Chris Cantwell

Killed me. Just a gorgeous script. The photography. The actors. Condon. Jones. Macy.

Not everything has to be an Epcot experience that wraps around your skull

Respect it

Fuck dude it was a choice

Oh I and I just saw TRAIN DREAMS solo and cried through most of it.

Bear disguised as a cherry in a bar

And this bear disguised as a cherry I had to buy

And:

My 3 year old’s sneaky smile & laugh
My wife’s support
My 12 and 8 year old’s jokes
Enchanted at Descanso Gardens
Baseball dreams
Friends
My therapist of 12 years
Colleagues who I’m humbled by
Matt Fraction
Heather Antos
Stardew Valley music & my kid catching a legendary fish
Topps Archives

Stuff that helped me survive this week:
Badlands on VHS
Mickey Spillane
Pluribus
Brian de Palma
Pretenders first album on vinyl
Todd Snider
Zevon
Thomas Flight Film Theory
Liz Phair’s “Never Said Nothin” video
Siege (1983)
Neal Cassady’s The First 3rd
Simpsons Season 3
Gimme Gimme Records
Vromans

Beer and a shot at a good old bar in Pasadena.

That’s it. I survived the week. It’s all in god’s hands now.

Thank you to @stevebaxi.bsky.social for taking the time and energy for this.

Trade Rating: OUT OF ALCATRAZ is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to say Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.

This kind of patience and time in critiquing what we do means so much.

I’m sorry you missed the mark Jeremy

I bought one set!

🔻 loved it

And Dan—it’s like the comic book equivalent of Jung’s Red Book. 5 stars

It gives me a shiver that Goodreads exists

HAHA

🔻 sad

HAHAHA

YOU KNOW HOW MANY CATS IVE SAVED TO GENERATE SYMPATHY MOTHERFUCKER?

6 CATS

Eight issues in, 6 years into building a story, and here’s me still gliding along the surface of the water, Christ I’m a hack

Should I get this as a tattoo?

Does little to deepen or establish its world, with a cute little negative down arrow, as if art is the stock market with nice neat quantifiable numbers

I’ve often said the same thing about myself, so this feels spot on for my work.

No

Top albums showing Warren Zevon preludes and Gord’s Gold

Top 4 sons showing 2 versions of me and Bobby McGee for Christ’s sake

Let’s face it, I’m irrelevant and emotionally well-worn—like a river stone that’s ready to fuck off, dislodge, and go over the falls.

But the music still holds up.

“It’s a character drama but with real stakes, it’s propulsive and muscular but has an intellect to it—“ then the serrated blade saws into my flank for what feels like forever, starting when I was a preverbal newborn

And when it’s a pass, I’m absorbed into endless torturous spacetime.

Oh wait, that’s what it already feels like in Hollywood now

The Shrike, as depicted on the cover of Hyperion

I very much look forward to the near future where I only have to pitch a single entertainment entity—the Shrike

I have notes

Two apples tall.