Today's recommendation is the new album from Truck Violence, a HC outfit from Montreal

I'm fortunate enough to say I don't have many vices, but this man... He has a hold on me something fierce

Soup is Good Food

We are so fucking back

From A Scanner Darkly, my fav PKD I think:

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Stills for Robert Eggers' Werwulf dropped and, my god, this man knows how to make a good-looking film

Really love this from Barthes

Had to look up the word "Defenestrated" and am now learning how often we used to throw people out of windows. Enough that we needed a word for it!

Happy Pride

Scary Movie 7 prediction: Sydney Sweeney walks into a wall while staring at her phone and clips into the Backrooms. She looks directly at the camera and asks, "What's the wifi?". Everyone in the theatre claps

Someone please pay me to write about the material culture of this game world

I am really enjoying Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. People are comparing it to many things--to me, it is very PKD-coded, Ubik in particular. My favourite conversation so far has been with the acrophobic Renotel employee. Also the soundtrack rips.

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture from your phone.

I'm going to broach the Mixtape discourse by plugging Chandler Levack's debut I Like Movies (2022), a very Canadian film that I think tackles being a mono-interest, cringy teen with much of the nuance and thoughtfulness people (rightfully, in some cases) accuse the game of lacking

Very short, very Halifax poem in HAD this morning. Thanks @havehashad.com!

Watching the Habs game and thought I was losing my mind but nah, this is 100% Drug Church in this Taco Bell ad

Interpol

"Take economy"? No thanks, I only wanna participate in the *give* economy

not even the independent cinema is safe from the living-roomification of going to the movies

Two deadlines over at longconmag.com! APR 30: submit your art-replying-to-art for issue 2.5! JUNE 30: enter our new Mountebank Prize by submitting an artistic reply to a painting by Alex Colville. Prize: $100 + publication in issue 2.6. (🎨: Alex Colville's 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐾𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎, 1989)

My #IndependentBookstoreDay haul from the great @kingsbookstore.bsky.social

Getting older is just requiring more and more caffeine for your brain to function the way it used to

Embarkation Alex Colville 1994

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T.S Eliot, The Wasteland

It's time to learn that true creative acts only follow from the folly of love, fucker

Can't believe I auditioned for the Bloodborne movie and they laughed in my face. Jacksepticeye told me my form was too corporeal and effable 😔 I hate Ireland now

Raging Bull <3

Bro link up! We're hitting the Potemkin village later 🤙🤪 What do you mean the ale is actually swill and the roast rotten? I'm going to report you 🫵 to the bailiff for being a little bitch

The "Anatomy of a Fall" bit made me burst out laughing in my very open, very quiet office this morning

Each and every one of us deserves a future. It's high time we stopped letting a handful of people decide that we don't.

What offences did I commit in a past life to warrant me having the least employable interests possible in this one? They must have been really bad

Artemis II captures first pictures of the far side of the moon

Listening to Belle and Sebastian is my most millennial tendency

Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit!!!!

Type of shit I've been on lately

Marvin Gaye's "What's Happening Brother?" is threatening to usurp

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday The Last Waltz is easily my new favourite Scorsese

It's that time of year when dumb tattoos call to me like the green goblin mask

I think about this scene at least once a day

Just saw a take on Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises that was so baffling it instantly converted me into a literacy doomer.

I think about this scene at least once a day

I spent this afternoon making a free, browser-friendly e-zine of this using Decker and the Public Domain Image Archive!

New Enjoyables is up!

Takumi Ponzan, the mascot for the town of Shigaraki, in Shiga Prefecture, is a ceramics craftsman tanuki (raccoon dog) with large, pendulous testicles.

Walter Benjamin correctly states that a key aspect of Fascism is the aestheticization of politics. Don't let anyone ever tell you that a film, a show, a book, a video game etc is apolitical. Apolitical art is a fantasy.

In light of the #NS government's cuts to arts, heritage, and culture, I am once again tapping the sign

Only a few hours into RE9, but holy cow this game has a lot of The Evil Within DNA in it (positive)

happy re9 to those who celebrate