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The gentleman who works with us on film development and does the cinematography and provides the soundtrack not only for The Removals, but also for our first feature, I'm Not Patrick, is an acclaimed drone musician named Mike Shiflet, who has had his praises sung by NPR and Pitchfork. Shiflet is on mini-tour this long weekend in upstate New York.
A couple weeks ago I was lamenting the predictability of what I think of as MFA writing, evident in much contemporary literature, but also in pretty much every single TV show or film produced these days, even the independent features, while proclaiming the merits of gonzo endings.
You should check out Bellflower. That shit is wild.
We've been watching the Making a Murderer Netflix series, which is absolutely maddening. The opening title sequence follows the super-imposed, layered, fade-through style that most new shows seem keen to riff off of, but I believe was made popular by True Detective.
Check this excerpt from Mark de Silva's Square Wave, which drops next month, praised earlier this week as "the closest we get to David Mitchell on LSD."
Couples fight about a lot of things, I'm sure. Eliza and I argue about whether it is imperative I only use em dashes in my blog posts.
I managed to read two books for pleasure over holiday vacation. The first was Elena Ferrante's much celebrated My Brilliant Friend, and the second was Michael Bible's Sophia.
What better way to ring in 2016 than with an excerpt from a novel we published in January 2015, which went on to become "One of the breakout American independent books of the year."
I remember seeing the original Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon three times in theaters.
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