Nick Savides

I wish things were different. Can they be?

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Hello again @CameronCrowe.

If the @nyknicks win it all, I've decided I will make a video about you and the Nashville incident. If I can get there (not a given at this point), it will be the most honest, freewheeling video I have ever made.

Was going to call it Project Hail Mary, but I understand that title is already taken, so for now it is just untitled Cameron Crowe project.

Can't promise it'll be a home run or something you'll appreciate, but I'll give it the ol' college try.

Telling you now so you still have time to pick a team. Etc.

[Sony Pictures @SonyPictures]

Jerry Maguire is back in theatres!

Back on the big screen for its 30th anniversary. In select theatres April 12, 14, and 15. Get tickets now. #JerryMaguire

[NBA @NBA]

Orange and blue skies in NYC today 🧡💙

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

I put off revisiting this @CameronCrowe blog post I wrote back in 2010 for as long as I could. So many things have changed since then, but so much has stayed the same.

Not sure which part resonates more.

How to find the heart to fight for better things when the parts that hurt the most are the things that haven't changed? How can things be different this time? Etc.

Also, even back then I made a connection to LOST.

Some things go back a bit ...

https://t.co/GX0cpIXfST

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Hello again @CameronCrowe.

If the @nyknicks win it all, I've decided I will make a video about you and the Nashville incident. If I can get there (not a given at this point), it will be the most honest, freewheeling video I have ever made.

Was going to call it Project Hail Mary, but I understand that title is already taken, so for now it is just untitled Cameron Crowe project.

Can't promise it'll be a home run or something you'll appreciate, but I'll give it the ol' college try.

Telling you now so you still have time to pick a team. Etc.

[Sony Pictures @SonyPictures]

Jerry Maguire is back in theatres!

Back on the big screen for its 30th anniversary. In select theatres April 12, 14, and 15. Get tickets now. #JerryMaguire

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

https://t.co/oYM05eBVzk
Lainey Wilson: Keepin' Country Cool is worth checking out. Not saying that just because it is 1 hr 23 min long. Why would you think that?!

@CameronCrowe as someone who tours the country talking about music and the fan experience, any thoughts or reactions? Very curious to hear your take.

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Hello again @AnnaKendrick47.

I see that your colleague is back in the news and has a court date on 5-18. That's as good of a justification as any to reach out to you again.

Actually I’ve been meaning to follow up for a while, but I couldn’t find the right words. For whatever reason though, this feels like something I need to address.

I would've done things differently if I could, but this was the only path I could find that might change the outcome.

I don’t know how to navigate through life without some degree of honesty, and sometimes that involves addressing the dissonance at hand, however imperfectly.

Forgive me for this if you can.

All that to say, Another Simple Favor, your latest collaboration with Blake Lively, was the worst movie I saw last year.

Not that it was technically deficient, just that it felt powered by tainted source code.

South by Southwest seems like a more fitting title, and not just because the film premiered there and borrowed extensively from Hitchcock’s North by Northwest.

Justin Baldoni, the guy your colleague is currently suing for $$$, co-produced The Senior, which also came out last year and feels much more life-affirming.

But, I understand that your film performed quite well for Amazon, so you can take solace in that. You helped a powerful multinational sell more dishwasher detergent and such. That's something. Is it everything though?

Generally speaking, I appreciate what Amazon offers, and they made Project Hail Mary possible.

Unfortunately, I found Another Simple Favor so distasteful that it made me want to delete every positive thing I've ever said about you, to edit you entirely out of my story.

It's not like I haven't done that before.

But a throwback episode of @adamcarolla’s show from late 2025 helped stay my hand.

I listened for a justification to scorn, to get as far away as possible from a corrupt and horrible industry. Instead I heard relics of decency.

I liked myself less for condemning but felt better about the situation. If I wasn’t entirely wrong about her, then perhaps Iwasn't entirely wrong about you.

In the twilight hours when I reflect on these things, I sometimes wonder if I was responding not just to what was, but also to the shadows of things that may be.

Try not to hold the Dickens reference against me. It's actually how I think about things sometimes.

In other words, it's conceivable that I wasn't wrong, just talking in the future tense.

But seriously, who does that?! I know. At times I wish I could be more conventional.

At this late hour, it's a distinct possibility that I was wrong about you. After all, I've been seemingly wrong about so much of late.

