DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M HERE? – Emeralds

Washes over and propels forward, an aural whiplash of the best kind. Broad generalization (that only scratches the surface): what I imagine a collaboration between Steve Reich, Daft Punk, and The Cure might sound like.

staticy white screen, blue flowers, against black

GODZILLA MINUS ONE (trailer)

Dig the back-to-basics postwar setting. Excited for this one.

accept / embrace

Working still to accept that I won't have a "career" (whatever that looks like these days) as a writer and to fully embrace that I'll forever be underground, a blend of writing, pulps, underground comix, and cassette-trading electronica. Want to be the Jiro-restaurant, the little sushi stand in a subway station that strives only for perfection, knowing full well it can never be attained.

While there are mainstream things I’d like to accomplish – have to believe that I've got a Batman run in me somewhere, if only to satisfy the kid that hungers for it inside – I'm trying to be good with where I am and what I'm doing.

“were you my friend across the fire?”

Had no idea this was coming. But Le Carré and Errol Morris? 20 October can’t get here soon enough.