Violet Lucca

My book DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS, a biography and critical retrospective of his work, is available for preorder on Bookshop and Amazon! Oh yeah—Viggo wrote the intro (and it’s so fucking good). bookshop.org/p/books/davi... www.amazon.com/David-Cronen...

Our GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC conversation with @violetlucca.bsky.social on David Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE, released on this day in 1983: buff.ly/mAPLI81 Audio only: buff.ly/Q1ayNWI

lets see, Panda Express was started by Chinese immigrants and they are still privately/family owned. personally I think immigrant voices matter and make us stronger (and you are clearly trying to erase them), but if you want to be a gatekeeping snob, you do you.

Hilarious because this guy is featured prominently in the Elizabeth Holmes documentary

The kratom industry spends heavily lobbying states & Congress to keep the psychoactive plant available in gas stations and smoke shops. It enlisted the help of the foremost kratom researcher who hasn't been open about his financial ties to the industry. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/krat...

we literally stand on the shoulders of giants. towering figures who have exited the world. fierce intellects who believed things like "you can ban or regulate dangerous stuff" and "societies can rein in excesses," and "peace is generally preferable to war and chaos." may as well have been aliens

Sometimes it’s nice to remember Steven Toast saying “fire the nuclear weapons”

pete hegseth this time i guess

I live in a prewar apartment building in Brooklyn. I closed all my windows, but... youtu.be/_nK4VnBjD24?...

@muscledistribution.bsky.social has done really great work; help them do even more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus... Also, so this trends: I was sick of hearing about Grant Platner (pro and con) months ago, but supporting him now is just psychotic. Drop the fuck out, dude!

Happy Return of the Living Dead day to all who celebrate

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Tomorrow’s New York Post cover prediction: MAMDUMMY’S MINIONS [photoshop of DSA slate as minions] City Slips into Socialist Slime

I’ve been following Hassan since he was doing his “reasons to visit Syria” series. (Instagram’s algorithm thinks I’m Arab and I’m fine with that.) His campaign to get people who pledged to rebuild Syria to pay up has been hilarious and inspiring. This deserves more coverage!

Google Reader’s sharing and friends section. I miss it.

Trump got jealous of all the attention the Knicks were getting and decided to wrap it up with Iran. Yes, I am entirely serious because this is how his brain works. Put me on MSNBC

It’s kinda crazy that nobody gives Brian Wilson credit for inventing Daniel Johnston www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDw...

It’s kinda crazy that nobody gives Brian Wilson credit for inventing bed rotting

(mournfully) Bing Bong

Ted Turner buried Cronenberg’s CRASH after he watched it over breakfast with Jane Fonda. He founded CNN. But also he let TCM and Adult Swim do their thing. In conclusion, Ted Turner is a land of contrasts.

This is like J. G. Ballard’s Crash, except sex has been swapped for money—which is somewhat Ballardian

ATLiens and others who live in Atlanta: @videodrome.bsky.social and the Atlanta Film Festival are putting on a special screening of eXistenZ! I will be there to discuss the film—please come through! www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/plazad...

It’s kinda crazy that nobody gives Brian Wilson credit for inventing bed rotting

The most degrading part of NY Post reporters attending NYC-DSA endorsement forums is that you know they’re only paying $5/month dues (or have applied for a waiver). It’s horseshit!

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

it must suck when someone steals your work :(

oh hell yes www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kriste...

I hate thinking about Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, or Soon-Yi, but this exchange is worth drawing attention to.

ahh a nice night out at the movies. now time to check my phone and see what our mad pedophile king and his evil scheming viziers are up to

Today I read @violetlucca.bsky.social’s piece on THE SHROUDS, Hunny the “extreme obsequiousness” of AI chatbots and how Cronenberg’s films are “extensions of what currently exists”. Have had this essay bookmarked for a while,& today of all days, I really needed it. violet.substack.com/p/wild-hunny

Eyes Wide Shut posting will continue until all files have been redacted

Disgusted that this doesn’t have more likes

That skeet was inspired by this incredible object: youtu.be/BLitwlP-m7c?...

Yeah I could watch a screener of a new movie. Or I could watch a bad VHS rip of something that aired on British television and make my soul sing.

My 15yo convinced my 11yo to watch The Fly with him. Apparently she loved it so much she wrote a review.

I have a fraught relationship with the term “body horror.” Yet I couldn’t resist writing about it for @criterion.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...

Our GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC conversation with @violetlucca.bsky.social on David Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE, released on this day in 1983:

It’s kinda funny to get fired by your homely older brother. Rest in piss, Andrew!