July 2021

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Happy Friday from your pal Skinemax! Join him Sunday at 8pm ET for a livestream of the @usairguitar National Finals preliminary round! twitch.tv/usairguitar

“Massively negative sum investment schemes where for every one person who makes a return nine others lose money is not innovation.” stephendiehl.com/blog/non-innov…

in my opinion the 2020s have not been a good decade so far

“Work is the means of life; leisure is the end.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Before today, the last movie I saw in a theater was Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Seventeen months and 4 million COVID deaths later, Zola is, to say the least, a different movie for a different time, even if it was made before everything fell apart. Catching up, after the fact, on the viral tweet thread and subsequent Rolling Stone article that inspired it, I’m a little surprised the film didn’t do more with… See more →

I AM IN A MOVIE THEATER

(Don’t worry, the movie hasn’t started yet)

Next month, my competitive air guitar alter ego will make his national television debut on ESPN 8: The Ocho. Before I absorb the derision of the biggest audience of my “career,” I figured I should see DodgeBall, the movie that birthed The Ocho, and said movie exceeded my low expectations. Who knows, maybe my compatriots and I can do the same for our audience?

You don’t have to be a pedantic graphic designer to be offended by someone marking this moment of catharsis for a city of 1.6 million people with the typographic equivalent of a fart noise.

Apparently Steve Guttenberg was once allowed to be in the same room as Isabelle Huppert and I had to see it with my own eyes.

Love Švankmajer, love Faust, didn’t love Švankmajer‘s Faust.

Started working my way through Criterion Channel’s art-house animation collection, never heard of this one before, chose it because I wanted something short, hit the goddamned jackpot.