Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Braid FRAME & CANVAS 25th Anniversary Edition (2023)

 collect from clark kent

Sunday, April 09, 2023

22 Favorite Films of 2022

2 of the 3 local theaters are shuttered, rough scenes for your boy 


here goes:

1. Babylon (dir. Damien Chazelle)

2. The Banshees of Inisherin (dir. Martin McDonagh)

3. Everything Everywhere All at Once (dir. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)

4. Tár (dir. Todd Field)

5. The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves)


6. Nope (dir. Jordan Peele)

7. Stars at Noon (dir. Claire Denis)

8. The Menu (dir. Mark Mylod)

9. Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (dir. Norm Macdonald, Jeff Tomsic)

10. Decision to Leave (dir. Park Chan-wook)


11. The Northman (dir. Robert Eggers)

12. RRR (dir. S.S. Rajamouli)

13. Vengeance (dir. B.J. Novak)

14. White Noise (dir. Noah Baumbach)

15. Corsage (dir. Marie Kreutzer)


16. Confess, Fletch (dir. Greg Mottola)

17. Triangle of Sadness (dir. Ruben Östlund)

18. Emily the Criminal (dir. John Patton Ford)

19. Amsterdam (dir. David O. Russell)

20. Spin Me Round (dir. Jeff Baena)


21. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (dir. Eric Appel)

22. Barbarian (dir. Zach Cregger)


honorable mention:

Cha Cha Real Smooth (dir. Cooper Raiff)

Crimes of the Future (dir. David Cronenberg)

All Quiet on the Western Front (dir. Edward Berger)

Men (dir. Alex Garland)

Ambulance (dir. Michael Bay)


pas pour moi:

Top Gun: Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (dir. Sam Raimi)

MK Ultra (dir. Joseph Sorrentino)

See How They Run (dir. Tom George)

Death on the Nile (dir. Kenneth Branagh)


in progress:

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (dir. Dean Fleischer Camp)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson)


next up: 

The Civil Dead (dir. Clay Tatum) 

Funny Pages (dir. Owen Cline)


Saturday, April 08, 2023

Benoît Pioulard EIDETIC (2023)

 20 years ago we went to war in Iraq on nothing more than greed, bloodlust, and ignorance. 20 years in Afghanistan and we had crocodile tears from the Acela corridor when we pulled out. sure seems like now we're feeding a lot more kids into the meat grinder and cheering them on, hiding behind a flag that isn't ours. for fucking shame.




Friday, April 07, 2023

Jeffrey Fayman & Robert Fripp A TEMPLE IN THE CLOUDS (2000)

 canopy ecology: lianas, epiphytes & arboreal animals: ascending to the astral plane with spikes & spurs

Thursday, April 06, 2023

Boygenius THE RECORD (2023)

back in the AIM heyday, when being cryptically emo was quite an art, I quoted the great Jason Collett song "We All Lose One Another" ...along the way and somebody messaged me to tell me how depressing it was, and then a few years later, when we coulda hung in the Bay, free ticket to Neutral Milk Hotel, etc. that person ghosted like none other. fucking A man. stay gold ponyboy