Brandon Boyce
Writer. Film: #BadSamaritan (now on Amazon) APT PUPIL, WICKER PARK, VENOM (Not that Venom).
TV: UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Novels: Wherever books are sold.
Lifelong intermediate guitar player.
- My annual reminder that Hallelujah is not a Christmas song.
- MS Word jumped 30% to $99.99 a year. Can I dump it for Pages? Is there anything I won’t be able to do?
- This laid me out. English majors, ammirite?
- Look at me, going to the gym at 9pm like I’m 20.
- The world is burning down and my new script is at page 100 and I can't decide if it's "chainsaw" or "chain saw." (Not a family film.)
- Can we all agree “unsubscribe” has been a failure?
- This is the 40-minute Alex Garland interview I needed today.
- These are unserious people entrusted with serious jobs.
- You never hear about Writer Appreciation Day.
- Thought I’d give Spirit Airline another shot. Flight attendant just shut the doors then casually announced that the toilets don’t flush. “So don’t use them.”
- It means you know what you’re doing is bullshit. It also means you’re a coward.
- My Insta Reels these days are just people cleaning stuff with vinegar and baking soda.
- 1. Recognize that 30 days is a good start, but Reps don't take days off. They don't gear up for Midterms, or off-year elections or "swing states." They work every day, every year, in EVERY state to undermine democracy. 2. Recognize, as Reps do, that the laws that matter are made at the statehouse.
- Yes. Never forget this. There are no “off-year” elections. Only elections.
- Now there's this new thing where you click the "unsubscribe" link on a spam email and it sends you to Google. Anybody else experiencing this?
- There are no four-letter words left to be invented.
- My dream is that one of the Coen Brothers rings my doorbell and tells me why Jerry Lundegaard needed the money.
- You never see a guy with an “O” and a fence sign.
- What about the people who thought it said “Diane Kruger effect” — because I’m in that group.
- It doesn't matter if you were high school valedictorian, or went to an Ivy League school...if you still have the gun on you a week later, you're a fucking idiot.
- It’s hard to outrun “hand-written manifesto.”
- Being a writer means never getting a holiday bonus.
- Learn. Earn. Return.
- I'm pretty sure the real goal of the great Bluesky migration is getting wanderers to stumble into this place to buy fancy notebooks. ... I've gone there nine times already. www.bluesky.com
- This will forever be the week that: 1. I joined Bluesky and rediscovered some hope for social media. 2. Had 10,000 Maniacs stuck in my head I mean not just one song but the whole damn parade of hits which was longer than I realized anyway these are the days--
- So many great images in Al Pacino’s new book, but the one I can’t shake is 70 -year-old Al just chillin with his fam at the Legoland Hotel in Denmark.
- If I answer that, I’m immediately banished to truth social.
- Jackie Brown is my favorite Tarantino movie.
- Ok I had no idea there was a 50-acre forest in northern Manhattan. gothamist.com/news/fdny-la...
- Just spent 20 minutes watching videos of how bus drivers lock the doors behind them when they get off because the scene doesn't work otherwise. Screenwriting.
- People show you who they are.
- Richard Price has a new novel so I guess I figured out how I’ll make it through the next four years.
- Happy to report that I left Twitter without ever learning what Grok meant.
- I was told the skies are bluer here.
