double bill: two epic, decades-sprawling chronicles of two straight bros trying to make it in their own idiosyncratic art world with the resulting crossfires of love, jealousy, sacrifice, and redemption told through lush, gorgeous worldbuilding aided by brilliant makeup work
another friend casually revealed that her father had retired comfortably at age 50 and laughed that she wishes she had his life. what do u mean. u are his only child. where is/do u think his presumably massive wealth is all going/gonna end up
Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes most of his masterpieces himself, unlike Park Chan-wook who needs his far more talented female co-writer Jeong Seo-kyeong to carry his ass
some of the ppl ive met in academia most well-read in cutting edge fiction modern and contemporary work with film studies or history, most of the ppl i know who specifically do literature seem to approach it as a day job that detracts from their true interests, kpop and pokemon
tense conversation with another phd who said i was being exploitative by failing my students AI written papers, as in i was exploiting their labor. and then she talked about her novel in progress about her diasporic trauma from not being able to talk to her korean grandma