wow so glad you’re out there on the right side of history re: JADE. i need the culture to rally behind JADE. i need us, suffering a juicelessness crisis, currently awash in your tates mcrae and addisons rae and madisons beer, to come together to make JADE happen. we deserve this. JADE deserves it.
Anyways yes, Jade has been sent to literally save pop music…. They sent us Tove Styrke and we let her flop we can’t let this happen again!!! We need to rally!
The best part of this Oscars season has been the PR consultant who appeared on Matt Belloni’s podcast to say of the Emilia Perez situation, apparently without irony, that Netflix had been “the victims of a terrorist attack”
Honestly I think starting a new job, etc, is enough to put you feeling a bit in a funk and behind! Even though it's a good thing (for you, for us, for the nation). I'm also feeling a bit this way and am like… is it time to start reading a big fat Victorian novel… it might be…
Fran, after a long period of struggling through many jobs, once you reach that perceived safety of a FT job, you tend to crash and feel exhausted! At least I do. Not to be like “I was diagnosed late in life with inattentive ADHD” but unfortunately I was. The diagnosis didn’t change much cause my life was already ruined at that point. I was 29. It was lockdown. Kind of a classically bad time for everyone. Not suggesting this is your deal but suggesting to be kind to yourself rather! Not only are you crashing and exhausted but…you have a FT job. 😬 Not to mention the mono of it all. It’s okay Fran. It’s okay. Maybe I’ll be kind to myself too.
It's really so true!!!!!! Many people keep saying it's completely normal to be this tired shifting over to full-time employment and I'm like surely it's not.... but possibly, it very much still is. And the mono of it all – a friend just asked if I am still feeling the effects of it and I was like "uhh... MAYBE..." I think I can grapple with the exhaustion if art can start to feel rewarding and compelling again - hopefully soon, or at least, more daylight could help.
one thing i enjoyed imagining during the oscars was idina menzel stuck up in a tree singing some stupid song while cynthia erivo was on stage at the dolby doing the defying gravity run to a standing ovation. there's a metaphor there somewhere...???
happy to see u fran! did u see the theater in (i think it was) kentucky where the ceiling caved in during a showing of the new captain america but no one was hurt bc there were only two people in the showing😭😭😭
Yes lmao 😭😭😭 There were a few more people in our theater but definitely no more than twelve total, including one person who reacted vocally to every turn and twist and yelled "Bucky!!!!!!" when Sebastian Stan appeared for two minutes (as a fan of Rutgers alum Sebastian Stan, I get it...).
No I've just watched oomf playing through the first bit and fighting the big lion. I have been threatening to play Skyrim after so I do think I'll take a bit of an extended break before picking up DLC. Have you played at all?
i’ve been playing yakuza 0 slowly but surely, which i absolutely adore. it makes me giggle constantly. i took up knitting so i haven’t been playing games as much, and seth has been so deep into kingdom come deliverance 2 that i haven’t had much opportunity to use the PC lol. i never played the elden ring dlc but i watched seth play almost all of it (he got filtered by a boss right before the final boss of the DLC) and i’ve watched other people play it as well. i also went back and finished lies of p in preparation for THAT dlc!!
I hear you re: feeling weird! as I've been getting ready to release my album + play shows, it's been nice to have a project to pour a lot of my excess mental energy into. had a weekend with 0 social plans other than a Saturday night book club meeting and that was exactly what I needed. fell asleep halfway through In the Mood for Love last night, excited to finish it tonight.
Are you gonna go long on The White Lotus at some point? No pressure but as a big fan of the show (honestly, still loving this season) I’d love to read someone make a good case against it. Also have you liked previous seasons?
I just started listening to a new (British) podcast and I feel like I now have too many British people to learn about, especially comedians. When I found out about "Jack Whitehall" last night, being British and a comedian I assumed he's been a guest on this podcast over the course of nearly 300 episodes. I was wrong. I'm just at the tip of the iceberg.
A friend once pointed out that trying to learn the British comedy/panel show circuit characters is like trying to grasp the full landscape of anime... it's too much. Jack Whitehall is basically like James Corden 2.0 - a guy they all got sick of there, sent over here, didn't take, and he went back.
FWIW I think the Mank screenplay is fairly heavily rewritten from the Fincher's Dad version? Remember reading at the time it was heavily based off Raising Kane — whereas all the stuff in Mank about Mank realising he's more or less wasted his potential on becoming court jester to rich villains felt at the time to me like another version of Gylenhaal getting lost down the zodiac rabbit hole/Zuckerberg going business brain and forgetting it's nice to have real friends/Benjamin Button being too preoccupied about his whole deal to stick around with Cate Blanchett — which was about as close as I got to a "unifying thematic interest of about 1/3 of Fincher's movies" as I got when I finally tried to watch them
Anyway, great magazine as always! Cool to see Dessner with those other composers, will give his stuff another try!
