No discussion until June 18 - but I will say that the crowd I was with in my screening was very humbled. I look forward to seeing how this work performs in theatres!

ticking time bomb

Laraaji and Arji OceAnanda gracing many attendees at the inaugural Vancouver edition of Ambient Church this past Friday. What a treat!

bricks!!! bricolage

A new edition of Pilgrimage is now available in the United States asterismbooks.com/product/pilg.... This edition, is based on the first editions of the chapter-volumes. @neglectedbooks.com

Also got to see a sneak preview of I KNOW CATHERINE, THE LOG LADY on Sunday before it was officially announced for theatrical distribution, with streaming at a later date. It was a hard eight years of waiting, but Richard Green pulled it off.

A fantastic show run by Ravi Coltrane and featuring Brandee Younger, Rashaan Carter, Gadi Lehavi and Ele Howell, playing the works of Alice Coltrane (along with a surprise selection from John Coltrane). Don’t miss it at the Orpheum.

AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

Curious to see what people say about the new IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE cut airing on Valentine's Day in China.

grasshopper guacamole

Taken a day after the news of Lynch’s passing, at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank.

RIP Marianne Faithfull Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By (Official Lyric Video) youtu.be/-efIjZ_1yQg?...

Article not behind a paywall: Dédé’s opera www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online

industrial symphony is actually incredible, it’s both a shame we haven’t seen a revival of it during lynch and badalamenti’s lifetime and reassuring we have a video document of it.

dreadful people loudly announcing that they're unfollowing me is my love language

if you’re reading this get off social media and do something fun and stress free, you gotta be your own best friend and not doomscroll yourself into oblivion

wolf man did not feature wolf nards, which immediately puts it lower than wolfcop but raised against velocipastor

📚 After a 40-year quest, @davidallengreen.bsky.social found a long-lost book thanks to "librarians, archivists, cataloguers, and indexers," including @tambourine.bsky.social & Internet Archive. A reminder of why preserving & lending books matters: davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

this account is now dedicated to my frequent and irascible tantrums; pray mercy for the word vomit any unfortunate soul comes across

Watch THE STIMMING POOL. It might not quite resonate with hardcore Weerasethakul fans, but I believe there is ample linkage to the experimental works of Pat O’Neill and Michael Snow, particularly in the way they interrogate landscape.

I am in charge of supervising Spotify's official "New Age Music" playlist. From the perspective of the New Age Music Revival and after, it covers a wide range of electronic music, ambient, obscure music, jazz, contemporary music, and anime music Please listen :) open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

Though, for my money, the most poignant film on history and contemporary matching, or the one that best explores the irruption of “fiction” as a balm towards reality, is in Victor Erice’s Close Your Eyes - a film whose gambit slowly, arduously, then assiduously pays off to a grand fealty of life.

The Holdovers was a beautiful tribute to the layabout nostalgia of history; yet its greatest message, on learning from what it represents, as well as the figures who populate it, is the biggest and most poignant takeaway in a sea of films whose cosmic resonances can only ring hollow next to it.

As the year is starting to wrap up, I’d like to ask: what trends from this year would you like to see continued? What positive developments have come up that you’d like to share, and see furthered? We have weathered so much together - but it will be necessary to forge on stronger still.

New listening hours: youtu.be/AFf5ZZ_2GZM?...

I’m surprised that more people haven’t made direct comparisons between Yorgis Lanthimos’ latest offering “Poor Things” and Michel Gondry’s “L’écume des jours,” particularly in the way they both handle their respective protagonist’s self-actualization and set/color framing.

Paul King’s “Wonka” won’t convince the audience of any startling originality, nor can it really touch audiences not already familiar with the Gene Wilder take on the character himself - but for all of its conventionality, it does get at the heart of a sweet-toothed and saccharine presentation.