Sid Fiore Branca

i think it’s always good to ask for clarification of an exact date/time with this, because i’ve had there be confusion before with people interpreting “moved up” in opposite ways

yeah ignore the typo there's a lot of copy/pasting and chaotic reformatting involved in tracking these lol

i've been posting my reading logs over on an instagram story highlight (sidbranca) but oops haven't been posting them here, but if anyone is curious, here are the Things I Read Last Week

need this so bad

i listen to this song like once a week at least

shit i gotta turn the tv back on huh

i do *not* have the disposition (or annoying editing style) for youtube, which does mean you all are deprived/spared my making videos of "what i packed personal item only for two and a half weeks of winter travel" etc, but if you do want a text/photo thread of such a thing i guess let me know lol

sometimes i think about how little money i would need for my silly little life beyond rent, food, and medical care, if i simply had sponsorships from various rail companies and various bitter liqueurs

today's word problem is how to:
- stay in chicago until at least the morning of march 14 so i can participate in a very cool screening event on 3/13 (i'll post soon)
- be back in montreal some day/time before 11am 3/17
- spend *as little $ as possible* (but very willing to do utter nonsense)

one of those days where i have tabs open for Amtrak, Via Rail, Megabus (US & Canada), Flixbus, Greyhound, United, Air Canada, & maps while i figure out the cheapest possible way to get from one place to another within a specific couple of days

in a parallel universe i was a stunning travel blogger

the photograph seems like the wrong medium for this question tbh, because surely one needs to know the heft of the fork?

at a loss of what to say that isn’t just like, grumbling expletives. sending your friends a good thought

everything feels so early 2000s these days (incredibly derogatory), so i am trying to at least remain grateful for the many freedoms afforded by being in my late 30s this time around instead of 14-19 years old

when i can’t sleep i sometimes listen to the Ian McKellen audiobook of the Odyssey, i find the repetition of phrases and descriptions of wine pouring very lulling i guess?

this person has written a whole book on horror 😬

this is certainly the first time i've ever used the typing annotation function in Zotero to write "GIRL, WHAT?!?"

not naming names because i will likely encounter this scholar in a professional situation soon, and should perhaps voice my intense disagreement in either an academic article or a collegial conversation instead of an enraged series of posts before i have finished my coffee, but mannnnnn

it's been a while since i read academic film criticism that i was intensely, personally offended by, but the wild misreading of Hellraiser and Nightbreed as sexually conservative(?!?!) i encountered this morning is making me feel actually insane

lmao not sorry at all tbh

sorry to be a cinephile pervert on main multiple times today, but as a kid i was low key obsessed with this weird film and its queeny villain who, if i recall correctly, hypnotized the beautiful mom & also kept buff dudes imprisoned in his surrealist musical torture basement to do manual labor

i honestly believe that it is a blessing to embrace being a pervert and the pursuit of mutual consensual perverse desire, but man it sure does add some stuff to the already messy navigation of relationships sometimes

oops i am once again Oversharing About My Sex Life on Letterboxd Without Really Talking About the Craft of the Film

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I sadly was too swamped with PhD stuff to participate in this (I am still agonizing over what my list would be!! and Mattie if you do this again next year, I promise I will get it together in time!!), but what a list of bangers

yes the experimental short film i finished the rough cut of not too long ago *is* called “In the Absence of Devotion”

on my knees all doe-eyed absolutely begging some quality publication to let me do 2,000 words on Pillion and how the ending was exactly what i needed to see

realizing that i say “yeah it’s kind of a fucked up day to be coming back to the united states as an american who doesn’t live there anymore” literally every time i come back

CINEFILE.info

i’m in chicago! here until march 9th (maybe more like the 16th if i can swing it despite being flat broke?) but as i make my plans for this trip i wanted to shoutout Cine-File www.cinefile.info as a resource for thoughtful write ups on upcoming film screenings at a variety of venues in chicago

train tracks, gold dead grass, partly cloudy skies, an electrical transmission tower

haven’t been posting photos from this particular long distance train trip like i usually do, since it was mostly overnight and since dawn it’s been ohio and indiana and basically all looks like this

this looks fun, thank you! i haven’t delved into literature much for this topic, but a fiction book about a clown film that haunts a film critic seems extremely relevant to my interests (but hopefully not to my reality, ha)

Within this collection, painters, photographers, dancers, doctors, scholars, engineers, occultists, bureaucrats, plutocrats, restaurateurs, pro-dommes, mad scientists, and various hapless folk all become embroiled in the Unknowable. From 18th-century French salon to contemporary Brooklyn apartment, from traveling carnival to libertine nightclub to body-horror laboratory, explore the dark side of the creative urge among phantasmic machines, dubiously ethical biomedical experiments, unsettling art installations, and a discomforting array of Uncanny Valley denizens. Become a human worm, traverse the dreams of an automaton, perform necromancy through antique film reels, join a secret society in the bowels of a Gilded Age factory—and remember to never, ever trust a face.

ooh this sounds like it whiiiips