Oh interesting re: Mank - some of the stuff with Mank and Lily Collins just reads to me like a dad being like, "what if a nice young woman helped you do your job?" which isn't not what Rashida Jones is doing in The Social Network (though that character is such a victim of Sorkin mentality). I'd be curious to read it. Everyone thinks back on that pandemic year as being awful for art, but there's a lot of good stuff that came out of that time that I think got an unfair shake, all considered.
I was a bit skeptical on Dessner for a minute because I've never taken to The National in a meaningful way, but I find his contemporary classical albums quite outstanding and his scores fairly solid. The best film music he's done that I've listened to - outside of the collaborations with Sakamoto for The Revenant bc that whole thing... simply incredible - is for Train Dreams for which I realize I have #FestivalPrivilege having seen/heard. But something to look forward to!!!
You’re so right about the Met, whenever i was depressed or unproductive in NY i’d just make myself wander in the Met without my phone and it was always the best. There’s a room i especially love in the Lehman wing (room 960 i think…) that has a cozy couch in there that people rarely visit.
Can’t tell you how legit jazzed I was when i saw Fran Magazine in my inbox this morning, thank you!!
They have a Caspar David Friedrich exhibit right now that could be really lovely, and of course, I NEED to go see The Clock at MOMA when I get an odd weekday to do so. (The nice thing about working nights/weekends during award season is that I'm accruing a lot of PTO on the back end that I plan to use for weekday museum visits especially.)
He hosted the Brits so he sort of led the charge in introducing a three minute Liam Payne tribute. I don't think he did anything offensive but I also don't think he is capable of sounding plausibly serious at any time, and the whole intro sounds as though he's about to do a joke at any time (but doesn't). I'm glad we kicked him and Corden out of the country.
wow so glad you’re out there on the right side of history re: JADE. i need the culture to rally behind JADE. i need us, suffering a juicelessness crisis, currently awash in your tates mcrae and addisons rae and madisons beer, to come together to make JADE happen. we deserve this. JADE deserves it.
We need JADE album in Q1... Q2 at latest, and I need to see her perform live, STAT!!!
Andrew Tate McRae is this anything…..
Anyways yes, Jade has been sent to literally save pop music…. They sent us Tove Styrke and we let her flop we can’t let this happen again!!! We need to rally!
Tove Styrke is making new music!!!!!!!!!!! But it is our fault she decided to "be in a play" between albums...
The best part of this Oscars season has been the PR consultant who appeared on Matt Belloni’s podcast to say of the Emilia Perez situation, apparently without irony, that Netflix had been “the victims of a terrorist attack”
A second Karla Sofia Gascón has hit the Dolby Theater
red hulk - red MANK
Let him cook!!!
Honestly I think starting a new job, etc, is enough to put you feeling a bit in a funk and behind! Even though it's a good thing (for you, for us, for the nation). I'm also feeling a bit this way and am like… is it time to start reading a big fat Victorian novel… it might be…
I was like, should I reread Middlemarch... but maybe Brothers Karamazov would be the play.
also until this post i just assumed JADE was a K-pop group for some reason… turns out JADE is a person…………
Former Little Mix member!!!
i'm a fan now!
I think I might read a Trollope novel.
Fran, after a long period of struggling through many jobs, once you reach that perceived safety of a FT job, you tend to crash and feel exhausted! At least I do. Not to be like “I was diagnosed late in life with inattentive ADHD” but unfortunately I was. The diagnosis didn’t change much cause my life was already ruined at that point. I was 29. It was lockdown. Kind of a classically bad time for everyone. Not suggesting this is your deal but suggesting to be kind to yourself rather! Not only are you crashing and exhausted but…you have a FT job. 😬 Not to mention the mono of it all. It’s okay Fran. It’s okay. Maybe I’ll be kind to myself too.
It's really so true!!!!!! Many people keep saying it's completely normal to be this tired shifting over to full-time employment and I'm like surely it's not.... but possibly, it very much still is. And the mono of it all – a friend just asked if I am still feeling the effects of it and I was like "uhh... MAYBE..." I think I can grapple with the exhaustion if art can start to feel rewarding and compelling again - hopefully soon, or at least, more daylight could help.
one thing i enjoyed imagining during the oscars was idina menzel stuck up in a tree singing some stupid song while cynthia erivo was on stage at the dolby doing the defying gravity run to a standing ovation. there's a metaphor there somewhere...???
She's singing about Big Tree Religion !!!
Forget it, Jake. It's Mank.
This!!
we, the readers of Fran Magazine, support you ❣️
also... i think nobody talks enough about how being sad you're not creating is actually part of the creative process and is its own job!!!
Wait true :(
happy to see u fran! did u see the theater in (i think it was) kentucky where the ceiling caved in during a showing of the new captain america but no one was hurt bc there were only two people in the showing😭😭😭
Yes lmao 😭😭😭 There were a few more people in our theater but definitely no more than twelve total, including one person who reacted vocally to every turn and twist and yelled "Bucky!!!!!!" when Sebastian Stan appeared for two minutes (as a fan of Rutgers alum Sebastian Stan, I get it...).
they too were in the Stucky trenches of tumblr, with me…
THIS!!
