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Casey Wright
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Books, music, movies...that's my life—oh, and cats!
Projectionist (I play movies and run events in theaters and screening rooms).
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Seems proper to finally finish William T. Vollmann's THE DYING GRASS today.

#booksky #literature #reading #NezPerce #StolenLand
Quote from C. E. S. Wood (ca. 1927): "In my youth, as an Army officer I chased and killed Indians driven to revolt by the oppressions of the vague thing called 'the Government.' Looking deeper, I saw that 'Government' was in fact a corrupt gang which defrauded the Indian and drove him to open revolt...I found I must obey the orders of men whose intellects I could not respect, who were themselves only puppets and were idolaters of 'the Government' and its emblem 'the flag,' regardless of acts done in violation of all the traditions of the flag."
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Two that I love that haven't been mentioned yet...
A scene from GOODBYE, DRAGON INN with a character in a doorway next to a movie screen playing DRAGON INN. The opening scene of HOLY MOTORS. We see the back of a character in white pajamas in the balcony of a movie theater, overlooking a packed audience.
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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I had somehow never heard an entire Echo & The Bunnymen album until recently.

#music #records #catchingup #catchup #ketchup #catsup
The album cover for Echo & The Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here. The back of four men on a beach facing a sunset, there are many birds flying.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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This cat litter is great. And also—this is weird, I know—but they should make gelato or cookies that taste like it smells. Maybe they do...coconut-vanilla or something?
A bag of pidan brand tofu cat litter. Minimalist design on the vacuum-sealed package: white bag, black lettering, with "pidan" and "Cat-First Products" being the prominent text.
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Seeing John Carpenter perform on Halloween was a cool experience. I was exhausted, but enjoying every minute of it.

#music #concerts #InTheMouthOfMadness #EscapeFromNewYork #BigTroubleInLittleChina #TheThing #Christine #TheFog #AssaultOnPrecinct13 #dtla #legend #cinema #filmsky
John Carpenter and band on stage at The Belasco. The lighting is very red, and a screen shows a scene from his film Halloween.
November 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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This little pervert jumps onto the fence so they can stare through the bathroom window. They spy on both my girlfriend and me! Hahaha...love the little dude.

#squirrel #animalsbeingfunny #nature
From between two panes of frosted glass there's a squirrel perched atop a fence staring directly at the camera.
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Stereolab at The Bellwether on Saturday. My first time seeing them and they were brilliant.

#music #concert #dtla #shows #LaetitiaSadier
Stereolab on stage...very purple and pink light bathes the stage. Stereolab...Laetitia is singing.
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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John Maus last week at The Belasco. Great show...the man has energy.

#music #concert #dtla
John Maus performing on stage in his typical getup of a powder blue button-up shirt. He is holding the mic and looking down. John Maus in the middle of jumping up and down while pumping his arms up and down. Joh Maus bellowing out a long "Ooooooo"
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Ishmael Reed on his favorite Pynchon moment.

#booksky #reading #IshmaelReed #ThomasPynchon #AgainstTheDay #novel #writing
A screenshot of an article where people comment on their favorite Pynchon moments: Ishmael Reed Novelist I don’t know why “Against the Day” hasn’t been banned. In one of the most remarkable scenes penned by an American writer, Pynchon cites events that the anti-woke crowd would want deleted. Referring to the Blacks and Filipinos, Mexicans and hillbillies who are present in that scene, the character Lew Basnight “gradually understood that what everybody here had in common was having survived some cataclysm none of them spoke about directly — a bombing, a massacre perhaps at the behest of the U.S. government.” Those with prominent media megaphones today are denying that such cataclysms took place.
October 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Goddammit, I miss my Darwin so much.
#cats #sphynx #catsofbluesky #kitty
A light colored sphynx cat under a hoodie
October 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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A photo of a dog fucking a robot
October 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Not sure I'll get any more stamps for this, but I would like to see it in the theater again. The crowd was good last night at the sold-out show at the Vista, except for one duckdick who pulled out his phone to take a picture of the screen during an emotional moment near the very end.
A card for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER that says "One format after another" and has the following boxes that can be stamped for different presentations of the film: Vistavision (stamped—that's how I saw it last night), IMAX 70MM, IMAX, Dolby, 70MM, 4DX.
September 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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To match my profile pic, I am reading a collection of Pasolini's diaries about traveling along the Italian coastline. There's some excellent writing here.
#booksky #literature #PierPaoloPasolini #antifascist #filmsky #cinema #Italy
Book cover is white with brown binding. The text on the cover: Pier Paolo Pasolini The Long Road of Sand Photographs Philippe Séclier Border, June. The sun sets over France and Italy. A pile of rocks and shrubs, unique: a pile of earth with peaks, coves, ripples. Down below is the Coty villa, a small yellow villa with a lush garden around it. Pinkish vapor, smoking in columns from above, further fuses this block of coastline. contrasto Text from the book, focused on the following: "I see it from a speeding car—but it's the place that scares me most of all on this long journey. It really is a town of bandits, like the ones you see in certain Westerns. Here are the bandits’ women, here are the bandits’ children. One can feel—I'm not sure why—that we're outside the law, or if not the law, then outside the culture of our world, at another level. In the smiles of the youths returning from their horrible work, there's a spark of too much freedom, almost of madness."
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I made it through another page 666 - Everyman Library's edition of Charlotte Brontë's novels SHIRLEY and THE PROFESSOR. This page is from THE PROFESSOR.

