My biggest discovery in 2025 was pants that look like work pants or formal/dress-y pants but have stretchy waistbands and internal drawstrings. Get outta here buttons and flys

This has been one of my fave new monthly subscriptions, cool and stylish and weird and exactly what we need more of

A few years ago Fallon promoted his monkey NFTs on the tonight show and not long after that trash plummeted hard. Last night Sam Altman was on the show saying you can’t raise babies without ChatGPT so let’s hope we’re on the same trajectory

Vowing to do this more often. Check out my friends Civilians’ new album, some of the best songwriting/melodies going variousns.bandcamp.com/album/the-vise

One of my faves from them and a reminder of how common it was for music videos to be both unique and endearing

Beautiful song youtu.be/ZAO7zveEBSc?...

Been sleeping very poorly due to terrible prolonged jet lag and had freaky wide awake nightmares last night after watching Bugonia and the first episode of Pluribus over the span of 24 hours. Enjoyed both but they really messed with my 4AM brain

This is my brain on bread: Eating toast for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch: I think that’s too much bread in one day man Eating a sandwich for lunch and a burger for supper: hell yeah Eating untoasted bread before 12PM: why isn’t this toasted? Eating untoasted bread after 12pm: hell yeah

Not in Canada on Halloween for the first time ever so here is an old costume idea in the making - Stephen King but specifically the back cover of Misery Stephen King

Great pickups in Tokyo - don’t even own a Dreamcast but couldn’t resist. D2 looks rad as hell and was crazy cheap, and a big shout out to one of the best shops here Rare Item Studio, got Shenmue 1 and 2 in perfect condition for less than $30 CAD combined, wtf

Used to feel like I had a superpower for detecting AI content but all it takes is just a few minutes on Instagram reels now to see the machines are fucking winning this battle

“Anyone can make a movie for 8 million dollars and a crew of a hundred people. Try making Carnival of Souls.” - Candace Hilligoss Peak organ-swelling macabre memento mori. Elevated horror. A woman makes a darkly fantastic journey through the land of men. Plunged into waters. Emerged from waters.

We are celebrating films that are turning 40 years old on my website this month. This one is on DAY OF THE DEAD. "Romero’s apocalypse is not romantic. It is nihilistic, and thrashing about at the short-comings of intelligence, and decency of the human race." www.patreon.com/posts/139482...

Peking Opera Blues is incredible and on Tubi, watch it

Really liking how Alien Earth is doing their own version of a “previously on” recap - inserting quick shots of scenes from the last episode into the actual intro of the episode itself. The logo of the show slowly revealing in the classic Alien fashion overtop really adds to it

Incredible

Legendary actor. The Limey is an all timer for me - he’s also so good in The Hit, super underrated 80’s road movie

I used to clean this house and it always felt haunted. All your typical signs were present and a clowder of cats lived there. They would gather in this one place and watch me walk between buildings. Today I saw this photo of a ghostly figure by the back window, watching from the same place.

Weapons (2025)

Sharing my work on the internet once again - short stories, weird horror, surreal, sometimes silly, genre-bending, free to read - jcrowe.itch.io Do hashtags still work in 2025 #horror #fiction #weirdhorror #flashfiction #shortfiction #hashtagsareembarrassing

The hype was correct, Weapons absolutely ripped

I think I’m going to write this game into fruition, make a fake walkthrough/strategy guide for it. The idea hasn’t left my brain

Seeing Weapons tonight and am excited, but trying to keep my hype in check. Barbarian had the same level of excited chatter online before it came out and I ended up enjoying it just fine, but all the lead up hype made it feel that much more of a minor let down

Playing through Shenmue for the first time (bonafide masterpiece) and realizing my dream game is this but make it a supernatural horror mystery. A day/night cycle investigative adventure that is essentially a playable Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie

Hearing the entirety of the Oxford Theatre (RIP) collectively react to the various graphic scenes near the end of Antichrist, a symphony of “aaaugh!!” all at once

The original Barbenheimer was July 18 2008, the release day for The Dark Knight and Mamma Mia

Very great and enthralling little story by Chris Scott, can’t wait to check out more of his work apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/01/21/t...

In Grade 10 when I got my first cheap ass MP3 player there was a stretch when the only thing on it was Master Of Reality and it did wonders for me. RIP Ozz!

I’m a millennial in 2025, I’ll never be able to own a house with space for all my decor I want to buy The decor:

Been listening to this song so much lately, the melody and lyrics hit as hard as those dance club beats. Pete Shelley was a helluva songwriter youtu.be/v7d9tMo0M-Q?...

Every time there’s an ad break on Tubi I’m haunted by the Trivago big teeth man that looks like this

Good variety this week. Loved Paranoia Agent so much

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

New Stereolab album out today is unsurprisingly great, good rainy and moody day to soak it in

My first time watching Mulholland I fell asleep in bed watching it with the lights off and woke up during that scene and thought they were invading my room through the TV

Great written piece about the ghoulish generative AI plague forcing its way in - starts with grammar, ends with the whole damn story

Working on this again - just wrote a cat and mouse car chase through a mall parking lot while listening to Phil Collins. Does the trick

I watched Exhuma a few weeks on a blind whim during a flight and have regularly thought about it since - if you loved The Wailing and The Medium like me you will find so much to enjoy, much like those movie it takes you on a wild horrific ride

In terms of specific 80’s Canadian one-hit-wonder pop rock tunes you’ll hear on the radio at the dentist office on a weekday afternoon this is one of my faves youtu.be/RtcCC_Y24FQ?...

Revisited Matrix Resurrections after my initial disappointment in 2021 and it’s better than I remember, despite still not totally loving it. It’s just cool as hell we got an original and hot take of a movie like that at all - and the action pops, so many flying bodies

Saturday Night

Reading material for vacation planned - so happy to have found a battered copy of Skeleton Crew in a local shop, some all-timers in that one

Pouring one out for my guy Val today

Getting completely caught up to The Pitt the past few days and I feel like I should never complain about my work from home computer job ever again

Now I need Tim in an Exorcist 3 remake (played 100% serious) along with Conner O’Malley in Brad Dourif’s role

Oscars were fine (Anora good, Conan great), but the real hits remain in the cool club away from the big ceremonies - Perfect Days was in last years Oscars but of course didn’t win shit

Struggling big time with weeknight/weekend writing on a device that I spend all my weekdays on at my job - changing my environment sometimes helps but being fused to a laptop is killing my desire to write. Not sure how to get around this

Past few weeks has been exclusively all Twin Peaks S1/2, Fire Walk With Me and The Missing Pieces - comparing stuff like Andy and Lucy, the squabbling elderly brothers and a ferret biting Dick on the nose to the final half hour of FWWM is actual insanity