20aug26

Did you ever think about the number of films you don’t get to see because you’re self-harming your own brain cells with aggressively mid streaming shows? I remember when the binge watch was a new and often joyous thing. I cleared a day to watch an entire season of the US HOUSE OF CARDS, and that was a good show in its first two seasons. Now a weekly release schedule is treated like a novelty. It occurred to me the other evening that the bingewatch and the doomscroll are the same thing: a symptom of having given up control of your life. But I had been drinking mead, so… OPERATIONS: marking up the boards and laying down notesSTATUS: The date window on the Ingenieur is being cranky! READING: IN HER MIND A DARKNESS, LS JohnsonLISTENING: THE MODERNS ep 430LAST WATCHED: I’ve been looking forward to watching IS GOD IS (2026) and it didn’t disappoint. Twins mutilated by a house fire are sent by their mother on a mission to kill their murderous shitbag of a father. The filming is a little bit…