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Rewired on Reads & Reels
Books and movies, untangled for sharper insights and unexpected connections. Perfect for a deep dive or a conversation that actually goes somewhere.
The Fever Dream About Grave Robbing, Lost Love, and Why You Should Really Learn to Let Go
La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher Alice Rohrwacher ’s latest film is about an archaeologist who spends his days digging up Etruscan...
Feb 254 min read
The Fall, the Trial, and the Stories We Choose to Believe
ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE (2023) dir. Justine Triet A courtroom drama, a psychological thriller, a family tragedy—all at once, yet none of...
Feb 53 min read
“The New Child” by Osho: Why No One Wants to Hire Your Kid
Parenting is supposed to be about raising good, intelligent, well-adjusted human beings. This book actually helps to do that. Not by...
Jan 314 min read
Eat, Repent, Repeat: The 1914 Diet Book That Feared Fat More Than Financial Crime
Eat and Grow Thin: The Mandah Menus by Vance Thompson (1914) Writers don’t usually advertise their weight struggles, but many have waged...
Jan 294 min read
Jesus Had a Twin?
The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History Written and read by Bart D. Ehrman Listening to Bart Ehrman deliver these...
Jan 244 min read
Mirror Lives and Hidden Truths: Reflecting on Tafrigh
It’s said that every one of us has at least five people in the world who look exactly like us. Once, I saw a woman on the highway driving...
Jan 152 min read
For a Hookah Date Where History Smokes Itself
Fairytale, 2022 Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov So, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Churchill walk into a purgatory. They’re stuck in limbo,...
Dec 14, 20242 min read
When Jesus Got the Promotion: A Theological Smackdown
When did Jesus become God by Bart Ehrman, Michael Bird, and Robert Stewart. A christological debate (Audible) A title that boldly...
Dec 13, 20243 min read
A Psychedelic Bathwater Fever Dream for Your Messiest Date
Saltburn, 2023 dir. Emerald Fennell This movie takes your hand, waltzes you through opulent halls dripping in marble and silk and then...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Mushrooms Over Mantras: A Healing Shortcut
review of Louise Hay "Heal your body" If you’ve ever wanted to blame your migraines on unresolved guilt about eating your sister’s...
Nov 25, 20242 min read
We Are Such Stuff as Memes Are Made On: The Movie for a Trippy, Meta-Date Night
Dream Scenario (2023) Dir. Kristoffer Borgli "Dream Scenario" is like someone took a sociology lecture, spiked it with absinthe, and...
Nov 19, 20242 min read
Sorrow Overload: Burn It Already!
A review of Francis Weller’s "The Wild Edge of Sorrow" (audible) This book is like the Temple at Burning Man : a space designed to...
Nov 16, 20243 min read
For a Boardroom-Date Fever Dream: A Game of Corporate Overkill
Tetris (2023) Dir. Jon S. Baird Imagine gearing up for a movie night only to realize you’re about to watch a two-hour LinkedIn...
Nov 1, 20242 min read
For a Spy Date: Secrets, Betrayal, and a Walkman
Movie : L'affaire/ Farewell "Farewell" is your classic Cold War spy thriller, but with a twist: it’s more about midlife crises, awkward...
Oct 15, 20242 min read
Heaven and Hell: Bart Ehrman's Journey through Early Christian Texts
Did you know Jesus had a twin? His name was Judas, but sometimes also Thomas. Judas Thomas was the first missionary in India—though he...
Oct 7, 20243 min read
I Heart Huckabees: A Screwball Comedy for the Existentially Curious
Tough sell, this one. So tough that co-writer and director David O.Russell struggled to get it off the ground—his fevered pitch likely...
Aug 21, 20242 min read
Drunken Masquerade: Polanski’s Boozy Trainwreck at The Palace
Welcome to a palace where the absurd and the ridiculous join forces in a masquerade of vanity and lunacy, and you’ve got Roman Polanski's...
Aug 14, 20243 min read
Delving into the Mystical: Alan Watts' "Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown" Reviewed
Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the wisdom-laced pages of Alan Watts' Audible collection, "Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown."...
Aug 7, 20243 min read
How to Spot a Messiah on Mars: Divine Encounters and Toad Companions: 📚 Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury (Audible) 📚
🌟 A Door to Magical Terrain🌟 This anthology of short stories is a door leading to a magical terrain. Behind it may lie the story of a...
Aug 6, 20244 min read
Dancing with Death: The Macabre Magic and Tequila Dreams of Ray Bradbury's "The October Country"
Reading this collection of mystical stories by a celebrated sci-fi author is like stumbling upon a cavalry painting by Norman Rockwell ...
Aug 2, 20242 min read
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