A few of the movies that influenced my sick new dark comedy, Surprise! We are starting festival submissions this week and premiering here in LA in March!
Be honest: is it possible to get a full night of sleep, eat fresh/healthy, workout, see friends, build a romantic partnership, make enough money to live on, develop a satisfying career, and have free time for hobbies or staring off into space. Because I just can't figure it out.
I'm gonna make a nice set of business cards that just say "dump him" that I can hand out to women at bars and restaurants when I witness them being talked at by dummies and losers.
I’m looking for new music. Something sad. Not sad like breakups but mournful. Something a Victorian ghost who has been wronged by 5 generations of men might write. I like music by women better but a truly tragic song can transcend gender.
I’ve never related to anyone more than the little girl I just saw walking down Hollywood Blvd with her arms outstretched shouting, “I’m just trying to FEEL things!”
May I present the original House on Haunted Hill 👻 aka Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House.
My first LA apt was at the base of this hill. Everytime I would drive home and see this masterpiece lurking over my building I felt like all my haunted Hollywood dreams were coming true.
Didn't realize many of these episodes were directed by Joe Dante until I was working on his section at
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last week! Come rent em when we reopen later this month!
A big part of childhood is learning to get in & stand in lines, yet every day I have to witness the complete stupidity of adults getting angry bc they can't figure out the line at my store.
Ma'am you're renting Tenet during a pandemic your urgency is unnecessary pls get in line.
Not gonna boil the whole decade down to a tweet, but it's pretty neat that in 10 years I married someone who told me I'd never have the ability to make a film, divorced him, made a film, premiered it at 10 festivals, and then got to be a film festival judge.
This is a good time to remember/accept that your body is always changing no matter what. It's perpetually in a state of flux. This season be as kind to yourself as you are to others. Allow yourself to be comfortable & happy. Cut your body some slack, it's just doing its thing.
I had to put my beloved Baby Kitty to sleep this weekend. It was quick and unexpected. I was not at all prepared.
Today I have to take her to get cremated.
She's been with me since college. I am absolutely crushed.
✨August 2006 - June 2020✨
Yesterday a lame man asked for a fun New Release rec at the video store. I said Knives Out, he said is it a chick flick, the room went quiet, my 2 lovely male co-workers stopped what they were doing, shot me wide eyed glances, stepped back & cheered as I tore his throat out.
No tricks, all treats! I’m launching a haunting new podcast in 2 WEEKS! It’s Always Halloween will deep dive into the dark history of our favorite horror-filled holiday. Each episode of this year round pod will explore the specific histories of our customs, fears, & frights.
Within 3 minutes my cat jumped into my still warm bag of clean laundry and fell asleep. I love how her face changes from full on lunacy to sleepy baby.
LA!! City Council is discussing a rent freeze tomorrow. We need this! Call your city council person and Eric Garcetti 213-978-1028. The more people that demand this, the more likely it is to pass. They track the numbers. Get everyone you know to do this!!
From 2003-2012 I worked at video stores across the country that sold and rented porn and lemme tell you, religious figures (and general zealots) who are decrying porn in public are watching it in private. I saw into a lot of people's lives at those jobs and I haven't forgotten!
To those lamenting this place:
Video stores still exist & I manage one here in LA
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We were recently forced out of our location of 20 years by a greedy landlord & would relish the attn this post is getting on our GFM!
Keep video stores ALIVE:
Today I confessed something to my therapist and her response was "Oooo [pause] Ooooo" and it was so fucking funny that I basically got over my issue that instant.
Hello I'm the girl staring into your eyes at the cafe!
I have injested a large matcha tea!
I have lapsed into a caffeine coma during which I am exploring every thought I've ever had all at once!
Please do not be afraid!
I have left my corporal form!
I am not a threat!
Old dudes truly get off on treating young women like they're stupid, perpetuating the fallacy that if girls don't know something about their precious fossilized past they're dingbats. Yet old men know zero about girl culture which is present & future & honestly more important.
when ppl say you have to acknowledge your priveldge that's actually something you can do privately on your own time then move through public spaces with that knowledge and behave accordingly
My cat is the weird girl in your 7th grade English class who introduced you to Kids in the Hall, the Pixies, and the idea that your dad's clothes could be disruptive fashion.
When I try to throw a toy for my cat from one room to another and it just hits the door frame of the room we’re in she looks at me with the same level of disappointment as my little legaue softball coach.