Please accept this greatest hits compilation instead of new #content
Folks, it's been a *week*.
Folks, I don’t have to recap my history with depression. Most of you know it already, and those of you who don’t, all you have to do is search “depression” (or “depressed”) and many references will come up for it here.
Due to a number of issues, none of which I will elaborate on here not because this isn’t the place but because I am simply exhausted with all of it, April has been a rough month for me mentally. This week in particular has been relentlessly awful. Remember when Jake LaMotta fought Sugar Ray Robinson in Raging Bull? No, not the fight he won, the last one, when Sugar Ray hit him so hard in the face it looked like every drop of fluid in Jake’s body went out through his mouth. That’s what I feel like today, beaten down, and wanting nothing more than to lay down on the floor and pass out.
I’m going out of town for the weekend, and with that I’m trying to give myself some grace about all the stuff I intended to do this week (and really, the entire month in general) but didn’t, because my brain felt too heavy. I would like to start fresh next week, with a new month, and maybe not embarrass myself by telling lousy jokes in a Miami nightclub and alienating my family with my pathological and violent jealous streak (okay, fine, I’m probably taking the Raging Bull comparison too far).
ANYWAY, since I’ve deemed this week (and, again, most of April) a wash both on a personal and creative level, I’m going to make today’s newsletter a greatest hits compilation. Not necessarily the most viewed and/or liked newsletters, but pieces I particularly enjoy and wouldn’t mind having more eyes on for a second go-around. Give ‘em a read for the first time, second time, or however many times this might be. I will be back, hopefully in fighting shape, next week.
Thank you guys, love you guys.
Memories of My Misguided Youth: Joe Piscopo’s “Kimberly”
Rewatch/Rewind: Escape From Tomorrow
Late to the Party: Dear Evan Hansen
Sure, why not, I’ll watch the fourth Crocodile Dundee movie
A love letter to Cobra, the funniest movie ever made
The Keaton Files: Town & Country
I often think about the 1979 Italian sci-fi horror The Visitor
Rewatch/Rewind: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Hope you feel better!