 2. Dies Irae > The Shining https://youtu.be/LjLip2FZLuA, screenshot from video; Dies Irae has been used countless times in media and this will always be the best, most spine-chilling use of all time 3. Moonlight by John...
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October 31, 2022

spook rock

3 or 4 Octobers ago, I was at a midnight screening at Spectacle, where they were running through some very special, very campy, low production value horror movies. As we waited for the movie to begin, we realized the music playing was super spooky vibey, but also funky and fun. We asked for some of the songs from the guy manning the ti...
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October 24, 2022

Kwee’s October in photos

Tehe Life finds a way. The last photo: bags of dog poo accumulate on the windshield of this car as week(s) go by. The car doesn’t move from this spot despite weekly street cleaning, and even though poo bags accumulate, parking tickets do not. A mystery! I’m just happy to see dog poo conquering a car (it’s not Ziggy’s poo bags, our bags...
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October 17, 2022

One year in this world

Ziggy at 1 year; Ziggy at just over 3 months The 1-year landmark I genuinely believe, like most dog owners, that my dog is the cutest, best, most perfect dog in the world, but the truth is it hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows living with and raising him. At the hardest moments, I've been reassured by other owners that it gets much ...
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October 10, 2022

Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Does this movie "make sense"? If you make some leaps of the imagination! But is it an all-you-can-eat buffet of visuals like no other?? Most certainly!! Here's my 8 reasons: 1. good ole creepy vampiric stuff 2. the horny Fragonard girlies For reference: a famous Jean-Honore Fragonard piece called "The Swing" 3. the ✝✝✝ 4. the landscape...
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October 3, 2022

kwee’s week in photos

Large milkweed bugs, harmless & vibrant 文文, get there at 5pm for one of the five BDSM chickens they make a day ! the sky is so trendy The goblin-dog bestows a rare gift of the sits wet chewie // impatient peter blue bath bliss he’s my best friend, he’s my pal. He’s my homeboy, My rotten soldier. He’s my sweet cheese, My good time boy R...
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September 26, 2022

kwee’s week in photos

A boy and his dog Z meets a snake ! 👑🦋💀😭 Gala, Fuji, Honeycrisp Long zucchini boi Thank you to Reid for meeting us at grand central and picking ziggy up from us so we could go straight to radio city to see the one and only lil nas x 😭😭😭😭😭 we stan a man that facilitates our stanning From Genesis ❤🔥 ✋🏻 Put a finger down if you’ve ever be...
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September 19, 2022

Some things about the Royals that aren’t The Crown

In a May 2002 Martin Amis piece about Elizabeth II, he says early on: “As in all matters royal, we are dealing here not with pros and cons, with arguments and counter-arguments; we are dealing with signs and symbols, with fever and magic. ” Whenever there’s a Royal event/headline, I am generally confused by the Royalist supporters, def...
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September 12, 2022

three colors (1993, 1994, 1994)

Three Colors: Blue (1993) Three Colors: White (1994) Three Colors: Red (1994) The Three Colors Trilogy The final masterworks from the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Kieślowski died at 54, two years after he announced that Three Colors: Red would be his final movie. It is absolutely astounding to realize he made these m...
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