Frame #15950 from S05 -E17 - Chocolate Apple-629275

WINCKELMANN UNDER PSYCHOANALYSIS - Whitney Davis (Queer Archaeology, 2022)

Edward II (Derek Jarman, 1991) Official Trailer

Fan Art: Sidney Deng - 'Sailor Moon Cosmos'

Black Lizard (Kurotokage) 黒蜥蜴 (Dir. Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)

Leonid - Tomomi Kobayashi (Romancing Saga 3, 1995)

Heard at the salon: "A Jacqueline of all trades."

A Jacqui of all trades.

"Plant a stake crowned with flowers in the middle of a square; gather the people there, and you will have a festival. Do better yet; let the spectators become an entertainment to themselves; make them actors themselves." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Lettre à M. d'Alembert sur les spectacles, 1758)

Next round of reading lists to push through

Diva no. 5 of Saga Emerald Beyond has best storyline in the game (also the most challenging).

Since getting the PS5 last October I've already finished:

Nier Automata
Saga Emerald Beyond
Saga Frontier Remastered
It Takes Two
Final Fantasy 16
Final Fantasy 7 Remake

God I love pickles. I will eat through a whole jar of cornichons in one sitting.

Peter Greenaway: The Falls, #74 - Pollie Fallory YouTube video by ananaspi

The Falls (Peter Greenaway, 1980)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG4u...

Takato Yamamoto - 髑髏の匣 (2023)

Takato Yamamoto - Vampire Spellbound (2007)

SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered | Launch Trailer YouTube video by Square Enix

The beloved RPG returns -- fully remastered for modern platforms!

SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered brings back its signature watercolor visuals, deep strategic battles, and entwined narratives, now with quality of life improvements, new story events, and more. youtu.be/hb73E63qG_k

The past 3-4 years I've been on a reading tear. I haven't had this much energy for books for a long time. Going through primarily Asian writers who are women, books in German something is definitely happening to my brain. Maintaining the same buzz reading every morning and evening, it really helps.

Tbh I don't have a particular fondness for any of the Chinese noodle shops in Berlin. They all taste the same to me and I just go into the one with the least amount of people and mission accomplished.

Still in awe about Gaga on SNL hosting and hitting the choreography in that little pop up stage-cage. She really went 0 to 10 for that and the little artfag in all of us should be so proud.

Last Sat. we popped in Split Fiction with friends & I could write a book about the emotions and experiences we went through for a group of gay friends sitting around helping each other surpass challenges one after another. Feeling super motivated for what's next for us in a non-venue environment.

ひらめき集【サガ エメラルド ビヨンド】 YouTube video by zeph wiz

Spent many nights falling asleep to glimmer vids on Saga

youtu.be/-jhFFtns9hk?...

Im Rausch der Einsamkeit Schwarz ist eine kalte Farbe. Selten wird das so deutlich wie in der neuen Kreation von Christian Spuck, dem frisch gebackenen Ballettintendanten Berlins, der sein Werk gestern  – und arte concert übe...

Also on the topic of theater, earlier in the year I got to see a production of Madame Bovary by the Staatsballet. It's back on the docket for a limited time again. Had to go back and reread the story again with the insane imagery here.

ballett-journal.de/staatsballet...

Bad Kingdom Ist das alles hier ein seltsamer Albtraum? Befinden wir uns an einem Filmset, und wenn ja, welches merkwürdige Dreh­buch wird hier verfilmt? Sehen wir Figuren in einem therapeutischen Rollenspiel? Ode...

Had a chance to go to Schaubühne for the first time and saw this piece by Falk Richter. I admit sitting over 2 hours parsing through German dialogue was heavy on my brain. But not as difficult as sitting through Uni lectures as a student abroad in my early 20s.

www.schaubuehne.de/de/produktio...

I don't know why I didn't get a PS5 sooner. It is exactly the decompression I need when firing at all cylinders 40+ hours a week 🤯

"deeply, softly, like a mellow organ, but with a roughness in her voice like a grasshopper's, which rasped his spine deliciously and sent running up into his brain waves of sound"

Making Kimchi in a place that is not common even in Korea YouTube video by Lee wanna chill

ASMR Lullaby 🛌

youtu.be/7vP4CnfajQU?...

One thing I love to do in NYC before flying out of JFK is to take the Q44-SBS bus from Jamaica Station to Flushing for Asian food before heading back to the airport. LIRR from Nostrand Ave to Jamaica station is only 14 mins.

Trains out of Germany to Paris have a lot of options this year.

There is a direct route from Berlin to Paris that takes 9 hours.

Or you can break that journey up (run errands on the side) with a train from Frankfurt, Stuttgart or Mannheim in 3 to 4 hours.

Karlsruhe is a little over 2 hours.

Aside from talking about all things related to train travel in Europe I'm also gonna use this space for randomness (like Square Enix, film and art). There had to get that off my chest :)