iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Rob Pierce

Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 3h

While I'm sleeping tonight Lo que nos siguió a casa releases in Spain. If you're in Spain and you happen to see it in a bookstore please feel free to tag me! www.letrasdeplata.com/lo-que-nos-s...

Lo que nos siguió a casa book cover with eyes, crystals, skulls and flowers

2114

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 3h

Hustler White (1996, LaBruce) Great comedy about gay porn in L.A. Purportedly a satire on Sunset Boulevard, as a screenwriter arrives in Hollywood to “scout” the gay porn scene. Soon enough he’s involved with a young stud who committed a brutal hit and run. Que sera. Funny, and nasty, as fuck.

010

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have the three in a saved window. Should be fun, by my standards, which are the only ones that matter to me.

010

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here (2023, d. Gong) A man goes on vacation, meets a beautiful woman, and falls both for her and her job of analyzing moss she’s collected. Amazingly photographed, I loved this minimalist film.

021

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pretty good, early Kiyoshi, not nearly his best. 2/2

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Door III (1996, d. K. Kurosawa) An insurance saleswoman, stressed about her dip in sales, finds herself involved, not sexually, with a big time businessman. It's a sales attempt but he gets obsessed, she sees people in the shadows, and it’s a gradual hell breaks loose. 1/2

110

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was able to open it on an incognito window, which has no fear. Will watch later.

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love them both and I don't think I've read either. Edith's Diary by Highsmith is in one of my TBR piles. One that I'll actually read. Trying to catch up on Herron's Slow Horses series before I watch the current season.

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jordan Harper's A Violent Masterpiece and S.A. Cosby's All The Sinners Bleed, plus anything by Megan Abbott. They're my three favorite crime writers right now.

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, I'm 67 in a "liberal" town, where the leading mayoral candidate is backed by AI and, concomitantly, ICE. We're only people, no one he gives a shit about.

110

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's where I watched it. I like pretty women, and this was Fox when she looked human, but honest, I prefer Seyfried. As for me, I'm doing great. How's by you?

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes I write things for a laugh. How could one encapsulate ennui?

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

and the glory and horror as Sim presents himself as a role model for a young boy. I smiled through the bulk of this. 2/2

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hideous (2022, d. Gonzalez) 22 minutes of glorious filmmaking, as star Oliver Sim of the xx promotes his solo debut to some of the best visuals I’ve seen. It’s pop synth music, not a style I generally like, although there’s at least one great song here, 1/2

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jennifer’s Body (2009, d. Kusama) Pretty good horror flick with a fantastic finish and the world’s worst soundtrack. Stars Megan Fox as the hot chick who becomes a demon, and Amanda Seyfried as her nerdy (? That was a helluva makeup job) best friend.

120

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The announcer said it took guts to name Deshaun Watson the Cleveland starter. Guts? To name a man who settled out of court on millions of dollars of rape accusations? I think the word you're looking for is culpability.

010

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Okay, but the ending isn’t nearly as scary as it tries to be. 2/2

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Body Snatchers (1993, d. Ferrara) Meg Tilly stars in this adaptation of the Jack Finney novel, with Billy Wirth, bland as hell but very pretty as her hero boyfriend. Standouts were the often gruesome (think Cronenberg lite) special effects, Gabrielle Anwar as the stepmom, and Forest Whitaker. 1/2

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At 4:30 this morning I decided to read David Goodis in an attempt to go back to sleep. Turns out, David Goodis is not a cure for insomnia - David Goodis is a cause of insomnia.

010

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'm God's instrument," Reverend Short said. "I don't doubt that," Grave Digger said, trying to hold his attention until Coffin Ed had time to approach the rear windows. "All we want to do is see that you get safe and sound back into God's instrument case." - Chester Himes, The Crazy Kill

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Misha and I are the only customers at The Crepe Place. We walk into the back and Syd Barrett is playing, followed by Stevie Wonder. So, I’m dead and in heaven, right? Great dog, great music, and access to a full bar.

010

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No, but I just looked it up, and it sounds damn interesting.

110

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mainly I remember that Bunker did time with Danny Trejo, star of the Machete movies and beloved taco truck man in L.A.

