hello. i haven't updated in a while since launching because websites are hard and i have a full-time job completely unrelated to what i'm doing here. thought i would do a post about what i'm working on and what i hope to have uploaded before the end of the year. i also haven't really taken a moment to say hi to anyone who might be reading this. hi! i'm happy you're here.

i have about 100 japanese movie pamphlets and a bunch more magazines and other literature, like zines, flyers, ticket stubs, etc. that are harder to categorize, that i hope to upload to the site eventually. one pamphlet takes about an hour to scan and edit, even longer if you account for the time it takes me to get things setup, doublecheck all the images, and then actually build the page for them. my whole process is very amateur. my "scanning station" is just a phone mount that clamps onto my desk and i use free software to do all the image processing. the lighting situation in my apartment is dire, which creates a whole set of problems. basically, i suck at this. but it's fun to do and i'm figuring out how to make it better as i go.

but that explains the slow progress on scans. i also like to upload scans in batches, which is maybe not the way to do it. maybe it's fine to just post one at a time. it probably doesn't matter. i reached ten pamphlets uploaded last month and i think doubling that by the end of the year makes sense.

there's also posting. i have a few topics lined up, but i don't get a lot of time to "blog" between work and other personal projects. still, i'm determined to post a bit more and i think the way to do it is more frequent, less formal entries. zonelets is a cool engine but it's kind of frustrating to not have a tagging system that lets me categorize and sort things better, but that's whatever. a problem to solve another time.

i have not had a public-facing social media account outside of stuff like letterboxd for a while, but i decided to start being slightly more active on bluesky. after remembering you could make your handle your URL, i decided to make one for the site. you can follow it here. i'm not good at social media. i'm not sure how i'm gonna use it. but i guess it's good to have.

less boring stuff

outside of the website, here are a few things i've been doing recently, and some things that are coming up:

i went to the punk rock flea market in seattle. they hold it a couple times a year and there are usually a few vendors that sell books, or antique dealers with small collections of vintage lit. one guy had a ton of issues of film threat magazine, which i collect, so i mostly just picked up a lot of those. i also found a 1980 issue of trouser press that had a feature on ralph records and the residents. i love the residents and have a few issues of buy or die!, the old ralph records mailing catalog. i was thinking of doing a post on them one day.

earlier this month, i also saw the new 4K restoration of raging bull, which was followed by an in-person Q&A with thelma schoonmaker. i got to meet her very briefly after the event. she was very kind and seemed happy to be there. i was amused by the way she answered one audience member's question, about whether or not raging bull could be made today. i'm paraphrasing from memory, but: "well, i'm not sure. it's certainly very violent. personally, i think boxing should be banned. it's insane."

this weekend is the antiquarian book fair in seattle. i always go with a wishlist of things i'm looking for. here's mine for this year:

some of my favorite book covers: queer by william s. burroughs, the hoods by harry grey, and the diary of a rapist by evan s. connell, jr.

film novelizations/tie-ins

other novels

photography

poetry

journals & magazines

ok, last thing. i recently watched the junky's christmas, a short claymation based on the william s. burroughs short story of the same name. it was cute, and i realized all the versions on youtube were pretty poor quality, so i uploaded a better quality rip. you can watch it below.

thanks for reading!