found this interesting how-to guide, now I can finally realize my lifelong dream of failing as a therapist

why watch The Big Game when there's fresh proof of a benevolent alien presence on earth? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

throwing a big party and asking guests to just send gifts and not show up—"your presents are presence enough"

high school fashion in '77 Iran, courtesy of Kiarostami's doc Tribute to the Teachers

happy that my contributions to [specific field] are finally being recognized

masashi tanaka draws a big fish

found a cool band

neo sora's sugar glass bottle

was out to eat at a Korean restaurant, felt like dessert and decided to ask, on a whim, whether they could make me an ice cream sundae. they looked at me like I was crazy, then shrugged and brought me some kind of sausage à la mode. very confused

it was all worth it

stumbled on an interesting-looking album

life imitates art: Christian Petzold's Miroirs No. 3 vs. my drive to Los Feliz

manifesting this energy in the new year

9/10, pleasingly boxy but the lines still gently converge up towards the front

@adem.bsky.social can I get a quick rating out of ten for this three-wheel cutie?

love seeing this guy hanging out with other critters

Man Ray, 1926, Emak-Bakia. cyclops wearing headlight glasses

the two british emotions are “gutted” and “buzzing”

ozu-boetticher-kaurismäki kind of year

…huh

dancing for tips in Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959)

rip in peace to the king of posts

humanitarian crisis, Robert Pattinson has been trapped in looney tunes mode since Mickey 17

seeing the 2000s come back, and become the subject of gentle mockery in period pieces, is surprising to me. at the time, we didn’t realize we were in the past—it felt like the present—but now it’s clear that we were wrong. won’t be making that mistake again

merely chrindus everybody

walking around the neighborhood found some hair on a bush that looks exactly like the cover of the new Cave Sermon album

incredibly good shot from The Color of Pomegranates, like something cut out of a magazine for a collage

Ozu’s Floating Weeds (1959): everybody knows that a good hostess’s kimono must match the awning of her bar

Enrich your holiday season by pressing shuffle on this bad boy—treat your family to a baffling gumbo of clashing vibes. open.spotify.com/playlist/3HW...

the first four shots of Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959): the same lighthouse seen from four increasingly distant vantage points

Okay just to throw a bone to retrospective curation, here’s 50 albums from the last 20 years that evaded my lists. Each of them is better than most of what did make the list in its year. Some I was unaware of; some I just failed to appreciate. Alphabetical order.

just got charged the most black metal possible amount of money at trader joes

I've been making album of the year lists for 20 years. Length limits have fluctuated; 270 albums total have made the cut. Here's all of them, in chronological order. I've studiously resisted the impulse toward retrospective curation, no matter how embarrassing what I liked in 2006 might be.

happy birthday to my dad

Lucile Hadžihalilović's The Ice Tower: points of diffuse light, and hazy murk when they leave the frame

left the house

Saulė Bliuvaitė's Akiplėša (Toxic): lots of big landscape compositions dominated by sky, not framed on the human figures in the scene. gorgeous movie. cinematography by Vytautas Katkus

found this little fella in my notes

enjoying Yano-kun's Ordinary Days

yet another harrowing scene from the filmography of Aki Kaurismäki: a man just released from prison reflects on his experiences "inside"

just found out there was a 1990 Japanese Top Gun ripoff called BEST GUY