110

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd seen it before, years ago, but on a fresh viewing it's even better than I remembered. Maybe I should reread the novel. Because that's what I need, another book to read.

110

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Edited the last chapter of my WIP this morning, and the first chapter tonight. Also printed my pages of notes on newly acquired corkboard. For those who think I watch movies for a living. What I do for a living remains the question; I'm a novelist.

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well directed from a great script based on the novel No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker, and a cast that also includes Harry Dean Stanton and Kathy Bates. Dark and beautiful. 2/2

110

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Straight Time (1978, d. Grosbard) Great flick about a man released from prison (Dustin Hoffman) who hits it off far more with unemployment employee Theresa Russell than with his parole officer, M. Emmet Walsh, who essentially drives Hoffman back to crime. 1/2

120

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

is arrested but set free as a top ranking inspector decides he is innocent. Slapstick, with cartoons aplenty, as competing gangs try to kill him for the money. 2/2

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971, d. Lipsky) Delightfully charming Czech comedy about a man who keeps opening his door and having a corpse fall in. This is due to a million dollar check someone has slipped him but he has no idea, 1/2

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The rest of y'all may be wasting time, but I'm listening to John Lee Hooker and drinking bourbon.

040

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pretty good story, but the highlight for me was the cast – Billy Dee Williams as the cop, Michael V. Gazzo and Joe Santos as club owners, and Rae Dawn Chong as Loretta’s stripper friend. 2/2

020

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fear City (1984, d. Ferrara) A psycho attacks dancers, some managed by Matt (Tom Berenger) and Nicky (Jack Scalia). Matt is an ex-boxer who quit after killing a man in the ring, and he’s trying to get back with Loretta (Melanie Griffith), a stripper trying to stay off drugs. 1/2

120

Reposted by Rob Pierce

Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR

wapo.st

U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

38621409

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The last drink of the night is almost always a bad idea. So I always have one more.

010

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eventually a young woman reports as their new maid, and it doesn’t bode well for the general. Fine, dark, and based on a true story. 2/2

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

La Llorona (2019, d. Bustamente) Terrifically creepy film about a Guatemalan military leader accused of the genocide of Mayans. He is convicted but the trial results are annulled and all but one of his staff leave him to a large house with family. 1/2

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'd forgotten how dark Don Siegel's film The Beguiled was. Great. Next up, probably the remake.

010

Reposted by Rob Pierce

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2026 was the hottest summer on record since records began in 1895. Shockingly, Republicans are trying to stop ALL federal heat safety protection regs-NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. HR6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. Let's stop this! 1/

Graphic reading “Not having shade, water, breaks is not just dangerous it is inhumane,” with a hand holding strawberries chained to gray links with the link breaking up top; the stark design conveys urgency

6255145

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Larry Fishburne and Giancarlo Esposito as gangsters, Victor Argo, David Caruso, and Wesley Snipes as cops, and a bit part from Steve Buscemi. Classic gang fare. 2/2

001

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

King of New York (1990, d. Ferrara) Christopher Walken gets to get in some of his dance moves in this excellent, violent flick about a gangster who comes out of prison with a bang. Walken plays with a nearly continual smirk, and the cast is excellent: 1/2

100

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Who are you talking to?” I started. She had been asleep. “Myself. Sometimes I talk to myself.” “Sounded like an argument.” “Yeah, well, I don’t always agree.” - the WIP

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

/I saw Johnny Thunders play some little bar. There was a break between sets, and Johnny walked through the "crowd." He may have been a little fucked up. He was one of my heroes, so I said, "Hey Johnny! Buy me a drink!" And he looked at me and sneered, "Fuck you four eyes." I love that man.

010

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002, d. Lau) Sweet, delightful, funny as hell twin love stories and great love stories. I loved this and won’t try to encapsulate the stories; oh, there’s magic and mistaken identity too. Great fun.

000

Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Streets of Fire (1984, d. Hill) Great action scenes and some awful dialogue are sandwiched between truly terrible “rock n roll” in this semi-winner from Walter Hill. Singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is kidnapped by Willem Dafoe, and must be saved by Michael Paré.

001