#reading #literature #booksky #novel #CharlotteBrontë #sixsixsix #Villette #JaneEyre
Page 666 of Everyman Library's edition of Charlotte Brontë's novels SHIRLEY and THE PROFESSOR. This page is from THE PROFESSOR.
September 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

I Know Who Killed Me was trashed by critics and audiences alike, but I loved it—and not in an ironic "so bad it's good" way. It is genuinely a really cool neo-giallo film with style and craziness, & Lohan gives an excellent performance.
Screen cap from Rotten Tomatoes for the movie I Know Who Killed Me (2007), which shows a 9% Tomatometer (critic) rating and a 26% Popcornmeter (audience) rating.
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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While we're living, the dreams we have as children fade away.

Oasis was brilliant both nights at the Rose Bowl. I experienced a huge rush of emotions, and was blown away by how great they sounded. Hopefully I don't have to wait another 17 years to see them again.

#Live25 #music #concert #rocknroll
Oasis on stage with three huge video screens behind them Oasis on stage with three huge video screens behind them Oasis on stage with three huge video screens behind them Oasis on stage with three huge video screens behind them
September 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Taking this one slower to take notes, but just passed page 666 of William T. Vollmann's FATHERS AND CROWS. Yay!

#booksky #reading #literature #nonfiction #WTV #WilliamTVollmann #FathersAndCrows #SevenDreams
Page 666 of William T. Vollmann's FATHERS AND CROWS
September 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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It's already #LetterboxdFriday, so here are my #LastFourWatched! Lots of 3.5 star ratings...which is very good.
Recent activity from Letterboxd with the following films and scores (out of 5 stars): - Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (3.5 stars) - The Quick and the Dead (4 stars) - Trilogy of Terror (3.5 stars) - Mi Vida Loca (3.5 stars)
September 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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It's #LetterboxdFriday, so here are my #LastFourWatched...

#filmsky #movies #cinema
My recent activity from Letterboxd has these four films watched and rated: - Entrails of a Virgin (4.5 out of 5) - Paper Moon (5 out of 5) - Watchers (3 out of 5) - Tangled - (rewatched - 1.5 out of 5)
August 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Relying on a complete sociopath to decide whether concerning acts were committed is an unsurprising choice at this point.
Headline reading: "Ghislaine Maxwell told Justice Department she never saw Trump do anything concerning with Epstein, report says"
August 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Page 666 of Alexander Theroux's DARCONVILLE'S CAT.
#literature #booksky #reading #pages #fiction
Page 666 featuring a multitude of methods suggested for torturing and killing a character in the novel. They are grotesque, unusual, absurd...
July 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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DARCONVILLE'S CAT
LXXXVII. "The Diabolical Pact"

I spent far too much time typing this in only to realize it's easily searchable as the 1633 "Pactum Satanicum." Also, the gist is pretty easy to get without translation.

#AlexanderTheroux #DarconvillesCat #literature #booksky #reading #fiction
Latin text written backwards: "Sigilla Domine magisterque Lucifer et deum et principem agnosco, et polliceor tibi sevires et obedire quandiu potero vivere. Et renuncio altreum Deum et Jesum Christum et alios et Romanam et omnia ipsius Ecclesiam Apostolicam omnes orationes et rogationes quibus fideles possuit intercedere pro me; et tibi polliceor quid faciam quotquot malum potero, et attrahere ad mala per omnes; et abrenuncio chrismam et baptismum, et omnia merita Jesu Christi et ipsius sanctorum: et si deero tuae servitui adorationi: et si non oblationem mei ipsius fecero, quoque die, tibi do vitam meam sicut tuam. Feci hoc anno et die; tricesimus Dec. MCML. Crucifer. Extractum ex infernis, inter consilia daemonum." Rough translation: "Seal Lord and Master Lucifer, I acknowledge you as both God and Prince, and I promise to serve and obey you for as long as I live. And I renounce any other God, Jesus Christ, and all others, and the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, all prayers and petitions with which the faithful have interceded for me; and I vow that I will accomplish as much evil as I can, and bring others to evil; and I renounce chrism and baptism, and all the merits of Jesus Christ and his saints: and if I fail in serving and worshiping you: and if I do not sacrifice myself to you, on this day, I dedicate my life to you. I did this in the year and day; the thirtieth of December 1950. Crucifer. Drawn out from hell, among the councils of demons."
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Batcat!
#catsofbluesky #sphynx #blueskycats #batcats #blackcats #voidcats
A black sphynx cat with his arm stretched out and the flat of skin from his elbow to ribcage emphasized, giving him a bat-like appearance.
July 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Nero, living his best life. 🤍🩶🖤
#catsofbluesky #blueskycats #sphynx #voidcats #blackcats
A black sphynx cat sticking his head and paw out from under a black knitted blanket.
July 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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American innovation.
Suavecito pomade "Flamin' Hot" Cheetos scent
July 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM