Josh Fireland

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Billy Zane being a real creep in DEAD CALM which I watched last night
My homepage from 1999 that is vaguely Claude-ish in its color scheme and layout, I dunno, it’s a reach but whatever this content is freeeee
Nice clean pie crust illustrations by Andy Warhol from Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Cookbook
The cover of Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy EP.
a comment from a youtube of Veruca Salt’s video for Volcano Girls that says Can i just wake from this nightmare & go back there.
A shot from ERASERHEAD where the titular character is sitting next to his infant son
A snippet of the Old Country screenplay describing a moment when an empty packet of cashews “begins to slowly unkink,” surely a high-water mark in the description of cashew packaging.
Lars Ulrich’s wizard tennis star father in Some Kind of Monster saying “I would say, delete that” after listening to a shitty instrumental song Metallica was thinking about opening their next album with
A logo for some product called FOUNTAIN WATER which comes in Penny Flavor
Brad Pitt in Se7en with two little bandages sort of covering a gash on his forehead.
a montage of characters from MICHAEL CLAYTON all smiling, the text MICHAEL CLAYTON MENTIONED superimposed over them, they are happy the film was mentioned, even the horse and the two killer guys in hairnets
a clip from an 80s commercial for STICK UPS these little discs you could adhere anywhere and it would attempt to cover up the stench in the area but usually just made things worse
Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen
a clip from daft punk’s around the world video
CHOKEVILLE HYPE NOTES you will hoot and holler as it is the most raucous fun / you'll ponder if one whale is enuf in a book set by the sea / you'll love the invoker cos she's a gd delight with no chill / you will ruminate on cha-cha's schlong far too long / your flabbers will be ghasted over a dairy cow / you'll wish you could hang out with batya and mina in real life / your heart will grow three sizes for josh quietly patting out a banger
A list of the last three movies I watched in 2025: Now You See Me, Now You See Me 2, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
A McDonalds playset from the 70s, helping prepare youths for their minimum wage job flipping burgers.
Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli giving us two thumbs up
A quote from my essay “Goddamn Fucking Pennies” from my collection KNIFE FITE that says: “I know times are tough, but once a week take a couple pennies and just throw them away. And be showy about it!” This is relevant and interesting because they stopped making pennies today.
An animated gif from 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS featuring Paul Walker RIP, Ludacris, and Devon Aoki all nodding at each other for eternity.
Quote from Nicholas Christopher’s A TRIP TO THE STARS, the only good novel: “And she drank gallons of chamomile tea, iced, from a tall glass, which she claimed to be an elixir for longevity—but only if consumed in vast quantities, without sugar.”
37: what awe u a widdle BABY do u need DIS TO EAT UR WOBSTER u fucking freak
My Letterboxd profile page with no stylesheets or whatever, looks straight outta 1995
John Roderick’s thoughts on early Twitter
Your classic kidney-shaped emesis basin
Gary Oldman as Dracula licking Keanu’s blood off a straight razor and really getting off on it
The cover of THE MYSTERY OF THE ABECEDARIAN ACADEMY, book one in a new series of Three Investigators books
A MacPaint document featuring the original lineup of Mac fonts: Chicago, Monaco, Geneva, New York, etc. It’s missing London, though, which was my favorite for all its goth-y applications.
A hand sets down a glass of wine next to a Playdate device and a lit candle. Then the scene freezes and the word MAYBE? pops up in big letters.
A horrible gif I made that says YEAH I USE A.I. and then it explains that A stands for Actual and I stands for IEat My Bal—[rest of phrase is cut off]. The background is from the ET Atari game.
an old school lineup of CAPRI SUN flavors, this shit captured the hearts and minds of everyone I knew
mr show change for a dollar sketch, bob does a goofy golf course dance while david tries not to laugh
Movie poster for ¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR!
When you have an empty Gmail inbox it says “No new email!” when it should instead shut the fuck up.
A title card that says “FROM DIRECTOR WES ANDERSON” from the trailer of his new movie (I forget the title)
A picture of THE WHEREHOUSE, a record store from olden times
A sweaty can of UCC coffee, the pioneer of the canned liquid coffee in Japan #nice
I have cleverly edited an Achewood panel to replace the word “knives” with “drums”
Cover of the Stone Roses’ self title debut LP
The last four movies I watched: Kneecap, The Favourite, Rumble Fish, Hellboy 2
Me doing a search for “smirk” in my novel’s Scrivener doc and coming up with zero results.
A packet of vintage WYLER’S black cherry artificially flavored soft drink mix with no black cheery juice makes 2 quarts
A photo of the J GEILS BAND
Peanuts’ Lucy with big eyes looking terrifying and saying NITE-NITE DADDY
An early PEANUTS comic strip where Lucy has wild eyes.
Jimmy James giving a wordless response to Dave Nelson in NewsRadio.
The iCoNiC bumper sticker for the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot
A t-shirt for Bob Mould’s 1989 album WORKBOOK
The cover for IN LOVE AGAIN, an album by EX-VOID. There should be an umlaut in there somewhere.
The opening titles of THE WITCH, wiggling a little bit.
The opening titles of NOSFERATU, wiggling a little bit.