One of you should lease this movie theater.
Mere steps away from Long Island Bar and Jay St - MetroTech.
Good morning everyone.
Today’s letter includes: Where to get a Bloody Mary in New York today, should bankers demand more sleep, I found a movie theater for you to lease, and Montauk’s Sloppy Tuna is back from the dead.
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After making challah French toast yesterday morning, I ventured to the Upper East Side to get a buccal facial from Aiza Karimova. The 90-minute treatment combined massage tools and Karimova’s gloved fingers going inside of my mouth. One day, I’ll show you the before and after photos. I’m sold on buccal massage.
When I walked out of the facial and onto snowy East 68th Street, I saw a text from my neighbor Gabriel who invited me to the opening night of a play he helped produce: You Got Older at Cherry Lane Theater. I had nothing else to do that day, and I knew once I got home I wouldn’t leave the house again for at least 24 hours, so I took the tickets and headed downtown. Standout audience members who braved the incoming storm included power couple J. Smith-Cameron and Kenneth Lonergan, Sofia Coppola, and my friend Jeannie Sui Wonders.
You Got Older is about Mae (Alia Shawkat), who recently moved home to Washington state to take care of her father (Succession’s Peter Friedman) who is battling cancer. Once she’s in her childhood home, she deals with an unusual set of characters (a cowboy, an unfamiliar childhood friend in her hometown bar) while seeking intimacy and comfort.
Textbook millennial anxieties — stress-induced rashes, wondering when your siblings will get married, listening too closely to Regina Spektor lyrics — also have small roles in the play. The audience’s candy of choice appeared to be Fizzy Cherries, a collab box between Bon Bon and Cherry Lane Theater. There was a magical snow globe feeling to the block when we all left the theater and figured out the best routes home.
The Odeon is open today. A Bloody Mary and some people watching sounds really nice right now.
20-year-old director Kane Parsons uploaded his most popular YouTube video, “The Backrooms”, four years ago (when he was 16). It now has over 70 million views. Parsons is the youngest filmmaker to work with A24 — the trailer for his first horror movie, also called “The Backrooms”, is coming out this week.
Semafor will now be sending its media newsletter on Saturdays instead of Sunday nights. It was my only Sunday night newsletter which meant I always read it, and reading it felt like opening up my agenda for the rest of the week. When I started work on Monday morning, I was a bit more prepared. I ain’t reading about media on Saturdays, but I’ll bookmark it for Sunday nights during my pre-Industry time slot.