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In Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez says “the world is ever so slightly but uncorrectably out of focus, that there are no absolutely precise answers.” In therapy last week, his collection of essays About this Life surfaced in my conscience – in particular, "Learning to See" and "Informed by

A Long Time Down (II)

"I assume you're still not writing?"

Carry-on (2024), The Dead Don't Die (2019), Kath & Kim: S401 (2007)

Wondering if I had seen something we were considering this past weekend, I thought about my failed movie blog. Were I to just write a sentence about everything, at least it would be a catalog.

Road House (2024)

A performance by Conor McGregor you won't be able to take your eyes off of (context redacted).

A Long Time Down

Still not writing.

The Insider (1999)

The 4K upgrade should be of particular value here: frames to pore over.

Undulatus Asperatus

I had a dream about my uncle – he was the type to ask if my shit smelled better because I became a vegetarian. At Thanksgiving in the early 00's, he confronted me in his plaid, a beer resting against his belly.

Like We Left and Didn't

When I moved to the east coast from the central time zone, it took awhile for me to accept that 10pm was prime time. The news was on at 10pm in Minnesota: 11pm is so late. You have to stay up until 11:30 to watch Letterman or The Daily Show? I remember my head nodding.

Fallen Angels (1995)

Chungking Express worked for me. Fallen Angels doesn't. The latter started as a segment in the former, but maybe the two stories in the former were enough for Wong Kar-Wai to riff on Godard. Obviously not; he made another movie. It's the night time companion to

Après Pension

With no commute I'd have time for writing, for reading. There were essays I'd planned: drafts existing in the dust-bin of the ideal internet hosting solution for nobody's witness. Eugene asks who the audience is, appealing to a narcissism about writing that must exist. Why do it, otherwise?

Atonement (2007)

Is it okay for a film to ask a question and not have an answer? A stupid question, I know.

Bad Boys for Life (2020)

It's a funny feeling to be out of step with pop culture. I like a lot of things that are poppy. But when it happens in an egregious fashion, it gives me perspective on my taste. And the last time I recall being suckered in to to something

Hereditary (2018)

I love this movie -- It's so scary. Why? I do not know if I am prepared to answer that question. Mainly concerned with much of the same themes some of my short stories are: how does illness transform and affect generations? Does it? Assuming it does, how

Press Play

Fourteen years ago, I ran into a guy from high school in Canal Park in Duluth. I wrote about it the following March, when I was back in New York and working a night job for the city that was a total drag.