Kieran Culkin for Port Magazine (2022)
You’re confident, often hilarious, but then there is another side to you that is introspective and analytical – the opposite of that guy. I think this is used in Succession and you could say that about your character, Roman Roy, too. But then, he’s also a mess… Do you watch the show?
I do, but I’ve never really concerned myself with how the whole thing fits together because I am solely concerned with my one thing, which is Roman. I don’t particularly care about how the audience is going to gauge the story, view it in its entirety – that’s none of my business. I’m just the guy; I’m protecting my character and trying to be as true to myself and to him as possible. I’m making sure to track Roman so there’s consistency, that I’m not doing anything that inherently contradicts what’s gone before. Sometimes Jesse (Armstrong) – who created the show – will ask me, “would Roman do this?”. And we figure out what makes sense, feels right. That being said, people flip flop all the time. They’re constant walking contradictions. So even though it completely tracks that my character has said ‘x’ all this time, he can change course, have different dimensions.
Balconies from Cartagena, Kolwoon Walled City, Barcelona and Jeddah
Uzhgorod Synagogue
The synagogue was build in 1905 in Neo-Moorish style. After the end of the WWII Jewish symbols were removed from the synagogue. Today the building houses the Transcarpathian Regional Philharmonic.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4.06 | Wild at Heart
What was all that? That thing with your brother, that wasn’t even a crime.
Yeah, it was.
Better Call Saul 4x09 ‘Wiedersehen’ / 6x13 ‘Saul Gone’
If I have to write this fucking Barad summary one. more. time.
Nevermind, the Barad summary is like the only thing in this whole methodology chapter that actually reads pretty coherently. Haven re-written it a dozen times over the past three years helps.
What's really frustrating is as much as I am so sick of my own writing I will be re-reading passages I wrote in 2020 or sometimes even 2018 in a piece I'm writing now in 2023 because they just kept getting recycled and think "Damn. I used to be a pretty good writer. What the fuck happened?"
I just had to re-read something I hadn't touched since September 2021 and was blown away like "I wasn't a GREAT writer but compared to this I barely string a sentence together now wtf happened?' And the answer is depression burnout pandemic etc but also I just don't fucking read anymore.
#When I was teaching I read the things I assigned my students which included theory texts but also a lot of news articles and nonfiction and#I read a fuck ton of student essays#but I don't read for fun anymore aside from maybe an article or two now and then from The New Yorker or ProPublica but I don't enjoy readin#academic r#writing much. Although I did read someone's entire dissertation in about three days this week which actually is the longest thing I've read#in at least a year if not longer#bc I don't even read books anymore I read introductions and conclusions and individual chapters and skim the thesis statements of other#chapters.#I can't remember the last book I read cover to cover and it definitely wasn't in one sitting#I think about this on Bloomsday#when I used to read Ulysses on June 16th#I think the last novel I read for the first time was Berlin Alexanderplatz back in like 2017
If I have to write this fucking Barad summary one. more. time.
Nevermind, the Barad summary is like the only thing in this whole methodology chapter that actually reads pretty coherently. Haven re-written it a dozen times over the past three years helps.
What's really frustrating is as much as I am so sick of my own writing I will be re-reading passages I wrote in 2020 or sometimes even 2018 in a piece I'm writing now in 2023 because they just kept getting recycled and think "Damn. I used to be a pretty good writer. What the fuck happened?"
#answer: a global pandemic and depression and everyone moved on from the first and I didn't from the later#It's like my brain does not produce language the way it used to#I literally spent a minute trying to think of the word *duty* earlier today wtf#The idea of peaking as a writer in my 20s is so depressing to me but it's probably true at the rate my life is going#life with the blogger
