Shia LaBeouf wrote a movie about his life and his experience with his dad. It’s called Honey Boy. He plays his dad. This is the first trailer. Here’s what I just wrote to Sarah after watching it: “I wanted to go into it like… does this make it all OK now? But now I’m like…OK, is this what people should do when they f-ck up? Because, yes, he’s giving us the background behind why he’s been in so much pain. But I don’t think he’s letting himself off the hook either. It feels almost like it’s self-flagellation, heartbreakingly all over again. But at the same time, I’m not sure if we’re supposed to “accuse” it of being performative. HELP ME DECIDE HOW TO FEEL.” She hasn’t written back yet. (Dlisted)
I feel like there were a lot of high profile celebrity engagements in 2018. There have probably been just as many celebrity engagements in 2019 but…why doesn’t it seem the same? Oh, right. Because the ones from last year happened fast. Like Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson. And Justin and Hailey Bieber. And Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas. The pear-shaped diamond ring was the thing last year, right? Here’s Elizabeth Olsen’s and it’s an emerald with some kind of halo around it. Suits her. (Cele|bitchy)
I’m just going to say it, even though I’m not happy about saying it because I really have enjoyed her style over the years but… Michelle Williams’s style has not excited me in a while. She’s with Louis Vuitton and the pieces always seem to be a similar cut. (Go Fug Yourself)
Kayleigh Donaldson has assembled a collection of sexist movie reviews. They’re all stupid but the one about Goodfellas is where my focus is because the point of the piece is how women don’t get the movie and… I like that movie, I’ve seen it dozens of times. I love Lorraine Bracco’s performance as Karen in that movie – and she’s not irrelevant to the story. When Karen goes to see Henry in prison, smuggling those drugs in for him and she questions him about seeing his girlfriend’s name on the sign-in, they don’t play her as a pain in the ass nag wife. From the first time I saw Goodfellas, I was with Karen, I was relating to Karen’s point of view. And in the scenes when there are no women around and the men are “busting each other’s balls”, I enjoyed that too, even though that’s not where I live. Because that’s how you consume stories. This is not the problem for women. The problem is that the other side isn’t true. The problem is that men aren’t sitting through scenes with women sharing and connecting with each other in the ways that women sit through scenes with men sharing and connecting with each other. Women watch Goodfellas and Ghostbusters 2016 and empathy happens in both. Does it work that way for men? (Pajiba)
I think I know a lot of random sh-t. According to this quiz, I have a “solid foundation” of random sh-t. My score was 7/10. This was disappointing to me. I thought I’d get at least 8. I need to study more random sh-t, obviously. (Buzzfeed)
