#3Things for SAT, Day of Garlic & Mugwort
1. Another day, another table and panels at Crypticon! #BTRSBooks #RainShadows
2. Happy 27th birthday to my mini me, MegPeg
3. Missed seeing Sinners again, sleep and self care won today
#3Things for SAT, Day of Garlic & Mugwort
1. Another day, another table and panels at Crypticon! #BTRSBooks #RainShadows
2. Happy 27th birthday to my mini me, MegPeg
3. Missed seeing Sinners again, sleep and self care won today
3 things about Ryan Coogler’s SINNERS [2025]
1. Charley Patton’s guitar.
2. The garlic test is a clever spin on The Thing‘s blood test.
3. One evening at the Checkerboard Lounge in 1992.
3 things about David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE [2022]
1. Purple bar in a shiny wrapper.
2. Extra ears (but they don’t function).
3. At the afterparty, the organ sits in a jar on a table.
3 things about David Cronenberg’s THE SHROUDS [2024]
1. “How dark are you willing to go?”
2. Broken hip.
3. Asleep on a flight to Budapest.
3 things about Joan Micklin Silver’s CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER [1979]
1. She abruptly announces that she’s going to sleep. She’s wearing an elegant dress and full makeup.
2. “Why would you choose someone who loves you too little over someone who loves you too much?”
“Because it makes me feel less of a fraud.”
3. Impromptu hallway dance with a nurse.
3 things about Christopher Nolan’s INSOMNIA [2002]
1. Alarm clock in a drawer.
2. Still wrapped in plastic: an expensive dress.
3. Conveniently loose floorboard in the hotel room.
The perpetually hyperactive editing style drives me nuts.
3 things about John G. Avildsen’s JOE [1970]
1. “38% of liberals are fags. That’s a fact.”
2. A special dinner for their guests: delivery from the best Chinese restaurant in Astoria.
3. $10,000 socked away that his wife doesn’t know about. Plus two lots down in Florida.
3 things about Steven Soderbergh’s BLACK BAG [2025]
1. “Will there be a mess to clean up?”
“Only if we do it right.”
2. He makes eye contact and then activates the shutters.
3. She’s been taking an assortment of meds, all just under the reportable dose.
#3things
- before I left the US for Thailand I squirreled some monies into envelopes and packed everything into storage. After two years of my stuff being shifted from place to place I had given up on finding those envelopes, but TODAY, my mom found these envelopes
-which means I now have monies ready for my kids to begin their own immigration process. I've been crying happy, grateful, relieved tears since finding out
-had a really nice walk and talk with @jcarlston I Iove being in Thailand!
3 things about Franklin Ritch’s THE ARTIFICE GIRL [2022]
1. “I thought this was your web?”
2. In the corner, the top half of a mannequin, draped in plastic.
3. Reciting his passcode, he stumbles; she holds up four fingers.
3 things about Masahiro Shinoda’s DEMON POND [1979]
1. Peeling a pear. “Well chilled,” he tells her approvingly.
2. They protest–their daughter isn’t beautiful, then add grudgingly that she’s no longer a virgin.
3. Batting away at the desperate villagers with his cane.
#3Things for MON, Day of Jasmine & Moonflower
1. When you prune your ninebarks, treat those stems like you’re a florist! (See pics)
2. This episode of THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING will break your heart. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-actually-happening/id497227384?i=1000701601709
3. Planting more seeds outside today, sprouting among them
♡ developing a workbook for my ecourse, it's super fulfilling to make things that will really support humans
♡ caught up over voice memos with a child of mine, they are adulting in real time and I feel proud of her
♡ walking a daily loop at a temple park in Thailand brings me so much clarity, maintaining mobility and balancing my brain
What 3 good things have you noticed?
3 things about Aaron Schimberg’s A DIFFERENT MAN [2024]
1. Watching a how-to video on whistling while chopping onions.
2. The peeling as viewed in a mirror.
3. Brilliant karaoke of “I Wanna Get Next To You.”
3 things about Faith & John Hubley’s EVERYBODY RIDES THE CAROUSEL [1976]
1. Repeatedly throwing the spoon on the floor.
2. Happy masks, doubtful inner faces.
3. An unusual trick-or-treater.
3 things about Aaron Wertheimer’s NOT IF I SEE YOU FIRST [2025]
1. “We actually worked with someone from NASA on the alien ejaculate.”
2. Big Red interlude.
3. His identical twin brother is a disembodied head.
3 things about Mervyn LeRoy’s HOME BEFORE DARK [1958]
1. Compulsive smoking.
2. A bank account to which she does not have access, doesn’t even know what bank holds the account.
3. She insists on the Cornet hairstyle, the one her husband has picked out for her.
3 things about Michael Shannon’s ERIC LaRUE [2023]
1. That “new Bible” smell.
2. A box of Our Family brand cereal.
3. “I saw the inside of those boys.”