February 2023 Favourites Handful of my favourite things this month. Watching Film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) My Year of Dicks (2022) Bones and All (2022) Television Anne With an E – seasons 1, 2, and 3 (2017 – 2019) – Adored it. My life is better since I watched it. A new…
Taylor Swift, Christmas, and lost love
I’ve been thinking lately about how Taylor Swift uses Christmas (or, if you’re American, the “holidays”) to reference lost love. In her more recent albums, especially folklore and evermore, Swift has written from fictional perspectives and situations which I’m sure were inspired by some element of truth. I find I’m drawn to these made-up storylines…
I can’t keep up with TV in Spring 2023
I wonder if 200 years ago, my ancestors felt there was simply too much theatre and entertainment to keep up with at the local hall?* Because right now, it seems there is too much TV for my first-world, privileged, mind. It’s a sentiment that began during 2020 when I was watching a lot in my pandemic…
Things I loved in January
January 2023 Favourites A few of my favourite things I enjoyed this month. Watching Film The Menu (2022) Cop Land (1997) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) Shithouse (2020) – I loooove Cooper Raiff’s films. Can’t wait to see his future stuff. A Man Called Otto (2022) The Fabelmans (2022) – Loved this type of…