Jeremy Knox

I've loved many filmmakers in my life, but none so much as David Lynch. His work didn't just entertain or enrich me, it *transformed* me. I came out a different person after watching his films. So I wrote a review of Eraserhead in order to try to say goodbye. Link in replies.

@Bob_Janke Seriously, at 4 grand you could make your money back with this thing in two months tops.

Oh man see I'd buy this instead. I'd dig so many trenches

I see Round Lake Illinois still has that problem with drugs in their water

@charliebcurran You know, I don't even like AI stuff, but I would watch a Titty Killer movie in a heartbeat. Because you understand this genre of horror film should feel like eating a big bowl of spaghetti with not a lot of noodles and plenty of sauce.

Production on Titty Killer 7: Tits in the Hood has begun in earnest This one might get me in trouble 😂

@AmericanGwyn I would like to add my support to the concept of literary shrines. I have one dedicated to Ramsey Campbell, arguably one of the best horror authors of all time. Hugely underappreciated writer.

This is why I have a shrine to ABSALOM, ABSALOM in my home.

@JoyceCarolOates I think Bloom is just being a snob. I mean, you HAVE to start reading somewhere. What bugs me is that some people began their reading journey with Harry Potter and ended it with Harry Potter. They never graduated to Ursula K. Le Guin or Harlan Ellison. To me, that's tragic.

scholars of children's literature have an historical perspective that others don't have, certainly not children. from that perspective the Harry Potter series is not serious literature since it is "filled with cliches"--but from the perspective of a child reader, the series is entertaining pop culture; & for children all / most reading is good.

@avidseries I will henceforth only refer to Jurassic Park as Traais Jarls

AI filmmaking.

Because I'm getting older my audience is getting older. They've had to stop the show five times in the last two years cause somebody collapses. So they turn the lights on and I say call 911. Nobody has a phone because they put them in those canvas bags with a lock. So I gotta call 911. What's your emergency? He says is there a doctor in that room? I said I don't know. I don't like crowd work. He goes is the guy breathing? I've got the mic so I don't wanna be too disrespectful to the guy that could be dead. He said can you get close to him? I said I don't know how long the cord is on the mic. The paramedics arrived and he did die but still I got some good laughs out of it.

@EmoPhilips Don't forget to read some Walt Whitman while sitting under a tree, next to a lake. I don't know why people have to do this, but apparently it's a law in Vermont.

Darryl, Emo, Larry & Darryl I can’t wait to see my old friends (not to mention the ghost of Walter Matthau) when I return to Vermont April 8. emophilips.com/shows

@JMcNutty23 I can't help it!!! 😭

@knoxzilla Stop doing math!!!! 😂

Old, you say? My “rookie” boss retired yesterday. I am become death. #NYPD #OldAsDirt 😭

@ActwithAlison *spits out eggs*

sorry, did not mean to bring violence to your breakfast this morning

@kennyhotz Netflix isn't a very daring streaming channel. The craziest thing they've done is "I Think You Should Leave" and I'm pretty sure they regret it, despite it being the best thing they've ever had their name on. Producers don't like things they can't control, especially comedy.

The show is too crazy

@AmericanGwyn @tomharari Cormac understood that you can use the most archaic obscure words in a book because readers will intuit the meaning. I always appreciated that from his work

@tomharari Absolutely. And listen to Ben Nichols’ Blood Meridian-themed album, The Last Pale Light in the West.

How to read Blood Meridian: Let it wash over you. Don’t worry about getting stuck on terminology or arcane words. Just keep reading. McCarthy also doesn’t use quotation marks so you need to use context figure it out. Immerse yourself in the period. Listen to Native American flute music. Mexican war songs. And when you finish, but only after you finish, watch the Yale lectures on YouTube about the book.

@verbalriotshow Success can be a bigger test of character than failure, because fame is poison to the soul. To the point where Ancient Roman Generals would have a slave following them after a victory, whispering in their ear: "Remember thou art mortal, and that all glory is fleeting"

Britney Spears may be as mad as a Hatter these days, but at point she was the queen of the pop charts and even then she was never this obnoxious. Chappell Roan has no idea how fast her 15 minutes are gonna fly.

@robertgraham @LizMair Zardoz is an experience. I went from thinking it was a terrible movie, to thinking it was a minor masterpiece. It perfectly encapsulates what "the sixties" were in ways that no documentary ever could. Definitely watch it!

@LizMair Name of the Rose? Highlander? Zardoz? I haven't seen Zardoz, only that one picture of Connery, but still.

How the fuck is Hunt for Red October getting overlooked here?!!?!??

@DoctorLemma That's it! That's what I'm going to do when I retire. I found it. I found my calling.

In 2018, a man in Tokyo, Japan was fired from his office job for doing nothing. So he turned doing nothing into a career. His name is Shoji Morimoto. He posted a single message on social media offering to rent himself out to anyone who needed a person present but not involved. He would show up. He would not initiate conversation. He would not give opinions or advice. He would simply be there. The requests that came in revealed something quietly extraordinary about loneliness. People hired him to sit across from them while they ate alone in restaurants. To wave goodbye from the platform as their train departed. To stand at the finish line of a marathon. To sit in the corner of a cafe while a woman served divorce papers to her husband, just so she would not be completely alone when she did it. One person hired him to be video called while they cleaned their room. One person has hired him over two hundred and seventy times. He has handled over four thousand sessions. He charges whatever his clients feel is fair. Last year he earned around eighty thousand US dollars. His former boss told him he was useless. He said doing nothing was not a skill. Morimoto now has half a million followers, a television series based on his work, and four published books. "People do not have to be useful in any specific way," he said. What is something you would actually pay someone to simply show up for?

@TheStingisBack That was PG???? Damn... I'm not going to be disgustingly descriptive, but let's just say I became a man watching that movie. SEVERAL TIMES!

Happy Birthday, Michael York. Logan’s Run (1976) was a PG, and it might be the sexiest sci‑fi ever: a Tinder-like app that beams in dates, aphrodisiacs on tap, Farrah Fawcett as a flirtatious nurse, and Jenny Agutter spends half the film semi-naked, wet, or both.

@Bob_Janke Plane ol' lying is what it is!

If you were going to spend 90 minutes on a plane but found out it was going to be 90 minutes on a bus, what's the difference?

It's the same as being on a plane, just on the ground

@WolfmansGotNard I can't wrap my head around why Hollywood finds it SO hard to make an Exorcist movie. It's about the existential dread that comes from realizing that religion is right and Evil exists. Only God is not benevolent, but indifferent to our suffering. It's a very Catholic story.

Is this a Michael Bay Exorcist movie?

@Levans6081 Damn right 😁👍

I finally quit cigarettes….then I had to quit vapes 😂😂. It’s been a month without nicotine and I’m doing good, I feel like committing violence wayyyyyy less now 😂😂 My only real vice left is caffeine, and I’m never quitting that 😂 Thanks David Lynch!

@WolfmansGotNard I went without coffee for a week once, long ago...

I've now went 15,449 days without coffee.