You’re Telling Me I Get To See THE Tori Spring In Live Action On Friday???? Wild.

Forests on 20 year old Kodak, March 2020

too many birds bill callahan 

why did this exchange in a youtube comment section make me want to cry

can tell im about to start listening to the mountain goats again which is how you know im experiencing a real low point

Ransom using the fake knife to attack Marta in Knives Out and Andi's journal blocking the bullet that would have killed Hellen in Glass Onion.

Something about how both women are saved by the eccentricities of the people who loved them. 🤌

all three are fine!! thank u in advance :)

nonfiction:

savage pastimes: a cultural history of violent entertainment by harold schechter (schechter is one of the best true crime authors ive ever read. title speaks for itself.)

tr@nny: confessions of punk rock's most infamous anarchist sellout by laura jane grace (autobiography, lead singer of the punk band against me!. laura came out as trans in the early 2010s.)

jenny holzer self titled (visual artist jenny holzer, most famously known for her truisms.)

the joke's over by ralph steadman (accounts of steadmans life—artist—alongside hunter s thompson, author & gonzo journalist.)

the only living witness by stephen g michaud & hugh aynesworth (the life & crimes of ted bundy.)

execution: the guillotine, the pendulum, the thousand cuts, the spanish donkey, & 66 other ways of putting people to death by geoffrey abbott (history of different torture + execution methods. dry at times, but very informative.)

up close: johnny cash by anne e neimark (quick, enjoyable biography on JC)

the mothman prophecies by john a keel (historical reports of the mothman, his relation to UFOs, the men in black, and the collapse of the silver bridge)

fiction:

fight club by chuck palahniuk (comedy, thriller)

the house on mango street by sandra cisneros (coming of age)

no country for old men by cormac mccarthy (thriller, crime)

do androids dream of electric sheep? by phillip k dick (thriller, sci-fi)

2001: a space odyssey by arthur c clarke (sci-fi)

johnny got his gun by dalton trumbo (war, history)

sharp objects by gillian flynn (crime, thriller)

fear & loathing in las vegas by hunter s thompson (comedy, journalism, history)

brokeback mountain by annie proulx (romance, LGBT, western)

jurassic park by michael crichton (sci-fi, thriller)

the miseducation of cameron post by emily m danforth (coming of age, LGBT)

psycho by robert bloch (crime, thriller)

poetry:

my favorite poems

my favorite poetry collections

that one post on here which was about how iranian filmmakers pan their camera from right to left unlike western filmmakers . the same applies to kissing too btw. in What’s in a Kiss? Spatial Experience Shapes Directional Bias During Kissing, Shaki observes that 77 percent Hebrew and Arabic speakers tilted left to kiss. something something, a kiss is a punctuation to your love language etc

In Iran, schoolgirls chant "Woman, Life, Freedom" (Zan, Zendegi, Azadi)

David Horvitz

thinking abt the dog hair by Lydia Davis again