The results are in!
The 20th Century Palooza Winner is. . . . The Fifth Element!
The 21st Century Winner was. . . a tie! So there are 2 choices: Tenet and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
I was going to cast the tie-breaker vote, but I think more options are a good thing. So watch both or watch one and skip the other.
So how are we gonna do this, in the absence of a podcast?
We’ll schedule a Zoom conference call for each movie where everyone can chime in with their thoughts.
We also still have this here Deadpan page, YouTube, and Facebook, where we can post whatever audio skits, video skits, reviews, and other Palooza-inspired creativity we want.
A classic, absurd Luc Besson Cyberpunk action flick.
A Christopher Nolan Time Travel mindbender.
A Coen Bros. Western mini-anthology film.
Well I’ve seen all three.
Will be nice to watch The Fifth Element again.
So are you going to send children naked to school?
https://www.michiganradio.org/post/federal-appeals-court-consider-whether-michigan-students-can-be-required-wear-masks
Never been but still sad:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/a-look-back-at-the-museum-of-pinballs-huge-collection-of-games/
Hadn’t heard of this one, but I’ve been to the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. It was a lot of fun and also features a lot of classic 80’s arcade games as well. Definitely a recommend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKesdLhMTcM
The full movie of “Rollergator” given the Rifftrax treatment. I watched a few minutes. . . . You know I love me some Rifftrax/MST3K, but I don’t know if I can make it through this one. It makes Manos the Hands of Fate look like The Godfather, Part II.
Thanks for finding my next Rifftrax adventure for me. I’m kind of a “challenge accepted” kind of person when it comes to bad movies.
Wow.
I tried. Really I did.
Just so so so bad.
Crap joke of the day:
I bought a dog from the village blacksmith yesterday. As soon as I got him home, he made a bolt for the door.
Have you set a tentative date for our movie discussions?
I had never seen it before, so I finally saw the first Godfather movie over the last two nights. While it was a good movie, and I enjoyed it, I don’t think it was up to the hype it has been given.
Tiffany had the same reaction, a few years ago. For me, these are both movie perfection. I even think Godfather 3 is pretty good, though not nearly on par with the first two.
We’re going to start GF2 tonight. Being 3 and a half hours long, it will be something we watch over 2 or three evenings.
So still not being able to fly to the US any time soon:
https://t.co/KBfNlEx66y
I am no fan of Bezos but 10 year old me is pretty damn impressed with where space travel has gotten to.
Here’s cheering for the NEXT step, what ever that might be!
Whitey’s on the moon.
It’s a great achievement, and also fitting that Blue Origen looks like a penis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
RE: The Pinball Museum link: I’ll have to check, but that doesn’t seem to be linked to the pinball museum Tiffany and I visited outside of Vegas a few years back. That place was a ton of fun.
Either way, it’s a damn shame.
Read the article and both 10 year old me and Now me are very much saddened
Jack, I thought the same thing as I’m slated to go to vegas at the beginning of September and it’s on my list of places to check out. The one in Vegas is the Pinball Hall of Fame. Too many pinball places out there.
http://pinballmuseum.org/
We really liked this place.
I will happily watch Buster Scruggs again.
I will unhappily slog thru the poop that is Tenet again.
Oh, dear, we’re going to have to fight again, aren’t we?
Can we at least agree that The Fifth Element is a masterpiece?
A resounding YAS
Count me in for a movie watch!
Hugs and kisses to you all!
ESSBEE!!!!
EssBEEEEEEEE!!!!
Watched the first episode of Marvel 616 on D+ about the Japanese Spider-Man TV show. Fascinating and often hilarious. Highly recommended!
Cue the twilight zone music:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_Triangle
I haven’t seen “Buster Scruggs” or “Tenet”, so that will be cool. I’ve seen “The Fifth Element” several times, I think it is a fun movie, but mostly “meh”. Perhaps my fellow Deadpanites will educate me on what I’m missing.
The 21st Century movies are both new to me as well.
I dig me some Fifth Element. I’ve seen it many times, but I intend to rewatch to collect some Palooza thoughts.
Fifth Element is an all-time favorite for me. I’ll happily re-watch that at any time. Tenet was good but I feel like re-watching will give me a deeper understanding of just wtf is going on. I have the major themes and concepts down and was surprised to find that almost all of the “what is going on in Tenet” web sites were stuff that I had already picked up on. Just need to get into some of the finer details. Buster Scruggs… well… I watched it once and didn’t care for it. But that might have been because I was expecting a movie based on… well… you know… Buster Scruggs… like in the title and all… … … and then I got a bunch of short films that didn’t seem like what I expected at all. maybe a second watch will improve things. I doubt it, but I’m willing to give it a go. You know, take one for the team and all that.
Rhett!!
I will!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/21/hear-me-out-why-predator-2-isnt-a-bad-movie
I always liked Predator 2 – – for what it is. It’s a shame that there was never a Predator 3 to resolve the ending.
Predator 2 wasn’t trying to win any Oscars, but it didn’t have to. It was basically Lethal Weapon meets Predators. It was one of the first movies I bought on DVD.
Enjoyed P2 at the time but I haven’t watched since it’s initial theatrical release.
CP: Night Fever — Dee Gees
wakka chikka wakka chikka wakka chikka wakka chikka
Discouraging.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1018226099/the-highly-contagious-delta-variant-is-pushing-u-s-coronavirus-cases-higher
We can’t get more than 50% of the population to get vaccinated. Covid of some form is going to be sticking around for some time. My hope is that kid-approved vaccines appear soon and that boosters will continue to keep the vaccinated safe.
Stop making films about Ted Bundy:
https://t.co/yRYgYmvaJI
Dropped hubby off at the dentist. He doesn’t go very often so they sedate him and keep him for a couple of hours
eek
Take my money:
https://youtu.be/8g18jFHCLXk
He is the King of all the land
In the Kingdom of the sands
Of a time tomorrow
He rules the sandworms and the Fremen
In a land amongst the stars
Of an age tomorrow
He is destined to be a King
He rules over everything
In the land called planet Dune
Body water is your life
And without it that you would die
In the desert the planet Dune
He has the power to make it all end
https://tinyurl.com/3d69yuzy
In response to a few comments – – if you’ve watched one of the movies recently, then you’re probably covered. No need to rewatch so soon, especially if you disliked it.
Also, while all participation is voluntary, I think you’re good if you only do one of the 21st Century films. I intend to watch both, but you’re covered if you only watch one.
CP: Excuse Me — Peter Gabriel
Back in ye olden days, when del.icio.us was shutting down, I exported my bookmarks to a new haven at Google. Now, Google Bookmarks is also going away after 16 years.
I haven’t really used that one much since, as the article notes, Chrome and most browsers now will sync your bookmarks in the browser across devices.
Went ahead and did the exports, though, many of the links I had back in the day are now dead. Though, apparently, Slice of SciFi is somehow still a thing. Who knew?
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2021/07/google-bookmarks-shutdown-will-not-affect-your-maps-starred-locations.html
Though, I did find that this classic is still available. I still don’t know how they pulled off bringing all those actors together into this:
https://www.funnyordie.com/2009/8/10/17708216/the-ballad-of-g-i-joe
I do need to click the GI Joe link. I don’t remember it, but I’m sure I’ll go “a ha!” as soon as I see it.
I think Summer is still doing something with Slice of Sci-Fi.
Yup, still listen to SOSF every week,
I did a search for Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas and only found links talking about it. I assume KAMN is officially over.
She also does story narration for some podcasts, heard her on Starship Sofa and Rscape Pod.
She also does story narration for some podcasts, heard her on Starship Sofa and Escape Pod.
So there is that.
Everyday it’s a getting closer:
https://www.theverge.com/22587172/playdate-hands-on-preview
Finished watching Godfather 2 last night. My feelings are the same as one. Good movie, but maybe not as good as the hype.
For me, I love the storytelling, the nuance, the subtleties, the detail, the epic scope. All of the things playing out onscreen that are unsaid.
Also of interest: In between these movies, Coppolla released an unrelated Gene Hackman films called The Conversation, which is also 70s and brilliant.
Watched the first episode of the new He-man.
Ok, but the art style is rather off putting to me after She-ra.
Well all 5 episodes watched, still don’t like the art style but the darker story arc was good.
I’ve been playing through Detroit Become Human with the eldest daughter on the PS4. Well – – she’s played it many times, and is watching me do a playthrough.
I’m a longtime lapsed gamer, so the “quicktimes”* are always harrowing. But it’s a really neat game, very well done. Excellent story too, I can see why she got so into it. I mean, anything with Clancy Brown and Lance Henriksen in the cast has got to be good, right?
Are there other good story games like this? She’s also playing “Until Dawn.”
*Quicktimes are actions scenes where you’re suddenly prompted to hit one of the 6,000 buttons on the controller. You have 0.00001 of a second to do it, or you fail, and your character could die. (A little bit like Dragon’s Lair)
I first encountered them in the first Lara Croft game by Crystal Dynamics.
At least it tells you what to press unlike Dragon’s Lair.
Same with this one, although it takes me a full second longer than regular PS4 players to find “triangle” or R2, which usually results in my character getting pegged.
Also interesting about DBH: you’re playing 3 different characters through their storylines, so if you get a character killed, they stay dead (unless the plot dictates otherwise).
If you haven’t played any of the Mass Effect games, I would recommend getting the Legendary Edition for $45. I think you and your daughter would enjoy it. Horizon Zero Dawn is another masterpiece.
I agree with Rhettro, though those don’t have “quicktime” game aspects. Some other great games like Rhettro recommends are “Last Of Us”, “NieR:Automata”, and “The Witcher III”. I can recommend more, but all of these have great game play combined with great stories.
If you are looking for other games with “quicktime”, you should definitely play the latest “God Of War” game. It has a great story, plus that style of game play. Actually, it is hard to go wrong with any God Of War game imo.
The other Quantic Dream games are good, but have some even darker aspects to their stories. Plus, the quicktime events can get a bit frustrating in parts.
Yakuza all the way. Start with zero (be prepared to cry), then Kiwami, Kiwami 2, 3 to 6 remastered, and last, Like A Dragon
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-90s-rock-band-says-about-the-type-of-bored-suburban-dad-you-are-today
Ha!
“Foo Fighters: No matter what you do, you’ll never be as good as your spouse’s dead first husband.”
Ouch! Nirvana fan much?
That list of bands has given me an irrational feeling of dread. I guess 90s rock bands aren’t at the top of my list. I did own one Nirvana album at one time in my life.
On Dune:
https://t.co/YEqXcD1QoW
12:18am. The work project that started at 7pm this evening is still going.
Mama, don’t let your children grow up to work in IT.
https://www.ocregister.com/2008/08/07/stephen-kings-hero-lives-and-writes-in-fullerton/
I’m not familiar with Bentley Little. I’m always open to good writing. . . . maybe I’ll give his writing a shot.
JW: Jolt
Not that great, but at least KB talks with an English accent.
Hmmm:
https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/
You know, I kind of liked Jolt
CW: How it Ends
Indie comedy film about the end of the world.
Well that was nice, no really it was nice.
A little bit of history:
https://youtu.be/KY_AUdtvhY8
Hmmm:
https://youtu.be/ahNgjVcq4sA
I’d watch it
I’ll definitely watch it.
Looks like a straight-up video game-style action thriller in the Bladerunner setting.
Could be fun.
Tonight we are re-watching Fifth Element
Ohishi is very good. There is a 10 year brandy cask and a 8 year sherry cask; both for the same price. I picked the sherry cask. Delicious.
It’s the sherry cask that I drink.
This weekend was exhausting. The week ahead looks exhausting.
Straight out of the twilight zone:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill%27s_mystery_soda_machine
Uh oh:
https://t.co/e14zLr9aU1
https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/covid-delta-variant-risk-vaccinated-breakthrough-cases.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I thought they’ve been very clear about this from the start.
I don’t fault any legit scientists, but I think there are still a ton of unknowns with the Delta variant.
The TVA will fix it.
Fiona Apple’s “Tidal” is one of the absolute best albums of the 90s.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019284124/fiona-apples-tidal-promised-me-the-unknown
Another article I’m posting without reading, hoping I’ll get back to it.
“The goal was never to eradicate COVID from being annoying—it was to eradicate it from being a killer,” said Dara Kass, an emergency medicine physician in New York.
This resonated with me too.
So tonight watched the first two episodes of Schmigadoon on AppleTV+.
Great fun and a good laugh as a couple get trapped in a town where everybody sings like it’s a musical.
(Posting this twice, because it was somehow a response to Rhett’s TVA joke. I’ll clean it up later)
Fiona Apple’s “Tidal” is one of the absolute best albums of the 90s.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019284124/fiona-apples-tidal-promised-me-the-unknown
Another article I’m posting without reading, hoping I’ll get back to it.
jack , July 26, 2021 at 4:57 pm
I’m pretty sure “I’ll clean it up later” is the motto of the TVA.
Carrie Coon!!!!!
https://youtu.be/XKe5XTrThj8
I . Am . SO . IN !!!!!
