Yesterday, I turned 33 years old. 33!
As if I don’t already share enough of my life online…as I did with my movie and some other, questionable medium posts…here is a daily kind-of-newsletter! The goal is to share three new things, every single day, that I’m into.
Into is loose. It can be anything.
I just want to curate my interests into a daily list to both practice my “writing craft” lol and to organize the many fascinating things I am into.
[This morning my girlfriend’s parents took me to Stonecrop Gradens in Cold Spring, NY. Highly, highly recommend!]
8.7.2020
1/ This news broke two days ago, but the story of The Matrix film being fundamentally about the trans experience remains fascinating and in its own way groundbreaking. This article: 'The Matrix' Was About the Trans Experience, Confirms Lilly Wachowski and the subsequent IG thread from @ThomasPageMcBee have led to some great musings on the allegories within one of the greatest fantasy movies probably ever made. Certainly by box office standards. It’s worth a revisit and is a friendly reminder that there are regular movies and movies that really say something. Both are necessary, undeniably, but we can’t lose sight of the value in those progressive, norm-testing bigger projects.
2/ I really loved revisiting this interview with writer Jeremy O. Harris. It’s a wild ride wherein Harris, best known for writing Slave Play, goes hard on the oversharing and truth-bomb dropping. He’s a fascinating, queer man with an unstoppable instagram. Just try and keep up with everything he processes and shares in this hour long conversation. He covers American theater, Hollywood, race, storytelling, contemporary American culture and so much more. I’m so very much looking forward to his next soon-to-be-released project, Zola which he co-wrote with the brilliant Janicza Bravo of Lemonade fame.
3/ Book recommendation! I’m reading Ghettoside by Jill Leovy and it’s really, really good. It’s especially relevant given our current national conversation on policing in America. I was pushed toward it after reading this article on why we can’t blame the protests for the rise in violent crime this summer. Ghettoside draws the conclusion that certain communities in America are over-policed for petty crimes and small scale issues and grossly under policed for the scary, brutal crimes that occur. This leads to the unjust system that we’re living through in 2020. It’s a hard read, full of unfair realities and far too much death. But, in the end, a great resource for when you need to have an intelligent conversation about policing and systems in America.
Ok! Hope this was interesting or useful or a nice escape? Who knows! Ok, bye.