Welcome to Litsy!

You‘re told early on not to read straight through but I did. 🤷🏻‍♂️
An alphabetical collection of quips, sneaky one-liners, puns, uncomfortable farce, sad truths, and even some insights, it‘s an odd film book with an uncommon premise.
Having familiarity with Ayoade‘s work on Dark Place & Ayoade On Top helps make this sentence salad rewarding. On Top rewards the reader with Ayoade‘s humanity while Grip is his searing cleverness and critique.

7/15 #jumpstart2020 @Clwojick @Lizpixie

This kidney infection is really kicking my ability to read in the arse, I‘m so uncomfortable and in pain :/

Didn‘t dislike this but it wasn‘t as good as Ayoade On Top, I think I found it being written in someone else‘s voice a bit tiring to stick with. I‘d much rather read something written without the character next time. The narrator being a dick was funny a lot but sometimes just too dodgy

Gordy LaSure is a cinema obsessed madman who teaches “movie classes” from the back of his “meat only” taco stand. He is racist, misogynistic, & lives in his jeep.

He is also a product of the comic genius of Richard Ayoade who writes this encyclopedia of film “from A to W” from Gordy‘s deranged point of view.

This is a dip-in-and-chuckle, not a read-straight-through.

In short, better than film school. Or at least significantly less expensive.

“Remember the start of 2001: A Space Odyssey? Bunch of monkeys collecting bones. What‘s that got to do with space? They don‘t even have lasers!

Cut that shit.

And what about Citizen Kane? If they‘d wanted to gross some dollar, they should‘ve called it Dude, Where‘s My Sled?”

Richard Ayoade writing as Gordy LaSure on INTERPRETATION.

Sage advice on the craft of filmmaking.

This legitimately made me laugh out loud.

Also I will now only be referring to Lawrence of Arabia as a “desert flick”.

Now that I‘m taking a (probably temporary) break from book monogamy, in addition to my novel I‘m reading this goofy encyclopedia of film “from A to W” by Richard Ayoade writing as cinema-obsessed madman Gordy LaSure, a gift from my brother a couple Christmases ago.

“Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator?”

Day 2
I accepted the challenge of posting the covers of 7 books I love, no explanations, no reviews - just the covers.

These are my Christmas gifts from my brother and his girlfriend.

I‘ve already been flipping through The Grip of Film which is a treatise on action movies written by fictional character Gordy Lasure and it is hilarious. Excited about it and Life Moves Pretty Fast.

Only heard good stuff about Black Hammer!

A Shadow All Of Light is a cool-looking fantasy by a semi-local author.

Plus the new solo album by Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke!