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one of the best commentary essays ever published. you can read it on the paris review!
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incredible incredible book about horror and monsters and our bodies and why we’re so fascinated with the monstrous form and how monsters are inherently queer. literally my sacred text.
Jan 29, 2024
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well-written article analyzing cronenburg's films and contrasting them with today's sexual politics and lack of eroticism.
passage i enjoyed: In fact, we are not impermeable packages of preformed desires, importing our likes and dislikes around with us from one encounter to the next like papers in a briefcase. An erotic craving is inextricable from the ferment that foams up when oneself is sluiced into another. Not only is it impossible for us to know whether an encounter will be deflating or transformative but we cannot know what sort of metamorphosis will ensue if the sex is as jarring as we can only hope it will be.Â
Feb 19, 2024
-longer read but really fantastic and fun analysis of Cronenberg’s work, eroticism, transformative sex, and consent :D
-Not as engaged with August Blue as I was Hot Milk but Debbie is for the girls with mommy issues
Mar 4, 2024
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so funky and cool. al green's is good but this is great.
May 1, 2024
not really a rec but i just watched fantastic mr. fox (2009) and ash and his father are such great representations of the spectrum that is neurodiversity. i’m not sure if wes anderson intended to make his characters present characteristics of asd or adhd, but even if he didn’t, i felt incredibly impacted by this story, and i know that the neurodiverse community has found solace in this movie for YEARS.
Jun 15, 2024
three standouts for me: ‘right place, wrong person’ by rm, ‘mutt’ by leon thomas, and ‘two star and the dream police’ by mk.gee. amazing experimental albums.
Nov 13, 2024