Emily "Babe" St. James

I have reinvented myself and my career multiple times since I turned 30, and I expect to do so again. Do not believe you can't radically revamp your life as you age. You can, and you will, and you must!

I am in a place where they could nominate anyone from the main credited cast in the film (Del Toro, DiCaprio, Hall, Infiniti, Penn, Taylor), and I would be thrilled, and I will be gutted when any of them is snubbed, as I know someone will be. It's an exceptionally well-cast movie, if nothing else.

I get why Sean Penn has all the awards heat in the supporting category because he creates an incredibly memorable character who manages to avoid seeming cool _at all_, which is always a struggle with a character like that. But c'mon! It's Sensei! He's the best of us!

It's been a week since I've seen it, and in that time, Benicio Del Toro's work in One Battle After Another has stuck with me the most. He's so warm and open! Give him awards!

It is _so comfortable_ living in discomfort. I found it really admirable!

The documentary Predators is the good shit. One of my favorite movies of the year, and it reframes its own goals as a film multiple times throughout, without you quite realizing it's doing so, in a way I found quite impressive.

If you have not read my first novel and have no idea who these troubled women are, here is your chance

(Note: there are no trans people in this book, anyway that we know of--I guess Patrice could be??--so don't go buying it if u want that kind of thing)

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Milo Rambaldi predicted all of this.

It's good that Bluey is from Australia, so my child can learn about Wrong Christmas.

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TTPD was that! This is, somehow, her Ghost of Tom Joad. Which shouldn’t work but does.

He and Shellback are back!

This album definitely feels like she tried to be ruthless and cut the things that didn't work, and I think she mostly succeeded at that. It's very cohesive! It's just that it's not really cohering toward anything particularly exciting.

It's called "Wood."

This might be literally true! I am now mostly through Puberty 2, and like all college freshmen, I struggle a bit to connect to music I loved in junior high. Except I still love all the songs I used to, so maybe the problem is NOT me but, rather, Taylor Swift. A thing I say often to my therapist!

I never came around on Tortured Poets, though I think there's a great 10-song album in there somewhere, so maybe it's me. Maybe I have GROWN and CHANGED as a person.

With Swift, the parasociality is almost always the point to some degree, but that curdles the richer and more detached from everyday life she becomes. On folklore/evermore, it seemed like she'd found a way out of this trap. But this album feels, for the first time, like brand management.

I don't know that her songwriting was "better" on folklore/evermore, but it was clear she was feeling artistically thoughtful and ambitious in a way she just hasn't since. And, girl, I, too, have believed every thought I had in a manic phase deserved to be shared, but.

Don't mind the Taylor album, but it feels kind of anonymous, which is a wild thing to say about an album with a song about her fiance's penis.

“Apples and Bananas (The Phonics Song)”

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Cannot recommend Woodworking by @emilystjams.bsky.social enough. Her approach to multiple perspectives is just a masterclass in writing, and the story? I wept.

If you feel that you haven't ever really been seen (for any reason!) or *need* to be seen now, please read this book. Thank you, ESJ.

Thank you for reading it!

This movie takes place in a reality where Washington, D.C. is home to a buncha jackasses!

We’ve had two separate “damn was this movie made yesterday??” discourse cycles this year, and I think that’s interesting in an era when so many movies shy away from the present.

But you agree Taylor Swift should cover it for Speed Trap, my Academy Award longlisted animated feature film, coming out in 2033?

(If Taylor has kids, she should cover "Life Is a Highway" for some animated movie about a turtle who drives a car or something.)

Saw the new TS album had a song named "Father Figure," then saw that George Michael is credited as a co-writer, so now I'm listening to the George Michael "Father Figure." We'll get there in time! Life is a highway! I'm gonna ride it all night long!

It's a really fun movie!

It started life as "If you put a trans woman in a Hallmark Christmas movie, what happens?" and then mutated, like, 70 times from there.

My kid gets songs before bed every night, and they try to stump me by just saying random nouns or phrases, and what they don't yet quite get is that whatever they say to me, I just turn it into a song to the tune of "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" or "Sugar, Sugar," and it always works.