I don’t know. I think the lower I keep my expectations, the better.
Good plan …. There are SO many ways they could let us down with this.
Still … in the middle of dark times I shall allow myself a little sliver of hope!
The Ghostbusters movies were comedies. This trailer says: “Generic Action CGI Blockbuster.”
/grumpy old man.
I’ll wait for reviews. This does seem like a departure from the Ghostbusters’ standard.
Punishing the poor with bureaucracy:
https://bit.ly/3BNBs4k
CP: People Get Ready — The Frames
How Girls Und Panzer is better than Fury:
https://youtu.be/psDuhb5g3Rw
This is brutal:
https://youtu.be/IFN6MPvCYVY
He watched a video!
😀
Episode 2 of Marvel 616 is all about the pioneering women creators at Marvel, from the 70s to the present. Really digging this show.
Ugh:
https://en.tastyarea.com/stories-shared-by-women-worked-at-hooters?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=create&ly=native_one&mbid=jrs2jflymg
CW: V I Warshawski
I want to live in the timeline where this was movie was a hit and we got a series of films with Kathleen Turner kicking criminal ass.
Well throwing criminal ass cos the character does Aikido
A young Stephen Root plays a good slime ball client.
The art of seduction.
Having a business card comes in handy when you want to get laid.
Precocious child actor is vaguely familiar.
Mouldy fridge.
That picket line is piss poor.
Boom!
Charles Durning!!!
So VI’s ex is played by an actor who is now literally old and plays someone in Sneaky Pete series.
I’d buy that for the dollar, little girls get PDs on the cheap.
Premature articulation, the best one line in the film.
When two giant hairstyles meet.
Crap joke interlude:
There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:
1. He called everyone brother
2. He liked Gospel
3. He didn’t get a fair trial
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:
1. He went into His Father’s business
2. He lived at home until he was 33
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his Mother was sure He was God
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:
1. He talked with His hands
2. He had wine with His meals
3. He used olive oil
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a Californian:
1. He never cut His hair
2. He walked around barefoot all the time
3. He started a new religion
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was an American Indian:
1. He was at peace with nature
2. He ate a lot of fish
3. He talked about the Great Spirit
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:
1. He never got married
2. He was always telling stories
3. He loved green pastures
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Mexican:
1. He treated his mama like she was a saint
2. He always wore llantas and a serape
3. He was a carpenter who could fix anything
But the most compelling evidence of all – 3 proofs that Jesus was a woman:
1. He fed a crowd at a moment’s notice when there was virtually no food
2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn’t get it
3. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was still work to do
I’m stealing this!
Nice!
Irish #1?
Finally after 36 minutes we get to see a fight scene.
Morning Pan
Watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs last night. I saw it before, hubby had not. I don’t think he was a huge fan
It’s the their thief from Jurassic Park.
Nice nutcracker.
Lady got a gun.
Always remember to save your document file.
Oh gawd over acting kids, not a fan.
All the thugs attempting kidnapping look really unfit.
Maybe a 90s thing.
Ooooh now a speed boat chase.
She can handle my hose anytime.
Ah the 90s.
Well judging from the shape of that light gun that is an NES the henchman is playing a game on.
Nut cracking time..ouch!
Lock picking is so easy in the movies.
I do love how she doesn’t even tie her hair back when sneaking onto ship.
Pretty sure this CEO is a regular bad guy on the original Hawaii 5 O
This kid is so annoying it’s making me root for the bad guy.
The mother steps up.
A gun that runs out of bullets in a movie, well I never.
Villains dead.
Well I enjoyed that.
I remember this movie, but it had seemed kinda terrible, even with Kathleen Turner.
Maybe not!
CP: Dissolved Girl — Massive Attack
Also one of the best albums of the 90s.
Yes!
Frivolous but clever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HEfIJlcFbs
This is honestly pretty great.
Bittle Lunny, I look forward to your feedback on BoBS. Maybe hubby’s too?
Have we thought about a date for when we’re doing this?
If we’re just doing a zoom call, then I’d assume sometime late August would work for the first one.
If you are inspired to create something, then any time works.
I watching Buster Scruggs now, about half way through. I think I have something I can do with this. Have to see if the idea will work for all the segments.
Tenet has to wait until I have the time to do nothing but sit and watch alone with undivided attention.
My current TV has crappy HDMI ports and the DVD player does not work with it. Fifth Element has to wait until the new TV shows up so I can play the DVD.
I was watching some Olympic Rugby yesterday.
I’m discovering it may be one of my favorite team sports. It doesn’t hurt that the rules seem to have been thought up by Calvin and Hobbes 🙂
Ha! I went to see Jeremy (from Seattle) play a few years back (He was on a semi-pro team, if you recall). At no point did I have any idea what was happening.
But it was fun nonetheless.
CP: Into The Blue — The Joy Formidable
Having one of those mornings.
Took spouses car to get a tire patched only to discover another tire had a sidewalk gash that went through to the chords and a BACK tire that had a big bulge in it where they guess it must have run through a pot hole at speed. These tires are less then a year old. And expensive. And they may not be able to get them Til Monday which is when that car was supposed to be on a long road trip.
Meh.
Oh and on my way home from tire store, the girl that cuts my hair called as a courtesy to say her under 18 year old daughter had a fever and symptoms consistent with Covid. SHE herself doesn’t have symptoms and is still willing to cut my hair this afternoon but wanted to let me know.
Canceling seems prudent… but is it? 🙁
I’m vaccinated but that doesn’t mean I can’t get it(and spread it). It just means it should’t kill me.
That is a tough one. It sounds like it’s about caution, as opposed to spending time with her daughter. If you both mask up and are socially distant from everyone else, then – – maybe?
Still, no harm in being a little shaggy.
If you are both masked during the session, I’d have no hesitation about having her give you a hair cut.
There’s a difference between prudence and paranoia
Having heard for a long time that Schitt’s Creek is the best show of all time, we watched episode 1 last night.
Not all that funny.
I assume it gets better?
I know I may be considered a traitor to my country but, I’ve never seen it and have no real desire to do so
I haven’t watched it, but a few reviewers on IMDB says that it doesn’t get that good until season 3. That’s a lot of seasons for a payoff.
Funny, that’s what people keep telling me for Fear The Walking Dead. My wife and I watched the first season as we’re huge Walking Dead fans and found Fear to be a steaming pile of crap. Now everyone that likes the show keeps telling me that it gets great around season 3. Just doesn’t seem worth it to me.
That’s actually a true statement. FTWD didn’t get good until season 3. We stopped watching all the Walking Dead series as they seemed to be stuck in a soap opera formula without any clear direction on what they wanted for their shows.
I give a show 3 episodes NOT 3 seasons.
That being said, I gave this one a whole season because I got what they were trying to do with it … it just never got funny.
Schitt’s Creek?
Yep. It had a chuckle here and there but for me it just couldn’t find itself.
CP: Lost And Lazy — 54-40
I had no idea that the guitar riff for the Rush song “YYZ” was based on the morris code for YYZ.
https://rush.fandom.com/wiki/YYZ
I guess if Rush flew out of LAX, the song would sound a lot different.
I did know that. Then again I know far far far far too much when it comes to Rush. I was fascinated by them and everything about them. At least up to Hold Your Fire. I like Counterparts after that, but nothing else. I feel like the majority of Rush fans have a place where the group grew beyond them, but I do know fans that still like everything they came out with.
I like all their albums, some more than others.
I did know that about YYZ! That’s why it opens with that hihat rhythm. I think I learned that from their R40 documentary.
I think their best era was the one leading up to “Exit Stage… Left.” There were some not-so-great phases, but I thought they went out really strong with Clockwork Angels and Snakes and Arrows.
The last Rush album I bought was “Roll the Bones.” It was pretty great, but I haven’t been compelled to see what came after. I might though now.
Counterparts (the album right after roll the bones) was great. I definitely recommend that one.
I don’t agree about “not-so-great” phases: it’s all a matter of taste. Though from 2112 to Power Windows, they were at their prime. Clockwork Angels was a great way to go out on top too.
There isn’t an album of theirs that doesn’t have a great song, imo. The albums as a whole…? Well some work better than others, but I love the fact that Rush was always experimenting and trying new things. I know some fans really hated “Presto” but there were some really interesting songs on that album.
I also hate trying to rank albums for a band like this. Some will albums will always rank lower, but that’s a matter of preference not a reflection on the album being bad. That being said, I think this fan selection of the best 10 albums is very good:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rush-greatest-albums-readers-poll-14091/hemispheres-233734/
I actually agree – – 100% (even tho you’re disagreeing with me :D) . I think Presto may be their weakest album, but even it has a few classics. This was also their least interesting phase for me, when they occasionally dipped into Adult Contemporary sounds.
Thanks. And I agree about your Presto and AC comments. Presto would also be at the bottom of my list, tbh.
John and I have started using Board Game Arena to play with friends online. Since I won the last game (Terra Mystica), I’m going to say it works quite well
I find your criteria a bit suspect.
https://youtu.be/92cwKCU8Z5c
JW: Jungle Cruise
Well that was fun.
Disney+ is charging $35 to see it. And while I do want to see it, I don’t want to see it that bad. I’ll wait until it comes to normal streaming.
We did our Fifth Element viewing last night.
Lots of thoughts!
CW: Latest F&F flick
Oh goodness this is boring…
Fantastic and Four?
Fast and Furious.
Flat & Forlorn?
Cool empire animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_CP4SuoTU
Hooray for holiday Mondays! And Tuesdays, since I’ve booked tomorrow off.
I just got up 2 hours earlier than usual to attend an utterly useless meeting.
Scheduled for every weekday going forward. FML
https://olympic.ca/2014/09/11/shuttlecock-and-balls-the-fastest-moving-objects-in-sport/
Fill your synth boots for 200 bucks:
https://www.engadget.com/modal-electronics-skulptsynth-se-review-virtual-analog-170031324.html
I guess I need to buy a pair of synth boots.
Ballad of Buster Scruggs consumed!
More thoughts.
I know my wife will find this hilarious
https://mashable.com/video/snoop-dogg-kevin-hart-olympics-horse-crip-walking
Maybe I should post to FB
Video unavailable in my country
Same!
It’s just Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg reacting to Olympics clips.
lmao. That was great.
Hmmm:
https://t.co/10F4ZKRLKn
Meh. To each his own.
Agree with ditto. Big meh
I know I’m always complaining about the lack of time. . but I don’t think this solution works for me. I’d only do this if I was determined to get to the end of a series, but not really enjoying the episodes. I’m looking at you, Twin Peaks season 2.
CP: Ugly — Sass Jordan
https://www.minnpost.com/health/2021/08/on-digesting-the-latest-pandemic-news-and-the-perils-of-nuanced-public-health-messaging/
Morning Pan
Went to the zoo yesterday. The red pandas were the most active I’ve seen them.
Now it’s back to work for this bunny.
CP: Wolf Totem by The Hu
JW: The Suicide Squad
Saw it at an actual cinema, not great but better than the first film.
I hope to catch this one on HBO Max. Prob not the theater.
Same here. I’m not in a rush to see any WB/DC film.
CP: Crystal — New Order
So the theory from a film critic on Twitter is The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a statement that the Coen Brothers were making about their co directing days coming to an end.
As I understand it, one of the brothers wants to focus on stage, but the other will probably continue making movies.
I’m really happy about the success of the Mars helicopter, but I have a feeling that the day will come when NASA crashes it. It has met its performance goals already so it crashing won’t be a failure. It will just feel like one.
It’s weird how long my personal Missing Persons kick has been going. . . Almost a month? I’m not even sure what set off this obsession.
They only had 4-5 great songs, but damn, those songs were great. Dale Bozzio was a one-of-a-kind frontwoman. And drummers tell me that Terry Bozzio is one of Rock’s all-time best.
I might suggest their “Spring Sessions M” album over their Greatest Hits.
CP: Found A Job — Talking Heads
Nothing like a local council implying your childhood did not happen where it happened to make you think you are losing touch with reality.
OK, there’s a story here.
Take my money:
https://youtu.be/MysGjRS9jFU
Sounds like a gender flipped action version of DOA, bring it on.
Can I go back to bed?
No?
Damn
Wow, I got a lot of work done this morning. I’m rather proud of myself.
Not enjoying these early mornings.
Drugs?
Of Canada’s 18 medals (so far) only three are in the men’s category. Really guys, time to step up
Reb Beach’s “Get Out and Walk” has “Satch Boogie” vibes.
https://youtu.be/X1iOqVc-00Q
Coincidentally listening to Winger’s Pull album right now. First couple of tracks are cheese, but it has some great deep cuts. Reb is a monster.
Dang, now I might have to listen to Pull. 🙂
Uh oh:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22609651/philips-recall-respironics-ventilators-cpap-bipap
I’ve watched a few episodes of Love Death + Robots season 22, and I think it’s a huge improvement over season 1.
The first season had its moments, but there were so, so, so many exaggerated cartoon boobs and cursewords and over-the-top violent scenes, it often felt like it was created by and for 12-year-olds. There’s still plenty of silliness and excess, but it’s easier to digest. So far.
