I love Hannah with all my heart

This was my last in person film for the Sydney Film Festival; it is a long, beautiful watch. • Drive My Car review – supremely confident Haruki Murakami adaptation theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/…

The use of non-diegetic sound in Justin Kurzel’s Nitram is superb. Like Snowtown, it’s a hard watch and also like Snowtown, I don’t think I’ll watch it again.

“Technological utopians have always believed that if the machinery of industrialism had torn apart the social fabric, another machine could repair it. “ theguardian.com/society/2021/n…

Rest well. Thank you for your beautiful, beautiful songs.

Thank you, Katherine Murphy • The Australian parliament, the whole arse-covering and ego-driven apparatus, should be paralysed by shame and remorse theguardian.com/australia-news…

Trust is one of those seminal films for me, stumbled upon late one eve on the ABC in the 90s. • ‘She’s more than just a murder victim’: the life and death of film-maker Adrienne Shelly theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Dogs are the best people

Hello 2022! I wrote a review of Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro 上海 上海按摩 上海会所 上海spa 上海资源 上海丝足 同城线下 for The Urmadic zine issue 2. You can read it here (page 15): theurmadic.org/gallery

Today is Stuart Hall's 90th birthday. The most important public intellectual of the past 50 years, who left us a legacy to wrestle with. So many of today's political problems can be confronted with a renewed optimism of the will, if we understand our conjuncture and reshape it.

Hello book!

Atwood on the relationship between the environment and literature. Taken from her recently published collection of essays, Burning Questions.

Pandemic times

Deskie revealing my interests.

Love you, Ash. You gotta do what you gotta do. Thanks for being such a genius. 🎾

Happy Monday. I wrote a piece called “Shop Til’ You Drop” for the latest issue of the Urmadica zine. It explores the relations between Covid-19 🦠 and consumerism 🛍 via the lens of Agamben’s thoughts on “common sense” and “good sense” theurmadic.org/gallery page 21.

Got my pens out yesterday. It’s been a minute. Nothing quite like the medication that comes with drawing.

The “Music Dance Experience” scene in Severance. Not going to say anything else other than congratulations and thank you Ben Stiller 🔴🎷🔴

New paper alert! Was a pleasure to work on this one with my colleagues Madeleine Borthwick and Martin Tomitsch Thanks, both!