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Andrew's avatar

Re movies about movies: Living in Oblivion is definitely worth a watch. And Reservoir Dogs is 'secretly' about movies and definitely about itself

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Pennie Christensen's avatar

Loved, loved, loved Owls in Towels ❤️

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Susan Rodgers's avatar

Austin, I was just reading about a documentary called “Flipside” which seems right up your alley. Quote from director Chris Wilcha in the NYT: “It felt very ’90s… It was that indie rock model: Get in the van, tour with the thing, get bodies in the seats. It made no money. But what it did do — and this is what I believe as a Gen X creative person — it confirmed my belief that continuing to make stuff is the path forward.”

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Palimpsestic's avatar

Love love love the snail animation, it’s inspiring like Paper Films’ posts have been!

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Shawn Overos's avatar

I’m signed up for Ross Gay’s Mondays are Free I am learning so much We have had a couple of lessons from Joe Brainard’s work. The Anaphora is so much harder to do than anyone would know until they try it. Also as a white girl from LA I am realizing how uncomfortable I am as out here we all sound like we are on the Brady Bunch or 90210 lol Old School

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Jim Crotty's avatar

The Sam Anderson story is pure story-telling gold! Thank you.

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soosixty's avatar

So good. Thank you for continuing to feed our souls 💚

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Emily GreenPurpleFireDragon's avatar

Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Over the Clover’s “dah-duh-di-duh • dah-di-dah” reminds me of something I think I’ve heard in the EarthBound/Mother video game series. The composers were Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Shogo Sakai.

Video games mostly have ambient music. The more or less original JRPG, Dragon Quest, was composed by Koichi Sugiyama, who otherwise composed for orchestras. Dragon Quest has the medieval castle feel, and the music fits.

Mother/EarthBound took the Dragon Quest idea and applied it to modern American-like life. It’s the first time I’ve noticed that maybe it would be neat to pay attention to what the music there does.

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Anne Murphy's avatar

I love your block print snail!

Between you and Kate Bingaman-Burt I've been inspired to make a zine (or two or three). I'm rereading my copy of Watcha Mean What's a Zine, and watching a class on zines by the artist By Bun. I've always been stumped at the idea stage, and have decided I just overthink things a bit. I've jotted down a list and it turns out I have plenty of things to make zines about! Now I just need to fight my perfectionism and get through the production stage.

I always like to see American Movie get some love. I'm not much of a movie watcher, but it's in my top five favorites.

Thanks for another great newsletter!

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Maryam Amiryani's avatar

Thank you for the Sam Anderson article. So tender 💖

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Frances O'Roark Dowell's avatar

I'll read anything that Sam Anderson writes! I just finished his Old Leatherman piece, and it is so, so good.

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kmakens's avatar

OMG Owls in Towels! Thank you!

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Christine Havens's avatar

Great start to my day, reading this.

I subscribe to Brown’s newsletter. Love his essays, and his fiction is good, too. He was gracious when he came to my register at BookPeople years ago and I gushed a little.

Thank you for the Owls in Towels. They do melt the heart.

I love movies about making movies. One of my favorites is America’s Sweethearts, with Julia Roberts, John Cusak, Billy Crystal, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Thank you for the snail and the inspiration to try block printing.

Nearly finished with my zine. I’ve been having fun playing with it in the margins of my days.

Thank you for the an

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Deb Hayden's avatar

Margins of my days--unique metaphor. I see morning top and evening bottom--but what are the side margins?

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Christine Havens's avatar

That’s a good question, Deb. I was mainly thinking of mornings and evenings, though not necessarily as tops and bottoms of a rectangle or box. Maybe more like squiggly lines that begin and end the day, connected to other squiggly lines, like taking a bit of time at work to be my own creative. I seem to spend time in the liminal spaces—often, they find me, it feels like.

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