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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · 1d

Not only is this great but it led me to your other playlists which are also rad. I always dig a well curated playlist and love when I can listen to it in order. It gets it a little closer to the mixtape/CD mixes of yore.

Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · 5d

Watching this over and over again to give myself a burst of serotonin to counteract.....I don't know....like....everything else.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 11d

a few small beers

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · 7d

On my @letterboxd.social watchlist now! Travis @aheartofgould.bsky.social called this a "Cassavetes castlevania of toxic love and vampiric sex" which not only makes me want to watch it immediatley but displays in a phrase why he's one of the best film writers out there.

Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 8d

I better see this film on all your Halloween watchlists this October.

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · 7d

You can personally admonish me if this isn't on my watched films by the end of this month because this sounds like extremely my shit.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 13d

I ❤️ @mattbelloni.bsky.social for this. The ethics of Hollywood are basement level. Same for tech (see below a column I wrote in 2019).

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 13d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · 19d

Tomorrow! I am interviewing Andrew Davis, director of THE FUGITIVE, at 2p at Vroman's. Tickets here bit.ly/Davis921 but walk-ups are welcome so come on down!

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · 27d

THE FUGITIVE is one of my all time favorites movies(It's in my bio). Well, in two Sundays my work is hosting the director of that film Andrew Davis and his conversation partner is.....me! Come watch me fanboy out. Professionally, of course.
Tix as low as $5 here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-afterno...

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is microtargeted to me.
"The tower! The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!" but also "Every time I look in the mirror, pal....except for the beard, of course. "

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Sep 9

Researching Dracula/Vampire lore

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Sep 8

JFC. Fascist, racist, corupt Justices giving the ok for ethnic cleansing by arguing 'don't worry, there's a spectrum of constitutional violation" is as frightening as it is enraging.
Understand, this is scary for all brown folks, no matter citizenship, language, or employment. We're all targets.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Sep 8

title card faves #filmsky

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Vroman's Bookstore @vromansbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ahead of National Read-a-Book-Day (Saturday, Sept. 6) Good Day LA visits Vroman’s Bookstore! Koco McAboy chats with our very own Gilbert Martinez, talking up the Store, our great events, and our wonderful literary community!

www.foxla.com/news/vromans...

Vroman’s Bookstore remains staple in Pasadena for more than a century

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Sep 3

My giant head went live on camera earleir this morning

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you're up early tomorrow and have access to terrestrial tv, I'll be on a live segment on Good Day L.A. (Fox 11)in the 7 o'clock hour. They'll be doing hourly segments all morning from my work.

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · Sep 2

So long, Graham Greene.

Still frame of graham greene in reservation dogs with caption that reads "we should be proud that we can still love."

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 30

Very relatable

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 26

Also the Bruce and Clarence "Big Man" Clemons photoshoot for the iconic cover is full of amazing pics.

Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 26

50 years ago Born to Run was released by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It's a no skip masterpiece in my book.

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 22

This description really moves into the must-see column. Stoked.

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 13

Some essential film critics/writers to read/follow: @katiewalshstx.bsky.social @aheartofgould.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social @brndnstrssng.bsky.social @jasondashbailey.com @812filmreviews.com @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social @carlosfilm.bsky.social @zvasquez.bsky.social

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Aug 13

feel free to respond to this with critics you enjoy following btw -

like i'll always read a @jacoboller.bsky.social piece, a @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social piece, a @jasondashbailey.com piece, a @maris.bsky.social piece

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 12

9 years ago I worked a signing event with Spike Lee that John Singelton showed up to as a surprise. After that I went to the Hollywood Bowl with my wife and our friend to see Sufjan Stevens. That was a good August day.

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · Aug 12

Currently but also evergreen

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ALT: Oscar Isaac Tired GIF

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