AGAIN AGAIN premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival May 11 and 12!!!
I'm so excited to finally put this beautiful heartfelt movie out into the world. Grab your tickets before they sell out!
www.siff.net/festival/aga...
On top of a full time professional job and a teaching fellowship. 🙃 The academic job market hustle is ruthless.
I am surviving. Which is all most of us can hope for at the moment. 🫠
Someone please go back in time and convince me that taking on co-editor roles for two edited collections at once is a diabolical decision.
I managed to read almost the entirety of Station Eleven because our flight back from Auckland was delayed 6 hours.
Watching Dinner at Eight and feeling grateful I will never attend a dinner party with a giant lion-shaped aspic.
Left the house without my swipe, work keys, home keys, and the usb containing today's lecture slides. Guess I'm doing my morning commute twice.
Highly recommend this reading from Fired Up Stilettos. BTW to the Chair of the committee, it is not a serious offence to consensually send nudes to other consenting adults. If those were leaked in any way, THAT is a serious offence. #nzpol
Hustling baby, papa has been hustling so you can have your special sensitive puku biscuits
Grey and white tuxedo cat rolling on her back
Someone's happy I'm back from Melbourne.
It's so pretty!!
Things I love about Melbourne (based on this very stressful 3 day work trip):
- trams
- Pesto the Penguin
- Chinese food
- queer bookshops
- birds
In Melbourne for a work thing and had to explain to someone that as a Wellingtonian I don't actually own an umbrella because it's too windy.
I got my degree from Otago so I have shared this story on facebook expressing my disappointment. Hopefully others are doing the same. Glad to see that this article comes from staff within the university too.
A screenshot of a powerpoint slide titled: Rack Focus. The main feature of the slide is a clip from Jurassic Park (when the velociraptor appears through the foliage to chomp the ranger)
It's important to teach students the cinema classics
I need to update my cultural references. The new student cohort does not know The X Files.
Teaching Moonlight for the first time in the Introduction to Film course and the response at the screening was fucking great. It's such a delight getting to witness these students encountering incredible films for the first time. Almost makes the 60-hour work weeks bearable.
Survived this week's lectures thanks to off-brand panadol and nurofen. I don't recommend dental surgery as part of teaching prep generally, but lecturing for two hours straight with a half numb tongue was certainly an experience.
The latest issue of Screen Bodies has been published! View the TOC and more for Volume 10, Issue 2, including research with a thematic focus on "Screening the Monstrous-Feminine", here: bit.ly/4tD35bg
Featuring work by @cornflakerabbit.bsky.social
Do we think The Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is about dentistry.
Grey and white tuxedo cat sitting in brown paper bag
Someone loves bag
"Joyful Transgressions: Genre Mixing, Musical Disruptions, and Melodramatic Spectacle in Saturday Church" is out now! This piece was inspired by my presentation at the 2023 Trans Studies Conference in Illinois (feels like a lifetime ago now). www.researchgate.net/publication/...
February highs: seeing Lucy Dacus, Gigi Perez, Wet Leg, and Chappell Roan live. Art and penguins in Auckland.
February lows: broken washing machine, wisdom teeth, working three jobs, front door flooding and cat scratches on my face (from midnight storm-related cat panic attack). Messy fucking month.
Might be getting my bottom two wisdom teeth pulled three days before my first lecture of the year. Going to be full chipmunk mode in front of 200 first year students. What could possibly go wrong.
Maybe subconsciously a metaphor for the darkness inside me.
Seven-year-old Paige filled a floppy disc with (their own) terrible poetry about wolves.
Oh my God Jack I'm so sorry. She was lucky to have you as her family, even if it was only for a short time.
Progress: I have made it to the correct floor. But my office remains unreachable.
There is a coffee place on this floor but it doesn't open until 7:30 😭
Forgot my swipe and my keys for my first day back in the office and it's literally too early for security to be working so I guess I'm trapped in the building foyer for the foreseeable future.