March 2025

Watching

• Ernest and Celestine - seen this a couple years ago, god it's so cute, love the soundtrack!
• Ingrid Goes West
• White Lotus Season 3 - Parker Posey is killing it as the typical NC rich white woman, I'm getting flashbacks and it's scary

Reading

Listening

• In Our Nature by Jose Gonzalez | Favorite tracks: How Low and Killing for Love
• Birds Make Good Neighbors by The Rosebuds | Favorite tracks: Hold Hands and Fight and Leaves Do Fall

Around the Internet

• "Boromir and our Relapse into Fascism" by svensplaining - never thought I'd ever watch a 3h video about Tolkien lore but here we are

February 2025

Watching

• Transmitzvah
• Conclave (again!)
• Oscar Nominated Shorts: Magic Candies, In the Shadow of the Cypress, Yuck!, Wander to Wonder, Beautiful Men
• How to Train Your Dragon, 1 and 2, and then went on to binge all 6 seasons of Race to the Edge oops
• Diabolique
• Emitai - since I watched it all I hear in my mind is just "Kebebe!"
• Xala - my favorite actor was the evian bottle
• Cebbo

Reading

• Spill by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
• The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier - SO SICK

Around the Internet

• "creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling" by Anna Howard (I had already gotten Obsidian to replace Notion but I ended up using Odysseas' video on setting it up - don't know if I'll stick with it but I like it for now!
• "How libraries are saving physical media" by Nomad Over Normal - I've started going to the library every week to choose CDs to add to my music library (I'm only listening to what I have on my iTunes library these days) and DVDs to take home for that week and I love it, feels so much more involved.
• "WHY NOT????????????" by joost klein - I will listen to anything this man releases on LOOP, and this video is so damn fun

January 2025

Watching

• Conclave - I will never shut up about this movie
• Thirteen - no bra, no panties!
• She Came to Me
• The First Omen - the final act was AMAZING
• Alien: Romulus - I've never watched a movie with my mouth hanging open like that
• Beans
• Close to You - cool to see an Elliott Page romcom but meh
• Party Girl
• Clockwatchers - had to continue my Parker Posey mood
• Frybread Face and Me
• His House (rewatch)
• Johanne Sacreblu
• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Reading

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney - loved this! I need to revisit the movie adaptations, from what I remember of them I prefer the book, I love how everything unfolds/reveals!
• The Employees by Olga Ravn

Around the Internet

• "You should write self-indulgent trash" by The Cozy Creative - this really inspired me to try and fight my perfectionism, especially with writing
• "Third Place vs. Right to the City" by Radical Planning - of course I've heard third places referred to a lot, but I hadn't realized where it came from: this is why we always have to shape our own ideas instead of uncritically adopting existing things we hear!!
• "The Worst Remake Ever Made | A WICKER MAN Analysis" by Maggie Mae Fish - I finally watched the remake in October, and man now I really want to check out the original
• "Spotify Wrapped is changing the way we listen to music" by Gaila - the connection to surveillance really stuck with me, I had always had mixed feelings about Wrapped, but this video perfectly encapsulates it. It would be fun to see the results, but you also felt the need to guide it and censor yourself as to not embarrass yourself