Chris DeLuca

A photo of the SAVAK show. 🎵

I saw SAVAK play at Mama Tried over the weekend. Great set, and the band is super nice. The bar is an old school punk dive. No vapes, but the whole place had the sour smell of old beer and stale cigarettes. Exactly how I think of a bar. A+ 🎵

Starts insane, goes fairly grounded for a bit, then goes bug fuck nuts for the final stretch. Feels like a good DP shot a student film.

Less a movie and more an encapsulation of toxic masculinity via 70s grindhouse. I know it’s important historically but god damn you know?

Finished reading: Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer 📚

What a delightful read. As someone who still struggles with childhood trauma, I’m really inspired by how Paul has grown as a person and comes up with love for those who caused him pain. It’s also very funny.

My favorite part was when the real estate agent drives over a grave and goes, “damn tombstone!”

I just moved into a new apartment, and I’ve been building a lot of IKEA furniture. I just finish a bed frame and dresser, both made of cheap raw pine, and stained them with Mr. Cornwall’s Super Duper Everlasting Oil, which is food safe and expensive. An exorcise in contrasts.

I’m 40 years old, and this is the first time I’m ever living alone. I’m really enjoying being the only person I need to consult in decorating the apartment. The space is still in progress, but it’s already molded to me.

I just heard a radio ad for Hackensack University Medical Center’s cancer treatment, featuring Dr. Michelle Denato, the doctor who treated me and saved my life. Surreal.

Incredible movie. Does something genuinely original and effecting. If you’ve seen all the Friday the 13th movies you’ll get all the loving references, but it’s not necessary to enjoy. Great needle drops as well. Hahah einbinder is perfectly cast and Gillian Anderson is jaw droppingly magnetic. God damn this movie rules so hard I’m mad.

Somehow, my data has been sold to Pennsylvania Republicans. Every election season, I get inundated with texts to vote Republican, and support horrible causes. I have never lived in Pennsylvania, I don’t vote Republican, and I don’t support horrible causes. I am happy to waste their resources, I guess.

Quite possibly the wettest film.

This was fun, and liable to change. my9games.net/en 🕹️

I was unprepared for how cool Blacula is.

Started reading: Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer 📚

Finished reading: The Art of Gathering How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker 📚

This gave me a lot to think about. I took lots of notes. Using the advice is uncomfortable for me, but I think if I did everyone around me would be happier. After being pissed.

TIL macOS ships with the networkQuality command line utility that tests your network performance. No more going to random speed test websites for me! 💽

The Onion’s Voting Simulator is characteristically subversive and funny. Go play it now.

Still rips.

I just found beard hair stuck to the bathroom wall behind the sink. Do I shave in a cartoon cloud, with hair flying in all directions?

My computer reminded me I took this photo 5 years ago. I think this was New Mexico.

I didn’t think I’d want to read a long-ass profile on Mark Zuckerberg, but I could not stop reading Jeremy Stern’s piece for Colossus.

I still think Zuck’s products are rancid, though.

How To With John Wilson remains indomitably good.

Some fun creepy pasta over here.

Art

I didn't know who Shelley was before watching this, but this was the doc I needed to see right now. It's a well made movie of a fascinating, impressive, and tragic person.