If that means I was also wrong about you too, well it happens. (You were born in the land of Stephen King after all, so it makes sense, although it also happens to be John Ford territory, which complicates things.)

Well in that case, feel free to disregard and seek out more opportunities to make more sequels, sell more products, and party in the USA. Etc.

That really is living the ultimate dream for so many people. Yours too though?

If it isn't, if the positive things I once shared with you ever resonated even in the smallest way, then would you help me fix things and make the sad parts untrue?

Asking because you once set me back in all kinds of ways that may ripple throughout eternity and because for whatever reason, I don't believe I can make things things work on my own.

BTW, heard your interview on Call Her Daddy. Not usually my cup of tea, but it came out on a notable date, and the title made me curious to hear what you had to say.

Also, did you know that our mutual friend was once married to Penelope? That's not a veiled Twilight reference, although it could be.

Quite possibly it's merely just another coincidence, part of the daily detritus of life that can occasionally motivate captivating dinner-party banter.

But if there's more to it all, I hope you find it.

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Hi @pmarca. Saw Eddington because you recommended it in this podcast and elsewhere.

The film makes astute social commentary at times. As someone who bought a cowboy hat during COVID partially in response to those who took issue with me walking around without a mask, the first half of the film resonates.

By the end though, I couldn’t go along with it.

Your time-to-build vision is inspiring, but the film strikes me as the opposite of that. Wikipedia considers Eddington a neo-Western thriller, but I see it more as a testament to the corrosive power of resentment and hell on earth.

In other words it’s a horror film, in keeping with director Ari Aster’s background and a genre I’ve come to see as the antithesis of progress.

I can’t think of a better example of the regressive aspects of horror than Jack Torrance in The Shining.

Rather than awakening from the nightmare of history, he gets stuck in the maze of it and devolves into a Minotaur-like creature by the end, the polar opposite of the Star Child at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

See also the timeline of @StephenKing.

Whether he is jeering at a SpaceX setback shortly after a potent cyberattack briefly disrupted https://t.co/hieX7H4WLE, trying to justify the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or calling for the impeachment of Trump right after his administration pulled off an unprecedented military operation that took out an evil dictator who brutally massacred thousands, King’s contaminated commentary is a persistent testament to the anti-progress aspects of horror and the showbiz-swamp source code that seemingly fuels so many of its practitioners.

I don’t begrudge you for being captivated by Eddington. It has its moments.

I’m writing this because you called it one of the best films of the decade, and I find it bewildering that so many tech leaders and builders don’t seem to acknowledge the extent to which the showbiz swamp undermines the noble things they try to accomplish.

This is even after the showbiz swamp produced a musical to celebrate CEO killer Luigi Mangione, helped educate Zohran Mamdani, and stood in solidarity as Billie Eilish undermined property rights at her Grammys acceptance speech, a foundational concept that enables technological innovation and made her illustrious career possible.

As someone who studied film and television in college, I understand all too well the inclination to want to embrace popular culture, but doing so without qualms or reservations can have harmful reprecussions.

Even Apple is not immune to that inclination. While their marketing suggests that they want to positively change the world, one of their biggest TV hits, Severance, suggests that working for a big company is soul-fracturing and possibly nefarious.

I admire the work that you and your partners do to empower entrepreneurs, but if you are not also willing to address the culture that impedes their progress and denigrates their values, then their efforts will be perpetually constrained and potentially demolished by the likes of Mamdani, Ro Khanna, and everyone else under the influence of the showbiz swamp.

For more on this, check out the video at the top of this thread. It has over 1 million views and includes some related commentary about @elonmusk, the showbiz swamp, and such.

https://t.co/STKP2FSvj3

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

Cue the music 😁

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Sometimes I get things right ...

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Wait ... what?!!!

It's been a very a long time since I felt this way, but Knicks might actually be able to make things work this time.

Let's go!

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

🙌 High five @benshapiro, right?!

LET'S GO KNICKS!

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

In this ep, @benshapiro defends Elon Musk and the virtues of capitalism while pointing out the hypocrisy and envy of talking heads like Jimmy Kimmel and co.

That's reason enough to listen, but Ben also makes favorable references to the Knicks. Coming from Ben, that's almost like a secret wish for a Knicks victory!

https://t.co/yeidbWN9be

[ESPN @espn]

"I don't know what I'm feeling."

