if you're still torrenting in 2026, your life is probably better than the average person in a lot of ways and much worse than the average person in some hard to explain ways
At a party on Saturday, I had too much wine and began making gross generalizations instead of my usual fine distinctions. I regret this behavior — it’s not who I am, and it won’t happen again.
“Don’t make it political,” says the party that has turned movies, music, social media, petrol, employment, education, and the value of the rupee into a political battleground.
the best part of plane travel is that they are one of the last frontiers of our world that forcibly removes you — even if just for a few hours — from the relentless mindflaying of the compulsion to be terminally online
if you cannot rejoice, let alone survive, a mere 9.5 hours without needing to check your stupid little phone for "work emails" or scroll short-form vertical video content you should throw yourself into the engine of the next plane you board
The fact that one of my favorite Spanish films gives us Liv Ullmann and Ornella Muti as vampires in a sacrilegious occult tale remains one of cinema’s great gifts.