I missed the cartoon boobs, but to be fair the stories told didn’t really require them. I agree about the pointless over-the-top violence. I don’t think any season 2 episodes had the emotional impact of “Zima Blue” or “Beyond the Aquila Rift” from the first season. I’m looking forward to season 3.
..and the madness continues:
https://t.co/02FqJAIuMi
I not sure Jack is excited about this, but I know Lo Pan will be and I sure am. To quote Van, “Take my money!”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1423335726733742084
The first few issues didn’t knock me out, but I’m definitely interested in reading more. Especially now that there’s a movie on the way.
It’s a tv series isn’t it?
Oh. Yeah. Probably for the better.
Yep, series. I don’t think it could be done well in any other format.
The devil on my shoulder is whispering that if it’s a total disaster I can just smile at Lo’s wrath and mutter ‘Bladerunner fucker! How do you like those apples now?’
Cough.
Its one of the greatest books ever written. Im not ok with this. I dont care if I have to suffer Van’s Blade Runner wrath. Do NOT fuck with perfection. Its like Third Eye Blind covering Orion.
Doot doot doot
More goddamn Covid stuff. Posting here to read later.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/delta-variant-covid-coronavirus-us-key-questions
These three day work weeks are great. I think I need to do this all the time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. . . .
These six-day ones, not so much.
Or when MFers insist on having a meeting, in spite of your protestations, then fail to pay attention during the entire meeting.
(I’ll stop complaining.)
(No I won’t.)
CP: Worry — Songhoy Blues
It appears the Canadian women’s footie team has stepped up and won gold at the Olympics.
The downside is people using that to attack the Captain of the US team which lost earlier in the competition.
Yeah. It’s been mostly about the women for the Canadian olympics
Black Monday is a GREAT tv show.
Gunpowder Milkshake is a RAD film.
Thats all
JW: The Fifth Element
Still great and rather weird.
JW: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Well I saw Tenet recently enough to remover it, so I’m ready for the Palooza.
Remember not remover…FFS autocorrect.
I need to collect my thoughts on Buster Scruggs while it’s still fresh in my mind.
Tenet still needs watching for me.
I did watch Citizen Kane tonight – actual Citizen Kane, you know, Orson Wells, Rosebud, etc. It’s only my 2nd viewing, and first in over 20 years.
On my first watch, I recall thinking, “yeah, it’s fine, but not the ‘greatest movie of all time’ as so many film experts say.”
I saw and understood a LOT more on my second viewing. It truly is brilliant. Truly a masterpiece. I get it now. So much depth. So many incredible little moments and scenes and details.
Now I can say that I greatly admire and appreciate this movie. I enjoyed it deeply, but I wouldn’t say I loved it. It’s not in my personal list of all-time favorites. Anyone else have an opinion?
I’ve only seen it once all the way through and tenner not being impressed at the time.
Remember not tenner..groan
I watched in my lowest-of-all-filler-college-course “Introduction to Film” class and had to do actual research on it. So when I watched it I think I enjoyed it and appreciated it far far more than I would have if I just watched on my own. I really did enjoy the film and see why Orson Wells was considered a master director. Then again, I haven’t ever watched it again so I think I share your lack of actual love and/or desire to put in on my all-time favorites list.
I will also say: on second viewing, there were many aspects that got me -right here-. Kane is mostly not a likable figure, but is still sympathetic.
Truly heartbreaking.
I watched it a long time ago and I think it is a fine movie. If you compare movies of the same era,” Citizen Kane” is a lot different. The camera angles, lighting, and framing to enhance the message of the movie are way different. Most older movies used to be filmed like they were a play. The filming techniques of Orson Wells set the standards of modern filmmaking. So a large share of admiration for “Citizen Kane” is that it is groundbreaking in that regard. Of course, modern movies use all those techniques now and I think there are a lot more enjoyable films now.
CW: Battle Angel Alita
You know it was slagged off at the time, I remember enjoying it at the time and on reflection it’s a damn fine sci-fi blockbuster.
I liked it, but I wish they’d just made the best standalone movies hey could, instead of trying to launch a franchise.
So I managed to obtain all the episodes of Night Gallery.
Boy did Rod Serling age rapidly age between twilight zone and this.
Ace of Spades, partly done on bells:
https://youtu.be/O-JsEP9hDQk
That was cool
I have found my new hero:
https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/alfredo-rivera-frontier-flight-attendant-video-viral-1235036436/
…and it’s goodbye to Markie Post:
https://deadline.com/2021/08/markie-post-dead-night-court-actress-was-70-1234811055/
Everyone’s Night Court crush. :'(
RIP
Fuck cancer.
I somehow missed this series when it came out last year. Gorgeous, lush ambient music from Devin Townsend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiM55Ro9tmY
Morning Pan
Last day of holidays for the hubby. I can’t decide if that’s a bad thing or a good thing. The bad side, I won’t see him as much and get random hugs. The good side is I get a lot more done when he’s not home.
Alternative opening for Buckaroo Banzai:
https://youtu.be/uuIzYQnfdpI
On December the 25th it’s time to settle scores, well if you live in the Peruvian Andes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/travel/takanakuy-fighting-festival-peru.html
Paywall. Are they setting up a bunch of Street Fighter 2 arcade machines in Peru? If so, then I call dibs on E Honda.
I did a thing.
https://www.metalhalloffame.org/wild-wild-wild-with-quiet-riot/
Your honest feedback is welcome.
A solid write up. And I say this as someone who, while I listened to that song and a few other of that pop metal era, never really got into heavy metal myself.
Thank you, sir!
Metal was my first music, and obviously, still music that I love – – but I’m so glad I found other genres in the 90s. I have a few friends who’ve never branched out beyond the stuff they liked when they were 15.
Don’t know how I missed this until now.
Entertaining and informative.
My knowledge of that periods “heavy metal” is very superficial. I know what pop radio and MTV wanted me to know. So now I know more!
The Wilford Brimley Line:
https://brimleyline.date/#:~:text=When%20'Cocoon'%20reached%20theaters%20on,line%20on%20May%203%2C%202072.
Yep, I crossed the Brimley line a few years back. In my defence here are some pictures of Tom Cruise after he crossed the Brimley line. https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/03/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/tom-cruise-50-birthday/index.html
Of course, I don’t have the power of Xenu coursing through my veins.
I’d be more impressed if you looked like Jennifer Lopez at 50.
These curves don’t lie.
I crossed the Brimley line on Feb 16th. If I had only known I would have celebrated.
Fuck MS:
https://t.co/OBXndxFXFk
That is sad. She was really nice when I met her on the set of “Mars Attacks!”
I will not downplay MS at all – but it’s usually somewhat manageable.
Just trying to see a silver lining where there isn’t one. Sad news.
Int. Living room, a few days ago:
Leeloo: Mama said you’re a writer.
Me: Yes, I am!
Leeloo: But you’re a meetinger.
Me: (sighs) Yep, that’s exactly right.
End scene.
This is the most damningly accurate summary of my existence ever.
Patricia Hitchcock has died:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pat-hitchcock-dead-alfred-daughter-1234995917/
CW Star Trek TOS S2, E5: The Apple
This one is a stinker.
It’s sole redeeming quality: the attractive female ensign actually gets to kick ass, and not just be scenery for gawking.
A young David Soul is in that!
You know I watched this episode today and I hope there is fan fiction out there somewhere, where a member of the tribe reactivates Vaal and kicks starfleet off the planet.
Just saying..
What is the smartest bug:
https://t.co/nyjU6stpAC
Morning Pan
Yesterday hubby put in a half day of work. Today he’s gone for the whole day.
I ranted on FB. Since I don’t rant often, I’m having second thoughts and trying to decide if I should delete it or not.
I think you worked hard for those Cons, even sacrificing your own health at times.
You deserve some recognition.
As a result of my rant, I’ve agreed to host a few zoom panels. John’s going to kill me.
That’ll teach ya!
Reality TV show to win an 8 day stay on the ISS. I never thought I would say this about a reality TV show, but, sign me up!
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/08/04/filming-in-space-reality-television-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/business-film-and-tv/
Don’t get voted out of the airlock.
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/story/arizona-mom-urges-masks-classrooms-kindergartner-contracts-covid-79289128
Fucking infuriating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1adLb9c6U4
New song from Danny Elfman, featuring Trent Reznor.
This fellow really doesn’t like Dubai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SacQ2YdVOyk
Very John Oliver vibe!
Super entertaining video – – until it takes a grim turn.
A different way to look at the Olympic medal count
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58143550
Llamas With Hats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJOwdrTA8Gw
Black comedy. Funny? IDK yet. It was recommended.
Morning Pan
We really need rain. I don’t think we’ve had any in weeks. The sky threatened rain yesterday but then never delivered. It’s suppose to start getting stupid hot again, but still no rain.
CP: Funeral For A Friend — Elton John
“What if?” reactions? Anybody watch ep1?
I’ll probably watch it Friday.
Not yet. It’s been crazy here and not in any good way. I won’t be able to watch, probably for a while. Feel free to discuss without me. 😀
We’ll probably watch the first episode tonight.
Too much exposition at the start of the episode but was nice to see Peggy in action.
Watched the first couple of episodes of the new season of Titans, got off to a slow start.
Also the first episode of S2 of Star Trek: Lower Decks which was fun.
CP: Loom — Sta
https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3678172/alex-proyas-reveals-hes-developing-dark-city-series/
I had daydreamed about pitching a Dark City comic, but I can’t really pitch anything while my first 2 books are both in development (one will probably never happen). . .
And I assume that with this new attention, the Dark City book is going to get gobbled up elsewhere.
Grumbling aside, this is cool news. I’ve always wanted to see more stories in the Dark City universe.
Made the neighbor cry today. . .
She was telling us how they’d taken two big trips to see family. I asked if their dog travelled with them. . . and it turns out. . . the dog had died a few months ago.
Way to go, me!
You’ve just won the FootinMouth award!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU85cqdRQh8HBpk94vbcS_g
Electronicos Fantasticos!
Hmmm!
https://t.co/gZwdWt4Lks
Her arguments are not totally off base. The whys and wherefores could be argued until dusk, but, it’s true, in certain games, movies, tv, from Han Solo in Star Wars to Majima in the the Yakuza games, I loves me the bad guy (or, at least, morally gray).
Good article! And – interesting aside – I haven’t seen Gone with the Wind since the previous century, but I don’t recall Rhett Butler being villainous.
(I’m aware of the debate about him carrying her off to bed. . . I’d need to watch again to have an opinion about that scene.)
Interesting “fake streaming” site for fake movies shown in real movies. No actual video clips, but good for a few minutes of diversion.
https://nestflix.fun/
Clever URL! It was fun to skim through.
Looks like the Delta variant has paid a visit to the Hastings Household. Teresa tested positive yesterday. Her symptoms are light, Moderna seems to be doing its job. I’m going to get tested tomorrow, but judging by the slight metallic taste in my mouth, I’m guessing it will come back positive. So far, we don’t have any difficulty breathing. My expectation is that it will be like a mild illness. We’ll be self-isolating until it clears.
So sorry your family has to deal with this. I hope the symptoms are gentle for everyone affected. :'(
So glad you’re all fully vaxxed.
So far pretty mild. I’ll keep everyone apprised.
The three lessons from the failure of the Segway:
https://clivethompson.medium.com/4-design-lessons-from-the-grim-fate-of-the-segway-cc5fb012887a
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-a-female-character-in-a-fantasy-movie-and-it-is-integral-to-the-plot-that-i-be-topless
Work safe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g46tXWxtsfY
Amazing all-female Japanese jazzy funk tune.
The Pinkertons, not the heroes that are portrayed in literature:
https://t.co/KgDq4z3IyK
Currently reading Cullen Bunn’s (excellent!) series, “The Sixth Gun,” which does not cast the Pinkertons in a very good light.
Maybe I’m the wrong age, but I wasn’t aware the Pinkterons were ever considered heroes.
Same
Also same.
Nanci Griffith: Folk and country singer-songwriter dies aged 68 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58212802
Nobody creates alone:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/54881143?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=pmd_15709273c28c3a7681ef1093eb3353b091f7c394-1628987553-0-gqNtZGzNAvijcnBszQeO
Finally got a chance to watch “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” which is our one palooza feature I wasn’t familiar with. We saw Tenet pretty recently and I can probably recite a good portion of The Fifth Element.
I’ve certainly enjoyed my fair share of Coen material over the years, but this was a hard one, I must admit.
I was about ready to punch a wall after “The Gal Who Got Rattled”
At least now I understand the “first time?” meme.
And, fwiw, regarding punching a wall, it wasn’t that it was a bad segment. Quite the contrary, it was such a masterful build up that I wasn’t prepared for the gut punch that I should have seen coming. Especially with all the seasons of Fargo that I’ve watched.
I plan on recording my thoughts for posterity. . . I’ll just say I agree. I liked each of the stories, but I didn’t love any of it. I can’t imagine I’d go back and watch it again.
