GOOD MORNING FROM LA LA LAND!!!!
Reporting to you live from tricia’s tomatoes west coast HQ ! LA Tricia is in full force. I’m rocking my Lakers hat while drinking natural wine on my way to seek spiritual advice from my psychic on Abbot Kinney. I THRIVE in Pacific Standard Time, mostly because I live my life in this time zone regardless of my location. I’ve been here since Wednesday working on some top secret projects for tricia’s tomatoes. I feel like LA has the opposite effect on everyone else’s productivity, but those extra 3 hours of the day man, I crush it! I can’t wait to tell you all about it! Stay tuned for a full weekend recap brought to you in part by a special sponsor (eeek I’ve already said too much!!!!) but for now enjoy a couple photos of my time so far -
I’m breathing in that west coast AIR and still thinking about this movie! It was EXCELLENT. No notes. 12/10. I’m a movie theater girlie (Team Work from Home, Watch from the Theater) so I highly suggest hitting your local Alamo Drafthouse (again not #sponsored, but it should be) and seeing one of my crushes Jason Bateman on the big screen while some 80s tunes bump through the big speakers. I know some people aren’t raging capitalists like myself and might not want to see a movie about a multi-billion dollar corporation, but it’s really much more than that and a genuinely entertaining, watchable, inspiring, but not cheesy movie. And you know I couldn’t care less about Sports. Viola Davis is wonderful and Mike thinks Matt Damon should be nominated for an Oscar. I’m not necessarily sold on its Awards potential this early on, but to me it was the kind of movie we should be making more of - under 2 hour flicks that are both enjoyable to watch and have some depth. I feel like there’s two extreme camps of movies lately - super heavy, Shrimpy 🍤 films designed to leave you questioning your own existence, and on the completely opposite end of the spectrum - DUMBBBBB, DUMB movies that function purely as background noise for your scrolling. Or Superhero movies. Get some REAL MOVIE STARS back into the studio and make us some enjoyable, highly entertaining, but makes you think films!!! Don’t worry I’ll come up with a better way to say that sentence when i’m doing my series A round for tricia’s tomatoes studios…
Anyway go see it. And go see it in theaters !!! (#ad #AmazonStudios😉) and drop a comment on this week’s round of …
Since I am in LA, I let Taylor Swift take my reservation at Via Carota!
A mere 24 hours after last week’s short was published, the internet BROKE when it was announced that Taylor had split from her longtime BF Joe Alwyn. I was completely shocked at first. There were rumors they were married! OK ya I’ve seen The Parent Trap - I’m not that delusional of a newlywed, I know marriages end, but this felt more monumental. Most of the internet, including myself, thought the insane tour she was embarking on would be a potential last- ish hurrah. Satisfying her devoted (and often delusional) fans with all her greatest hits then retreating back to the English countryside to have little Swift-Alwyn babies - still churning out the albums, but taking a breather from spending 3 nights a week in every middle market American city. As I’ve had a week to sit on this, I am no longer shook. I hope it makes Taylor a little less annoying about her insanely conflicting desires for privacy while still dropping ~eAsTeR eGgs~ to her fans and being one of the most famous people on the planet. The more I’ve read about it the story seems to be Joe and Taylor never existed as a couple when she was leaning into her megawatt fame. They got together when she was publicly hated and in hiding then it was the pandemic, but now she’s back and on a record breaking tour and we see a tale as old as time - a relationship cracking under the pressures of fame. Something that absolutely won’t happen to Mike and I in the future, because he’s a supportive partner who’d die to walk the red carpet with me! Joe, “focusing on his acting career” yet hasn’t been in a movie since 2018, could’ve nepo babied himself to fame via Taylor if that’s what he really wanted. Or he could’ve just enjoyed the privilege of being Mr. Swift! Seems like a classic case of male insecurity and now he has to get used to flying commercial 🙂 My take is probably exactly what Taylor Swift’s top tier, Kris Jenner level manipulation publicist, Tree Paine wants out there, but so far this breakup is improving Taylor’s image for me. My west coast office and I were just discussing how if she just allowed herself to be photographed living her life - getting coffee in Tribeca with pal Blake Lively, taking shots with the Haim sisters, shopping with Selena Gomez - everyone’s intense fascination with her would be gone and we’d just leave her alone like we do normal celebrities. She perpetuates the paparazzi fanfare with her highly curated and strategized appearances. It genuinely seems exhausting. Maybe that’s what she wants I guess. IDK that’s not a brain I want to take a joy ride in.
Well it’s Erewhon time here on the west coast! I’m about to have a 10/10 weekend and I hope you do too!
Ciao!
f ben, marry jason, kill matt. sad. alamo for lyfe tho!!