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Jameson Draper

@jamdraper.bsky.social
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writer, enjoyer of gin and good books, michigan native, maryland resident. @jamdraper on twitter, @draper on substack.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Really stoked to see that the Dodo Eraser reading I took part in is now uploaded to Youtube, along with 7 more readings from the series! Was thrilled to read alongside such great writers here!!! If interested, my pieces start at 1:17:00, and I was clearly not paying attention to how I was framed
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Dodo Eraser #7 (4/28/26): Bethany Cutkomp, Jameson Draper, Daniel Miller, Travis Shosa + 3 more
YouTube video by Dodo Eraser
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
💥 Don't miss this brilliant story by Jameson Draper (@jamdraper.bsky.social), which came out yesterday in The Bulb Region.
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" turns 50 @jamdraper.bsky.social reflects on the divisive, atmospheric masterpiece from a tortured artist in a time of fleeting happiness, tranquility & gratification An artifact of possibilities, doomed hopefulness, and bold evolution. www.powmag.net/p/the-music-...
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The Music For Our Head
Jameson Draper revisits Marvin Gaye's divisive, atmospheric masterpiece I Want You
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 14/04/2026
Jeremiah stops. His eyes are wide and he is terrified. He looks down with outstretched arms at his legs. “Dude,” he says, voice shaking. “Where are my fucking pants?” CANADA VACANT by @jamdraper.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Draper_Canada
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Immensely excited to have my first piece up at BRUISER. Give it a read!
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Pumped to have a short story in Hobart today. Read ‘Oak Wilt’: www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
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Oak Wilt by Jameson Draper
The text came from his buddy Andy while David was eating tasteless Ethiopian food that he knew would be bad because the menu prices were just too high. Caleb is dead. Then the floodgates opened. Caleb...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I wrote about some movies, books and music I really liked this year. Unranked, or course. draper.substack.com/p/2025-year-...
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2025 Year-End Wrap-Up: The Things I Liked
I am living in a post-list era. At least not ranked lists. I just wanted to take the holiday season to share some things I loved this year. Maybe you'll discover something new!
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I organized my thoughts on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. A hopeful if even more dystopian alternate reality, fatherhood and the idea that those who carry out the deeds of the elite will never truly be a part of them. Read: draper.substack.com/p/one-battle...
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'One Battle After Another': An Enduring Hallmark of the Times
Paul Thomas Anderson adapts a tale of modern politics and vast conspiracies as a vehicle to tell another story of love, resilience and fatherhood in his grandest and most accessible film to date.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
WEAPONS review: Maybe it's because I'm not a horror guy at heart, but WEAPONS is at its best when the supernatural fades away and distills the chilling truth— reality is much more frightening than the absurd. open.substack.com/pub/draper/p...
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'Weapons' Review: The Spine-Chilling Truth of Reality
Zach Cregger's horror epic, 'Weapons', works on multiple levels, but gets its true point across when the supernatural allegories fall into the background.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I liked EDDINGTON, a flawed but ambitious and resonant movie that gets to the heart of the unique strain of American tech brainrot accelerated by a worldwide pandemic. Read: draper.substack.com/p/the-diagno...
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The diagnostic retrospective of 'Eddington'
Ari Aster's fourth film takes big swings and is not without its flaws, but is the director's most resonant work to date.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It’s alright! It’s okay! There’s something to live for— Jesus told me so!
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I wrote a short story and it doubles as an anti-research chemical PSA. pixelatedshroud.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/w...
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Waste Land [Jameson Draper]
by Jameson Draper —————— If I remember correctly, it was the last day of spring, one that is summer in everything but name. In Maryland, summer starts in early M…
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Missed the Bluesky post— but I wrote about “Don’t Worry Baby” in here! Check it out.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
For the third installment of my 'America, as told by Cinema' series on my blog, I wrote about what might be the best American movie ever. draper.substack.com/p/america-as...
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America, as told by Cinema #3: 'Nashville'
Robert Altman's most ambitious film is not just about country music but America's idolatry and populism in the face of our declining collective hubris.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
For my second installment in the series I wrote about a movie that's timeless and essential to the American story, Barbara Loden's WANDA. draper.substack.com/p/america-as...