Also I forgot to write about Elden Ring but I am in Crumbling Farum Azula getting my ass beat by Malaketh <3 The end is in sight...
the end IS in sight!!!! you will be elden lord in no time…have u played any DLC?
No I've just watched oomf playing through the first bit and fighting the big lion. I have been threatening to play Skyrim after so I do think I'll take a bit of an extended break before picking up DLC. Have you played at all?
dancing lion my beloved. god i love that boss. skyrim will be a literal walk in the park😭
That's what I'm hoping for... I'm also really drawing out the end of Astrobot. What else have you been playing?
i’ve been playing yakuza 0 slowly but surely, which i absolutely adore. it makes me giggle constantly. i took up knitting so i haven’t been playing games as much, and seth has been so deep into kingdom come deliverance 2 that i haven’t had much opportunity to use the PC lol. i never played the elden ring dlc but i watched seth play almost all of it (he got filtered by a boss right before the final boss of the DLC) and i’ve watched other people play it as well. i also went back and finished lies of p in preparation for THAT dlc!!
I hear you re: feeling weird! as I've been getting ready to release my album + play shows, it's been nice to have a project to pour a lot of my excess mental energy into. had a weekend with 0 social plans other than a Saturday night book club meeting and that was exactly what I needed. fell asleep halfway through In the Mood for Love last night, excited to finish it tonight.
Are you gonna go long on The White Lotus at some point? No pressure but as a big fan of the show (honestly, still loving this season) I’d love to read someone make a good case against it. Also have you liked previous seasons?
Maybe for Vulture if not here. I've more or less liked the other seasons but I'm finding this one tedious and unfunny.
I just started listening to a new (British) podcast and I feel like I now have too many British people to learn about, especially comedians. When I found out about "Jack Whitehall" last night, being British and a comedian I assumed he's been a guest on this podcast over the course of nearly 300 episodes. I was wrong. I'm just at the tip of the iceberg.
A friend once pointed out that trying to learn the British comedy/panel show circuit characters is like trying to grasp the full landscape of anime... it's too much. Jack Whitehall is basically like James Corden 2.0 - a guy they all got sick of there, sent over here, didn't take, and he went back.
That tracks... and yes it's 100% that. Yet the island is so tiny. What gives?
FWIW I think the Mank screenplay is fairly heavily rewritten from the Fincher's Dad version? Remember reading at the time it was heavily based off Raising Kane — whereas all the stuff in Mank about Mank realising he's more or less wasted his potential on becoming court jester to rich villains felt at the time to me like another version of Gylenhaal getting lost down the zodiac rabbit hole/Zuckerberg going business brain and forgetting it's nice to have real friends/Benjamin Button being too preoccupied about his whole deal to stick around with Cate Blanchett — which was about as close as I got to a "unifying thematic interest of about 1/3 of Fincher's movies" as I got when I finally tried to watch them
Anyway, great magazine as always! Cool to see Dessner with those other composers, will give his stuff another try!
Oh interesting re: Mank - some of the stuff with Mank and Lily Collins just reads to me like a dad being like, "what if a nice young woman helped you do your job?" which isn't not what Rashida Jones is doing in The Social Network (though that character is such a victim of Sorkin mentality). I'd be curious to read it. Everyone thinks back on that pandemic year as being awful for art, but there's a lot of good stuff that came out of that time that I think got an unfair shake, all considered.
I was a bit skeptical on Dessner for a minute because I've never taken to The National in a meaningful way, but I find his contemporary classical albums quite outstanding and his scores fairly solid. The best film music he's done that I've listened to - outside of the collaborations with Sakamoto for The Revenant bc that whole thing... simply incredible - is for Train Dreams for which I realize I have #FestivalPrivilege having seen/heard. But something to look forward to!!!
Me when a new Fran Magazine arrives: 😁
You’re so right about the Met, whenever i was depressed or unproductive in NY i’d just make myself wander in the Met without my phone and it was always the best. There’s a room i especially love in the Lehman wing (room 960 i think…) that has a cozy couch in there that people rarely visit.
Can’t tell you how legit jazzed I was when i saw Fran Magazine in my inbox this morning, thank you!!
They have a Caspar David Friedrich exhibit right now that could be really lovely, and of course, I NEED to go see The Clock at MOMA when I get an odd weekday to do so. (The nice thing about working nights/weekends during award season is that I'm accruing a lot of PTO on the back end that I plan to use for weekday museum visits especially.)
I'm happy to be back!!!! Thank YOU!!!
Jack Whitehall did what
He hosted the Brits so he sort of led the charge in introducing a three minute Liam Payne tribute. I don't think he did anything offensive but I also don't think he is capable of sounding plausibly serious at any time, and the whole intro sounds as though he's about to do a joke at any time (but doesn't). I'm glad we kicked him and Corden out of the country.
It’s true he has a very “I’m not touching you” accent