dear internet,

here is a list of movies i have watched recently: shiva baby (a rewatch, still a perfect tight tense jangly-scored time), he's all that (2021, netflix, starring noted how is this person a celebrity addison rae), armageddon (in which they repeatedly refer to the world-ending asteroid as 'a rock', which i respect), cinderella (2021, starring noted how is this person a person camilla cabello), black widow (which is about fighting with one's family), fighting with my family (which stars florence pugh), and coherence (2013, perfect tight tense movie, made more interesting on this rewatch by my new revelation that the structure of the storytelling—almost completely improv'd, with only the writers knowing the full arc—is sort of like d&d);

and a list of books i have read recently: possession (a.s. byatt, last read i think in 2009, and managing to be exactly what i remembered and also more, in the best possible way), matrix (lauren groff, doing what one goodreads reviewer called, a bit uncharitably i think, 'girlboss medieval lit', but for me more than anything else was doing a kind of muddy, dirty, pox-and-death conjuring of life that i had only previously seen in hilary mantel), sea of tranquility (emily st john mandel, who never misses), and beautiful world, where are you (which i just finished);

and a list of songs i have been listening to on loop: brando and hot & heavy and vbs by lucy dacus, fallen fruit and dominoes and oceanic feeling by lorde, hard habit to break by chicago, and graceland by paul simon;

and some things i have noticed: a goose with its head lowered into the grass and a goosefeather in its beak, two kittens with identical bottlebrush tails, a feathery tree perfectly triangular like an upward arrow-mark, the sudden rain yesterday that smelled sharp with smoke (they light a nightly fire at the construction site next door).

love,
t