Once I got past the complete destruction of my expectations for what I assumed it might be about… I settled in for the ride and was then blown away by the “craft”. There is some just marvelous film making going on there.
Also … somewhere deep within me, the little surviving spark of a punk rocker glowed a bit at them making another movie that the “standard” movie consuming public was going to HATE. 🙂
You know that somewhere in Russia there is a Afghanistan Vet muttering that at least it took longer to go to shit after they left:
https://t.co/PJsvy2EOmf
Uncountable human rights atrocities coming. This is an historic moment for all the wrong reasons. (A lot of that, lately)
20 years to get their act together and they fold in less than 3 months.
Lessons no one will learn?
These come to mind.
– If you’re going to spend trillions on the problem, maybe try something other than bombs and bullets?
– The US needs to take a MUCH more serious look at it’s own domestic terrorism problem before our extremists get this sort of a foothold.
Yes to all. But don’t forget that many people got very wealthy (or just much wealthier) from Afghanistan. It’s been a huge success for those people.
https://deadline.com/2021/08/interview-with-the-vampire-sam-reid-lestat-amc-series-anne-rice-1234813972/
I thought this had been in progress for awhile. Looking forward to this series being done right.
Yes that Shoemaker:
https://t.co/eE2voPzbma
92, a damn good innings.
Robert Fripp looks like an accountant and not the founder of King Crimison.
Just saying..
I am so tired of smoke
I know I say this every CDN election but, Americans can learn a lesson. We have a six week election period, not four years.
How do you maximize your profits in that short time?
CW: Dark City (Directors Cut)
The Matrix was cooler, but this has a better sci-fi plot.
Plus this has Jennifer Connolly in it…
I liked Dark City.
I don’t think I’ve ever compared it at all to The Matrix. It was a good movie in its own right.
Yeah the whole the world is not real sort of thing.
They both came out around the same time, so a bunch of comparisons were made. The similarities are there if you look.
I really love both movies. I’m looking forward to the new content in this setting.
Fascinating:
TOS season 2:
4: Mirror, Mirror
5. The Apple
6. The Doomsday Machine
7. Catspaw
So you have the best of Trek back to back with the bottom of the barrel.
Morning Pan
According to my weather app, the air is still orange. *sigh*
Orange seems to be the color of our doom.
Is there a bigger time suck then No Mans Sky?
I sit down to start repairing a ship I’ve found and boom! 3 hours is gone and I haven’t even finished the repair job!
test
The Fog (1980) is a better movie than I’d remembered. Cheesy, yes, but still classic Carpenter. Tom Atkins is one of the best “hey, it’s that guy” B-list actors of the 80s.
On Amazon Prime right now.
Coming soon to Kickstarter:
https://www.mythicmischief.com/?fbclid=IwAR2J1jPgKEu29Tb7j_pvU8qoVQxw-boHTnuIJEHRTciqNgpU1kjZ26lefxE_aem_AUrZlfLdUnSuLSHrmc4noYNCo4AgZytCnbbyeV9oPpOP1AVPDexDQkap_EmpGZOPGhmlsOOsWHRRTeBZ6kkoq2N-slIY39QD-4lfFKjXkiFsw455FItenk82YHTKgRluwpU
We are actually getting a bit of rain this morning. It’s about time
I hope it helps.
You don’t really realize how festive your wardrobe is until you are trying to pick out an outfit for a funeral.
Neighbor’s adult child died. Drug overdose. Not clear if it was a “recreational” accident or intentional. These are tough times.
Oh no. 🙁
Time travellers need to worry about viruses:
https://t.co/fIR0bmLeb9
Drought:
https://t.co/Ftvm1HtbUK
https://flipboard.com/video/recount/002d782615
These robots will kick your ass.
Fucking furious with AZ’s governor right now.
I’ve been buying my kids classroom supplies for years, but he just announced that he’s going to give big funding boosts – – – only to schools who comply with his anti-mask mandate mandate.
So the money is there – as long as everyone complies with his policy, forcing kids to be in danger.
Fucking furious.
Dunno how this is legal but nothing is surprising anymore. Also, watching nothing be done for gun control after a class of Kindergarteners was mowed down made me realize that kids lives are big business and that no one on the right really cares about kids lives. Not really.
In happier (gloomier?) news, here’s a profile on one of my game-changer albums:
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/why-type-o-negatives-bloody-kisses-sounds-nothing-and-nothing-after
I think even the Metal-allergic would appreciate “Christian Woman,” “Black No. 1,” and “Can’t Lose You.” And their “Summer Breeze” cover is every bit as weird as you’d expect.
Pre-Sputnik Spaceflight and dead dogs:
https://t.co/VSNkHtYofm
The Suicide Squad. Big meh. Better than the first, sure, but that’s not saying much.
This is the same guy who made the Guardians of the Galaxy movies?
Stop with the rhetorical questions!!!
Are we a bit too sensitive about rhetorical questions?
Hah!
Nah this one was very good. A tad long imo, but still very good.
Phew. I didnt think I was going to make it past the first 20 min. That was dumb AF!
Got a bit better, but not much. I concur with Mr. Mangan.
Nah. This one was VERY good. A tad long IMO. But VERY good
Well damn:
https://t.co/KA0DgxfO5T
Visual archive of tape cassettes:
http://www.tapedeck.org/index.php
This is great!
I had to click the Maxell, Memorex, and Radio Shack galleries for maximum nostalgia.
So many of those brought back memories!
Why there aren’t brick laying robots:
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/where-are-the-robotic-bricklayers
What a corker of a story the second episode of What If? was.
Great fun.
Fucking RIGHT! Right? I enjoyed the first ep but THIS is What If…? !!!
Dispatch from the summer of 2021:
https://sarajbenincasa.medium.com/these-were-our-years-f42abe1a05de
As we look back on news paper articles about the Flu Pandemic of 100 years ago, I am seeing a historical need to get as many things published in print as possible about what went on here.
Specifically the fact that Republican politicians convinced their constituents NOT to take precautions and NOT to get the vaccine as soon as it was available.
A generation from now they will be trying to paint this as “Act of God… who could have seen this coming … did all that we could”.
As “electronic” records are easily changed or simply erased, It will be important to have published, historical records indicating what they really did.
TIL: The US credit score system started in 1989. I thought this had been around forever.
So this is a list that was voted for where it clearly stated the last decade:
https://t.co/9fkgtk46TP
People then started complaining there were no books from the 70s…
Ha!
I’ve only read 3 from this list. A few are on my radar.
I’ve only read 17. I guess I better get on that.
21
Divine Cities trilogy is fantastic.
Oooooh:
http://dlvr.it/S5q9Jt
Mando is great. Bad Batch is overall pretty good. But the Star Wars universe is still shambles after the sequel trilogy debacle. Enter the Star Wars Vision trailer and enter where, imo, the creative avenue that Star Wars need to go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y2BahKMQxE
I enjoyed Bad Batch even if the finale was just escape from falling apart city.
That looks cool, reminds me of when they released manga versions of Star Trek in Japan.
Still need to check out the Bad Batch.
I assume/hope that the powers that be at Disney have learned their lesson about going the “safe” route with Star Wars. Although episodes 7 – 9 made enough money to buy Canto Bight, so maybe not.
Eternals new trailer:
https://youtu.be/x_me3xsvDgk
I’ll watch the trailer. I’m sure I’ll see this in the theater. But my current interest level in this one is pretty low.
It’s morning. Go figure
Crap joke for the day:
The professor showed a large cage with a male rat in it.
The rat was in the middle of the cage.
Then, the professor kept a piece of cake on one side and kept a female rat on the other side.
The male rat ran towards the cake and ate it.
Then, the professor changed the cake and replaced it with some bread.
The male rat ran towards the bread.
This experiment went on with the professor changing the food every time.
And, every time, the male rat ran towards the food item and never towards the female rat.
Professor said: This experiment shows that food is the greatest strength and attraction.
Then, one of the students from the back rows said:
“Sir, why don’t you change the female rat?This one may be his wife!
The professor stood straight up his finger pointing towards the student and said “You are a Damn Genius”
..and it’s goodbye to Sonny Chiba:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-08-19/actor-sonny-chiba-passes-away-due-to-pneumonia-caused-by-covid-19/.176432
Oh damn. The guy was a legend.
Fuck COVID!
Using a distortion pedal with a harp:
https://youtu.be/fNINWMqxQQc
Hmmm, I wonder how she hooks them up? I might have to see if I can do that with any of John’s pedals.
I spoke to John. He has a pickup he uses on his mandolin that we can attach to mine. Will be doing some experimenting this weekend
Cool!
We need audio!
Dammit! I ended the podcast years too soon.
The trailer for the other He Man series, this time aimed at kids:
https://youtu.be/ZXApnj-ztIE
Kids or not, I want to see this.
Apple released a new trailer for the Foundation series:
https://youtu.be/X4QYV5GTz7c
This makes me want to play the game again:
https://clivethompson.medium.com/how-teenagers-are-rediscovering-an-old-game-about-authoritarianism-8346d7b7c295
LOL
I had two appointments today. The first was a consult on a “routine colonoscopy” and the other was with cable install techs.
Guess which one was the pain in the ass.
Can you guys hurry and and snake those tubes in there? I have to get to my colonoscopy!
So the guy behind the bomb threat is a trump loony. What a shock.
THATS WHAT YOU SAY! NO EVIDENCE! FAKE NEWS N SHIT
The Horatio Sanz/SNL/NBC debacle is FUCKING awful. All the names involved or potentially involved… sickening.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/saturday-night-live/horatio-sanz-sexual-assault-snl/
Oh and shocker of shockers – Louis CK was on the writing staff at the time. Man fuck that guy. And more than likely FUCK Jimmy Fallon and Lorne Michaels.
And, potentially, FUCK some or all of the following:
Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Darrell Hammond, Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan, Chris Parnell, Molly Shannon, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Jerry Minor, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Dean Edwards, Seth Meyers, Jeff Richards, Robert Carlock, Jim Downey, Steve Higgins, Michael Schur, Paula Pell, Ken Scarborough, Robert Smigel, Max Brooks, Andrew Steele, and Jack Handey.
Yuck. I had no idea.
So, how long until we get some decent memes of the outlaw Robin Leach and his Merry Men?
#whatif?
My wife asked me how old you would have to be to catch that malapropism. I replied as old as we are.
I don’t want to see Robin Leach in tights.
“I replied as old as we are.”
I resemble that remark!
Classical mythology puns are trending on Twitter:
https://t.co/i9S3JVJNMX
So watching episode 7 of S3 of Tbe Expanse and I had forgotten there was a big jump forward in time from episode 6.
Morning Pan
See the dentist for a cleaning this morning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsdrunk
In case you needed a new hobby. . .
Might help to know that in some places outside the US, “Pants” would be referring to what we in the States would call “Underwear”.
I know both meanings of the term and I’m still not drinking in my underwear only.
Van is committed to the full Monty.
No need to bring desert rats into this.
https://tinyurl.com/9j5wbrw3
Neat
https://mymodernmet.com/jr-street-art-louvre-pyramid/
I only made it about 3.5 minutes in. . . but I admit I laughed a few times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIzTat3OD3w
It helps to be familiar with David Lynch’s Dune.
CW: Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Annoying that the actor who is playing Snake Eye’s friend/enemy speaks with a English accent but is forced put on an exaggerated Japanese speaking English accent for the role.
Even Henry Golding’s accent is all over the place, WTF!
Oh goodness that was terribly shit.
Well, we wouldn’t know he was the villain if he didn’t have some kind of British accent.
Pretty sure he was trying to sound American at times.
I’ve done 2 at-home movie nights now with the little one. Toy Story was last week, Toy Story 2 was last night.
I can’t recall how long it’s been since I last watched Toy Story 2, but holy crap, it’s every bit as great as I remember, if not better. The cast, the jokes, the cleverness – – it’s just a perfect movie. The first one is also still wonderful, but this is the rare sequel that’s way better than the first.
Pixar makes some absolutely wonderful films.
Especially those that Disney simply supplied the cash for and then kept their hands out of the production process!
There was a time when Pixar did no wrong. Even today, they still sometimes produce diamonds. For every Cars 2, there’s an Inside Out.
Why has no one ever told me about Ningen Isu???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Zy8eceZdU
We watched 1974’s “Chinatown” 2 nights ago.
I don’t know how I made it this long without ever seeing that. It’s a master class in film making. Solid acting. Been a long time since I had seen Nicholson in a part where HE wasn’t just playing “Jack Nicholson in a movie”.
I felt like the film stood up well. While slow by today’s “short attention span” standards, it still moved at a good pace.
If you haven’t seen it and find yourself in the mood for a solid, film noir, “Who done it?”, don’t be afraid to give it a try.
BTW – I think this is only available on Netflix until the end of the month.
One of this films for ever spoilt by what a shit person Roman Polanski is.
Art and artist. You gotta keep em separated.
Well I never;
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1429464889307762688.html
Impressive
So Netflix’s new mini series; Brand New Cherry Flavor, is fucked up and rather revolting (puking up cats..ewww).
