edward j rathke

No seriously.

Read a Seidlinger novel and then read this silent interview with Shia LaBeouf. Read My Pet Serial Killer and then watch the video above.

It’s weird.

I mean, just read this:

At one point, LaBeouf says that he – as an only child – longed for the kind of family he saw in Home Alone; that online connections cannot replace physical presence, that he approaches social media as a game like Tetris. I’m tipsy on a train when I read this email; I pay £4 for an hour of wi-fi because I can’t wait to reply. I write, “But I’m not a ghost… there’s one of us on either side of the exchange. There’s scope for interpretation and response. That’s more variables than Tetris, no? It’s human.”

He writes back super fast. “I actually totally agree with you, it’s all about finding the humanity of the networks… Fuck Tetris. We make new games together.”