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Favorite films

  • Velvet Goldmine
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • Desert Hearts
  • Tokyo Godfathers

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  • Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek

    ★★★

  • Heaven Adores You

    ★★★★★

  • Love & Mercy

    ★★★★★

  • Jobriath A.D.

    ★★★★

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I Saw the TV Glow

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need to make more art i need…

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Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek

2005

★★★ Liked Watched

self-mythologizing as marketing. a lovely bit of nostalgia, and looking back twenty years after it was made but i can't help feeling like i was being sold on the idea of Saddle Creek™ as an upstart cultural force

saddle creek was deeply important to me, to be sure. if elliott smith is my north star, rilo kiley and bright eyes are constellations that make me feel less alone when i'm smoking at night. one of the first real shows i…

Heaven Adores You

2014

★★★★★ Liked Watched

i love my room, i really do
sometimes i’ll smoke a cigarette
but be careful, so the ash don’t collect in my room
i love my room, I hope you like it too

drunk and depressed. deep in the minutiae of my next album. work has me doing long nights, i miss my ex, i'm in a new city with few friends. disconnected from the way my life was, and i can't land the chord progression for this repeated outro…

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I Saw the TV Glow

2024

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

i wanted some space before i watched this again, and i’m glad i did. the thing that stuck out to me is how deliberate every little decision was in this film. a perfect example of what an artist with talent and a vision can achieve if given the means to see that vision through 

the experience i had with this film back in may kicked off a burst of creative energy and i’ll be forever grateful to jane for that

The People's Joker

2022

★★★★½ Watched

considering breaking my “only velvet goldmine gets five stars” rule for this one

i cried twice. this would have changed my life twenty years ago