These early morning meetings are getting me down (posting 6 hours ahead of it)
https://tinyurl.com/cth2ufua
The soundtrack of your life.
This song is on Leeloo’s playlist, so I hear it often. Never considered that it’s a metaphor for my life. I thought it was more like “Dare to be Stupid”
Mine is White and Nerdy
We got a water distiller. Plugging things into a child resistant plug does not put me in my happy place
Has your tap water taken a dive in quality?
No. I use distilled water for other things. I think we have finally decided to stop buying jugs of it.
How the brain conjures consciousness.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/21/neuroscientist-anil-seth-we-risk-not-understanding-the-central-mystery-of-life
Will I ever read this article? I intend to!
Well the Witcher animated prequel was rather gory.
It sounds like I need to watch Ted Lasso. (?)
Unrelated, but sort of related: Brett Goldstein, of that show, is rumored to be the next Doctor. He’s appeared on the show before, but that doesn’t rule him out.
I hope not, hoping it’s another woman.
Official teaser for this years Spider-Man film:
https://youtu.be/rt-2cxAiPJk
Elder daughter made a hair mask mixture for herself:
1 banana
A bunch of honey
1 raw egg
A tiny bit of water
Probably too much apple cider vinegar
My hair now stinks, even after showering.
I saw the hair mask thing on FB. Is this the latest thing the young hip people are doing that I’ll never understand? Putting random things in a bag to condition one’s hair? At least it seems safer than the tide pod challenge fad.
*shrug* Possibly.
She blended it into a stinky mixture, which she then rubbed into her hair like shampoo.
Back in the day, my friend’s wife ran her own salon, and would make me sit around for 20 minutes with stuff in my hair and a baggie on my head. It felt kinda like that.
In case you haven’t see the new Spider-Man trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt-2cxAiPJk
Snap!!!
I’m the biggest Marvel apologist I know… but this… I don’t like this. I have problems with this.
As soon as Dr Ock said “Hello Peter” I was in.
I dont have a prob with that stuff. I have a prob with the logic behind the decisions these characters are making – especially Doc Strange
I do appreciate they waited til 8-23 to release it as that was the date that was marked on the calendar in the first episode of Wandavision
I was gonna say the same. And why is the Sorceror Supreme allowing this chatty kid to distract him while performing a spell that can disrupt all of realty??
Plotonium
wut?
I mean why is Dr Strange’s home looking like the inside of a freezer?
This morning I had waffles for breakfast. Now the cat is wondering around the house with whipped cream on her nose
D’awww
Looks like the new Spiderman Trailor is out, in case you haven’t seen it.
https://youtu.be/rt-2cxAiPJk
Heh!
That’s funny cause the plot revolves around us forgetting.
RIP Charlie Watts, drummer for the Rolling Stones.
You don’t even have to look it up to recognize an Iron Maiden song. I have Our hard rock video channel, “Loud”, playing in the background. Soon as I heard the music, without knowing the song, I could tell it was I rom maiden
I rom = iron. Sheesh
Their two new songs are a bit underwhelming, but I still have high hopes for the new album.
Their new official video is pretty great, even you’re not a fan of the music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhBnW7bZHEE
I mean… if this was a series of TV you’d already be out. So…
Yeah, this is the one they were playing on the music video channel
Ha! I’m the original cancel culture!
Hey, did you guys know there’s a new Spiderman trailer out?????
Don’t. Don’t you do this. Youre better than this.
I’m not.
Bring me pictures of Spider-Man!! *chomps cigar*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_Hs9DkmOo
This is the Spider-Man we need.
This is the Spider-man we got;
https://youtu.be/JUcktiQxC9Q
Man I miss that show! That was my era of television.
Desert Pixie was a bad girl on FB. 😉
She’s banned for 12 hours.
Gahh, Facebook is such crap.
So just watched episode 3 of What If? Nice story but the art seemed much cruder this time around.
Not a bad episode but def the weakest of the season so far. Especially coming off the heels of one of the best MCU highlights….ever…. of episode 2
CP: Michigan Militia — Moxy Fruvous
Nicked from FB, as the hip Vans say:
“Anti-vaxxers, esp. anti-COVID-vaxxers, don’t think about what they believe. They don’t WANT to think about it. They are looking for authoritarian figures to dictate what they believe, and they don’t question the facts or the hypocrisy – they’re just happy to be led, and to have what beliefs they DO have confirmed. Yet they call those of us who do think and question and compare, “sheep,” for doing the right things, all because their masters have told them to do so. While they’re being stuck in the worst ways by their leaders, they actually believe they’re ‘sticking it to’ the rest of us – they’re standing on the deck of the Titanic and laughing at the people in the lifeboats for ‘living in fear.'”
Along those lines,
Greg Abbott has updated his executive order to ban vaccine mandates for ANY Covid-19 vaccine.
His original order only banned “vaccines approved under emergency use.”
Showing (as we know) it was never about protecting people from an “unapproved vaccine”. It has never been about protecting anyone but trump.
Toy Story 3 is done.
It’s good. . . coupla good moments, coupla clever bits – – but a huge step down from part 1 and part 2.
Though last 5 minutes, though, are a complete emotional wringer.
I slept in this morning
I just gave that I rom Maiden link a listen.
For me, THAT sound is what “Heavy Metal” has always been.
https://ibb.co/QkBDMCy
https://youtu.be/rt-2cxAiPJk
Is this the new Rick roll?
Literal lol
When did this come out??
Iron Maiden have some truly brilliant, poignant songs in their catalogue – – many of them about cool subject matter from history and books (e.g.: “To Tame a Land” is about Dune.)
This one is fine, but it’s not one of them. It’s an also-ran in their legacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD1ctAtkZhw
Traffic reporter has an existential crisis.
Hmm, it appears to have been a skit. Which is far less funny.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180503-our-fiction-addiction-why-humans-need-stories
Hmmm:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzak4/ghost-gun-glock-3d-printing?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
Looks cool:
https://youtu.be/jNcnsjlo-kM
Interesting watch for later. The culmination of years of pop art and influence… but at what cost?
https://youtu.be/rt-2cxAiPJk
https://bit.ly/3jne0nA
heh
Another self called ‘nice’ guy admits murder:
https://t.co/YiM6KSJsM6
Rolling Stone is a fucking paywall now, too?
Morning Pan
Off to the city later this morning
https://youtu.be/Utb2EQM03oM
And yet, not what you’d think it is.
Inspired choice.
CP: Doctor My Eyes — Jackson Browne
OK, this is a massive improvement on the original “Nothing Else Matters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzN9rdvXmS4
So someone who always said hello at the folk club recently died of Covid despite being doubly vaccinated.
So let’s be careful out there.
Sorry to hear that Van. In my own Covid news, Teresa is recovering well. She still has an occasional cough, but never got bad enough to go to the hospital. My daughter and I, while undoubtedly breathing in vast amounts of Delta virus for days, never caught it. It’s a flip of a coin how bad one will react to Covid, so it is still advisable to act cautiously. I’ve read good things about the booster shots raising immunity by 26 times, so get your boosters when available.
Sounds like the best outcome, under the circumstances.
Sorry to hear that Van.
Fuck Covid.
I’m glad things are looking up Rhett.
At the end of the day, NONE of the downsides of taking every precaution you can (masking, social distancing, avoiding inside crowds) equal the worst downside of getting the virus.
Hey Rhett… I had a request to ask you what your blood typed is.
Could be a science related or perhaps she is a vampire.
A positive. This brings up a funny observation. My mother is a very rare AB negative and my dad is O positive. Remember the high school biology days, A & B are dominant traits, and O is recessive. The only way you get O-type blood is if you have two recessive Os from your parents. This means my folk’s children could only ever be type A or B. So Teresa and I have been watching Wayward Pines on Netflix and at one point a detective finds out that two people were mother and son because they both had the ultrarare blood type AB negative. Um… no. An AB mother could give birth to any other blood type except O. It makes me wonder if the screenwriters were away of this or that they put it in just to see if they could get away with it.
I’m o negative, the universal blood type. Which kind of sucks, since I can’t give blood
Sad news, Van 🙁
Saw my Boo today. I think it’s the first time in a year we’ve been in the same physical space
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/a-brief-history-of-musicians-being-sued-by-their-album-cover-subjects/
Interesting. It’s not just the Nirvana baby.
CW: Aliens (theatrical release)
Really there are only two Alien movies worth watching.
The rest should really be nuked from orbit.
Game Over Man!
Extremely incorrect on many many fronts
Keep telling yourself that buddy.
Watched an older, Simone Pegg film last night. He plays a hit man in Australia.
It was Ok.
Had the vibe of a Liverpool Gangster film.
I hadn’t know Simon had a sister.
Apparently he was auto corrected
Speakign of “The Girl Who Got Rattled”
https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/ballad-buster-scruggs-coen-brothers-steward-edward-white-girl-gal-rattled-full-text.html
Lazy hubby is sleeping in
Sweet dreams:
https://youtu.be/gnAUs-ms3-Y
Getting Doom running on a business telephone set:
https://neilbostian.github.io/#/doomphone
Hmmm:
https://t.co/A8OHAdxTIB
Toy Story 3 trivia I forgot to mention!
The voice of Ken is performed by Michael Keaton.
CW: Reminiscence
Great cast, boring film.
It improve a bit towards the end, did not the description by one commenter that it was a wet Bladerunner.
How to grow old in table top RPG:
https://alphastream.org/index.php/2021/08/27/how-to-grow-old-in-tabletop-rpgs/
I was feeling a bit nostalgic so I bought the two Freedom Force video games from Great Old Games for $1.75 apiece. It still holds up, even with dated graphics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Force_(2002_video_game)
Xcom for superheroes.
More or less.
Pearl Jam’s “Ten” just turned 30 year old.
Clearly I remember.
https://www.spin.com/featured/pearl-jam-ten-turns-30/
Low budget sci-fi films that get overlooked:
https://youtu.be/qt5Mj2KSNnA
Think I saw Split Second at the cinema.
Is there a TL;DW list?
Just watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxwbhkDjZM
https://youtu.be/f5nrBj_uSBc
Also… I find it interesting that at least three of these films have Ruttger Howard in them.
I actually have seen “The Blood of Hero’s”.
All I remember about it is the we referred to it as “Dog Ball”.
Well there you go:
https://buff.ly/2WyOMKe
It is the best of those 3, but that isn’t saying much.
Right cause it’s an actual great DC film.
CW: The Protege
Maggie Q kicking arse.
Also one of those “I thought he was dead” moments with the veteran actor Patrick Malahide, I did google and he’s still alive.
The reviews have been generally bad but I rather enjoyed that.
You are.
Goodbye to Ed Asner:
https://t.co/dYi3bA5sPy
We watched Infinite last night. Not a great movie, but still, fun enough I guess
Every time i relisten to Jack White’s Blunderbuss album, I’m caught off guard by just how great the best songs are. Hypocritical Kiss and Weep Themselves to Sleep are so damn good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeGL0egXvHU
Do i have a good argument about Black Monday being the best show on tv right now? No.
Do I have a good argument about Black Monday not being the best show on tv right now? Also no.
In any case it’s what caused me to finally get a subscription to Showtime after 25 years and I ain’t mad.
Never even heard of it. I’ll check it. Prob won’t get Showtime, though.
Overanalysing Splash (it’s ‘joke’ video):
https://youtu.be/GrNs9jHM6FA
Morning Pan
We usually use our cat as our alarm clock. This past week, for whatever reason, she’s been letting us sleep in an extra half hour. Hubby has decided he doesn’t like the idea of an extra half hour sleep and actually set the alarm to go off at 4am again this morning. Getting up before the cat wakes us has confused both the cat and myself.
Agee with this:
https://t.co/8saNP3lDoz
Goddamn paywall. I can’t comment on the article’s contents, so I’ll just say, here among friends:
It seems to me that this was badly bungled in a number of ways, but at least he’s finally getting us out. It was a doomed endeavor from the start, when Dubya launched it. Absolutely Vietnam II.
Imagine how much worse this would have gone if it had been trump in charge.
The “Thanks, Obama” crowd were saying “Thanks, Biden” from day 1. Their criticisms are completely disingenuous.
“ the total number of Americans and Afghan allies extricated from the country may exceed 120,000.”
Can’t find the link but a few weeks ago, when the Afghan Army folded up in hours, the Army estimated we might have to evacuate as many as 12,000 to 15,000 people.
We pulled out almost 10x that many.
The over all situation is catastrophically regrettable but the evac operation itself is phenomenally successful. One of the largest the world has seen.
In other times our patriotic conservatives would be wanting to hold parades and give out medals.
CP: Chaise Longue — Wet Leg
Strange video, but catchy song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9jeJk2UHQ
I do dig this! It reminds me a little of one of my favorite songs of 2020: I think these lyrics are even raunchier than Chaise Longue! You kinda must hear it, and must check your homophobia at the door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko7XdBszPRc
(There’s also a super-NSFW video)
This is the latest project from Roddy Bottum, the keyboardist from Faith No More.
