A platform that draws crowds for its storytelling and showmanship can make dazzling resolutions out of even the darkest realities.

For better or for worse, I self identified as A Girl Who Was So Not Obsessed With The Idea of Her Future Wedding Day. Snobby behavior, I’ll admit it, but internalized misogyny is a sneaky little bitch. You never know when or where it might spurt out of you.

A lifelong fascination with Artistry, my mature way of saying celebrity and pop culture, is quintessential to who I am. It would be cool to say I am unmoored by “the media” and its exports but that would be a lie.

I can’t say that eating my soft-boiled egg transports me to 1980s rural Italy, but I can say that the yellow ceramic chicken I eat it out of makes me smile.

The more we live online, the more our digital bodies are becoming as much our home as anything else. What do we lose when that happens? What happens when the more we reach out through the ether to touch our digital bodies, the more we can feel them touch us back? 

I realized that, in an effort to be as miserable as possible, I was depriving myself of any joy that was coming my way. Like with all things, at some point you have to hang up your hat and give it a rest.

A few hours always pass by quicker than I can think, and before I know it I feel better.

A list of films we’ve continually come back to that explore this tender and oftentimes heartbreaking relationship.