Max Siegel
@maxsiegel.me
Cat dad in Pasadena, CA 🏳️🌈🐈⬛
Livestream technician and cinematography geek
https://maxsiegel.me / https://www.maxsiegel.photography
Livestream technician and cinematography geek
https://maxsiegel.me / https://www.maxsiegel.photography
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This discussion with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rian Johnson, and Nathan Johnson is fascinating and wide-ranging. They talk about their experiences growing up religious, politics, and countering companies that try to use AI to stifle filmmaking.
Wake Up Dead Man a chat with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rian Johnson and Nathan Johnson
YouTube video by David Ridker
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This discussion with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rian Johnson, and Nathan Johnson is fascinating and wide-ranging. They talk about their experiences growing up religious, politics, and countering companies that try to use AI to stifle filmmaking.
I’m rewatching The Sopranos. It’s great! But it also feels like a period piece much in the same way RENT is.
Everyone looks 10 years older than their age would suggest; and it’s remarkable how much everyone, everywhere, smokes. (I think there’s a connection.)
Everyone looks 10 years older than their age would suggest; and it’s remarkable how much everyone, everywhere, smokes. (I think there’s a connection.)
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m rewatching The Sopranos. It’s great! But it also feels like a period piece much in the same way RENT is.
Everyone looks 10 years older than their age would suggest; and it’s remarkable how much everyone, everywhere, smokes. (I think there’s a connection.)
Everyone looks 10 years older than their age would suggest; and it’s remarkable how much everyone, everywhere, smokes. (I think there’s a connection.)
“But he’s in Depeche Mode!” Man, I love the Venture Bros.
Venture Bros - Depeche Mode
YouTube video by unl3ss
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“But he’s in Depeche Mode!” Man, I love the Venture Bros.
If you want to learn about Paris's Museum of Hunting and Nature, and why it's "Glauque (spooky or sinister), I'd love if you read my short blog post.
maxsiegel.me/2025/12/07/g...
maxsiegel.me/2025/12/07/g...
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If you want to learn about Paris's Museum of Hunting and Nature, and why it's "Glauque (spooky or sinister), I'd love if you read my short blog post.
maxsiegel.me/2025/12/07/g...
maxsiegel.me/2025/12/07/g...
Stewie, while I FaceTimed with Mom and Dad this morning 🐈⬛
December 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Stewie, while I FaceTimed with Mom and Dad this morning 🐈⬛
Stewie’s afternoon nap.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Stewie’s afternoon nap.
Anywho! The Pacific Surfliner is a very pretty train route.
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Anywho! The Pacific Surfliner is a very pretty train route.
Stewie wants me to stop working NOW ✋
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Stewie wants me to stop working NOW ✋
Two states of Stewie 🐈⬛🐈⬛
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Two states of Stewie 🐈⬛🐈⬛
“Topsy-Turvy” (1999) is a wonderful Mike Leigh movie streaming on HBO Max, featuring Jim Broadbent of “GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!” fame.
A Great Big Bushy Beard!
YouTube video by DShan
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
“Topsy-Turvy” (1999) is a wonderful Mike Leigh movie streaming on HBO Max, featuring Jim Broadbent of “GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!” fame.
I’ve crossed the threshold (mid-30s) where doctors are younger than me 👴🏻
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’ve crossed the threshold (mid-30s) where doctors are younger than me 👴🏻
Some wonderful quotes from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social at the start of his new video.
“Despair is a lie, even if it’s a very convincing one.”
“I’m just 30 trillion cells trying to maintain homeostasis, which is hard work.”
“Despair is a lie, even if it’s a very convincing one.”
“I’m just 30 trillion cells trying to maintain homeostasis, which is hard work.”
John's Annual Psychophysical Decline
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Some wonderful quotes from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social at the start of his new video.
“Despair is a lie, even if it’s a very convincing one.”
“I’m just 30 trillion cells trying to maintain homeostasis, which is hard work.”
“Despair is a lie, even if it’s a very convincing one.”
“I’m just 30 trillion cells trying to maintain homeostasis, which is hard work.”
I’m a few years late to it, but I dug “Bones and All.”
A ★★★★ review of Bones and All (2022)
Luca Guadagnino and team were cooking with this movie, finding humanity in a story about cannibals who eat their meat, uh, raw. I dig the metaphor between the all-consuming specter of American individ...
boxd.it
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I’m a few years late to it, but I dug “Bones and All.”
Some long overdue cuddle time with Stewie 🥰🐈⬛
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Some long overdue cuddle time with Stewie 🥰🐈⬛
Duty free shopping did my boy, Remy Ratatouille, dirty 🥺
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Duty free shopping did my boy, Remy Ratatouille, dirty 🥺
Musée d’Orsay with my parents: 2025 and 2021 🥰
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Musée d’Orsay with my parents: 2025 and 2021 🥰
I speak to people in France in my broken French and they often reply to me in English. I guess my being American is obvious, but they seem to appreciate the effort. Oui oui.
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I speak to people in France in my broken French and they often reply to me in English. I guess my being American is obvious, but they seem to appreciate the effort. Oui oui.
I found this abandoned, half-drunk espresso and stubbed-out cigarette on the street in Paris.
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I found this abandoned, half-drunk espresso and stubbed-out cigarette on the street in Paris.
I’m happy to report that Stewie is still obsessed with my shoes 🐈⬛👃
October 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I’m happy to report that Stewie is still obsessed with my shoes 🐈⬛👃
I’m two years late, but I finally watched “All of Us Strangers.”
God damn. Andrew Haigh continues to be the king of melodrama (non-derogatory).
God damn. Andrew Haigh continues to be the king of melodrama (non-derogatory).
All of Us Strangers
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
www.themoviedb.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I’m two years late, but I finally watched “All of Us Strangers.”
God damn. Andrew Haigh continues to be the king of melodrama (non-derogatory).
God damn. Andrew Haigh continues to be the king of melodrama (non-derogatory).
TIL that Luigi Mangione was a dev on Civ IV 😳 Life truly is stranger than fiction.
October 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
TIL that Luigi Mangione was a dev on Civ IV 😳 Life truly is stranger than fiction.
