pilot

pilot

@pilotv.bsky.social

journalist turned emmy-nominated television writer turned ???? always looking for more writing work: www.pilot.pizza www.imdb.com/name/nm13307491 they/he

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i love this book! smart + gorgeous + a great gift for film nerds. features some of my all-time favorites (Dog Day Afternoon! 25th Hour!), and a couple times when i couldn't decide what to watch i just opened to a random page which is how i finally watched Panic in Needle Park and After Hours

Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com

My book FUN CITY CINEMA: NEW YORK CITY AND THE MOVIES THAT MADE IT was published five years ago today. It's still the most challenging project of my career and the work I'm proudest of. Give it a read! You might like it! buff.ly/d7YBTNa

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does anyone have a direct line to ethan hawke, i feel very confident that he would fund my bookstore

lots of talk about age gaps or education gaps or whatever but not much talk about relationships where one of you is very into ryan gosling’s band and the other “doesn’t really like it” 🙄🙄🙄

decided to return to caffeine in the dumbest way possible (drinking a vodka red bull for the first time since i was 17)

pilot@pilotv.bsky.social

haven’t had caffeine in 38 days and feel exactly the same so the only logical conclusion is that i should drink caffeine again

friend & i cleared the bar out of red bulls but unfortunately i feel great today and did not learn any lessons

i love that many yung film nerds are entering their documentary era bc of YCSE!!! took a doc course early in college that was amazing & introduced me to so many films that i ignored in high school, and most importantly it prepared me for fully losing my mind over every episode of Documentary Now

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SELL 👏 THE 👏 TEAM 👏 SELL 👏 THE 👏 TEAM 👏

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

btw From is on netflix now if you're looking for a creepy mystery series about people being stuck in a nightmare town (and it stars my fav, Harold Perrineau!!). it was hidden on epix/mgm+ but i promise it's very good and now you don't have to wait two excruciating years between seasons

however it does feature a terrible cover of "que sera, sera" by the pixies as its theme song but u can skip it

haven’t had caffeine in 38 days and feel exactly the same so the only logical conclusion is that i should drink caffeine again

i suppose i am $114 richer but the bodega is $114 poorer so i’m also failing to support small business

feeling foolish that i didn't immediately assume discourse would jump to "webster's dictionary defines 'documentary' as..."

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This is the exact move my employer did last year, down to completing the sale while the vote was ongoing (they actually delayed the official vote until they knew the sale would go through). Very disappointing, and unnerving to know nothing about the fate of the backlist or indeed the frontlist

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part of why i can never win fantasy sports leagues is that i love jokes too much and currently think it would be soooo funny to drop lebron just to pick up bronny

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I spoke about corporate consolidation and how sales teams across imprints are told which books to prioritize. And also book coverage in general interest outlets -- where once these publications were tastemakers, now they want to talk about a book only once everyone's already talking about it.

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today!!! i'll be there with a table full of free gay books (i go everywhere with free gay books)!!!!!

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com

my band is also playing some transsexual music hamburger style next weekend at the clothing swap

grey's anatomy finally getting rid of owen, adding james wolk, opening with a plane crash BUT only getting a 13-episode season??? what is going on

today!!! i'll be there with a table full of free gay books (i go everywhere with free gay books)!!!!!

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com

my band is also playing some transsexual music hamburger style next weekend at the clothing swap

was on the way to the grocery store and ran into lovely neighbors who handed me a bag of FUCK ICE buttons like "we've been carrying these around to give you in case you want to hand them out at any events" and hey good news i'm doing a tabling event this afternoon! i love queens

saw You Can See Everything and it was nearly impossible not to pace back and forth in the theater while mumbling “what the fuck what the fuck!!!” truly in awe of the second half, they will build statues of nathan fielder

also when this ended the amount of similarly dressed white men who filed into the bathroom hit levels that i haven’t seen since seeing Avengers: Endgame on opening weekend. A24 your power must be contained

i know i'm basically the only ride-or-die-for-network-television person under 65 but it is soooo bleak that there are only two new network sitcoms this year. we used to get so many! we were so spoiled!!!

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help support an incredible writer and gem of a person.

jourdain searles@judysquirrels.bsky.social

I had a panic attack writing this and setting it up because I have a million things on my plate, and it never stops. I really really need money to move and sign a new lease. www.gofundme.com/f/a-fresh-st...

still on season one of The Lowdown (got distracted and started rewatching Reservation Dogs!!) but desperately need that yellow Hoot Owl Books button-up shirt that ethan hawke wears

can’t stand musical episodes of television and really dislike karaoke IRL because both make me feel soo itchy but i LOVE karaoke scenes in tv shows??