Meli (she/her)

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Mayhem returns this autumn and you can now buy an Early Bird Pass for a limited time. We've also announced our first 3 titles, including Marc Price's THE ARBITER and Dawid Torrone's DEAD BY DAWN.

We've also announced CHESS OF THE WIND and I can't express how absolutely excited I am to be presenting this film as part of the festival. It is unmissable.

Watched Little Otik for the first time this weekend. Obsessed.

Turned 38 this weekend. Ate cake. Drank cocktails. Shouted at the TV during Eurovision. Witnessed shop lifting in the local shop. A standard birthday.

Fuck the Supreme Court.

Hundreds of Beavers Live hosted by @scsheil.bsky.social for @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social.

Beavers were harmed in the making of this event.

I don’t plan to live that long.

I'm 38 this year and now proudly referring to myself as middle-aged and everyone is like "No! You can't say that!" Girl, I love the idea of being middle-aged. I live for it. There's nothing shameful about it. This is my peak.

They're also the same people who will stand up the minute the plane touches down because they can't bear to be onboard that long. Maybe you could stay seated 5 minutes more if you didn't needlessly board the plane half an hour early, I don't know.

I always think about my therapist's therapist. With the ginormous amount of societal anxiety and depression I dump on her on a weekly basis, in addition to my regular mental ills, there's no way it doesn't affect her too.

Remembering my friend Karen. My friend Karen passed away.

Remembering my friend Karen open.substack.com/pub/melimoi/...

I'd like to put the industry in rice at this point and see if it can be salvaged.

Gorgeous doc GAUCHO GAUCHO, an ode to Argentinian cowboys and cowgirls, is now on BBC Storyville and I highly recommend it.

One more reason for me to be glad to be talentless. I have enough unflattering pictures of myself as is. I don't have to worry about getting professional ones 😂

Perhaps an unfair assumption but as I see advertised salaries elsewhere being downgraded, I wonder if the same thing goes here, and unfortunately, at some point, you get what you pay for. I may be wrong, of course. But I also know plenty of photographers who do a fab job in those conditions.

Thank you!!!

Thank you! That’s really helpful.

Do I know anyone in the UK who's recently had a quad or one-sheet poster professionally framed with UV protection? Trying to get a very rough idea of pricing.

Do I know anyone in the UK who's recently had a quad or one-sheet poster professionally framed with UV protection? Trying to get a very rough idea of pricing.

*pro-rata

Listen, I know the sector is struggling but advertising a Marketing *Manager* position at £26k - pro-data may I add - is absolutely criminal.

See also "featuring a strong woman lead". Writing a woman who doesn't cry is not a feminist act.

Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) // Dir. Quentin Dupieux

I just asked my pharmacist if my ear was a bit blocked and he had a look and SCREAMED and told me to go to A&E immediately so off I go, gang!

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24 for '24 Here are 24 films I loved in 2024, in alphabetical order - except for Universal Language which was my favourite film of the year.

24 films I loved in 2024.

You've introduced me to *SO MUCH* and I've become a much better programmer thanks to you. A Year With Women is one of the projects that taught me so much and I am so grateful. I'm so excited for you to go on this adventure with the book launch.

I cannot wait for this!

About tonight.