This week: Why I don’t negotiate with the Grim Reaper. Real Yoga, Buddhist death rituals, clinging, surrender, why Lululemon belongs in your Roth IRA, and the evolution of This Body into Body Language. Also: Rick Rubin wants you to bet on Polymarket, Trader Joes bags are the poor man’s Birkin, and saying goodbye to two beloved pets in one week. i said, Goddamn!

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A necromance for the ages.

Continuing my journey through the cult section of the 1990s video store, this week I’m diving into Gift — the bizarre, hypnotic 1993 film vehicle from Jane’s Addiction.

A Santería wedding. Sex with a corpse. Drinking blood. Shooting drugs. Buckle up, because This Rock ’n’ Roll Will Kill You.

Gift captures Jane’s Addiction right b…

It's time to take a sentimental journey to the video store. Our first pic from the cult section is Gus Van Sant's game changing second film, Drugstore Cowboy (1989). Join me as I re-watch with the eyes of a world weary adult, vs the teenaged gaze I first cast on this black comedy about a gang of junkies who rob drug stores, because that's where the drugs are. What did kids internalize about heroin and glamor from stylish films such as this, and does this film pass the Truth & Beauty test? Will drugs kill you? Let's find out!

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