whittling this down to five felt like drowning multiple sacks of kittens but i got there by undeniable scientific means: yearning, sticking on lana's entire back catalogue, and noting which ones i wheeled back the most

Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed. @hanrahan.tv @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

🚩 My new doc is out now 🚩 CV is the oldest gang in Brazil. It's considered a plague by the government, but for the people of the favelas they control, the gang *is* the government. Inside their areas, street justice rules all. We spent a week there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kV...

a short story about british strip clubs written entirely with words i harvested from reviews of british strip clubs: open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...

“No one lives less than these men, and yet they want to live forever.” emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

my newsletter about desire has led me to places i wouldn't even go with a gun (weighing up the sex appeal of olly murs) emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

The only thing you need to read about the Olly Murs before / after body pics discourse and what it says about gender, desire and physical ideals etc is on @emmaggarland.bsky.social's Gabrielle Substack: emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

once again being a Gabrielle Ultra by reminding you that it's the best and indeed only newsletter on sex and desire you will ever need: emmagarland.substack.com/p/panties-in...

subscribe to gabrielle, my newsletter about desire, for more deep philosophical insights emmagarland.substack.com

this and the virgin suicides (original motion picture score) by air

it was so sick when this was the creative genesis point for children's films and not some studio head asking "which actor with instagram face can we get to resurrect X disney character against a foul CGI backdrop"

Videodrome directed by David Cronenberg, 1983

in the spirit of easter, here's an essay about developing a formative crush on an american missionary who helped run a christian summer camp in the chapel next door to my house emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

“All in all it seems increasingly likely that the end of the world won’t come with a bang, but with a cringe.” With global tensions rising, @emmaggarland.bsky.social explains how fragile male egos stand at the core of it all. www.huckmag.com/article/doge...

pleased to have written the cover story for this week's @thetls.bsky.social – on joan didion, writerly myth-making, and the results of a few recent books that attempt to unpick the didion "brand." enormous thanks to @georgeberridge.bsky.social for the diligent edit. www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...

co-hosting a film screening for true freaks. nymphomaniac double bill – soho, march 16. i'll be giving an intro written especially for the occasion. tickets: dice.fm/event/yoln5v...

happy reality (social media is over) emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

wrote about shame emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

for @dazeddigital.com i wrote about the new wave of erotic films and how, after years of prudishness and moral sanctimony, "sex is back" in popular entertainment – but saying what? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

fairest way to settle this is no rules physical combat with every director / actor who has crossed the PCC threshold (tommy wiseau, brendan fraser, tarantino, john waters et al) vs the landlord. but for real, protect london's best cinema: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

a true north in a wayward world and a fantastic head of hair on him until the head. RIP david lynch. emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

this was a heater from garth greenwell www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01...

new newsletter on what robert eggers' nosferatu says about contemporary sexual anxieties, ft. shame, vampire simps, and female desire as divine rather than dangerous emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

darkness vs light, art vs entertainment, the desire to be good vs the reality of being human – i reviewed ethel cain's 'perverts', where all these things collide, for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

wrote this for @newstatesman.com about 'better man', robbie williams' double-edged relationship with fame, and how his story is also a parable of british working class aspiration www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...

keeping abreast of the markets and deconstructing your desires is IN for 2025

the rust cohle of south wales has entered the chat

Some public domain NASA artworks by Don Davis, taken from his website, where they're hosted for free: "You paid for them and they're yours." www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyou...

masterpiece

in trying to invent new ways to make it through british winter i've become an evening exhibition person. felt even better to visit one of my favourite paintings, francis bacon's man in blue I, knowing it was dark out.

How Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" and "Prostitute Flange" laid the aesthetic and sonic foundation for emo-rap. An excerpt from "Crybaby," @donnacwrites.bsky.social's definitive new book on one of the most influential hip-hop sub-genres of the last two decades Out 1/21 www.passionweiss.com/2024/12/11/a...

"this is a man who had options. he could have been almost anything he wanted to be. and the thing he ultimately chose to do with his life, after suffering a debilitating injury, was to shoot the CEO of united healthcare."

nothing underscores the fundamental incoherence between automated technology and creativity more than when i quote a sentence by like joan didion or j.g. ballard or someone in a google doc and it does a little squiggly line to suggest that something about it is wrong

good read on luigi joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/ceo-murder...

the only way to stay sane is to stop doom scrolling and pick a handful of things to dedicate your time and money to. subscribe to flaming hydra for consistently some of the best writing you will ever read, online or off. feels like having a sneaky fourth meal of the day truly.

recklessly revealing your identity as an assassin so you can chirpse the woman on front desk at a hostel ["a real hero" off the drive soundtrack plays] www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

projecting my 2025 vibe to be addison rae washing her rover in nipple tape and a pinafore

one of many good 'related search' questions i typically get on my online travels, which are not worrying at all and reflect totally normally on me

Little Ballerina Girl of Balsall Heath, 1968. Photo by Janet Mendelsohn.

Yet more fantastic writing by Emma:

new Gabrielle post on ageing and death and sex yesssss emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

Drop what you're doing and read @emmaggarland.bsky.social on The Substance, beauty, tech, and sex. open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...

choose life and die!

is our quest for immortality killing our sex lives? almost certainly. here's an essay about that, ft. the substance, body horror, the beauty industry & big tech's shared fear of death, and that billionaire who used his son as a blood bag open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...

nothing brings me more pleasure than watching a dumbass 80/90s action film and giving it a glowing review, a fat like, and one star on letterboxd

so many men on r/emo are going to be so mad when my book about emo comes out and it contains at least 3000w about lil wayne

me: i am taking the lyrics and holding space with that and feeling power in that 😌 the lyrics:

it is a terrible burden, being right all the time

another belter of a column from @emmaggarland.bsky.social for @huckmag.com, looking at whether the decimation of ‘teen’ entertainment and the industry’s failure to represent the full scope of adolescent experience has produced a generation of prudes www.huckmag.com/article/did-...

social media only works when it feels secretive in plain sight. like wearing a big coat with nothing underneath.