Very catchy! 😀
A slice of gaming history:
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-point-and-click-legends-sierra-and-lucasarts
I was just reminiscing about the LucasArts Indiana Jones game.
https://www.abc15.com/news/national/study-claims-eating-a-hot-dog-could-take-36-minutes-off-your-life
“I just sucked 36 minutes of your life away. . . Some day I may go as high as 60, but I’m not quite sure what that would do to you.”
Maybe it’s 36 minutes near the end when you are shitting in a diaper.
Just saying.
Don’t underestimate the joy of shitting into a diaper.
I think tomorrow will be a movie day
The plan is to watch the new Steve Martin/Martin Short series tonight.
Ooooo… I like that idea!
Currently watching the second episode.
Oh and it’s a three way, Selena Gomez is a protagonist as well.
Erm. . . As attractive as she is. . .
Get your mind out of the gutter.
A certain Overkill song comes to mind.
We’ve been expecting yoooouuu!!!
Anatomy of a new marvel villain:
https://www.gq.com/story/tony-leung-tries-his-hand-at-hollywood?mbid=social_twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=gq&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social
WTF:
https://t.co/Kx0GnvruF5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxwaV7NEa6Y
Smoothing out the old Harryhausen FX
I must be getting old. I like the original version of the movies (which this doesn’t actually show). There was something cool about the slight stutteriness of stopmotion.
bout to talk to Shumaun on the FB Livestream. Farhad is a supercool, supersmart guy. Should be fun.
https://tggeeks.com/blog/2021/08/31/marvel-studios-releases-new-featurette-for-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings/
The fan rattle on my laptop has become seriously annoying.
#firstworldproblems
Morning Pan
Nothing like an early morning movie to get the blood pumping
Today’s movie is Don’t Listen
After a tragic turn of events at the new hole he’s fixing up, Daniel hears a ghostly plea for help, spurring him to seek out a famous paranormal expert
This is originally in Spanish. I’m being terrible and watching the dubbed version, instead of the subtitle one
That pool needs a good cleaning
Eric is sad
What do the voices want
I think I may have seen this movie before. *shrug*. What are you going to do
Someone’s hacked his walkie talkie
Death to the social worker!
He swore
Every room seems to have some sort of monitoring device, even the washroom
He seems to be a little old for his mom to be bathing him
Someone opened the pool gate
No, not a shadowy figure
He broke the picture
The voices told him
Yes, you’re crazy
Took a moment to throw I a load of laundry. Now, back to the movie
A gun!
Yes, we are doing this again
New meaning to the words “pool boy”
What a disturbing grave statue
Their washroom seems to be an octagon. That’s kind of cool
Home movies
Sleeping in the boy’s room
Recorded voices
His glasses come apart in the middle
The accident site
Evil awaits once we die
Be ready for anything
She missed it
Looking for sounds
It’s upstairs
My eyes water when things get spooky. It’s kind of strange
It tried to deafen him
She’s asleep on the job
He’s hallucinating
She’s not very nice
Dead Eric calls
A dozen dead cats
The house of voices
But you’re dead
Personally, I would have left that house ages ago and not come back
Seriously woman, stop
Bye bye Sara
It’s because of mama
He sees dead people
How can you live with this?
Looking for the dungeon
You’d think, if they convert an old courthouse to a family home, they would at least get rid of the bodies in the cells
Ten minutes or leave
Why do flashlights get finicky in haunted areas?
And does hitting them as they flicker really work?
Lost in the shadows
Always carry a box cutter when hunting ghosts
Don’t follow the light
Oh Ruth. Always playing with her box cutter
Evil exists
It’s all there in the pictures
As I said, I did see this movie before. But I’d still give it three eye waters out of five
I bet the subtitled version would rank 4/5 eye waters.
Happy birthday, T-cat!
Have a great birthday T-Cat!
Dune 1984’s Lady Jessica interviewed. Looks interesting.
https://deadline.com/2021/09/dune-francesca-annis-interview-david-lynch-venice-1234824736/
I can remember expecting to not like Lynch’s Dune, but I found it pretty good. I never read any of the novels.
CP: We All Become — Darren Korb feat. Ashley Barrett
The latest conspiracy theory:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/9/1/22652236/ted-lasso-roy-kent-cgi-conspiracy-theory
Gah, remember when conspiracy theories were kinda harmless and kinda fun?
So…. Oldest daughter injured her back on Saturday (apparently slipped on the stairs).
Still hurts today. X-rays this morning we’re negative, so her doc said it was urgent to go to ER to rule out internal injuries.
So here we are, on hour 2 in the ER waiting room… surrounded by coughing people.
My toddler is home. But there are plenty of shrieking toddlers here.
That sucks, Jack. I hope things turn out well for you and your daughter
We did get home last night at about 11pm. All the imaging looked fine.
Glad to hear it.
TCat says thanks for the birthday wishes
Hmmm:
https://t.co/LtZXVAfMb0
Happy Birthday to Ed.
Another circle around the sun.
Happy, happy, joy, joy Ed!
Happy Ed from Texas Day!
Happy Ed Day!
Happy in Texas Ed Day!
https://i.imgflip.com/17e1xk.jpg
Happy Times wishes for Wd and TCat !!
Fascinating:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/29/we-all-play-the-status-game-but-who-are-the-real-winners
Although this is a comical editorial miss:
“Humans are extraordinarily imaginary creatures who use almost anything to symbolise status: money, Twitter followers, literary tastes, power, the brand of a watch or the shape of a stomach.”
I think he meant “imaginative creatures.” Although if we’re imaginary, that would explain a lot.
Writing a short complaint letter felt like pulling teeth as I wrote the bloody thing.
What was the gist of the complaint?
Clearly complaining about Dwarf dentists.
CP: Mr. Pessimist — Tears For Fears
This is very close to where I grew up:
https://abc7ny.com/water-rescues-underway-due-to-flooding-in-cranford/10994022/
I’ve never seen anything like it.
In case you were holding your breath, you can breathe now.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033709487/abba-new-album-digital-concert
Thanks all for the birthday well wishes. Today I’m a perfect square.
In other news, we finally get to learn what was happening back home while Flash was flying blind on a Hawkman rocket cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hsxh_QNi0
Weighing a penguin:
https://reddit.com/r/aww/comments/pdmuyw/in_case_youre_wondering_what_its_like_to_weigh_a/
Huzzah! A Friday before a long weekend.
The first mass produced motorised scooter:
https://t.co/3RXdq1VkAd
Crap joke for the day:
The IRS decided to audit Grandpa, and summoned him to the IRS office. The IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney.
The auditor said, “Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I’m not sure the IRS finds that believable.”
“I’m a great gambler, and I can prove it,” says Grandpa. “How about a demonstration?”
The auditor thinks for a moment and says, “OK. Go ahead.”
Grandpa says, “I’ll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.”
The auditor thinks a moment and says, “It’s a bet.”
Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor’s jaw drops.
Grandpa says, “Now, I’ll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.”
The auditor can tell Grandpa isn’t blind, so he takes the bet.
Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye. The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with Grandpa’s attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.
“Want to go double or nothing?” Grandpa asks. “I’ll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.”
The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there’s no way this old guy could possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again.
Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can’t make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor’s desk.
The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win. But Grandpa’s attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.
“Are you OK?” the auditor asks.
“Not really,” says the attorney. “This morning, when Grandpa told me he’d been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and pee all over your desk and that you’d be happy about it.”
An oldie but goodie. Kind of. Maybe. Not really. 😉
S l o w
c l a p
TL:FO
CP: Dr. Strangeluv — Blonde Redhead
Gentle reminder (to me, as well as everyone else):
We should start corralling, scheduling, planning, composing our reactions to the Palooza flicks.
I have notes typed for 5E and stuff in my head for BoBS. Still need to watch Tenet.
How are we meeting? Zoom? I can meet most days except Sept 18.
That weekend is out for me. Perhaps sometime after that?
What about Sunday 26th September?
Possibly. Maybe we focus on just one of the movies for that day.
I’m good for the 26th.
Everybody’s asleep except for me. What’s that about?
The Spice Diver fan edit of Dune is up on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/vJykw3H4PDw
CW: The Green Knight
Seriously this is a beautifully shot film.
How are you watching it? I refuse to pay the 20$ to rent it
Cough
You SOB…
Watching Planet Earth (1974?). I think it was a tv pilot. I can see why it never went anywhere
This was a show about women’s lib home mad
Looks like I could do the 26th
Getting everyone caught up.
I’m surprised at the silence over this week’s What If? It was a little odd, but that battle scene was fantastic.
A Shang-Chi viewing is planned for the long weekend. Probably at home, but we’ve considered a theater matinee.
I’ve finally spurred myself to watch Deadwood. The whole first season was fine, but damn – – that is how you do a season finale. I’m stoked to push on into the next two seasons.
Well it was a bit if a downer so I can understand the silence.
I’m deciding whether to see Shang-Chi at the cinema or wait the 45 days till it’s available on Disney+
We’ll wait.
It was my favorite episode of the season.
Since we still aren’t going out, unfortunately no Shang Chi for us unto it’s available on D+ in 45 days. We are going to try and find a drive-in that is playin it, tho.
Did a full Deadwood watch middle of last year. I had never seen it. Boy howdy did I fly thru it and loved every minute!
Then I saw the film….
Wait – Shang-Chi isn’t available on D+ right now??
Motherfucker. . .
No. They’re going to release for free after its been in theaters for 45 days. I imagine it will be the same with Eternals and Spider Man
CW: The Paper Tigers
Three middle aged men who used to do Kung Fu discover their elderly Kung Fu master was murdered.
Available on Netflix in the US I believe.
Well that was a lot of fun, well worth checking out.
Remeniscence, the new Hugh Jackman scifi-ish mystery film on HBOMax, was a colossal disappointment.
Now for some Statham and Wrath of Man
Jesus agreeing with me again, WTF!
Did Jesus not like it either?!
Jesus saves! Moses scores on the rebound!
Get your soccer BS out of our ‘Mericuh!
What a mashup:
https://youtu.be/3OjkiuCp0bU
Sad:
https://trib.al/Zsxa5dT
Sux. Incredible talent.
Fuck addiction.
So great on The Wire and Boardwalk Empire.
You’ve got luddites all wrong:
https://t.co/PNKaPpsQcI
The first 3 episodes of Only Murders in the Building have been fun.
Indeed, all three leads are good.
Morning Pan
If I get enough work done this morning, I might sneak into the city and get a bookcase.
Checked on line. The store is out of stock so I won’t be going into the city today. Just as well
It sounds like your province and govt are as covid crazy as ours here.
Ugh
The cat just pounced on, and ate, a bug. She better not get sick or I’m making her clean it up herself.
I’m morbidly curious now, but. . . I don’t need any further details.
She didn’t get sick. Just as well as we all know it was an idle threat at best.
Crap joke for the day:
An 8-year-old girl went to her grandfather, who was working in the yard and asked him, “Grampa, what is couple sex?”
The grandfather was surprised that she would ask such a question, but decided that if she’s old enough to ask the question, then she’s old enough to get a straight answer. Steeling himself to leave nothing out, he proceeded to tell her all about human reproduction and the joys and responsibilities of intercourse.
When he finished explaining, the little girl was looking at him with her mouth hanging open, eyes wide in amazement. Seeing the look on her face, the grandfather asked her, “Why did you ask this question, honey?”
The little girl replied, “Grandma says that dinner will be ready in just a couple secs.
CP: Insanity — Hante.
I tell a bit of a personal story on the latest MHOF blog post:
https://www.metalhalloffame.org/rime-of-the-ancient-firebird/
And – – I don’t *need* the Likes to justify my writings, but plz feel free to add some at the https://www.facebook.com/officialmetalhalloffame page.
Nice job man
Thank you very much, sir!
Hi everyone,
If you were 9 when Rock Lobster came out, you’d B-52 now.
Thank you.
It wasn’t a rock. . .
Sca-do-ba-da
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/telosa-marc-lore-blake-ingels-new-city/index.html
I want to believe.
Any new urban centers in the desert are going to have to figure desalinization in some form. The Colorado River already has too many takers.
Goodbye to a french acting legend:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/06/jean-paul-belmondo-star-of-breathless-dies-aged-88
Ah well:
https://t.co/hMJfAnLOIy
Morning Pan
Actually got lots done today. More than I expected by this point.
Now it’s time to vacuum 1/3 of my house
Hubby had a COVID case in his school yesterday. Under the new rules, the case rakes the 10 days but all the school does is notes it down like a normal illness. They don’t inform close contacts, other students, community p, or anything. While it lessens the work load, he said it felt strange and wrong
And this all trickles down from Jason Kenney?
Yup
I watched the new Suicide Squad last night. Never watched the previous one as I know I wouldn’t be able to take the Jared Leto version of Joker. I enjoyed the new one. It was a fun flick. Actually my first time seeing Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. There was something a bit off on her accent. Sounded like she was trying to channel Cyndi Lauper and just not quite able to get there. I will say my favorite character was, without a doubt, Weasel.