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America, as told by Cinema #2: 'Wanda'
Barbara Loden's only directorial effort is quiet poetry on the physical independence and intellectual subordination of women in the United States.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Read the first installment of my American film series. This one's about INHERENT VICE, its nostalgic portrayal of 20th century American decay and how PTA improved upon the source material with his signature romanticism. draper.substack.com/p/america-as...
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America, as told by Cinema #1: 'Inherent Vice'
Paul Thomas Anderson's nostalgic adaptation laments American decay by way of pot-smoking private investigators, reformed hippies, street-level cops, CIA snitches and the faceless hand of fascism.
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Robby Kalland @rkalland.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Strolled up to the Os game and @jamdraper.bsky.social had a bag of 8 precooked dogs and the fellas were arguing a lot the 100 men vs. 1 gorilla. Strong start to the evening
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Walt Whitman, 1846. Happy Opening Day.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I wrote about my favorite emo album (and the only one I ever really loved): www.getalternative.com/it-holds-up-...
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It Holds Up: Modern Baseball – 'You're Gonna Miss It All' - The Alternative
Jameson reflects on Modern Baseball's opus 'You're Gonna Miss It All,' a record that sounds just as good today as it did on release
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I go outside to feel better, and it usually works. At least somewhat. My new journal transcription on Substack: draper.substack.com/p/journal-di...
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Journal Dispatch: Afternoon at the Park
Transcribed from my journal, March 10th, 2025
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"Some of the best nights of my life were being high in parking lots." boxd.it/8WVupb
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A ★★★★★ review of Rap World (2024)
“Some of the best nights of my life were being high in parking lots.” The texture of this film is a full spectrum cyber dreamscape of the halcyon days, seen through the attention deficit eye of late-e...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Been watching Toshio Matsumoto's shorts all day. The FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES Blu-ray comes with them. I most enjoy THE WEAVERS OF NISHIJIN, a short documentary about the slow death of the textile industry and the dark side of society's sacred garments: exploitative labor. youtu.be/X2GBZiMlC8s?...
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The Weavers of Nishijin (Toshio Matsumoto, 1961)
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I watched the 312-minute cut and never wanted it to end. GOAT talk letterboxd.com/jamdraper/fi...
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A ★★★★★ review of Fanny and Alexander (1984)
A baroque masterpiece that empowers imagination, laments the loss of innocence, bows to art, and bends reality, this might be the greatest movie of all time, and I don't say that lightly. I've spent 2...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Do you guys think Bantam Books would honor this coupon? It’s only been expired 50 years.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I watched a very lowkey movie last night that nobody's ever heard of. Then I reviewed it. VERTIGO: boxd.it/8FkwXR
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A ★★★★★ review of Vertigo (1958)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Finally reading (struggling?) through Gravity’s Rainbow. This weird thing happens to me with Pynchon— it seems I barely get what’s going on, yet the passages are seared in my mind for days after reading. It sticks to the subconscious in a way that I haven’t experienced with any other writer.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Great read. "A book could fix a man, but it’s not the only way to, and it’s not a sure thing."
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you look through my Bluesky profile, you'll see I've been thinking much about David Lynch this week. He came to mind while I watched STAGECOACH (maybe because of his appearance as John Ford in THE FABLEMANS?) Anyway, I see a direct line from Ford to Lynch in moviemaking. Read: boxd.it/8AmZp9
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A ★★★★★ review of Stagecoach (1939)
“Well, they’re saved from the blessings of civilization.” A near perfect movie that juxtaposes the ambition of the American dream on the frontier with the sordid path we took to get there. For a long ...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In light of his death I watched the David Lynch movie I’ve been meaning to get to and… wow. I feel like it’s the perfect final feature film for his career. You gotta know the rules to break ‘em, and he lived that out for three straight hours. INLAND EMPIRE review: boxd.it/8z44Cb
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A ★★★★★ review of Inland Empire (2006)
"Some men change. Well, they don't change - they reveal. They reveal themselves over time, you know?" Famous for his cryptic films (a descriptor I find reductive), INLAND EMPIRE is admittedly the most...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I wrote very quickly about David Lynch's death, and using his own philosophy on life and death to cope with him leaving us. Rest in peace, legend. open.substack.com/pub/draper/p...
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David Lynch and the Morality Question
Using Lynch's own philosophy to cope with his death.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New Substack on the tumultuous start to 2025 and working to be better intrinsically despite the chaos all around us. open.substack.com/pub/draper/p...
