Genevieve and I finishing my covid-project-letterboxd-list with Lawrance of Arabia at the Paris in NYC.
I’ve made going to the movies my entire personality post covid so it’s fitting that the first non-fall social club event will be trying to get people together to watch one. I hope to make these events in fun spaces - i’ve got a pretty chic museum lined up for a future supper club - so for this movie I have booked the beautiful 300+ capacity theater in the basement of the Philadelphia Public Library (where Julian goes for story time most Mondays). Humor me and let’s hang out on a Wednesday night. I’ve got a fun guest to chat with me on stage before the movie and a bar set up for after. Oh and I designed a cool shirt everyone in attendance will take home!
What are we watching? Spike Jonze’s 2013 ‧ Sci-fi/Romance movie “Her” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson of course. If you haven’t seen it, you really should (on June 3rd). It felt like the perfect movie for what I’m trying to do with this philanthropic social club for a couple reasons.
Main character has a mustache
Main theme revolves around a man dealing with a complex emotional struggle
Incredible style
Don’t we all want to confront parasocial relationships with AI?
It’ll take about 75 friends to break even here and I’m at 6, that said I am optimistic about this whole thing though and if we sell out then we’ll be donating over $4,000 to the Movember foundation and wouldn’t that be cool.
Time for The Check-in
How am I? I’m good, how are you? The second half of paternity leave started two weeks ago but they haven’t been real because we were in Florida (woo) so nothing’s normal. A fun story about my first 6 hours of being a single parent tho. While we were in Miami I booked a spa treatment for Genevieve’s birthday and that meant Julian and I were on our own, which is totally fine and not at all worrisome. 20 Minutes into lunch with him at Yardbird in Miami we were crushing it, having a ball, and I decided to give him watermelon for the first time (on a suggestion from the elderly waitress who could’ve told me she didn’t have any kids) which is fine (probably). He ate, I ate, he ate, I ate and after some time I realized I was going back and forth from his food to my shrimp and grits and that I had no idea if he was deathly allergic to shellfish since watermelon was the 3rd thing he’s ever had in his body. Anywho we left mid meal, went to the pharmacy, and then monitored the situation in the hotel room until G was done. Everything was totally fine but man this is a lot of responsibility. This week also isn’t normal, we’re in NYC so if you’re around and want to hang, Julian and I will be out and about all week.
Julian’s first Spring Training.
Cool. You made it to the end.
Stick around for the next one. Register for an event. Let me know if you’re interested in hosting, partnering, sponsoring, ghost writing, anything.
Text your friends, make some plans, hang out more.
Anthony
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