Hello from where I live now, which is in a beautiful mossy forest. I have eaten several plants Liam has picked up off the ground and insisted are edible. So far he has been right and we have not died yet. Here is what I did/ate/watched/bought/etc in my final month as a New Yorker.
Honestly this one is not very interesting because my old life was dying/ new life was struggling to be born etc. I mostly packed boxes and then lied down for a while in May.
Although I am majorly behind on my goal of 365 movies in 2025, I did see some good ones before moving took over my life. I went to the Alamo to see “Barry Lyndon” in 35mm which was good and very very long. That boy sure loved to duel!
I saw “Defending Your Life,” one of my favorite movies ever, at Metrograph. It’s a perfect movie! Meryl at her absolute best! Albert Brooks! Rip Torn! So so so underrated. It’s a crime everybody alive has not seen this movie.
I got these wonderful glass coasters at East Fork Pottery. All my furniture is all over the place right now so I don’t have a real place to put them yet. Maybe next month!
I watched “The Minecraft Movie” during a period of full surrender to the packing up and moving experience. I am ashamed to say I have been watching all sorts of slop in the past few weeks, since that’s kind of the only thing to do when you take a break from packing/unpacking. I have even been watching Youtube Shorts, which are so bad. I have to go cold turkey soon.
I saw a double rainbow when I was at the Jersey Shore for Memorial Day. We had a group of solidly 12 of us vamoose from the dinner table to marvel at them for a few minutes. It was almost a triple rainbow.
I got a great vintage mushroom lamp at a store in Asbury Park, which looks very happy in my new dining room. Probably the only little corner of the house which looks right at the moment… I am drowning in recycling…
I read “The Last Samurai” by Helen DeWitt which was pretty good, and very unusual. I will admit that some nights, in my moving box stupor, it helped me fall asleep very quickly. Overall I would recommend it, and I think I probably will revisit it at some point when my mind is less mushy.
Of course I watched “Hacks”(excellent) and “The Rehearsal”(very good) and “The Last of Us”(bad). The thing about “The Last of Us” is that some of their faces belong in the post-apocalypse, and others do not. Plus the show clearly is having a crisis about losing Pedro. I don’t need to see that. Maybe the next season will be better? Kaitlyn Dever is rly good.
While moving I found an old Elsa Peretti for Tiffany necklace from certainly many years ago. I’m not even sure where it came from to be honest— was it mine, or maybe a grandmother’s?? Either way she’s very cute, and I’m hoping to wear her the next time I’m not just walking around the forest in my rain boots.
Another kind of slop I’ve been inhaling this month is cruise review videos, which I watch in more of an anthropological context, of course. Cruise review videos let you tap into the deepest, most base levels of capitalist mania in a sort of detached way. It’s like reading that David Foster Wallace essay but way stupider. Perfect for turning your brain all the way to the off position.
That’s it for a brief and late cool cat diet. Last month was clearly a blur.
Long time lurker, first time commenter :) The place looks like a dream. A mossy dream. Yanise and I just moved a few blocks down the street and it's fogged up our feeble brains entirely, so I can imagine your urban evacuation has been a total mindfork. Speaking of, Barry Lyndon's been on my list for some time now – tonight may be the night...