THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932): most fun I’ve had watching a movie in a long time
THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932): most fun I’ve had watching a movie in a long time
Probably one of my top 25 favorite movies. Definitely top 50.
this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad
My 6 favorite books of 2025 (in the order that I read them)
• SAKINA’S KISS by Vivek Shanbhag
• THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER by Jamaica Kincaid
• WHITE ON WHITE by Ayşegül Savaş
• O CALEDONIA by Elspeth Barker
• HIGH-RISE by J.G. Ballard
• THE TURN OF THE SCREW AND THE ASPERN PAPERS by Henry James
My 12 favorite movies of 2025
Just got my copy!
"The stairwells smell like the cement they're made of." - Infinite Jest
Still probably one of my favorite paragraphs of all time
Eddington > One Battle After Another
Institutional printing #metaphor
New-to-us species alert! 🚨 🐟 These snailfish get bumpy, dark, and sleek in the deep sea.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/new-...
garmonbozia
Cinerama Dome, My Neighbor Totoro premiere, May 1993
Larraquy's COMEMADRE is awesome, highly recommend!
In order to watch a Playboi Carti video on Youtube, I was first made to watch an ad for an ai-powered therapy panda that hugs you back
“...in the beginning you understand the world but not yourself, and when you finally understand yourself you no longer understand the world.” - Mary Ruefle
If we're doing horror
was utterly shocked at how many people die in this movie when I saw it
A future classic arrives next year
"Seeing Ershadi" by Nicole Krauss
"Peking Duck" by Ling Ma
"William Wei" by Amie Barrodale
"A Dark and Winding Road" by Ottessa Moshfegh
"God" by Benjamin Nugent
I loved Vivek Shanbhag’s GHACHAR GHOCHAR, and loved his new novel, SAKINA’S KISS. The book increasingly sidesteps expectations, with a narrator that reminded me of OPEN CITY and SOMETHING HAPPENED, and ends with a surprising final act that’s one of the boldest moves I’ve seen in a book recently.
Have you read Not To Disturb by Spark? Prob my 3rd fav of hers after usual suspects Driver’s Seat and Jean Brodie
Augusto Monterroso
I think about this regularly