Brendon
@brendonbouzard.bsky.social
writer/director
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BIRDWATCHING watchlist/inspirations
a feature film I'm going to make about loneliness, voyeurism, and the california condor these are either movies i've seen and appreciated or movies that i need to watch that seem to vibe with what i'm...
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I'm doing a study of patient film grammar for my debut feature BIRDWATCHING. Lemme know if there's anything you think I should watch. #FilmSky 📽️
I have a four hour playlist called ”When It Happens” that I cannot wait to play.
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I have a four hour playlist called ”When It Happens” that I cannot wait to play.
The technology exists to do higher-resolution digital scans of the material presented here (16mm kinescopes of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show) but it's, you know, marginally more expensive and time-consuming than AI upscaling, which sucks ass and destroys the archival fidelity. So why do that?
Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The technology exists to do higher-resolution digital scans of the material presented here (16mm kinescopes of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show) but it's, you know, marginally more expensive and time-consuming than AI upscaling, which sucks ass and destroys the archival fidelity. So why do that?
I think AI is mostly moribund but I'm worried that for young people there is a growing dependency on platforms like Chat-GPT. Normal people 25 and over are getting Tired Of This Dumb Shit, but there are a lot of teens who haven't written a paper for themselves in like 2-3 years.
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I think AI is mostly moribund but I'm worried that for young people there is a growing dependency on platforms like Chat-GPT. Normal people 25 and over are getting Tired Of This Dumb Shit, but there are a lot of teens who haven't written a paper for themselves in like 2-3 years.
The more I think about this, the more fucked up it is that Mr. Beast -- who for better or worse is functionally a children's entertainer -- is part of this. Truly demonic shit.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The more I think about this, the more fucked up it is that Mr. Beast -- who for better or worse is functionally a children's entertainer -- is part of this. Truly demonic shit.
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Lot of people clowning on New Yorker for this but I'll give them one thing: they make his novel sound close to unreadable.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Lot of people clowning on New Yorker for this but I'll give them one thing: they make his novel sound close to unreadable.
Tom Stoppard was a conservative artist in a way that's nearly completely unidentifiable vis-a-vis the contemporary meaning of the term.
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Tom Stoppard was a conservative artist in a way that's nearly completely unidentifiable vis-a-vis the contemporary meaning of the term.
The tenor of American life is priming my brain for thinking conspiratorially so when I read this I go-- why didn't we talk more about the fact that Trump's first wife died from falling down a flight of stairs
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The tenor of American life is priming my brain for thinking conspiratorially so when I read this I go-- why didn't we talk more about the fact that Trump's first wife died from falling down a flight of stairs
Congratulations to Yale University, good of you taking Youngstown State down a peg.
November 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Congratulations to Yale University, good of you taking Youngstown State down a peg.
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
A little late to post but this is a Thai tea Basque cheesecake I made for Thanksgiving. It was very good and very autumnal— Thai tea has a lot of spices we associate with the fall like cardamom and star anise.
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A little late to post but this is a Thai tea Basque cheesecake I made for Thanksgiving. It was very good and very autumnal— Thai tea has a lot of spices we associate with the fall like cardamom and star anise.
The two worst things here are:
1) Turkey so dry it turns to sawdust the moment you put a knife to it.
2) Is that just a bowl of macaroni
1) Turkey so dry it turns to sawdust the moment you put a knife to it.
2) Is that just a bowl of macaroni
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The two worst things here are:
1) Turkey so dry it turns to sawdust the moment you put a knife to it.
2) Is that just a bowl of macaroni
1) Turkey so dry it turns to sawdust the moment you put a knife to it.
2) Is that just a bowl of macaroni
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Prequel to Dune where you’re in tactical gear behind a ridge sighting in the scope on your plasma rifle as your commanders Bong Joon Ho and Celine Song and Guillermo Del Toro prepare to launch the atomics against the Butlerian data centers deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho Jokes Wants To Organize Military Squad To “Destroy AI’ As Jenna Ortega Says “We’ve Opened Up A Pandora’s Box” – Marrakech
Bong Joon Ho Jokes Wants To Organize Military Squad To “Destroy AI’ As Celine Song, Jenna Ortega Address AI Fears- Marrakech
deadline.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Prequel to Dune where you’re in tactical gear behind a ridge sighting in the scope on your plasma rifle as your commanders Bong Joon Ho and Celine Song and Guillermo Del Toro prepare to launch the atomics against the Butlerian data centers deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
A brilliant writer who celebrated the dance between the hemispheres of the brain. My wonderful tenth grade English teacher (RIP Mrs. Groos) placed ARCADIA at the end of an unconventional, bespoke syllabus. She loved how nimbly it moves between intellectual play and emotion. I'll cherish it forever.
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A brilliant writer who celebrated the dance between the hemispheres of the brain. My wonderful tenth grade English teacher (RIP Mrs. Groos) placed ARCADIA at the end of an unconventional, bespoke syllabus. She loved how nimbly it moves between intellectual play and emotion. I'll cherish it forever.
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I don't believe in god but increasingly I think satan is real.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I don't believe in god but increasingly I think satan is real.
I've recommended this book to dozens of people over the years: to me it is the great horror novel about the age of social media, written long before social media existed. A nightmare about a society going feral.
Happy Holidays! Every day until Christmas, I'll use this thread to rec a book to help you with your gift list. Let's start with THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN by Giorgio De Maria, translated by Ramon Glazov, and republished with a foreword by moi. Buy from your fav indie. (Alt text = more detail.) 1/?
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I've recommended this book to dozens of people over the years: to me it is the great horror novel about the age of social media, written long before social media existed. A nightmare about a society going feral.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
weird that audiences by and large disappeared the moment executives started turning to algorithmic models to determine what projects to greenlight
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
weird that audiences by and large disappeared the moment executives started turning to algorithmic models to determine what projects to greenlight
Watching THE THIN RED LINE in the same year that SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was released was such a mindfuck for fourteen-year-old me. Movies could look and feel like this? They could tell stories this way? They could explore themes like this?
It changed my life.
It changed my life.
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Watching THE THIN RED LINE in the same year that SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was released was such a mindfuck for fourteen-year-old me. Movies could look and feel like this? They could tell stories this way? They could explore themes like this?
It changed my life.
It changed my life.
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Love something in this world like Katy Perry loves killing old people through complex and devilish real estate swindles.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Love something in this world like Katy Perry loves killing old people through complex and devilish real estate swindles.
Imagine if Ryan Lizza's revenge porn substack miniseries is how we found out that the Trump campaign cooked the assassination attempt.
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Imagine if Ryan Lizza's revenge porn substack miniseries is how we found out that the Trump campaign cooked the assassination attempt.
hey fucko don't end part 3 like this
(i did not pay for access to the lizza stuff)
(i did not pay for access to the lizza stuff)
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
hey fucko don't end part 3 like this
(i did not pay for access to the lizza stuff)
(i did not pay for access to the lizza stuff)