Chris DeLuca

Train cinema forever. Every genre. What a romp.

My roommate had Santana live at tanglewood 1970 concert and it’s so good. High energy locked in the groove. 🎵

I took a cat nap today. Fun how goals change as you age 👌

What a fun slow burn 70s disaster movie. The cast is insane, and I found it so compelling throughout.

This movie whips.

A great way to make an argument for public transportation is to show what NYC would be like without it. 🏙️

Great New York movie, great transit movie.

This movie is so cool and legit funny. It’s so much more absurdist than most comedies, much less comedies from the fourties’

Inspired by Star Shaped post.

10 bands I’ve seen live:

1. Rage Against The Machine
2. Faith No More
3. Soundgarden
4. Nine Inch Nails
5. The 21st Century Doors
6. Primus
7. Parlour Magic
8. Ty Segall
9. Jeff Rosenstock
10. Sufjan Stevens

This movie is so much fun.

The Rhododendron’s are popping.

Playing with image processing in Astoria park.

Never seen it before. Dumb fun. I'm in the "Swayze is charismatic" camp.

Finished reading: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 📚

I enjoyed this. I don’t know what I was expecting, but this surprised me with how dirty it was, in that American way where it’s obsessed with sex and also a bit prudish and scared (oh the deviants!). I can’t hate a New Jersey mystery, even if it doesn’t much resemble anything I’ve known in the state. Fun to read after the excellent Murder on Sex Island.

Started reading: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 📚

Impressive visuals for the time, and slow paced. The opening segment is all still images with text boxes. The conclusion draws some I think for the time progressive parallels between witchcraft persecution and the then modern treatment of women, but it sounds ignorant from now modern knowledge. Interesting from a history of film perspective, and there’s some great shots of nuns sticking out their tongues.

I found a little command line program, ftb, to align markdown tables. Very useful. I use it as a Neovim filter, as I recently blogged about. 💽

Listening to a 1970 Love bootleg at the Fillmore West, that Paul of Albums That Should Exist cleaned up. It’s the seventies, so Arthur Lee is heavier, more Hendrix influenced than the insurmountable “Forever Changes”. The show is pretty great. 🎵

Rocks.

I was looking for a quick, minimal way of aligning columns in grid-template-areas values, and found something more generic and, I think, useful—the venerable column command.

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Why nearly every farmer who grows these chile peppers is a woman

“Not many men step up to do it under these conditions,” Pandiamma says. “But for women, chile is a godsend. If we labor hard enough in the fields for those few months, that extra income is enough to keep our homes running for the rest of the year.”

Finished reading: Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 📚

Man this book is funny. Everything you love about a tight mystery, combined with everything insane about modern reality TV (and plain reality). Jo Firestone writes hilarious, relatable prose that moves. I flew through this. Can’t wait for the next book!

My cousin’s band Chalk Teeth just dropped a new single.

It’s an entrancing and unique concoction that touches on elements of dark wave, synth punk, shoegaze, early electronic dance music and krautrock, all while leading with vocals in the Polish language.

I’m very proud, even though I had nothing to do with it (other than somewhat genetically). Check it out! 🎵

Donkey Kong-ass Donkey Kong’s Donkey Kong-ass Donkey Kong ass.

A quote from Scott the Woz that lives rent free in my head. 💬

Currently reading: Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 📚