SOME KIND OF STAR TREK

"ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, offal and offalesses, and all those who flourish outside the divide... welcome."

the blog. not always about STAR TREK. promise.

CACTUS PEARS, I LOVE BOOSTERS, & MORE

seeing the indian indie film CACTUS PEARS affected me so much that i fell behind on writing about movies for weeks.

(thank you SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL '26, thank you montréal.)

MOVIES TO WATCH WHILE THE WORLD ENDS

or, the best films of stardate two zero two five.

("you klan?" - me every time SINNERS doesn't win an award)

it's like an equation, see?

RELOADED is to REVOLUTIONS as THE MATRIX is to RESURRECTIONS. they're reflections.

(this is a silly little test post for the new site.)

HORNY VAMPIRE MUSIC

have you noticed all the delicious horny vampire music out there these last couple of years?

(you know i have.)

ETERNAL RECURRENCE

CLOUD ATLAS and the most beautiful and elusive piece of music ever recorded.

(not hyperbole.)

THE CANON

the STAR TREK canon is decided once and for all.

(undebatable.)

BEST OF TWENTY24

art just keeps getting better while everything else keeps getting worse!

(selfish.)

"WRITE IT IN YOUR DIARY."

a TWIN PEAKS treasure trove.

(we still miss you, david lynch.)

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE

"...and when you became denise, i told all of your colleagues -- those clown comics -- to fix their hearts or die."

(for david lynch.)

DOLORES CLAIBORNE

a review of DOLORES CLAIBORNE (1995) starring kathy bates, based on the stephen king novel.

(this one lingers.)

"THIS IS MY MANIFESTO."

the reason why i did it.

(hashtag acab, hashtag 1312.)

MATRIX25

celebrating the 25th anniversary of THE MATRIX on the WB lot.

(while pondering canon, and the communal resistance and joy of REVOLUTIONS.)

AN OBFUSCATION OF CRONENBERGS

updates on DISCOVERY and DEEP SPACE NINE.

(come back, the sisko.)

TWO THOUSAND TWENTY THREE... AND BEYOND

the best of 2023.

(late. typical.)

THE TRINITY TEST.

in a fit of insomnia related delirium, i mashed up the depictions of the trinity test from OPPENHEIMER and TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN. please enjoy the devastating destruction we have unleashed upon our planet and ourselves.

AN INTRODUCTION TO STEPHEN KING'S THE DARK TOWER

an argument for reading king's epic tale.

(and some secret downloads. shhh.)

FASINATIONS

one sexy evening on DEEP SPACE NINE...

(*bajoran claps... in a sultry way*)

SENSE8: LOVE CONQUERS ALL

i try and mostly fail to capture in words the big emotions and ideas that fill the tv series SENSE8.

(happy birthday to the sensates.)

THANKS A LOT, WAY TO GO, BRO

another installment in the ongoing conversation with my dead friend, i guess.

(and the realization that i'm too old to die young.)

WHO GETS A WORF HUG?

...and thus, STAR TREK PICARD ends with a nostalgic old man fart.

(still, it was nice to see the D.)

THEY SAVED KIRK'S BRAIN!

PICARD S3... flawed, but still exciting! will they stick the landing??

(this some kind of STAR TREK contains even more some kind of STAR TREK.)

THE WORF OF STARFLEET

PICARD season three begins with a bang! thank you, STAR TREK!

(they cancelled DISCOVERY. fuck you, STAR TREK.)

THE BEFORE TRILOGY

a review of BEFORE SUNRISE (1995), BEFORE SUNSET (2004), and BEFORE MIDNIGHT (2013).

(a feat of writing, performance, filmmaking, humanity.)

EXOTICA

a review of the hypnotizing canadian indie film EXOTICA (1994).

(this might be a new all-time favorite.)

TWO THOUSAND TWENTY TWO

the best of 2022.

(on time?!)

FIRE... WALK WITH ME

we lost angelo badalamenti this week, and humanity will never recover.

(listen to moving through time while reading this one. and then listen to it again and again, on a loop, until you really are moving through time. it won't take long.)

NOGS & ENDS

there are five new STAR TREK shows currently airing. who has time for all this STAR TREK??

(me, adoyyy.)

SPOOKY SZN '22

catching up on all the black, queer, and otherwise iconic horror i've been missing.

(gotta write that horror screenplay one of these nights.)

THE STATE OF THE QUADRANT(S)

who could've ever predicted there'd be this much STAR TREK to talk about??

(STAR TREK now brought to you by woke™.)

THE MATRIX REVISTED

a love letter to the entire MATRIX series.

(they were so focused on if they COULD write this much about THE MATRIX series, they never stopped and asked if they SHOULD...)

SEX WORK IS WORK

thank you john oliver, for saying it loud and clear this week.

(say it louder.)

CRASH / BOUND

a sexy, queer, thrilling orgy of '90s independent film glory.

("sexy" would maybe be in air-quotes for one of these films, depending on the viewer.)

"THE INTERNET WOULD SUCK WITHOUT SEX WORKERS."

- an important reminder from @yungsadistic

A VOYAGE INTO VOY

i finally begin the third of the holy '90s trilogy of STAR TREK.

(third in chronology and third in quality. sigh.)

THE MATRIX HAS ME

or, things i loved about THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS.

(this list could've been one hundred times longer.)

"I CONSIDER MYSELF TO BE A FREE-ASS MOTHERFUCKER."

- janelle monáe

MY DEAD FRIEND

a script for a short film that was never shot.

"YEETS."

in the midst of death, we are in life. or is it the other way around?

(ow, my tailbone!)

ONE OF THESE DAYS

a script for a short film that was shot... poorly.

THE SKY BEGAN TO SCREAM

a script for a spooky short film we shot for halloween.

LIL BATMAN FINDS HIS WAY

a movie trailer for the adventures of a tiny knight.

ROGER EBERT

memories of a fellow traveler.

(roger never really got horror, but he really got science fiction.)

SRI LANKA 2012

a travel diary i kept during a two week trip to sri lanka. was it worth it? who's to say?

(photos were also taken, if you can believe it.)

OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW 52

written on the eve of my universe coming to an end.

(don't worry, nothing stays dead in comics.)