Recent Posts

• September 19, 2023

  Letterboxd

  I’m going to try and double post movie content, like the thing I posted a few minutes ago, here (where I own it) and on Letterboxd (where I don’t). If you are reading this (and nobody is reading this), follow me there for identical content to here, but with the option to comment (nobody is commenting).

• September 19, 2023

  Tár

  I’m convinced now this is a comedy. I don’t mean this in a disparaging way, it was riveting, but that last minute made me reevaluate everything that had come before. Lydia Tár, and I’m going to copy/paste that surname for the duration here, is introduced giving an interview on stage, and a lot of time is taken up by her ludicrously extensive list of accomplishments. The term EGOT, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, probably wasn’t made up for 30 Rock but it’s the first place I came across it. In addition to that, she was the conductor of basically every major orchestra in the world, all while shooting down the snowflakes, sexually harassing anyone she feels like, threatening children in German (the scariest language) and publishing a highly-anticipated autobiography. In hindsight, her plan to complete all of Mahler’s symphonies with the best, most important one, number five, feels a lot like she had two days to retirement on a boat.

• May 15, 2023

  You Were The Last One

  Here is a pdf if that’s the kind of thing you’re into.

• April 03, 2023

  The Twin Pillars of Fear

  Probably the most dramatic title I could have given this. Here are two things that have been keeping me awake at night, other than children waking up at random hours, and the heat being on way too high.

• April 02, 2023

  Agh! My Groin!

  I’ve done something to my groin. It snuck up on me, at the beginning of March I can remember running - in the bitterest cold - thinking, the inside top of my left leg sure does hurt a little bit. I presumed it would be a thing that would just go away by itself. Even when two weeks later I spent the morning of my birthday shuffling around the indoor track, congratulating myself on lapping pensioners, children and one person clearly in phsyiotherapy. Sucks to be you, I’m in peak health.