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Book 1: The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson Crackerjack start to the year. I’ve read the titular story, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (which I highly recommend), but haven’t delved into Jackson’s other short fiction. And I’m here to let you...

My first exposure to DL as a recording artist was via Sparklehorse:

Watching Mulholland Drive for the first time in maybe 20 years, and it’s amazing how much harder it’s hitting, how much I’m picking up on that I didn’t as a teenager. Art rules, getting older rules when it comes to re-experiencing art.

As a child of the 90s I still get freaked out by technology with integrated magnets.

Looks like Criterion made a grip of his films available (unless there's some coincidence, but I had eyes on their offerings a month or so back during the Blank Check series and there's stuff up that wasn't then); I'll probably spin up Mulholland Drive tonight.

One of my favorite movies, def one of my favorite scores; I'd love to have that on vinyl.

There's a choice clip from the La Vaginoplastia song which has been making the rounds on social media (derogatory). It looks quite bad and is definitely going to win Best Picture.

Yer on one!

I think any ills that come from social media (and are endemic to social media at large) via tiktok are outweighed by the benefits of having decentralized, non-corporate news/information sources. American companies already sell and misuse our personal information, the Right wants to ban it...

I like how the email doesn't even attempt to pitch this change as a positive.

Considering the price my guess is they're courting a purchaser who'd consider this a feature or potential moneymaking opportunity. Outside of Portland lies Astoria, where the Goonies house was famously owned by people who hated all the tourists showing up to take pictures. It's changed hands...

My new place has an actual hood vent and fan; I made fries to go with mussels for New Year's and this was the first time I've fried anything without making the entire joint smell of canola.

“We’ve had pizzas on our roof. We’ve had pizzas on our driveway; pizzas until we’re sick of looking at pizzas,” Padilla told NPR.

Yup, rounds it up to a full Ei8ht. Sorry, couldn't help myself

I always viewed games on netflix as a weird extra perk, not an arm of their sloppy stewardship of digital media. That's way disappointing!

My anticipation for another round of Squid Game has felt muted (I know the first season had an open ending, but it just seems like a well with diminishing returns), but I got around to episode 1 last night. I enjoyed it, as much as one can enjoy such intensity, and I was reminded why the first...

I'm woefully behind on updates. Here's the last three months of 2024 or so: Book 29: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, by David Lynch David Lynch meditates. It helps him be more creative. It simply does. Book 30: Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky...

I rewatched the prequels and OT a couple months back (still gotta finish the Sequel Trilogy) but was struck by 1) just how aimed at kids the prequels are and 2) just how much the OT is about adults. I think The Watch podcast zeroed in on a key differential: watching Star Wars as a kid you're...

Saw it last night; overall I’d say it was visually stunning and while it maybe didn’t bring a new take to the mythos, really focused in on the curse/romance angle in a way which made the story a lot more cohesive than I typically find Dracula. It was a bit slow at times though, and I hated how...

I didn’t even know this factoid and thought this story absolutely fit in with Bainbridge.