WEEKLIE 5.3.24
Here's everything you didn't know you needed from Overstimulated (***This week's SUMMER HOUSE Recap included below***).
Is it insane that it’s May and it feels like the year has just begun? April is the new January you heard it here first. For those of us 30 and older especially, Q1 is really just a really long, really sleepy, unreasonably finicky practice run to get the kinks out for the rest of the year. But if spring is any indication I can confidently (read: delusionally, if history is any indication) say this year of our lord, 2024, is going to be Moi’s goddman year. And probably yours too. But if we’re only allowed one person whose year it’s going to be…idk maybe pick the city girl who makes you laugh about irrelevant pop culture incidents acting as fairy lights in the inky black capitalist hellscape that is slowly smothering the masses? Who I am kidding…it’s inarguably Ariana Maddix’s year and I’m not even close to mad at it. June Cancers rise, and no I’m not talking to you Crisp Ratt because I know he thinks he’s cuspy.
BEST PAIRED WITH: PROBLEMISTA
It's the Willy Wonka origin story we deserved
Every well-crafted movie, even those taking place in the strangest, most distant foreign universes, will spend a good amount of effort making us the audience feel at home. Even if making a movie of entirely untouched horizons was possible, it would work against the goal of transcending the insular to inspire the universal that all storytellers unanimously agree to. Still, it’s thrilling nonetheless when a film manages to feel so familiar that it brings up visceral recalls of your own life with alarming pace and nonexistent effort like Julio Torres’ Problemista. In fact, I’m confident the majority of assistants in entertainment and the arts, and every single one having done so in New York City will feel the same. It’s an experimental trauma dump made of Legos instead of tears (but I obviously cried anyway). On a surface level, it’s a story about a young immigrant aspiring toymaker from El Salvador (Torres) who ends up working for a megalomaniacal artist (Tilda Swinton) hellbent on selling her cryogenically frozen husband’s (RZA) art strictly using the combative software Filemaker Pro. Underneath it was the timeless story of learning to dream outside the lines to force the universe into compliance. Problemista deserves to be seen and we, the unbroken creatives, deserve to feel seen by it.
SUMMER HOUSE Recap: S8E11
He like, so doesn't
Apparently Gypsy Rose was at SUR last night, and it got me thinking (not just about how Peter probably hit on her because he basically lives under the hostess stand). Is Gyspy a Bravo fan — or even, a Bravo stan? Would she be team Carole or team Bethenny? Does she, unlike Erin Lichy, know what the acronym WAP means? Does she think Below Deck: Med is better than the original? (Answers: she’d relate to Carole’s need to escape a controlling master by any means necessary, she loves Cardi B like a sister, and Captain Sandy hurts her ears). If Gypsy watched this week’s episode I know one thing for certain: she would be sliding into Jesse’s DMs.