1. The television series Fortier. Gritty police crime dramas are a dime-a-dozen, but this one is superior than most anything else that’s airing right now. Reminds me a lot of Prime Suspect only with grouchy French-Canadians.
2. I’m not a big fan of watermelons, but I might reconsider now that they’ve been repackaged as Godzilla eggs.
3. This essay on the Winchester Mystery House which recontextualizes Sarah Winchester’s mania into a capitalist parable.
Part of what makes the Winchester Mystery House so spooky, I think, is the way it reminds visitors and Silicon Valley neighbors of how fleeting industrial power really is–eventually, the fortunes made in Silicon Valley will pass away and remain only in the form of preserved houses built during the 1980s and 1990s. The death of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, symbolized in Sarah’s house, is a reminder to Silicon Valley professionals and residents that their industry, too, will die, taking fortunes and lives with it.
4. I’m not sure if I’ll see A Good Woman, but it’s goddamn great to see illustrated movie posters making a return.
5. The unbelievably fantastic metallic album covers for Philips’ Prospective 21e Siècle series of avant-garde electronic LPs.
Just got word that Timmy Duchamp at Aqueduct Press is going to publish a a piece I wrote in which I used that Sarah Winchester article heavily. L’chaim!
Oh cool!