12/25/77: John Cassavetes' Opening Night w/Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Blondell, Stewart Brilliant, Essential More: @redroomrantings.bsky.social: vaguevisages.com/2016/05/12/o... @thegaychingy.bsky.social: melmagazine.com/en-us/story/... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

Why did my dad get me and my sister blackjacks for christmas????

If i am stuck in bed on christmas instead of going to a nice dinner or two, i will **** santa claus

I dont feel good! Boo!

Deep within the womb of time, a creature thus be born (me, i was today born)

I was making some weird soundtrack edits during lockdown and i dont stand by all of them but i do think Marty shoulda hit up Susumu Hirasawa

Directors who cast their partners in romantic roles are so funny like “yes let me see you kiss my friends and give notes on it😈🤤”

Admittedly very unsure how to get excited for my bday this sunday. i have made no plans for it for once. Like i guess ill go to a movie but i do that most weeks a couple times a week when i can

My birthday is this week. I know times are rough around the holidays for everyone, but i would love to be a little less stressed about meeting basic needs and figuring out new year housing on my birthday week♥️💕

Time for one of my favorite Christmas movies

Back in NYC

Anybody got any recommendations on good credit unions in NYC? I need a new bank

Sometimes if im feeling a bit too catholic around the holidays, i put on LADY VENGEANCE to set me straight and get it out of my system. I imagine fellas do this with BAD LIEUTENANT

*matthew mccounaghey voice* that’s what i love about these teen wolves, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age and are also wolves

if any of you spent even a fraction of the time you spend complaining about paywalls on hating billionaires instead, and pushing for legislation that stops them from destroying every creative industry, it might not change anything, but you *would* become a better person.

Haven’t wanted to talk publicly about it but i have been experiencing a really rough time with my health this last month and had to take a break from working gigs and so things are just really tight again. Anything helps. ♥️ Venmø: @ ThatChingy Cashąpp: $Bamchi Paypąl: DM me

Hamlet 2000 kind of night

Is Hades 2 good?

The reason Silent Hill 3 is better than Silent Hill 2 is because we already had had Lost Highway but we never gave Laura Palmer a gun before

Haven’t wanted to talk publicly about it but i have been experiencing a really rough time with my health this last month and had to take a break from working gigs and so things are just really tight again. Anything helps. ♥️ Venmø: @ ThatChingy Cashąpp: $Bamchi Paypąl: DM me

Really struggling to see a way through this year as things are, man

Wore a 70s style shirt collar to thanksgiving in thankfulness to The Band and all the fellas

It almost feels greedy but there are some The Last Waltz concert songs i do kinda get annoyed aren’t in the film for how good they are on the record. Like i I wanna see Rick blast thru “This Wheels On Fire” or see Richard and Levon harmonizing on “King Harvest”. It sounds crazy

decided on the next entry in my series of mildly-to-completely inappropriate tunes to sing at public karaoke. “Home Is Where The Hatred Is”and brother, i have been practicing

The holidays are here and there’s something they keep making me think about: former Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol immediately failing to get away with imposing martial law this time last year, being impeached within two weeks and incarcerated within a month. I CANNOT stop laughing

save me, Levon Helm. save me, Rick Danko. save me, Robbie Robertson. save me, Garth Hudson. save me, Richard Manuel. save me,

outside / inside

RIP to MEL magazine, the only outlet that would ever dare to commission nea to write this story and the only one that would ever allow me to say something like this for it

It’s still insane to me how well “Ryuichi Sakamoto theme of a Nagisa Oshima prisoner of war film but covered in R&B style with lyrics about sipping chardonnay and being your señorita” works. It really works. She says “ching-a-ling” no less than 4 times. And it works goddamnit.

Wow, it’s been five years since i was commissioned to write this melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

Important Q: In which Final Fantasy game would you be most likely to encounter The Grinch as a combattable NPC? The easy answer to me is VI but i think we owe it to ourselves to probe this issue further

I am still thinking about DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH. Mostly as a piece of filmmaking, but also as a video game.

My friend has never seen GOODFELLAS. I am showing her GOODFELLAS

In honor of Martin Scorsese’s birthday, here’s a piece i wrote years ago about how we came dangerously close to having a TAXI DRIVER video game and why we should praise the gods that didn’t happen melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

I also own a couple haori now. which is unfortunately going to become a huge part of my personality

Regret to inform any non-wellwishers that i still look like this even at my absolute lowest

Takeshi Kitano did not go to meet the Pope because he was told he would not be paid for the appearance

Danny Collins

It’s so funny that he is most famous for a film like SWORD OF DOOM because Kihachi Okamoto is SUCH a comedy director at heart

Bluto

Actually, Funkenstein was the name of George Clinton’s doctor, not the creature himself

Let’s try this once more

If i’m keeping it real, I straight up dont know how to make money anymore as i am, man. This world sucksssss

Tatsuya Nakadai was one of the most prolific actors to ever grace cinema. Few other performers are vital to as many greatest films of all time as he was. When one thinks of Japanese post-war cinema, it’s inevitably his visage, his voice, his presence that come to mind

Its technically a 2024 film but since it only saw US release this year, i am kinda counting HAPPYEND as my film of the year so far along with RESURRECTION

one of the reasons THE SHROUDS is fantastic because it is so clearly and totally an exorcism of VERTIGO’s cinematic ethos while doubling its plot. It’s that greatest of films in negative image

In retrospect, maybe a 10 hour day of production work with lots of lifting, climbing stairs, and standing was not the wisest intro back to the workforce for me after a near year of unemployment, couchsurfing and body pain. Felt good to work but muscles are all screaming at me

Ok, just rolled credits on Death Stranding 2. For me, DS2 as a game is fun enough and meditative in a way i enjoyed but still had lots of problems that make me think i wont post-game too much, BUT I really loved it visually and as work of interactive narrative art. Maybe my 3rd favorite Kojima story