I return to Expat with another sibling dirge, my intention was gentle poignancy, but shit turned kinda lunatic, thanks again to @manwellperkins for launching another wound into the ether...
@ATRightMovies At Eternity's Gate (2018) is sublime. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out not only on a great piece of cinema but Dafoe's greatest performance by a country mile.
A Seattleite is renting our guesthouse and is very cool, she contains wild noir history, I think Seattle is the greatest city in America, lived there briefly light years ago...
I realized this when I watched the film "Leaving Los Vegas" very late one night after my husband had died--suddenly, I totally understood this film & Cage's performance.
before, I'd had no interest in seeing it at all, as I had thought it glorified alcoholism. but--the contrary. it was a revelation how my own experience had transformed my experience of the film & others like it exploring the roots of addiction.
Masters of the Universe actually cured my venomous sobriety for a couple of hours, great goofball fun, that end scene with the heroes laughing maniacally into the sky was sheer alchemy...
Dry day 15, physically feel amazing, but remember, alcohol reduces the body's temperature, so the infinite fevers of hatred for my fellow man are completely unleashed...
Love The Executioners and both adaptations and also really digging the new Cape Fear thus far written by the brilliant Nick Antosca, it's a serpentine, howlingly hilarious psychodrama, pure cathode decadence...
@matthewbdexter 13 days dry, and physically feel fantastic, I'm going to drink inevitably, but at 50, drying out is an absolutely essential ritual now...
Today I submitted the final proofs of this 125k-word monster to the publisher. The official release date is early September.
https://t.co/5he9EpTNk9
@routledgebooks@tandfonline@Dickheadspod (2026)
He's embracing this because of the speed of the technology, he's been mentioning his mortality constantly in interviews, and a man's mortal terror can sometimes murder his creative integrity...
Martin Scorsese has joined a generative AI startup as a partner and advisor.
He adds that he has used AI during pre-production to help with storyboarding — “with this tool, I can share what I’m visualizing more clearly & efficiently to my creative team — the production designer, art designer and cinematographer.”
(Source: https://t.co/LJlx5ylxvr)