Rogue car alarms going off ALL morning, hellacious first day of my period AND I just got an email about "creating an AI content pipeline directly to the 2027 Cannes Film Festival."

You're allowed to say the Marty AI news is actually just a massive bummer + not make excuses for him or his process, btw.

The most clear-eyed piece I've read on ~the state of things~ in some time. thebusinessofentertainment.substack.com/p/this-the-f...

BABY IT'S YOU, the finest of all the 1980s teen romances, is playing at the Academy tomorrow night with Rosanna Arquette + Vincent Spano in-person 🥹 This movie does NOT screen often + I've been told the new 4K they're showing looks GREAT...don't sleep on this! www.academymuseum.org/programs/det...

MONKEY BUSINESS came on after this; MONKEY BUSINESS is *insane.* Look how they massacred our boy!

Sat down with dinner + flipped on TCM just in time for aerobics class in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES ☺️

On the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth, Kristen Lopez celebrates twenty of the glamorous actress’s most striking roles—from dramatic femmes fatales to comedic showgirls. https://boxd.it/3aQ

I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND is a goddamn delight, btw.

Every day, I ask myself which behavior bums me out more: my friends + fellow professionals using AI knowingly + sharing it without hesitation OR my friends + fellow professionals getting duped by AI unknowingly + sharing it without hesitation. (I have fallen for some videos, none of us are immune!)

Sending this image back to the 90s and fixing the entire timeline

I would truly love to know what my downstairs neighbors are ALWAYS watching, which to me sounds only like the grunts + punch-‘em-up sounds from a TRANSFORMERS movie 😵‍💫 (They might be gaming given the limited soundscape, but LORD it never ends!)

Very encouraging that I mailed my ballot five days ago + I’m getting constant “don’t forget to mail in your ballot!” texts 🫠

Hollywood + the American beauty meat grinder can keep claiming they know exactly "what general audiences want to see" but as the adult industry proves time + time again, what mainstream audiences *actually* want vs. what they *say* they want are often not in fact the same thing!!

May was my best movie month of the year so far, nothing but HEAT. (All new-to-me except THE MISFITS, AGAINST ALL ODDS, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT + AFTER DARK MY SWEET)

“I met Barbie Ferreira the same night the EUPHORIA finale aired” sounds like a fake anecdote AND YET it did in fact happen to me, noted + eternal defender of Kat Hernandez. I even got to tell her MILE END KICKS was my favorite movie of the year!

Well, at least we’ll always have season one + THEM.

It’s messy updo summer, btw.

Fascinating stat from CBS Sunday Morning's Marilyn Monroe piece: over 50% of her fans on social media now are under the age of 35! There goes my long-running theory that all the 50s icons like Monroe, Dean + Elvis will go the way of the dodo after the Boomers are all gone.

Today is my idea of perfect weather in LA ☺️

backrooms ??

Very funny to clock the influence of things like RED SHOE DIARIES + other softcore premium cable programming on TALES FROM THE CRYPT - around the middle of season three, most episodes suddenly have some kind of gauzily lit, smoothly jazzed sex scene.

Bob Mould’s concert stories in this will have you seething with envy. youtu.be/xpC3murAu1g?...

Me at the end of June, thank god.

Babe, wake up: Crucifictorious performed at the FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS reunion + Coach Taylor looks better than ever.

Can anybody explain why, here in the year of our lord 2k26, Panera Bread of all chains is having a resurgence in LA?? I’ve seen three new ones that are about ready to open in the last week, all around town.

TIL: Much like Su Tissue's cameo in SOMETHING WILD, Jonathan Demme snuck another musician into THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - I had NO IDEA my favorite Demme close-up in the movie was Lauren Roselli from Book of Love until reading this!! www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

Many of my scariest dreams involve endless liminal spaces (I visit Hotelworld pretty much every night + have been to Mallworld) so I will be waiting to watch BACKROOMS at home, in the daytime :)

Even in these totally terrible times, people are still discovering Fat Grrls on Film every single day and THAT gives me a great deal of comfort, even amidst this endless ~body bullshit~ letterboxd.com/thathagengrr... + letterboxd.com/journal/fat-...

LA, please vote in this most crucial election even though everything is embarrassing! I used the Knock + DSA voter guides, both of which are very helpful.

She might not wanna do it, which is totally fair + fine but...where is something like HACKS for Joan Cusack, by the way.

HACKS finale was perfectly bittersweet, came for my personal jugular + had me experiencing one of Dolly Parton's most favorite emotions (laughter through tears) for its entire runtime 🥹 One of the all-time great TV comedies + probably the best long-running series the streaming era has produced.

“I hate shaving, but I love having shoven.” - definitely for sure Dorothy Parker

LA, please vote in this most crucial election even though everything is embarrassing! I used the Knock + DSA voter guides, both of which are very helpful.

Everything we’ve ever done since 2013 is yours for just $29/year. We’ve never run ads & don’t aggressively push anything on you ever, because the internet sucks enough as it is. But we still need $$ to pay writers, artists, editors, and bills. Each subscription means the world to us/keeps us going 🙏

Instagram keeps serving me ads for the desert oasis from THE PLAYER and brother...I am so tempted to say FUCK IT + go spend a weekend in those mud baths.

Just learned Robert's daughter is named Zsa Zsa Zemeckis, what a flex.

I have a new Little Afternoon Beverage: can of sparkling water + half a packet of the Kool-Aid electrolyte powder (which is somehow sugar + dye free?)

We really don't have to live like this, man.

AVALON, a perfect record, was released on this day in 1982. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlAq...

Starting your day outside under a blanket with a big coffee? Reader, I recommend it.

Convinced those dot cakes are a psyop!!

Much like the alt baddie to tradwife path, the cool Tumblr girl to right-wing reactionary crank trajectory needs to be studied in a lab.

While the concept of chili spaghetti is sound, Skyline Chili is BAD CHILI - go to Gold Star or Camp Washington Chili + thank me later!

I had a gr8 time talking about fat grrls on film, video stores + some of my favorite S-E-X scenes on film on Somebody's Watching with Elinor Lewy! open.spotify.com/episode/4AI8...

Let’s make some (good) news. Here’s what we’re recording soon on Watch With Jen pod! Stay tuned for changes & additions. Nothing makes me happier than talking to creative friends about film!

TIL: Shaggy in the nu-SCOOBY DOO is played by Tanner Hagen AND Clayface's actual character name is Matt Hagen...along with Tom, Uta + Jean, there are literally DOZENS OF US.

In like, 2003 I saw Gin Blossoms, Lucinda Williams + John fucking Prine back to back at a weird little BBQ festival in Cincinnati - this lineup would not even rank there, man.

It's not every day you get to buy your dream bumper sticker, but sometimes, the universe delivers (via hannahpahl.com, she's got lots of gr8 stuff up right now!)

On one level, I really appreciate the diligence shown by the state of California + the county of Los Angeles to get these mail-in ballots sent back in, but on another, I am growing very tired of my phone being blown up DAILY (calls AND texts) with reminders about doing so.