chiaroscuros
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My kingdom for a goth dance party that's not past my bedtime
I finally watched AMC's IWTV and all I have to say is: Irish Stage Manager Vampire and German Wardrobe Vampire I love you
I think I'd really be ok not hearing any trending audio from tik tok on instagram ever again
Because I'm over here like sure, I'll just do that last minute thing real quick no prob! And then suddenly my whole day is gone, every time without fail
How do freelance people stick to a schedule? Like one day for this, one day for that, etc. Or maybe the question is how do freelance people who are also people pleasers set boundaries around their schedule?
A random selection:
Der Student von Prag (1926)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
House (1977)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Le Vourdalak (2023)
Flow (2024)
The Death of Rasputin AT THE MCKITTRICK? The crossover fan fiction writes itself!

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Tell No One — Halloween
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If the new Affinity or whatever it's going to be is just another design software subscription service I'm going to lose it. What, are we not allowed to own ANYTHING anymore?
Leave it to me to wait until now to finally buy Affinity only to find they've been scooped up by Canva and have taken down all their products smh
Because my tinnitus and anxious internal monologue will literally make me feel like clawing my skin off after 5 minutes
To the people who can sit in silence with zero background noise like the tv on something harmless like the Food Network or even a fan or other ambient white noise, what's that like? Is it nice?
My dad insists that you don't need to fork stab a baked potato before putting it in the oven. Granted his reference for this declaration is a cookbook that was first published in 1896. So make of that what you will.
Maybe one of these days I'll make a fanzine instead, that'll show em
Oh hey there's a call for chapters out there for scholarly writing on masculinity in Weimar cinema, which is cool and all, except that I, for as much as I have to say on the subject, don't use words like pedagogy or hermeneutics in my writing so I guess I don't count as scholarly
wth apparently the bonus track, "Sparkle Lounge Blues", has disappeared from every streamable version of David Lynch's Crazy Clown Time? It's such a good song whyyy
Koloman Moser
Bookplate Spring
1895 - 1900
Film/TV Pet Peeve No. 257:
When the writers use modern phrases in a period piece. There are some exceptions, like when it's something that doesn't take itself too seriously (ex: Our Flag Means Death). But otherwise it just makes the writers look lazy.
THIS 👏🏻 CAST* 👏🏻 They don't make star-studded ensemble films like they used to.

*Except Albert Finney, yikes
What a weird week, almost got taken out by a canker sore and a violent encounter with a spider cricket.