every negative reaction to the new Refn only makes me want to see it more.

Needle and Thread by Man Ray, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137687

moodboard

Memoirs of Hadrian The Tale of Genji Jane Eyre

read @kithaggard.bsky.social's e.t. essay in our speilberg sci-fi series, in which the man is crowned as our nation's foremost child of divorce thisisanewsletter.substack.com/p/children-o...

Elles: Woman in Bed

Sorry 2 be corny & full of love, but the new live version of How Bad Do U Want Me cemented it as one of my fave Lady Gaga songs.

still have mixed opinions about Mother Mary a few weeks later, but I *have* been listening to its soundtrack nonstop.

New season of Heated Rivalry is apparently going to include an episode scored entire to Mozart’s Requiem. Jacob Tierney, I would ride to war for you.

MISOGYNY. scared you, didn't i? but what if we break that word down. MISO. delicious. great start. GYNY is where things start to take a turn

kind of the best album maybe ever

I have the opposite of SAD because spring / summer awaken an unceasing & ancient dread within me.

I’m so old that I remember when Kate Bush wasn’t on streaming services.

guy who’s going to watch The Traitors for the first time because of Myha’la (me)

I have, unfortunately, fallen in love with an anime OP and need to listen to it at least 4 times a day or I’ll die

I wrote about being Mary Oliver's student and the darkness at the heart of her poems

My mildly controversial take is that French 19th / early 20th century composers wrote the best music in the classical music canon.

can’t stop thinking about the nail halo from Mother Mary

listened to Portrait of My Heart, by Spellling again

listening to The Turning Wheel whenever the weight of it all is too much music.apple.com/ca/album/the...

doily face red fox doll, within shop april springtime 2026

doily face wolf doll, within shop april springtime 2026

sorry to be very gay, but the chorus on this is the emotional equivalent to a hydrogen bomb youtu.be/QoFNy_neZhc?...

seal inspired doll, for sale, within shop made april 2026

Materialists, Benediction, The Souvenir Part 2

I need some kind of wellness treatment that’s just like… a chemical peel for my soul

it rules so much when snacks are as good as the packaging they come in.

2.2.1861 by Danh Vo, 2009 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137888

Francisco de Zurburán A Cup of Water and a Rose, 1630

that Myki Meeks runway was so Beyond

Mimicry https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19729

Allie X was right [bangs gavel] OFF WITH HER TITS! music.apple.com/ca/album/off...

spiritually load-bearing painting

just remembered I was in NYC two years ago and got so depressed when I realized I’m not there rn

casting a futile, thanks-for-the-memories vote for the great tony scott. really looking forward to a scorsese series. he‘s perhaps the director i love most, but marty has never had a movie where a train was a missile the size of the empire state building

nobody’s queened out like this since.

Harold Perrineau in Romeo + Juliet has to be a top five film performance of all-time.

Still Life with Three Birds' Nests - October 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109306

the new RAYE album has restored my will to live.

I will be reading from the new novel at KGB Bar next Thursday, April 2. See you at 7pm!

did you know that if you’re a little down in the dumps, you can always listen to Nina Simone and make it worse?

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how is this post only a month old. it feels eternal

every time I try to shed a bad habit, I always end up having the worst week imaginable

Night-fighter https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19606

The Beautiful Angel (Madame Angele Satre, the Innkeeper at Pont-Aven) https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12540

Girolata https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/girolata-1964