“In 1987, former White House National Security Advisor Robert MacFarlane declared that [It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946] had helped him out of depression, following a suicide attempt after his role in the Iran–Contra affair was discovered.”

I will pay you a billion dollars to plagiarize me

Train Dreams is this year’s Shawshank Redemption (derogatory)

what seeing the VistaVision print of OBAA at Regal Union Square felt like

This I take to be as bad a juncture as ever I observed.

“I asked Chatgpt” “I asked Grok” okay well i asked Pop Leibel about the gay old bohemian days, like who shot who in the Embarcadero August, 1879

If I could listen to one last album before I die, it would be a toss up between Modest Mouse’s “Lonesome Crowded West” or Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney’s “Superwolf”

Will Oldham Marc Maron interview will heal me

One reason I love David Lynch, he gave me an excuse to talk/read about the Theosophical Society

Not helpful to see David Lynch’s art as in anyway informed by Buddhism. More interesting, Twin Peaks’s pseudo-Tibet stuff is more like the last gasp of the Theosophical Society. There’s great writing on this by Elizabeth Lowry and Donald Lopez

Pure cinema watching: Criterion 24/7, sound off, don’t know what it is, didn’t look it up, not reading the subtitles