Oof
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-am-so-fking-tired_l_61375f2ce4b0df9fe27b4bde
https://news.mit.edu/2011/antiviral-0810
Does it have a microchip?
If only.
You need to line up outside of ikea. Who knew it would be this busy first thing on a Wednesday
OOoof!
I just read your article Jack.
You gotta warn me to protect my “feels” before you start swinging like that.
Well done.
Thank you, sir! (for a second, I thought you meant the huffpost link above, but then my brain caught up.)
So here’s my strange tale for the day. My Volt was having issues so I took it to the dealership. Bad news, some computer brain part was starting to fail and it cost $500. The good news, Chevy’s hybrid warranty covers it. Worse news, because of the chip shortage the part is on indefinite backorder. I might be waiting 6 months or more for the part. My tech got me a car from Enterprise. I guess this means I’ll be driving a rental for six months to a year?
Eek. Hopefully not a 2.5 mpg HumVee.
Looks like I have a FB Livestream set up for tomorrow with someone we’ve all been listening to for a long time.
He’s playing it a bit coy with an alter ego for his band, so I won’t out him by name. (Some have already figured it out).
PETER GABRIEL ?!?!!!
My heart is going boom! boom! boom!
Today I’ve been mostly watching YouTube video reviews of electric bikes.
Carry on.
it’s adorable how linguistic luddites continue tilting at their windmills and denying that the meanings of words evolve over time.
Cool. You you mean the same way asshats deny that Constitutional Amendments should evolve over time?
Example:
Strange New Worlds is looking good, looking forward to this one.
Hubby had a meeting last night. Even though they are now done through Zoom so he can be home for them, it still means late nights.
Being the good wife, I wait up for him. Ugh, I’m tired
*sigh*
Waiting for info mode at work again.
Matrix Resurrections trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ix7TUGVYIo
Looking better than I was expecting.
Ok, how feasible would this place be to visit in a future Arizona meet-up:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/santa-claus-arizona
Kingman is closer to Las Vegas than Phoenix.
Fun fact: Joe Murphy used to live in Kingman. He drove to Phoenix every weekend for Wingin It and Slice.
Then he moved to Tuscon, which is still 2 hours away, and still came up almost every weekend.
Driving through Kingman I was always impressed by how bleak it seemed. Tucson is a considerable step up in my opinion. Glad Joe got out there when he could.
*sigh*. I’m already tired of our election. I think we’re going to do early voting this weekend
It was a fun interview. That “Merciless” is a character.
Getting Max Von Sydow, post mortem, is a great get!
I should have added a graphic at the finish reading “The End?”
I’ve been in house cleaning mode the last few days so haven’t gone for a walk in awhile. I think I’ll go out later this morning.
Spacesuits on the silver screen:
https://crypt.art/welcome
The exhibition is called One Giant Leap and it appears not to work on mobile Safari.
https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/
TIL before 8am that nazi scumbags are rewriting history on Wikipedia pages.
This is why Wikipedia is generally not accepted as a source document in most academic research
Title is a little misleading.
More accurate, “one woman’s mission to undo the subtle cleansing of Nazi history on Wikipedia”
Someone(s) is trying to soften Nazi attrocities and she is trying to erase that.
I also learned about the Eternal September movement, which pines for the good old days of the pre-AOL internet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I’m in a mood. Don’t you hate it when you have several forms of entertainment at your finger tips (reading, movies, gaming, listening to music or podcasts) and all of them make you go meh.
Not to be glib, but I’ve been doing the “every day is a new fucking crisis” thing since way before 2020 rolled around. But it still gets old.
We are watching the F1 qualifying. This is in Italy. One of the corners of the race track is called Lesmos. Hubby looked the naming of the corner up. Apparently it’s names in honour of this artist.
Those crazy Italians
https://www.amazon.ca/Emmanuelle-T01-leçon-dhomme-French-ebook/dp/B07JVH9R8Q/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=guido+crepax+emmanuelle&qid=1631316768&sr=8-2
I’ve been listening to Maiden’s “Sunjutsu.” It’s pretty good, probably their best effort since “Brave New World.”
I’m glad you dig it. Many fans are heaping the praise.
It’s just so bland to me. I realize I might need to give it a few more listens, but I’m struggling to make myself. So far, I much prefer Book of Souls (which I thought was so-so).
It must just be me.
So tonight I watched Kate on Netflix.
Action movie that is rather fun, go and watch it.
It was a fun, if somewhat predictable movie
Watched this last night.
I Agree with Van and Jack but would caution that it is an absolute, violent bloodbath. A splatterfest that Tarentino would love.
Apart from that… it’s a fun ride.
So trying out a new podcast today with the one covering Enter the Dragon:
https://www.thatdylandavis.com/super70-redux/
Watched “Val” on Amazon Prime yesterday. Semi-autobiographical thing about Val Kilmer made from decades of video recordings he’s made over his life.
Was interesting and I enjoyed it overall.
I watched the first 20 minutes. I was unaware of his throat cancer.
An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_rb_pitHk
I only watched the first 20 minutes or so, but I plan to watch the rest.
We’re going to vote today. Now I don’t want to hear anything else about the election for another four years
20 years later and I still can’t read first-hand accounts from 9/11 without coming appart.
I guess for me, it may never NOT be too soon.
Agreed. I still respond with anger. That so many were murdered, their last moments in fear and pain. And so many survivors’ lives destroyed.
And also all of the ways that fear has dominated American politics and culture ever since. All the ways that Bin Laden won. May he suffer in hell.
JW: The Voyeurs
On Amazon Prime. Rear window vibe and a plot that is a twisty turny thing.
Many months ago on a conference call with the other board members of the Metal Hall of Fame, the CEO started the conversation about potential nominees. I immediately said, “Paul Di’Anno. He is at the top of my list.” (Iron Maiden’s lead singer on their first two albums).
Today, Paul Di’Anno was inducted in the Metal Hall of Fame. My little part in this chain of events has no doubt been lost in the shuffle, and I won’t go shouting and yelling about it – – but I’ll say it here. I’m absolutely proud to have played some small part in this.
*Of course, there are other giants of Metal history who belong, but there are also numerous hurdles. Egos, politics, fractured band relationships, etc.
**One of the guys at the MHOF actually knows Paul Di’Anno and was able to do the legwork to make his induction happen. All I did was push for it on a call – – that guy deserves all of the credit.
***My buddy, Rich, also suggested Stryper, who were inducted today.
That’s cool, Jack
Excellent!
Making a difference, in a positive way.
Ace of the Base, the Neo Nazi band who flew under the radar:
https://t.co/xHGBzb2ZRw
Phil Tippett’s Mad God – Official Teaser Trailer (2021)
Looks wacked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPScwQ-FAbI
Has anyone here seen this movie? I’ve not heard of it.
“We’re not talking enough about the 50th Anniversary of Mike Hodges’ magnificent GET CARTER, one of the best British films of the 70s and one of the best crime thrillers of all time.”
/raises hand
Even saw it at an actual cinema when the local arty cinema was doing a Mike Hodges season.
One of the first photos I took with iPhone 3G was of that iconic car park being demolished.
Just avoid the Sylvester Stallone remake which has the temerity to fuck around with the ending.
I’ve always been mildly curious to check out the Michael Caine movie.
I can’t imagine I’ll ever choose to watch the Stallone movie.
And a Hawkeye trailer: (haven’t watched)
https://gizmodo.com/hawkeye-s-first-trailer-takes-aim-with-marvel-s-kate-an-1845853684
I cannot wait for this.
Ok is Amber Tamblyn wearing a fat suit in the first episode of Y The Last Man?
With the proviso that I have not read the comics, that was a dam fine start to a sci-fi series.
Has it started yet in the US?
I saw previews and haven’t dared to get my hopes up.
Also- fearing this might not be the best time to be releasing a series about (SPOILER)
a global pandemic that envolves genetics.
Expect anti-Vax to embrace it as their warning against science in … 5..4..3..2..
Yup, first three episodes up.
Looks like it is only available on Hulu
I cant tell if the mediocre scores on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB are indicative of it’s a bad show or because of trolls.
Oh… its the same meh on Metacritic.
Feh. Zero hopes.
I’m serious, Van. You nailed it when you compared my probable loathe of this series to your loathe of Blade Runner.
We are now one whence we were once twain…
I’m going to check it out tonight. I’ve read a handful of reviews, most are positive. I’m also aware of some changes which are understandable but may raise some hackles here or there. I’m hopeful, they have the original creators on board. There are a lot of ways to still fuck it up. The comic did a great job of celebrating and critiquing both traditional gender roles. It is not “all men deserve death”, and it is not “women would do everything better.” It is more like what would actually happen with a few fantastical elements for drama. It had balance. This is my wish for the series.
Especially the “tHe fEminaZis are tRyinG to eLiMInaTe rEaL mEn” crowd.
I also didn’t realize this series had begun.
The two opposing ALL CAPS viewpoints seem to be, “see it’s finally here, the left-wing finally gets to see all the men die”, and “who’s idea was it that women would end up being just as violent as men?”
https://geektyrant.com/news/first-photo-from-dcs-peacemaker-series-james-gunn-says-its-the-most-incredible-tv-show-people-will-ever-see
1. I guess modesty is just a thing of the past in some circles
2. Has DC really not figured out yet that statements like these set people’s expectations way to high and lead to massive let down when people actually see a TV show that is just as good or bad as most other TV shows?
Jesse – – I just wanna make sure you spotted the Bakshi link above:
An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_rb_pitHk
If this is a link to the SpiderMan preview I am going to turn you in on Texas’ anonymous, rat out your neighbor, tip line.
I now wish that I’d thought of that.
I saw the link. Put it in my cue. I’ve seen a lot of stuff on this already so not sure I want to invest an hour. But I’ll start it and see if it’s worth it from there.
I gave it 2 minutes. Fuck this guy and the horse he rode in on. He starts a 1 hour video on Bakshi animation with a love letter to Peter Jackson’s version of LOTR and has the balls to say that a comparison of Bakshi’s version to that one is inevitable. Says nothing whatsoever bad about the Jackson version and call out all of the flaws of Backshi’s. I have no time to spend on any other of this assholes opinions.
Responses to me of “well why don’t you tell us how you really feel” are totally appropriate.
Don’t hold back Jesse, tell it how it is.
Preach!
Don’t hold back, Jesse!
I watched a bit – – he seems pretty knowledgeable, and seems to have a lot of scholarly affection for Bakshi.
*shrugs*
Not that Jim Breuer was ever funny anyway. . . but. . .
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/essex/montclair/2021/09/13/covid-vaccination-policy-jim-breuer-cancel-wellmont-theater-nj-show/8319703002/
In a late breaking statement, Covid applauded his decision and hoped it might lead others to make the same decision. “Hey, now that science is on to me and there are effective FDA approved vaccines, I need all the help I can get!”
I have way too many things on my desk this morning.
Watched the first two episodes of “Y” last night. Overall, I like it. They made a couple of narrative choices where I would have gone more in the direction of the book, but I’m still looking forward to seeing the 3rd episode.
Currently watching episode 3 and I wonder if Yorrick is such a fucking asshole in the comics as he is so far in the tv series.
Hammers on Bone is the Tor book club freebie this month:
https://ebookclub.tor.com/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=eblast&utm_term=torcomebookclubpromo-hammersonbneebookgwy&utm_content=na-signup-giveaway&utm_campaign=9780765392701&et=72509-nf14786f0-47c7-4453-b759-2468a7c70e35-ndb613177-8890-42ac-bff3-37c40db8b136-ne066ff09-2d15-4c41-bbc4-11a18c7ce539&e=de4e09e90cf88b6e1ae203f506f9ca70d9d42b86fffa7ed5e49f75fa0515cdbf
Dammit! Van beat me to it. . .
This was an excellent, creepy, modern Lovecraftian book. I’ve been wanting to read more of her stuff.
CP: Keep It Dark — Genesis
My last few posts have been of negative reactions. So to balance some things out, here is something I was absolutely floored by (in a good way). I was just in Las Vegas and saw an art installation called Omega Mart by the group Meow Wolf. It seemed to consist of a mock grocery store with fake products like “tattoo chicken” (a can that has a chicken in it that has been tattooed). It seemed cool, but I wasn’t sure I was going to get my $45 worth out of just that. I took the chance and was astounded. Not only was the front end with the super market insanely detailed and almost 100% my particular sick sense of humor, but you were also encouraged to start poking around and opening things like doors, lockers, filing cabinets, until you find your way back into this insane amount of rooms with light shows and all kinds of fun. Again, the level of detail was what really pulled me in. A random collection of stuff in one area had a mailbox as part of what was thrown together. If you open the mailbox there is mail in there with such cool notices as “we regret to inform you of the burning of the “burning of the town hall” monument”. I wish I had found it when I had a few full days to go through every nook and cranny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmhf-6itUg
This is stupid!!
(My comment above was a joke. I will give a real reaction after I’ve actually clicked the link.)
[I did see your Facebook photos from Omega Mart. It looks surreal and hella fun.]
