mike 🎥

If I'm stuck while outlining, I'll start a list called "Stupid things that could happen next" and write a bunch of nonsense ideas down. Pterodactyl attack. Everyone starts singing. Someone transforms into a werewolf.

Eventually the ideas become less stupid, and usually I find a solution.

new short story started! 🎉

this sentence from Tananarive Due’s “Rumpus Room” is so great — increasing tension by highlighting how small her body is compared to the character she’s about to confront — all organically incorporated through focus on her shadow !!

polaroids of the roomies in our apartment (peep the enormous Donkey Skin poster)

from the scene of roomie’s birthday tonight ♥️♥️

The Pressure That Made Miyazaki and Takahata Plus: news.

Animation Obsessive has a great piece up on the early days of Takahata and Miyazaki (pre-Ghibli) -- I'm sure I watched a bunch of Heidi when I was a kid, but I'm not at all familiar with 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother. open.substack.com/pub/animatio...

BTW

it was part of the order; the artist selected it!

arrived today and hung it up so immediately. if you zoom in you can see that the frame is cute too

really obsessed w/ this original watercolor painting by @gabalut.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤

ALIENS (1986)

maría félix in THE KNEELING GODDESS reference spotted

my best friend and i quote from it all the time, it’s like we’re living it

watching batman v superman and was SHOCKED when karen from caleb gallo showed up for her one line & split

Still from In the Mouth of Madness of a man in a padded cell that’s dressed in a gown covered in black crosses

Still from In the Mouth of Madness of a screaming man on a bus, everything around him blue

Still from In the Mouth of Madness of a man peering through an enormous hole made in a wall of pages

Still from In the Mouth of Madness of a man sitting in a theater by himself and laughing hysterically

For me personally, In the Mouth of Madness continues to be one of Carpenter’s scariest films. The idea that what we view as reality can flip on a dime based on minority vs. majority beliefs, fiction becoming religion…all chilling concepts that feel more & more prescient these days

"Thomas Ha's first collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, offers a unique voice and stylistic range. Engaging characters in believable yet off kilter realities will remind readers of their own lives. One of the very best new collections I've seen in a while."

UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES is now exactly two months away from release. If you like short story collections, this might be for you. Here's what the inimitable @jeffreyford8.bsky.social said about it:

and also that kid from “the tin drum”

🚨 a young tom cruise and mia sara have been cast in the live-action “legend of zelda”

Charlotte Rampling caught in flagrante delicto with her chimpanzee lover in MAX MON AMOUR.

A chimp with a gun in MAX MON AMOUR.

A chimp being comforted in MAX MON AMOUR.

A chimp at the dinner table in MAX MON AMOUR.

Happy World Chimpanzee Day! 🐵

thank you king 🥺🩵🩵🩵

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good morning from me & my sleepy eyes

we are experiencing a crinkly-wrapper-in-the-cinema epidemic BTW and all ages are being impacted

no i marked it a couple days ago as a day i wanted to take off as sick so i could go to the movies

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esquire theatre gets it! 😌

Doing a pronoun circle with all the other people stuck with me in the Saw trap

such a fun story! love the playful voice & subtle world building (/world-building as motivation). I want a dog-sized cat.

also, Marza X Snith ♥️♥️♥️

ohh and how madly we need them 

OMG — we are so fed at the cinema right now 🌸 can’t wait to hear your thoughts on all of these 👀👀