I tried for YEARS to use a wacom and then gave up lol

I don't ask for much from corporations... I just want, like, a big-ass iPad + Apple pencil thing that's for drawing and drawing only... I've tried the other stuff and my brain just doesn't take to them

scared bc I read a lot of performative literature on the subway and it's only a matter of time before someone posts a pic of me and I will not look good in it

bizarre fun fact: I haven't taken a picture of myself in over a year 😭 I'm committed to becoming a fine, shimmering mist

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I need to get over this but I feel so silly writing plotty stuff. like, oh, you're setting up stakes? generating conflict? first man to do so?

hmm well my psychiatrist is taking forever transferring my meds to Oklahoma and it's been a while since I haven't had them so I apologize in advance for the Symptoms that will be Exhibited

I don't believe in stigmata but it would be cool if it happened to me. I'd be like folks you're not gonna believe this. I'd go on all the news programs and be like, look at this. look at me.

The Ella McCay digital screener has a 32-digit watermark on screen for the duration of the runtime

Any time I read a reasonable, artful and smart critique of Ella McCay it just makes me want to see it even more.

Every bad review of Ella McCay just makes me want to see it more

So I went to wikipedia to read the plot of this movie, filmed in Providence. ELLA MCCAY IS THE GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND?! AND SHE IS MISUSING GOVERNMENT PROPERTY BY HAVING SEX WITH HER HUSBAND IN THE BASEMENT OF THE STATE HOUSE?! Right underneath the nose of Independent Man. smdh

wrote about the worst movie I saw this year and why I'm so interested in it! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

I'm having a Cloud Dancer-ass morning, and this read was a welcome companion.

yes much worse <3

I think that was the worst movie I’ve ever seen

me seated to witness the most unsightly offal that the mechanical guts of corporate media has yet to produce

every last seat for "Ella McCay" is empty for this 5 pm showing. and all of them will remain so. except... for one....

came across an internet discourse so incredibly stupid it dragged "Father forgive them they know not what they do" up from the depths of my brain

"The Master" by Paul Thomas Anderson. As a PTA fan, I wanted to like it more than I did! but there were stunning shots, gorgeous moments, and excellent acting throughout

I'm on my way

Lol it *is* the same colour that synthetics 'bleed' in the Alien franchise 😂

trying out a new email sign-off ~*~*thus spoke zarathustra*~*~

just saw a disturbing, detailed vision of one possible outcome for the human race. free on Tubi

I'm not sure I can see it as Josh O'Connor's ears inspires in me a kind of lust that makes me sad and unhappy

"Beyond the Hills." based on a real case. I love a film with a muted color palette and austere women in head wraps murmuring in a monastery. it could have landed harder on me. not sure why. I think it got a bit emotionally repetitive with the "SHE'S FREAKING OUT" scenes. but I still really liked it!

I will watch a gorgeous film tonight… and remind myself that it’s all possible….

A week late but happy belated anniversary to this iconic post

writing something that I'm aiming to land in a "what did I just read"?" sort of place

yes hello allow me to introduce the next essay collection I'm working on it's called REVERSE COWBOY and if you're in Tulsa on December 27th you can pop by the Chimera Ballroom to listen to me read a chapter of it aloud! I'd love to see you! www.eventbrite.com/e/john-paul-...

it has perhaps never been more time for The Animaniacs

does anyone want to come over and write something for me omg pls... I will rest my head on your shoulder and watch as you type which I hope doesn't deter you but other than that you'll be free to interpret the prompt as you wish

one thing about me, I will watch all the youtube lore videos about a video game I have no intention of ever playing

I love youtube videos that are like "The Most Disturbing Painting I've Ever Seen" because it's almost always Francis Bacon or Zdzisław Beksiński and I like looking at their paintings lol

god knows I'm trying

"The judges that sit on the Pantone Color of the Year (PCOTY) Committee are rigorously selected and groomed from birth for the task. ... [they] die after making their annual selection. They have never been wrong."

the extent to which I've imagined this film sort of unnerves me. I can see the poster, the press tour, the backlash, the backlash-to-the-backlash. I can render my imagined "Cloud Dancer" film in 3D in my brain and rotate it around and blow it up and immediately piece it back together again

An incredible piece of writing, a gift of a sort I had not known it was possible to receive

I'm a fake Nabokov fanboy bc I haven't read Pnin... gonna read Pnin....

I find high-profile, public apologies morbidly fascinating... no one is every happy with them... the one I think about all the time is the lady in NYC who pretending to be Afro-Latina omg. Jessica 'La Bombalera' Krug.... I revisit her apology on Medium sometimes

but artists have always responded to the culture and the times they’re in. I think of that as the artist’s charge. there’s undeniably a gloomy tech-bro pall over the arts right now and I’m advocating for artists to lean into the less “clean” tendencies (that I think a lot of us have)

well "fun" is never necessary which is all I asked for. my thoughts on thinking and nonthinking machines have yet to be revealed

Just stop and read this John Paul Brammer piece on Substack. You’re welcome! Here’s a nibble: “The color of ChatGPT’s blood if ChatGPT could bleed, if ChatGPT could be slashed with a sashimi knife and if milky fluid could come gushing out of its jugular.”

another thing about Cloud Dancer is my brain keeps trying to force it into some "Hold me closer" cadence and it won't fit and then I get all irritated

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what an extravagantly perfect post from @jpbrammer.bsky.social on the pantone colour of the year thing johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy

this piece by @jpbrammer.bsky.social on the 2026 Pantone color of the year is so hilarious and also slightly depressing that it makes me sad 90% of my followers (an estimate: hi folks) are bots because I want to tell the world. Here is a link + tiny clip: johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...