Something New (This Week)
A new nepo baby queen, an old book, new music (recommendations), and a cover of a song.
Happy Friday, y’all. There’s been a lot of content this week, unfortunately a lot of it about the threats to the safety and livelihood of transgender people in our country. Please don’t hesitate to call your local representatives, donate to local organizations fighting those good fights, and to talk to your family and friends about how we can all do more.
Luckily, there was fun to be had this week, too. Here’s something(s) new:
TikTok is good, actually
This is the most chaotic and energizing thing I’ve seen in a long time. I know I love Sofia Coppola, and I know I love her husband’s music, but I somehow didn’t know I needed every morsel of content that has anything to do with anything regarding her family, until this moment. When I die, play this on repeat in my casket.
Mirimax, Steven Soderbergh, and the 90’s
(A young Steven Soderbergh being awarded for his first feature film “sex, lies, and videotape”)
Harvey Weinstein can rot in jail forever, and I hope he does. Unfortunately, he did have a large impact on Hollywood and the movie-making industry, and unfortunately it was terribly interesting to learn about in Peter Biskind’s Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. The types of movies that you were seeing in theaters changed a lot in the 90’s, and Miramax/Sundance had a lot to do with it. A vastly informative book, though it is dense and sometimes a chore. I’m glad I’ve read it.
More Ways to Find Good Music
One of my favorite critics, Lindsay Zoladz, has a new newsletter for music recommendations through the New York Times, which I unfortunately just paused my subscription to. I’m excited to just get more of her thoughts into my lexicon, and to listen to more new (to me) music.
Additionally, another of my favorite sources of information and entertainment, Amoeba’s What’s In My Bag? series on Youtube, had two great episodes recently: Danny Elfman and Hannibal Burress
Informative, funny, insightful, and sometimes bizarre, What’s in my Bag is a treasure-trove of interviews with artists and recommendations of music, movies, and art in general.
A Song for Me, and No One Else
A shoe-gaze-y cover of a Chevelle song from the mid aughts. I’ve never felt more seen.
I hope there has been some fruit borne to you this week, in the art spaces or otherwise. Please keep chirping at me with new things to read, to listen to, to watch, to look at, to try, to dive-into. Your reading this is so valuable to me, and your input even more so.
TTFN,
B