A plaque on a building in Etterbeek claims that ‘In 1965, John Lennon could have stayed in this house if, during the Beatles’ European Tour, he had passed through Etterbeek’.

A proposed post topic has crossed over from Tumblr thanks to Jo’s Blog, then Sara suggested that, as a frequent participant to the IndieWeb Movie Club, I could be interested in it. The official topic is ‘Top 9 Films watched in 2024’, but since I have already posted my Top Ten of films released in 2024, I’ll adopt a variation on the theme and list my Top 9 films that I watched for the first time in 2024 but were released on a previous year.

It’s done. I have clicked on ‘delete account’ both on Facebook and Instagram. Of course, since Mark is really sorry to see me go, I have a month to rethink my decision before my profile vanishes like I’m a technophobic Thanos.

As I experience another revolution of the Earth around the Sun, I feel like I’m forgetting things I once knew very well. As if years of studies were being obliterated by work and irrelevant knowledge, as if what’s temporary and superficial was getting too much relevance compared to what should be important and permanent. I’m not sure if it’s a normal process, and whether there is a way back. The music is reversible, but time’s not.

Do years in the Gregorian calendar represent anything personal in our lives? I am considering, very humbly, changing my chronological references (at least for this series of posts) to a date in A.P. (Anno Pauli). That would be a more faithful indication of how my film-viewing relates to my years of experience in life. But that would also expose, indirectly, my birth date every week, and I’m not super-comfortable with this. I’ll reflect longer about it.

I don’t remember the first time I heard about David Lynch.
It must have been around 1991 when the Italian private television channel Canale 5 started airing a TV show called I segreti di Twin Peaks. I didn’t watch it - it was aired late at night and I used to go to bed early. But nobody could ignore the question… Who killed Laura Palmer?