*rocking back and forth in a padded room* "...so, in the early 2000s, both David Lynch & Tim Burton experimented with Flash animation programs to make dadaist episodic cartoons about the absurdity of modern lif-....wait, where are you going? Come back! Don't you want to discuss Homestar Runner?!"

[to the tune of Beyonce's Video Phone feat. Lady Gaga] 🎵 Watch me on your Videodrome (On your video, video) If you want me, you can watch me on your Videodrome (Oh, oh) 🎵

Let's all go to a gallery and behave ourselves. sluggish.ghost.io/ghost/#/site

Always an instant pick-me-up when the moving truck arrives for the terrible neighbors leaving the neighborhood.

Feeling like Fight Club, but instead of getting addicted to recovery meetings to cry, it's volunteering at my local food bank for the dopamine rush of giving back and organizing canned goods.

My daughter's final essay for her Monsters In America film class is to write a paper about a specific cinematic monster and its historical context. She chose The Blob (1988), using her textbook & Carrow Narby's essay "Indescribable" from the book It Came From The Closet

My daughter's decided that someday she wants a Muppet funeral. Her ashes are to be placed inside a human-like Muppet in her likeness (eyes closed, mouth open), the Muppet theme will play as her casket opens, & the eulogy will be given by a Muppet priest with a Kermit-like voice.

Been following along with my daughter's remote college film classes (which has really been a blast), and now the end of the semester is approaching. Just found out today that the professor is pro-AI 😭😟

I sadly can't make it to this, so I'm listening to the LK commentary track for Clue while I gaze out my window.

Favorite First-Time Discoveries - July 2025: The Crimson Kimono (1959, Fuller) Salomé (1922, Bryant) Run Lola Run (1998, Tykwer) Redbelt (2008, Mamet) Polyester (1981, Waters)

My lesbian daughter and I, while handwashing her car, came up with something that should exist: A black masc lesbian owned car washing/detailing business. Studs & Suds.

It's new. sluggish.ghost.io/confused-per...

Hurts my soul that my local arthouse's 6th film series is the first one that probably won't happen, and it's for Michael-fucking-Mann. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cin...

Top 5 First-Time Discoveries - June 2025: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Ming-liang, 2003) In The Mouth Of Madness (Carpenter, 1994) Nitrate Kisses (Hammer, 1992) It Felt Like A Kiss (Curtis, 2009) Siberia (Ferrara, 2020)

Love the Matt Farley shout out in @willsloanesq.bsky.social's Ed Wood: Made In Hollywood USA:

It's going to be 2003 again? I just started re-listening to My Chemical Romance, so I guess I'm off to a good start. Also, I'm starting antidepressants for the first time this week. I'm doing great, actually! Why do you ask??

Maybe it was watching it with my daughter and laughing our asses off, but I loved the latest from American Empirical Pictures:

The Beach Boys were the first cassette I ever bought. I saw it on a supermarket shelf as a kid in Hawaii and it changed my life. They were the soundtrack of my childhood, later the songs of first love and deep, dark loneliness. RIP Brian Wilson, you were one of the greats.

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson in the same week, man. Two genuine visionaries who gave us so much, suffered so much, and both retreated from the outside world for long stretches of time, burrowing inside themselves, as their music became raw materials for entire genres and sub-genres and sub-sub-genres.

Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill that would block private-equity firms from controlling healthcare practices. The resolution would create the nation’s strictest ban on corporate influence in medicine. It now heads to Governor Tina Kotek’s desk. www.wsj.com/articles/ore...

Reading these 2 articles and shuddering at the inevitable AI-CCM artists that the right-wing are going to eat up. You think christian music is bad now...

"Welcome to the IMF, Marlene Dietrich."

Top 5 First-Time Discoveries - May 2025: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Haynes, 1987) Mutations / Metamorphosis (Schwartz, 1972 & 1974) - TIE Cruising (Friedkin, 1980) The Adventures Of Denchu-Kozo (Tsukamoto, 1987) Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii (Maben, 1972)

Furiosa. Watercolor, gouache, blood, sweat, tears, oil.

Now available at @criterioncollection The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years www.criterion.com/boxsets/8208... #FilmSky

Here’s a collection of all my best Stereolab writing through the years – including classics from Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Dots and Loops, and Mars Audiac Quintet – along with a playlist collecting the best/most accessible songs from their massive body of work. substack.com/@fluxblog/no...

We already have a Joe Rogan of the left

Spent memorial day wandering our local cemeteries & placing flowers on intelligible tombstones. Played the game of finding the oldest born resident (1794!) & avoiding the local turkeys.

My Mission Impossible ranking is for my eyes only. A sacred thing, the tabernacle of my inner sanctuary called letterboxd

EROTIC CITY

I want to get high this guy so bad. Maybe it's the edible talking, but Porco is definitely in my Top 5. Even if we just sat around reading cinema magazines with the radio on

There's some discourse on The Other App about John Carpenter's THE THING not having any women in it (it does, it's The Thing), and @michaelkennedy.bsky.social put this article on my radar that not only rocks, but references a piece I wrote from 2015 about the topic! melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

Top 5 First-Time Film Discoveries - Apr '25: Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977) Spartan (Mamet, 2004) Open Doom Crescendo (Chiu, 2022) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Hunt, 1969) Heist (Mamet, 2001)

Turned 35 (and about to become an empty-nester) & feels really nice to notice the evolution into my 30's through my recent musical obsessions: Gorillaz, Cat Power, King Gizzard, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, LCD Soundsystem, Yo La Tengo, Stereolab.

As an accountant who likes The Accountant and saw it with my partner (who is also an accountant) as one of our first movie dates, this article is personal to me.

He gets it

SHE IS RISEN The new Björk concert film Cornucopia is the absolute best viewing experience on this combination Easter Sunday-4/20

Today, I've watched Sinners, The Thing (1982) in a sold-out screening, and Eephus at home. This might be the edibles talking, but MY LOVE FOR CINEMA HAS BEEN REJUVENATED

Still thinking about the family movie night I made for this film w/ a preshow consisting of: Trailers- Bedazzled What Dreams May Come Waterloo Bridge Their Finest Defending Your Life TCM intro by Ben Mankiewicz A Pepsi commercial from 1946 And the Looney Tunes short The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

Making my way through the entirety of Space Ghost Coast To Coast and this is by far my favorite of Space Ghost's faces

Crime Wave (1985) is one of the best films I've ever seen.

🛸 I WROTE A BOOK about ED WOOD 🐙 ED WOOD: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD USA is a sympathetic critical study about his whole career. “Beautifully written, intelligently funny, packed with surprising facts on every page." - Guy Maddin PRE-ORDER from @orbooks.bsky.social: orbooks.com/catalog/ed-w...

Matt Farley did a show on NPR. You should definitely watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VI4...

*air horn sound* The new edition of my holiday film guide HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS drops September 4! Pre-order! Convince your local bookstore to stock it! Make sure your library gets multiple copies! Book me on your film and/or Christmas and/or books podcast! #filmsky #booksky 📽️📚

Val Kilmer (1959–2025)

Favorite First-Time Discoveries- March '25: My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991) Still Walking (Kore-eda, 2008) Day Of The Dead (Romero, 1985) To Live & Die In LA (Friedkin, 1985) Magic Spot (Roxburgh, 2022)

Went to movie bingo - a sold out crowd for Day Of The Dead - we won a Bub plushie. It's the little things...