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1bpm.bsky.social
I wished that I'd grow up and make my living as a writer. Thanks, monkey's paw. Heavy lurking, light posting, righteous blocking. Oakland.
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Every time I let my cursor pause on a new line, the stupid AI my company enabled in google docs offers "Help me write" ... and I'm like, okay, sure. But it never brings me whiskey, chocolate, a dog-eared stack of comics ... Nothing. This is why I say you can't apply gen AI to the writing process.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Finished @lailalalami.com’s The Dream Hotel today. Beautifully written, disturbingly relevant. A future of relentless surveillance where people are arrested for no crime, and the algorithm can’t be appealed. And it ends with a message that seems tailored for this exact moment, like a gift.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Section 31 felt like basic TV crap. Quirky buddy team that's full of forced quips, edgy hostility and one-trait characters. Flat-out embarrassing. And trying to fit a season's worth of TV into 90 min. created an incomprehensible action spectacle that's not even trying to be Star Trek.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

A friend & I watched Dark City, which The Matrix unfairly (?) swept under a rug. Fun, not great. Story is like a strong first draft. Stylized acting fits a stylized world whose aesthetic admirably uses every dollar in a limited budget. But it's no Blade Runner. The visuals linger, but not the story.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Self-medicating w/movies (& wine). Hardest thing to write in film is a rom-com's Act 2 climax: Perfect couple breaks up hard (later to reunite). Most movies fuck up w/something dumb, petty, implausible. RYE LANE is funny, charming & original straight through, AND it nails that turn. 5/5, no notes.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

The End We Start From is a quietly apocalyptic (not post-) movie that is an uncomfortable watch. The rule that anything with Jodie Comer will be excellent holds true, and director Mahalia Belo delivers a film whose feel and flow is unlike anything I’ve seen. Highly recommended.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments