Reading:
A recognition that life in my slice of heartlandia can be described only as an ill-conceived spinoff of TWIN PEAKS and SCHITT’S CREEK.
Watching: CRISIS (1946), dir. Ingmar Bergman.
So that’s what it feels like to exhale.
This week, at Parenthetical Recluse… The Morning Of.
Latest addition to the box-set collection / addiction.
Many thanks, @jean, for having me on Micro Monday today. Glad to take part.
Among other things, one of my main goals over the next year is to let myself take the time to revisit some of the classic films that shaped my creative trajectory and seek out new inspirations from those I missed.
The Japanese Noir collection is live at the Criterion Channel and all is well.
Because when all else fails, one is left with no choice but to buy the 30-film Universal Monsters Blu-Ray collection.
Putting together issue 0036 of MacroParentheticals, featuring running partner turkey updates, WANDAVISION, and tales from the T1D trenches. You can sign up here, if so inclined.
Watching: TAKE AIM AT THE POLICE VAN (1960), dir. Seijun Suzuki.
EarBliss, 16jan2021: MAQUISHTI, by Patricia Brennan.
Links, 15jan2021
Magical Ice Bubbles Appear on the Surface of Lake Nukabira in Hokkaido, via Spoon & Tamago.
Good: Pressure Builds on CDC to Prioritize Both Diabetes Types for Vaccine, via Medscape.
The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists, via Scientific American.
A Parler archive is being converted into an interactive map of the Capitol building attack, via The Verge.
White House Being Deep Cleaned Before Inauguration, via Medscape.
Bags 22-24. Build complete.
Wrote a reminder to buy more Post-Its on a Post-It.
A hundred-foot jaunt with running partner turkey in the snow.
Good morning.
An office is not a creative sanctuary without a cheaply framed, monochrome laser-printed photo of Leonard Cohen buying Cheetos. (Thank you internet.)
Quoted: Nick Cave
“One day, you will write a line that feels wrong, but at the same time provides you with a jolt of dissonance, a quickening of the nervous system. You will shake your head and write on, only to find that you come back to it, shake your head again, and carry on writing — yet back you come, again and again. This is the idea to pay attention to, the difficult idea, the disturbing idea…”
— Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files Issue #130, 14jan2021.