My Neck, My Back(list)
"Did you just say wig?" - Katy Perry
I know I am encroaching on my thirties because I am writing this on the couch with a tweaked neck and about six other things I’ve diagnosed myself with because I am in my second year of residency at The Pitt and also I have anxiety.
We’re trying something new this month because my essay writing lives mainly over on LG now, and my desire for public introspection is 0. The thrill of it all.
Rocking with:
Joachim Trier’s music taste and skating videos on Trackstar
Doechii as gutsgritglamour
Lena Dunham finds a creative solution to book signings (chic)
Hmmm!
Overthinking/curating your IG (is everyone taking influencer marketing photos of themselves for their personal accounts SOS)
What’s the line between being an appreciator of a piece of media and over engaging with the material? Do you really need an all-new CBK wardrobe?
Are we moving away from opinions and toward “takes”?
Dolly on bachelorette/hen culture
Wuthering Heights
I saw Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” twice in theaters and I don’t have much to say about either experience because I think the discourse will survive without me and is verging on if not overdone. BUT I did watch other adaptations and my god the amount of wigs.
2011 Film — The only adaptation I’ve seen so far to really dig into Heathcliff’s race and what that meant at the time. Bleak and devoid of color which sometimes works and sometimes just feels too realistic to enjoy. The first half of the film dwells too long on the minor details of the novel and the romantic/obsessive build doesn’t feel worthy of the deathbed payoff. 6.5/10
Wigs: 1/10 — didn’t clock any obvious ones.
2009 Miniseries — Probably one of the better paced and more accurate adaptations. Still a big RIP to Lockwood, but the show starts with the transfer of Linton from Thrushcross to Wuthering Heights, so you know that you at least won’t be robbed of the second half of the novel. An unforgiving and cruel Cathy! We are up. The whole thing does have that BBC/PBS tone to it with royalty free transition music and potentially a little too well lit, but enjoyable. 7.5/10
Wigs: 8.5/10 — Tom Hardy in wigs. Tom Hardy in wigs!
2026 Lingerie Ad — might have killed Brontë faster than the TB.
Wigs: 0/10 — Likely no use of wigs.
1992 Film — Okay now we’re talking dark romance. LOCKWOOD LIVES. Congrats, sir! But also so does Sinéad O’Connor as Emily Brontë? A choice that doesn’t ruin everything but also doesn’t add much other than that’s a great sentence to get to type. Ralph Fiennes in his first film role and Juliette Binoche in two wigs. This one is really melodramatic but also has a twisted Cathy and follows the book relatively faithfully. This is probably the crowd pleaser IMHO. 8/10?
Wigs: 100/10 — “I got two brunettes and a blonde one.” - Pitbull
1939 Film — Campy and dramatic. Lockwood is alive. It only follows the first half of the book (common but annoying) so it can only be a 6/10 for me.
Wigs: 7/10 — There’s just something about an old timey wig.
2026 Film — Again, only follows the first half of the book for me. I honestly am a little burnt out from the discourse on this. 4.5/10.
Wigs: 6/10 — We were having fun.
Backlist
For whatever reason I just can’t be arsed to pick up anything modern so here is the classics roundup:
The Sun Also Rises: Realizing between this and my fervent disliking of The Great Gatsby, it’s probably less that these aren’t good books and more that I can’t get it up for men drinking nine bottles of wine at dinner as post-war therapy.
Northanger Abbey: Fuck it — maybe my favorite Austen? Genuinely quite funny and I too would go to a rich man’s house and accuse him of sinister vibes. (Related: must look up when navy bedsheets first came on the scene.)
Sense and Sensibility: One of the most stark examples of Austen clearly just wanting to wrap that sucker up. Obsessed with the incredibly slow building of the world and characters only to say “ok and then they married or whatever xx.”
Agnes Grey: Only a bit into this but enjoying and imagine being the Brontë parents and essentially giving birth to literary Haim. Sick.
The List This Week:
Watching: The Great (I’m late to this)
Reading: Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth, Kitten by Stacey Yu
Listening: 3D Country
Convinced me to read northanger abbey
I love this, also v interested to hear more of your thoughts on the CBK wardrobe point!!