Whyyyy is it so hot 😭🥵

I'm hosting a local music showcase on Wednesday in Norman. $7, 7 PM, All Ages My description of the four acts I chose are: 🧙‍♂️ Balefire || 8-bit chiptune sounds chewed & regurgitated in heavy metal form to awaken the wizard inside ✒️ Britny Cordera x Santiago Ramones || audience-sourced realtime typewriter poetry funneled into a sound station to morph clicks and clacks into mesmerizing music 🐼 Rad Panda || DJ-fluid electronic moods & jams paired with tech-y visuals to bridge the worlds of EDM & IDM 🐛 DER WURM || our resident circuit-noise worm scientist goes acoustic with a cello set Promises to be awesome and weird. Would love if someone from here came out.

My film shelf is now at 50 reviews. I never acclimated to Letterboxd, so it's nice to finally have a record of my life in movies, even if it's only been since December. It would be more than 50, but I haven't been including documentaries. I probably should, even if the ones I've seen haven't been particularly major events. I watched a doc about the Hong Kong umbrella movement, the Louis C.K. scandal, the artist Yayoi Kusama, the performance artist Wrinkles the Clown, and so on. None of them aspire to anything cinematic, just to inform and, well, document real world events and figures. I guess they'd all get a middling three stars from me, or I could do no ratings at all. Maybe I'll scratch my skull & scrounge up some memories of what I've seen to add to the Shelf. Also - I watched Here (2024) and Masters of the Universe (2026), but bafflingly, neither are in the database. If my submissions to correct that go nowhere, I'll note here that Here is an interesting, tedious failure that I wish someone other than Zemeckis made, and MofU is way better than it has any reason to be given its development hell. 2.5 stars & 4 stars respectively.

working on an experimental submission to Uncanny Alley's The Stranger Show open call (clickable link to standalone animated 2-frame gif in the comments)

Think I finally decided I'm going to use the Blog & Deep Dive feature. The idea I have is gonna take a while to create, though.

Missed deadCenter, missed micro opera fest, missed house show, missed everything, but I guess I can say my depression saved me some gas money. It's pretty good at that.

“Great art doesn’t arrive when you chase it. It appears when you make the room sacred enough for it to enter.”

“The song already exists somewhere quiet. Your job is to remove the noise until it can hear itself.”

KRISTEN

deadCenter Film Festival, that's what's on my mind It's 2026 and somehow I have still not gotten my shit together. The day before the festivities begin and I am just now checking out the schedule.

26th Annual deadCenter Film Festival

Events by date

dcff.eventive.org

One of my all time favorites is Okie Short Shorts and I am super interested in Julie Takes a Walk. I love Okie stuff, animation, comedy, horror, and all things creative. If anyone has any recommendations for what to keep an eye out for, feel free to let me know!

How do you make the existential dread disappear