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Karina Longworth is the co-founder of Cinematical, the former editor of SpoutBlog, and a freelance film and new media critic/blogger based in Brooklyn.
I return to New York tomorrow after an 11 day trip that has felt like years. I keep having weird flashes of paranoia about not being able to unlock the door of my apartment.
UPDATE!!! I got the door unlocked, but only after pushing aside almost a dozen manila envelopes blocking the door. Screener season is a shitty time to go out of town for a week and a half.
Sort of. The Portable SpoutBlog, a collection of 41 blog posts published by me between July 2007 and August 2009 and a new introductory essay, is now available at Amazon.
I spent pretty much every weekday from about 1981 to 1985 in a car with my mother, driving around Los Angeles, listening to KROQ. This could explain why I’ve been a B52s superfan since before I could read, write or intelligibly talk, and also why I’m thrown into near-paralyzing deja vu by the opening chords to certain songs by Echo and the Bunnymen. KROQ now has a web station that aims to approximate what it sounded like in the early-to-mid 80s, complete with station IDs from the likes of Freddy Snakeskin and Jane Wiedlin. Now playing: Blasphemous Rumours.
UPDATE!! Now they’re playing early-00s U2. The honeymoon may already be over.
UPDATE 2!!! They won me back with Eighties. Bonus because it also makes me think of this, which makes me think of the early 90s, which is my second most fertile nostalgia zone.
Yup, it’s true — October 31 will be my last day at Spout, and as far I know, the last day that SpoutBlog publishes new material. I can’t really go into any detail as to what happened to get to this point beyond what Paul wrote in his post, other than to say that Spout has been very generous with me for almost 2.5 years, and I understand that I was lucky to be able to hold on to this job in this market for this long, and I probably wouldn’t have if not for the contributions of Christopher Campbell and many other writers, and I’m ready to move on to something else.
But what kind of something else, you ask? That’s a good question. I will continue to freelance (here’s a sample of recent moonlighting) while I figure it out. I’m primarily known as someone who writes about indie film, but I’m definitely open to trying new things, whether within the indie film world (programming, publicity, consulting, whathaveyou) or outside of it.
The announcement may seem sudden, but I’ve known for awhile that this was going to happen and I think I’m as psychologically prepared for it as I can be. Initially I had planned to take a month to enjoy life off the grid before job hunting in earnest, but due to some recent developments within my family/general personal life, I no longer feel comfortable doing that. So! If you need someone with my general skill set (see my bio here and my resume here) for anything, short or long term, in New York or elsewhere, let’s talk.
I’m feeling nostalgic for my pre-teen assumptions re: what a social life would look, sound, feel like.
