Name: Chris (he/him)
Been With SHQ Since: 2018
Whatcha Reading?: One can't really start to explain the landscape of modern comics without mentioning Josh Pettinger's Tedward. Tracy Island is the final chapter for our favorite old-fashioned guy... or is it? Josh ain't gonna do you dirty like Lindelof did with Lost, ALL YOUR TEDWARD QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED.
Helen of Wyndhorn is a floppy I’ve dug recently. Bilquis Evely is bonkers and one day I hope to properly pronounce her name. Manga-wise, Matsumoto's Tokyo These Days is a prime example of a master at work, and Yamada Murasaki's Second Hand Love is a Hamaguchi film waiting to be made. And, I'm still hanging onto Manuel Fior's Hypericum as my favorite graphic novel of the year. Good luck trying to knock that one off, other comics!
Eyeball Candy: I know every Pat, Art and Tashi are going choo choo for the churro boys of Challengers, but what if we rewound to a few months earlier when Josh O'Connor was in La Chimera? I've been obsessed with filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher lately. Happy As Lazzaro absolutely took my asthmatic breath away and Il Pupille is a sweet lil short for the rascals in your life.
Back in January, subscriber Kyle W. introduced me to his movie "assignment" for the year which was to watch a film every week for every letter of the alphabet sequentially. For the year, you go through the alphabet twice exactly. The second cycle just started, and it's not too late to get on in it. A gaggle of SHQ buddies are already playing. Pop into the shop to let me know what you've been watching or find me on letterboxd and trash all my reviews. (Last week I watched Oshii's Angel's Egg, this week I watched Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F *shrug*)
Tunes: I'm old and I need people to tell me what new shit to listen to these days, but I have been enjoying the new Jessica Pratt album Here In The Pitch in the mornings and L'Imperatrice's Pulsar at night. All my music choices depend on time of day and weather.
As an aside, I'm making it a point to try to affect my final results for Spotify Wrapped this year. But as much as I try to force listen "cool" things, my Wrapped will inevitably be YMO and The Beach Boys AGAIN.
TV Shows: I gotta admit House of the Dragon is stupid good, but there's no TV thing that eats into my life like Taskmaster UK. This has been a SHQ wide epidemic for a few years and this is an official call to all TM heads out there to chat us up (except for Dave, natch). I'm currently in the 6th series (of 17!!!) of my rewatch. We've seen a lot of different famous dudes come through the shop over the years but I've never flipped more than when Nish Kumar (Series 5) and Ed Gamble (Series 9) came into the OG SHQ. Jamali Maddix (Series 11) popped into Atwater not long ago as well. Lucy Beaumont, if you are reading this, please stop into TSHQ on a Friday sometime.