Jalen Brunson is in disbelief after leading the Knicks to the mountaintop 👏

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Knicks win the championship!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last time it happened was 1973, before my time. What an incredible way to end a memorable birthday week!

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!

[Rudy W. Giuliani @RudyGiuliani]

GO KNICKS!

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Recently added "What's Up Danger" to my running playlist, an acknowledgment that I get some of my craziest ideas when I go for a run.

I don't see how I could make things work at this point. I don't have the runway.

MAKE THE RUNWAY

Well, technically it's not entirely impossible if ...

https://t.co/64v72dHw7I

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Grateful to @Giants for another opportunity to associate my favorite team with my favorite TV show, but I went for a run so as not to end the night on a down note.

The playlist included
"On Giant's Shoulders" by Future of Forestry
"Galvanize" by The Chemical Brothers
"First We Take Manhattan" by Leonard Cohen
and New York Giants Official Anthem to bring me home.

My conclusion from what came before is not that things can't work out, just that I didn't fight hard enough.

Battle mode on. Bring it bitches.

Also if someone wants to make a high-quality, high-concept Twilight Zone-like show called WON, I would be interested.

One must hope. One must fight ...

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Knicks changed the outcome at 1.2 seconds?!

Wait, WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's go!

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN.

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Do I consider it a good omen that @SpaceX is doing an IPO on my birthday?

Well ... this was the space-minded music video I directed that led to me moving to Louisiana. Everything that followed for me, for good or ill, in LA happened in response.

Also, I wanted to be an astronaut as a kid and once impersonated Buzz Aldrin for a school project.

So yeah, the space-explorer outlook has resonated with me for a while, and it would be great to see @elonmusk's American company boldly go where no one has gone before.

(This is my way of demonstrating that I'm not too invested in the Knicks game. I mean, it's whatever. Focused on anything but that, obviously. It's not like Knicks haven't had a shot for a very long time, but now things feel like they could change even in this late hour. That's crazy. But ... what if it wasn't?! I don't know. I guess maybe that's interesting. WAIT, WE WERE DOWN BY HOW MANY POINTS?! Not that I'm paying attention, just a diversion between more productive work, you know. Responding to emails, rethinking my PowerPoint strategies, realigning my stock portfolio, and such.)

One must hope. Etc.

https://t.co/rc8Hestojd

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX was founded to make life multiplanetary. We’ve been able to expand that mission with our Starlink constellation and AI solution

Learn more → https://t.co/PSCyWrMUYI

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Even in its unfinished form when I visited in 2023, Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia was the most inspiring architectural space I've experienced.

A lot of care went into the details that shape a visitor's journey from entrance to its sacred heart, and Gaudi wanted the church to be a beacon that would radiate love throughout the city.

Today on the 100th anniversary of Gaudi's death, the pope blessed and inaugurated the Tower of Jesus Christ, the highest point of the basilica.

The civic-minded pursuit of transcendent beauty and achievement is a priceless gift to humanity worth celebrating.

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

Veiem per primera vegada la torre de Jesucrist il·luminada!
L'espectacle de llum iniciat des de la base fins a la il·luminació de la creu ha culminat amb una composició de llums guiats per drons, que han dibuixat la figura Gaudí i la frase «primer l'amor, després la tècnica».

[ESPN @espn]

President Trump is in attendance for Game 3 in New York.

He's the first sitting U.S. President to attend an NBA Finals game.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

The rigging of the LA Mayoral primary is obvious. Outrage should be independent of party, and that’s not what I’m seeing. What’s wrong with you Blue Team people? Do you not understand what it means? Snap out of it and stand up for your neighbors, your country and the West!

[Nick Savides @nsavidesPRO]

Who is surprised this is happening in a state that passed the Stop Nick Shirley Act and in a country that can't muster the will to mandate voter ID and pass the SAVE Act?

Everybody knows. So it goes.

Must it always though?

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

ChatGPT can’t find a single example of a 3rd place candidate surging, days AFTER Election Day, to overtake 2nd place.

It couldn’t find 1 example in all of American history.

That’s what’s happening with Nithya Raman & Spencer Pratt.

Los Angeles has 3rd world country elections.