30 October 2020
“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
This Week
Happy All Hallow’s Eve, my friends. It’s a blue moon, and the first full moon on Halloween in nineteen years, so clear out your baggage and speak your spells. It’s time to begin a new cycle.
If you want a seasonably appropriate movie suggestion, I made a great big horror movie list. Have fun. Tomorrow I’ll be sending out an extra list of horror documentaries to paid subscribers.
I had a flash fiction piece published in the Halloween issue of Tales from the Moonlit Path. It’s called “The Elevator Operator.” If you’re in the mood for a unsettling little story, give it a read.
Links
America is about to choose how bad the pandemic will get.
What is the internet doing to Boomers’ brains?
“We are the writers of this story and we get to decide how it’s going to end.” Lilly Wachowski on refusing fascism.
Lost letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson's mutual affection.
Step into synaesthesia’s visual soundscape, built with the music of John Coltrane.
“Cottagecore romanticizes running away for the trappings of rural agricultural life. Goblincore romanticizes descending into the trees to become a chaotic forest entity.” Embrace the cozy darkness of goblincore.
“My experience of actual people in this time is overwhelmingly positive — there is a great deal of love and mutual regard and community. I think most of us understand that in order to rise above this particular moment we must pull together, and act with civility, generosity and kindness. We have a monumental task ahead of us that will require vast reserves of energy — we must rehabilitate the world — and this fellow feeling and mutual respect is essential to the process.” Nick Cave on coping with negative energy.
Reading/Watching/Listening
The You’re Wrong About podcast just popped up on my radar and I’m enjoying their Princess Diana series a lot. Recommended for both edification and amusement.
If you want a break from the seemingly endless march of stressful news and horror movies aren’t your solution, might I suggest that you rewatch Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)? I did and it was a good time.
There’s new Bruce. It’s pretty solid.
And because one of the songs on the album reminded me of one of my favorite Bruce deep cuts, and it’s always been a song that helped me get by, here it is.
Keep believing.
Love,
Jen
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