Week 19, 2026: Not-goodbye vine leaves

Letterboxd tells me I've watched at least two films a month every month for the past ten months or so, even though I never plan for it and can never recall my most recent watch. I’ve done my two for May this week: Bayn Al Qasrayn (1964) and Tiny Furniture (2010). Most people I know would watch one but not the other. I’m reading Famesick, finally. I whole-heartedly recommend it if you’re in your twenties or a woman or neither one of those things. Lena is such a brilliant observer. She makes the funny look like it comes easy. I keep highlighting big chunky passages because I feel so deeply seen and understood by her experiences. There’s a bit where she talks about how, in her early twenties, she’d get acquainted with people much older than her and hear them use a common turn of phrase she’d never heard before and think they were a genius for coming up with that on the spot. I didn’t even know that this was a relatable twenty-something experience that you could write about, I thought I…