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On resolutions and wildfires
With each new year comes greater calamities— are personal goals and resolutions rendered meaningless?
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Unless it’s your stated goal to analyze each sentence from a higher academia perspective, I think annotating books is really dumb.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Wade Whitehouse might be Paul Schrader's most personal protagonist, and that's saying something. My review of AFFLICTION (1997): boxd.it/8myV1P
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A ★★★★ review of Affliction (1997)
"Facts do not make history." From the banal everyman to history's most polarizing enigmas, nobody writes intrinsic pain, suffering, guilt, agony, and torture like Paul Schrader. A man who grew up in a...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Dostoevsky— there’s beauty in simply existing.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Reading The Brothers Karamazov for the first time.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
My favorite part of this movie is that Frank Capra couldn’t even conceive a fascist society so bad that they’d get rid of public libraries. Review of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (you may have heard of it?): boxd.it/84SX45
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A ★★★★★ review of It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
"Is this the ear you can't hear in? George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die." At once timeless and a time capsule, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is meant to be watched in a cavernous, dark theater on ...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Russell’s recommendation of the day.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I wrote about the United Healthcare CEO’s assassination and why the shooter’s personal beliefs shouldn’t invalidate his actions. Read: open.substack.com/pub/draper/p...
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United Healthcare Assassin: Stop Lamenting the Claim Adjuster's Politics
Luigi Mangione is into alternative health facts, Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence, and, apparently, killing CEOs— but his act transcends personal beliefs.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Satantango is a nihilistic masterpiece that tackles the existential question and the search for purpose in the face of hopelessness. Like if 1984 was a good book. Adorned with biblical passages about sunsets and rain and mud and spider webs, it’s Faulknerian in nature. A must-read.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I made sure to eat good while home for Thanksgiving. I love Detroit.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This was a dark ass move. Review of OUT OF THE BLUE: boxd.it/7UAaUZ
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A ★★★½ review of Out of the Blue (1980)
If counterculture’s end was signified in Dennis Hopper’s performance in EASY RIDER, then its final fumes were callously stomped out with Dennis Hopper’s OUT OF THE BLUE.  I don’t think I expected this...
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Marie Bayle-Normand @mariebayle77.eurosky.social · 26/11/2024
Excellente analyse 🙏 Grande fan de Lynch, je persiste à penser qu'il est un cinéaste féministe & engagé, qui met en image les tréfonds du mal tel que seul l'homme peut le créer. L'homme, pas la femme. ⬇️
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
People often say that David Lynch’s films are confusing or inaccessible. They focus too much on the minutiae of every scene; take a step back to think about Lynch’s whole ethos and creative mission. Only then will it make all too much sense. My review of LOST HIGHWAY: boxd.it/7UkKGH
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A ★★★★★ review of Lost Highway (1997)
Is this a film about mental illness? Or is it a film about violent misogyny? Is it both?  For unseasoned David Lynch viewers, fantastic surrealism rears its head at the forefront of his style. The mor...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I watched IKIRU (1952) last night and it reminded me of something I went through that made me finally decide to live instead of just kill time: boxd.it/7TXDYN
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A ★★★★★ review of Ikiru (1952)
"If you were diagnosed with cancer, you'd start dying right away. But not this fella. That's when he started living." The first Kurosawa film I watched was RASHOMON and I liked it but didn't love it. ...
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The good news is that Jase Richardson is amazing for a freshman. The bad news is that it seems MSU's best player is a freshman.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My first short story’s been published. Read “Cool Dark Blue”: www.ephemerasmag.com/jameson-draper
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jameson draper | ephemeras magazine
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I find it interesting how Kendrick occupies an increasingly rare place in the culture that is devoid of any critiques. He can do no wrong in the eyes of the masses, which feels less & less common in an era defined by clicks-for-clout and identity politics.
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
When you look up “crazy ass white boy” in the dictionary, the corresponding photo should be Levon Helm
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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I watched THE KING OF COMEDY for the first time last night and realized that six years after he made TAXI DRIVER, Scorsese just spun the block with another version of Travis Bickle and made a movie nearly as good. Legend. boxd.it/7RcdDR
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A ★★★★ review of The King of Comedy (1982)
One of the few Scorsese movies I hadn't seen. De Niro is incredible, the writing is fantastic. "Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime!" I really love the way this film plays with...
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