Something Good #37: Cocktails du Cinéma With Ariel Esteban Cayer
For the next couple of months I’m going to be off shooting a feature film. I will be pretty darn busy during this period so I’ve asked some friends to take...
Something Good #36: The Institute for the Study of 3:32pm, April 10, 1954
I’ll be off shooting a feature film through early November. Until then, I’ll be alternating guest-written posts with some dives into the SG archives. The...
Something Good #35: Sheila Heti on Limerence
For the next couple of months I’m going to be off shooting a feature film. I will be extremely busy during this period so I’ve asked some friends to take the...
Something Good #34: Admiring Feelings of a Graceful Lady
In less than a week, full-time pre-production begins on You Can Live Forever, a feature film I have been working on with my friend Sarah Fobes for many, many...
Something Good #33: What Is My Face?
This week’s newsletter is a movie. In 2019 I was invited to New York to take part in the Imagine Science Film Festival’s Symbiosis competition. The idea was...
Something Good #32: My Life Aquatic
This is my aquarium. There are many like it, but this one is mine.My aquarium is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. In...
Something Good #31: A Warning to the Future
How would you send a message to the future? How would you send a warning? This was the job assigned to Albuquerque’s Sandia National Laboratories by the...
Something Good #30: Some Good Advice
From Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) I have always loved reading advice columns. I grew up with Ann Landers in the Toronto Star (while I had heard of her...
Something Good #29: Midsummer Interlude
Summer! There’s nothing I can tell you about this season of plague, fire, bear-threatened Olympics (or whatever the hell is going on over there), etc, that...
Something Good #28: Satoshi Kon - The Lost Interview
In 2007 I had the chance to interview Japanese animator and director Satoshi Kon for the Montreal Mirror, the alt-weekly where I worked at the time, in...
Something Good #27: A Lost Children's Story
The story takes place in Vienna. The year isn’t entirely clear, but the sense is that we are in the waning years of the “nervous splendour” of the Austro-...
Something Good #26: A Séance for Houdini
One thing that can be good to do is to sift through ancient newspaper archives in search of stories and mysteries about your surroundings. I first discovered...
Something Good #25: What I'm Into
Me, into something. I’m into a bunch of stuff these days. Here are some of things I am into, followed by a short list of things I am not. Into: Melatonin I...
Something Good #24: The Something Good
This week’s newsletter is in liquid form. To mark the beginning of summer, I reached out to my friend Michelle Marek, pastry chef at the very excellent...
Something Good #23: Tropical Truth
In response to last week’s call for advice, requests for personalized recommendations, etc., reader Stephanie Marks writes: I’m taking you up on the offer...
Something Good #22: Some of My Favourite YouTube Comments
One of the many weird places this project took me [Note: The playlist below was designed to be listened to while you read this one. No big deal if not...
Something Good #21: The Secret History of Syncretic Software
I was going through some old photos recently—like, actual film photos, with the idea of finally getting around to scanning them—when I found one of the pope....
Something Good #20: Catching Up With the Potato Chip Professor
(l-r) Bret’s Paprika Fumé, Chèvre & Piment d’Espelette flavours At some point last week it suddenly became summer. I’m not interested exploring in the surely...
Something Good #19: A Gustatory Odyssey
For as long back as I can remember, my favourite film has been Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (well, The Neverending Story filled that role for a...
Something Good #18: How the Seltzer Is Made
I used to be pretty into tap water. A cold glass of the stuff, straight from the city pipes, was my favourite thing in the world to drink, more than wine,...