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

Dazzling images on a huge silver screen

Almost didnt make it but NOW SEATED FOR:

If Isabelle Huppert was my piano teacher it wouldnt have gone down like that. I would simply learn to top

If you could meet any fictional character specifically to tell them “I think you’d probably be a lot happier if you stopped investing so much time & energy on your white friends”, who would it be? I’ll start,

Anyone know any good writing about how horror fiction often reflects attitudes (both personal and cultural) towards "social undesirables" like vampires as perverts & drug users? Tried looking up "addiction and vampires" but only got stuff about the vampire movie THE ADDICTION (which is great, but)

Kinda turned the corner on TROUBLE EVERY DAY. found it fine before but not erotic or painful enough for me and it was carried mostly by soundtrack. Now, it’s some of my fave abject cinema. I love how underneath it all (“it” being flesh and gore), it is this fucked romantic film about loving addicts.

There should been like 30 Blade movies with Wesley Snipes…he coulda been the closest thing Hollywood could have had to Zatoichi

Sometimes you just need to listen to a song that at the same time really sucks and goes a bit hard for the moment. Like “Blurry” by Puddle of Mudd. That song fuckin sucks. So does the band. And yet!

Its that time of year again

Sam Bridges may wake up every day in his creaky unfurnished little ship hovel, unshowered, looking like wet death, and reeking of the entire outback…but you call Sam’s crazy white ass to the bridge? My man has got that shit ON

Object 1: lit by street light Object 2: lit by street taco light

It’s not easy being a beautiful femme dyke who organizes her style largely around slutty menswear…if it was easy, everybody would be doin it !

Mom got me a Sun Surf aloha shirt. Its the most comfortable button up shirt i have ever owned. Pretty much the only thing im feeling good about today is how gorgeous this looks and how it works great for fall. Now to never sully it.

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Finally getting over almost a week of being sick and in constant pain. Still dont feel great but its something🤘🏽

Abel Ferrara movies are so good, especially when they run my nerves and test my patience

Ok…….Now Watching

Playing Silent Hill f!!!!

Ok. I am finally starting Interview With A Vampire (TV)

Was there ever a Flame of Recca anime?

Death Stranding 2 works for the reason FF XIV/VI or DQXI or Elden Ring or Drakengard or Chrono Trigger work. the same reason RDR2 works. They dare to ask who we trust. How we keep it going for the last of us when society is OBAA and civilization (for all its fun) has failed and keeps killing us.

Thinking about Yukio Mishima and how committing seppuku really is a ritual act of rejection towards one’s own hunger for that they cant understand. Seperate the head from the body with the aid of a second after one has pulled back the gut curtain with a blade of honor. It makes an exquisite corpse.

I just hit a point in Death Stranding 2 that is maybe the most expansive moments i’ve ever encountered in a videogame… it left me in tears

Does Death Stranding 2 remind anyone else of Final Fantasy VI?

It is just honestly so crazy to me how we keep leaving each other for dead with hardly a word when one of us falls short and calling that boundaries. That is not boundaried. that’s abandonment. Boundaries come with conversation beyond just “this is where you end and i begin”

One reason Japanese video games are better in general than American video games at being art or communicating valuable messages is largely because of the outcome of World War II. I think the only major exception is Red Dead Redemption 2

It really is One Battle After Another

It is kind of funny i aged out of Gregg Araki being my favorite filmmaker. Of course he is still fundamental to me and i think Nowhere and Mysterious Skin are two of the greatest films ever made, but the fact is i got older and the characters he is concerned with never pass 30

The whole prologue of OBAA could be set to “Dani California” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and it would absolutely fit. Need to make that Perfidia/Ghetto Pat fancam so bad

Hey im going to initiate Third Impact, anybody got anything to say before i do?

Me and my little sister finally seeing One Battle After Another today. I told her there is no way we aren’t doing it on 70MM

When you’re the vietnamese woman that Iggy Pop is dating and he tells you he wrote a song about you with David Bowie

Only just got to Australia and Death Stranding 2 is already so much more engaging and entertaining than DS1

Kinda funny that Mulan’s inclusion in Kingdom Hearts 2 is a planet called “Land of Dragons” but it’s just still China. It’s still China. It’s China Planet. Planet China. Sora, Donald, and Goofy are like “WE GOTTA GO TO CHINA”. Video games are Incredible

Looking thru my listening history over the last year and all i gotta say is….damn…the Japanese sure do know how to rock out. Like that is a nation lucky to have a lot of great rockers on their hands

I think it’s kinda genius Kojima got no less than 5 international film directors he admires to lend their likenesses to his game but they are all voiced performed by near (or more palatable) sound-alikes. Like had anyone done that before? No why would they? Also, who’s next? i say Claire Denis

I love looking up where Shin Godzilla was going before they told Anno to calm down. “Godzilla was gonna split into two Godzillas. Parts of his flesh were gonna drip off and form into Godzilla heads. A race of Godzilla people would erupt from his flesh and wage war on man.”

*Hank Scorpio voice* homer, have you ever seen a woman walk around manhattan with a telfar full of bulgogi? “Hehe, well yes, once”

One day i really need to pen something about my love for the identity of the dreamer and the belief in dreaming and contrast it with my total estrangement from enjoying my own dreams (and by extension the act of sleep) because the severe pain/terror they so consistently bring me

Speechless

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Seeing something tonight at NYFF. I saw the director’s last picture and was blown away even watching at home, so this time I’ve gone out my way to learn nothing about the film. Not even a synopsis. Just the poster. I know the two lead actors’ names and that’s it. Take me away!

What it is like to be me

Ok finally getting back into Death Stranding 2: On The Beach. I think i gave Sam the perfect delivery soundtrack

*to the tune of “Ayo Technology”* You got me saying “Avo!” I’m tired of having it hurt when i pee