Something Good #77: Reconstruction of a Motion Picture
Recently I discovered a screenplay that does not exist for a movie that does. Let me explain: There was a movie I saw one precious time. It meant something...
Something Good #76: Breaking News
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you are all happy and healthy and refreshed, caught up on your reading and movies and such, or at least one of the above. (I...
Something Good #75: Tidings
In February of 2019 we took a trip to Joshua Tree National Park. The weather was weird; a freak snowstorm in the middle of the desert. I’ll never forget the...
Something Good #74: Games and Zines and Artificial Things
An interview with author Jim Munroe
Something Good #73: 49 Hours in Madrid
You have been invited to Madrid to present your film at a festival. You will be there for a mere two days. Here is what happens. Your plane lands at 8am. You...
Something Good #72: A Brief Chat
The atmosphere I’m hoping to cultivate. I admit that my first experience with the new Substack Chat function was not a happy one. Last week, I got an email...
Something Good #71: Harnessing the Power of the Unconscious Mind
I took this picture a week later on the Big Island of Hawaii. Seems appropriate somehow. About a decade ago, I was invited by my friend Sheila Heti (who has...
Something Good #70: My Ghost Stories
Back when portable computers were still a novelty, my dad gave me his used Toshiba Libretto 50 CT. This was, for the time, an astonishing little device....
Something Good #69: Mixed Feelings
I made something for you. This week’s Something Good is a playlist. It’s called Mixed Feelings. Some of the songs on it are new favourites, others are old...
Something Good #68: Once in a Lifetime
I have nothing to say about the Queen, but I haven’t been able to shake an observation I heard on a history podcast I listened to a few days after her death:...
Something Good #67: On Partying
Pictured: the author, freshly tonsured for a conceptual Halloween costume, and partying Here are some parties I would have liked to have attended: 1. In...
Something Good #66: The Smoky Something Good
A little over a year ago I decided that this newsletter deserved a cocktail of its own. I reached out to my friend Michelle Marek, now of Gia, and asked if...
Something Good #65: Durant's Meatballs
Lately I’ve been interested in things that are incomplete, unfinished, abandoned. There are many works of art we know only in fragments. It is almost...
Something Good #64: Literally the Least I Can Do
The view from the Nevada desert. From the very beginning, I envisioned this newsletter as my antidote to the daily, even hourly cycles of outrage and dismay...
Something Good #63: A Desperate Letter From Rosemont Metro
I thought I could get ahead of the storm. I was in a videoconference, at work, when everybody's phone started screaming. Thunderstorm alert. Tornadoes. Stay...
Something Good #62: Minds Forever Voyaging
One of the decisive turning points in my life occurred at some point in the mid-1980s when my dad brought home a used Apple II Plus computer and installed it...
Something Good #61: Light Sleeper
For as long as I can remember I have been pursued by a demon. I’ve always put off bedtime for as long as possible. For most of my adult life, until the...
Something Good #60: Hot Tickets
Last week I shared the happy news that You Can Live Forever will have its world premiere at Tribeca in June. For my readers in New York City and thereabouts...
Something Good #59: A Big Announcement
As readers and friends may know, for the past eight years my friend Sarah Watts and I have been working on a feature film called You Can Live Forever—a first...
Something Good #58: The Lizzie McGuire Movie
At some point in the fall of 2002 I found myself wandering around the city of Rome by myself after having spent a couple of weeks shooting an experimental...