The video is only a minute for the time-crunched. This looks like an absolute must for any Vegas trip.
Most excellent!
Goodbye to Norm MacDonald:
https://t.co/wSbwGQ8Syp
Who had a very good take on having cancer:
https://youtu.be/NMRd-n_s4c8
I will carry on his theory that “Germans love David Hasselhoff.”
RIP
The cancer bit is spot-on.
I feel as if my in box didn’t get any smaller yesterday. I still have a huge pile of to do on my desk.
The best cover of a song ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-TSyZg3B68&ab_channel=LEOCOVERS
Speaking of great cover tunes:
https://www.stereogum.com/2160540/the-number-ones-sinead-oconnors-nothing-compares-2-u/columns/the-number-ones/
GREAT great version of this song. The original, while ok, pales.
I’m doing an interview in half an hour and my cat has decided now is the best time to be a brat.
CP: James Bond Theme (Moby’s Re-version) — Moby
https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6095930/nk-jemisin/
Good for her! There are other profiles I’d like to read, but the website is squawking at me about my limited access. . . .
Boy Just some gems here. I had forgotten about him basically roasting roasts at the Roast of Bob Sagat.
If nothing else, do watch the 2 4minute clips of him on Conan.
https://www.avclub.com/norm-macdonald-was-the-best-worst-talk-show-guest-of-al-1847676170
It’s tough to pull off a routine of bad jokes as satire of the whole thing.
Everyone else may have already seen this but the sheer joy on this young girls face as she plays …had to share.
https://youtu.be/jsDgrKdczAE
She’s great. Kudos to Grohl for many things, but especially for giving this girl a chance to show off her talent.
I remember From Beyond being one of the weirdest movies I’d ever seen:
https://www.tor.com/2021/09/15/you-will-fear-the-fuchsia-yet-again-from-beyond-1986/
Rewatched some time this century. Still a weird movie, but I found it more of a fun, freaky 80s B horror.
OMG-I SAW this in the theater.
Weird.
WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD.
Yet my friends and I talked about it for years.
The pineal gland became our favorite, death dealing organ.
Because of the years that have passed since I saw this, my brain had lumped it in with “Re-Animator” (1985)
ICYMI: SpaceX launch today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c5muMCsDGg
Damn Americans. You still don’t know how to spell
You mean speull?
CP: The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming — No-No Boy
Cool photos. And cool links for further viewing at the bottom:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/nasa-space-shuttle-photos-scn-culture-queue/index.html
Goodbye to Clive Sinclair, ZX Spectrum forever:
https://t.co/z0XxNWsWMJ
I have someone to coming to look at my garage door around supper time. I have a virtual book launch after supper. When am I supposed to eat?
Virtual meatloaf?
I won’t do that.
I don’t think I can eat meatloaf so it would have to be virtual
Ha! Garage door person asked if he could come tomorrow instead. I said yes as this is more convenient for me anyway and it’s not an emergency
I need to check this later:
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/beethoven/greatest-versions-moonlight-sonata/
Moonlight Sonata is pretty much the beautiful piece of music ever written. Aside from “I’m the Man” by Anthrax.
Shut shut up.
Some of these are great. And Annie Lennox is a treasure.
Truth
Calculate like it’s 1974:
https://righto.com/sinclair
As long as Van is around … Clive Sinclair will continue to live on!
Carnivale vibe:
https://youtu.be/FtHm5OJCUzk
So it turns out that Tiffany is working on Sunday, September 26. She usually doesn’t work Sundays, but as fate would have it. . .
So I would have a very limited time window to talk movie(s) that day.
Since we never really pinned down a time, I wonder if we should move it a week?
Well I’ll still be off the following Sunday, so what about Oct 3rd?
We’ll discuss!
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/nightmare-alley-trailer-bradley-cooper-cate-blanchett-guillermo-del-toro-1235049097/
I’m ready for a return to form from GDT. I haven’t watched the trailer yet, but I’m optimistic.
You mean the link to trailer I posted above
You mean this one? https://youtu.be/rt-2cxAiPJk
This one:
https://youtu.be/FtHm5OJCUzk
Ahhh, I did not yet click your link. Mea culpa.
Goddammit Rhett
Well played, Rhett
Nobody wants to be a serf anymore:
https://t.co/CZtVwY69aA
Serf’s up.
That is Swiftian gold.
Haters gonna hatehatehatehatehate
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
CW: Bladerunner 2049
Maybe this time I won’t fall asleep in the middle of the film.
That was much better on a second viewing but Jared Leto is still the worst actor in the film.
I still need to see BR2049er a 2nd time, but I recall loving it in the theater.
Escape From New York leaves HBO at the end of the month.
So dated. So cheesy. So perfect.
Truly. It’s simply terrific
JW: Candyman (2021)
One word review would be ‘meh!’
Maybe I should have had a stiff drink before watching.
Need a stiff somethin….
Well hello sailor!
Saying THAT 3 times in the mirror starts an entirely different kind of movie.
I’m with you on the meh. It followed well from the first one and payed the respect due to the first one. I liked some of it, but it just didn’t resonate with me as much as the first one. I would watch it again, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to do so.
This is a realllllllly long read, but worth your time. Truly profound.
My parents never wept over a piece of music in their lives. They had no idea what I do, nor why. I wish they could have seen or heard this:
Welcome address to freshman parents at Boston Conservatory, given by Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of music division at Ithaca College.
“One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me as a musician, that I wouldn’t be appreciated. I had very good grades in high school, I was good in science and math, and they imagined that as a doctor or a research chemist or an engineer, I might be more appreciated than I would be as a musician. I still remember my mother’s remark when I announced my decision to apply to music school-she said, “you’re WASTING your SAT scores.” On some level, I think, my parents were not sure themselves what the value of music was, what its purpose was. And they LOVED music, they listened to classical music all the time. They just weren’t really clear about its function. So let me talk about that a little bit, because we live in a society that puts music in the “arts and entertainment” section of the newspaper, and serious music, the kind your kids are about to engage in, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with entertainment, in fact it’s the opposite of entertainment. Let me talk a little bit about music, and how it works.
The first people to understand how music really works were the ancient Greeks. And this is going to fascinate you; the Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us. Let me give you some examples of how this works.
One of the most profound musical compositions of all time is the Quartet for the End of Time written by French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1940. Messiaen was 31 years old when France entered the war against Nazi Germany. He was captured by the Germans in June of 1940, sent across Germany in a cattle car and imprisoned in a concentration camp. He was fortunate to find a sympathetic prison guard who gave him paper and a place to compose. There were three other musicians in the camp, a cellist, a violinist, and a clarinetist, and Messiaen wrote his quartet with these specific players in mind. It was performed in January 1941 for four thousand prisoners and guards in the prison camp. Today it is one of the most famous masterworks in the repertoire.
Given what we have since learned about life in the concentration camps, why would anyone in his right mind waste time and energy writing or playing music? There was barely enough energy on a good day to find food and water, to avoid a beating, to stay warm, to escape torture – why would anyone bother with music? And yet – from the camps, we have poetry, we have music, we have visual art; it wasn’t just this one fanatic Messiaen; many, many people created art.
Why? Well, in a place where people are only focused on survival, on the bare necessities, the obvious conclusion is that art must be, somehow, essential for life. The camps were without money, without hope, without commerce, without recreation, without basic respect, but they were not without art. Art is part of survival; art is part of the human spirit, an unquenchable expression of who we are. Art is one of the ways in which we say, “I am alive, and my life has meaning.”
On September 12, 2001 I was a resident of Manhattan. That morning I reached a new understanding of my art and its relationship to the world. I sat down at the piano that morning at 10 AM to practice as was my daily routine; I did it by force of habit, without thinking about it. I lifted the cover on the keyboard, and opened my music, and put my hands on the keys and took my hands off the keys. And I sat there and thought, does this even matter? Isn’t this completely irrelevant?
Playing the piano right now, given what happened in this city yesterday, seems silly, absurd, irreverent, pointless. Why am I here? What place has a musician in this moment in time? Who needs a piano player right now? I was completely lost.
And then I, along with the rest of New York, went through the journey of getting through that week. I did not play the piano that day, and in fact I contemplated briefly whether I would ever want to play the piano again. And then I observed how we got through the day.
At least in my neighborhood, we didn’t shoot hoops or play Scrabble. We didn’t play cards to pass the time, we didn’t watch TV, we didn’t shop, we most certainly did not go to the mall. The first organized activity that I saw in New York, that same day, was singing. People sang. People sang around fire houses, people sang “We Shall Overcome”. Lots of people sang America the Beautiful. The first organized public event that I remember was the Brahms Requiem, later that week, at Lincoln Center, with the New York Philharmonic.
The first organized public expression of grief, our first communal response to that historic event, was a concert. That was the beginning of a sense that life might go on. The US Military secured the airspace, but recovery was led by the arts, and by music in particular, that very night.
From these two experiences, I have come to understand that music is not part of “arts and entertainment” as the newspaper section would have us believe. It’s not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or a pass time. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can’t with our minds.
Some of you may know Samuel Barber’s heart wrenchingly beautiful piece Adagio for Strings. If you don’t know it by that name, then some of you may know it as the background music which accompanied the Oliver Stone movie Platoon, a film about the Vietnam War. If you know that piece of music either way, you know it has the ability to crack your heart open like a walnut; it can make you cry over sadness you didn’t know you had. Music can slip beneath our conscious reality to get at what’s really going on inside us the way a good therapist does.
I bet that you have never been to a wedding where there was absolutely no music. There might have been only a little music, there might have been some really bad music, but I bet you there was some music. And something very predictable happens at weddings – people get all pent up with all kinds of emotions, and then there’s some musical moment where the action of the wedding stops and someone sings or plays the flute or something. And even if the music is lame, even if the quality isn’t good, predictably 30 or 40 percent of the people who are going to cry at a wedding, cry a couple of moments after the music starts. Why? The Greeks.
Music allows us to move around those big invisible pieces of ourselves and rearrange our insides so that we can express what we feel even when we can’t talk about it. Can you imagine watching Indiana Jones or Superman or Star Wars with the dialogue but no music? What is it about the music swelling up at just the right moment in ET so that all the softies in the audience start crying at exactly the same moment? I guarantee you if you showed the movie with the music stripped out, it wouldn’t happen that way.
The Greeks: Music is the understanding of the relationship between invisible internal objects.
I’ll give you one more example, the story of the most important concert of my life. I must tell you I have played a little less than a thousand concerts in my life so far. I have played in places that I thought were important. I like playing in Carnegie Hall; I enjoyed playing in Paris; it made me very happy to please the critics in St. Petersburg. I have played for people I thought were important; music critics of major newspapers, foreign heads of state. The most important concert of my entire life took place in a nursing home in Fargo, ND, about 4 years ago.
I was playing with a very dear friend of mine who is a violinist. We began, as we often do, with Aaron Copland’s Sonata, which was written during World War II and dedicated to a young friend of Copland’s, a young pilot who was shot down during the war. Now we often talk to our audiences about the pieces we are going to play rather than providing them with written program notes. But in this case, because we began the concert with this piece, we decided to talk about the piece later in the program and to just come out and play the music without explanation.
Midway through the piece, an elderly man seated in a wheelchair near the front of the concert hall began to weep. This man, whom I later met, was clearly a soldier-even in his 70’s, it was clear from his buzz-cut hair, square jaw and general demeanor that he had spent a good deal of his life in the military. I thought it a little bit odd that someone would be moved to tears by that particular movement of that particular piece, but it wasn’t the first time I’ve heard crying in a concert and we went on with the concert and finished the piece.
When we came out to play the next piece on the program, we decided to talk about both the first and second pieces, and we described the circumstances in which the Copland was written and mentioned its dedication to a downed pilot. The man in the front of the audience became so disturbed that he had to leave the auditorium. I honestly figured that we would not see him again, but he did come backstage afterwards, tears and all, to explain himself.
What he told us was this: “During World War II, I was a pilot, and I was in an aerial combat situation where one of my team’s planes was hit. I watched my friend bail out, and watched his parachute open, but the Japanese planes which had engaged us returned and machine gunned across the parachute chords so as to separate the parachute from the pilot, and I watched my friend drop away into the ocean, realizing that he was lost. I have not thought about this for many years, but during that first piece of music you played, this memory returned to me so vividly that it was as though I was reliving it. I didn’t understand why this was happening, why now, but then when you came out to explain that this piece of music was written to commemorate a lost pilot, it was a little more than I could handle. How does the music do that? How did it find those feelings and those memories in me?”
Remember the Greeks: music is the study of invisible relationships between internal objects. This concert in Fargo was the most important work I have ever done. For me to play for this old soldier and help him connect, somehow, with Aaron Copland, and to connect their memories of their lost friends, to help him remember and mourn his friend, this is my work. This is why music matters.
What follows is part of the talk I will give to this year’s freshman class when I welcome them a few days from now. The responsibility I will charge your sons and daughters with is this:
“If we were a medical school, and you were here as a med student practicing appendectomies, you’d take your work very seriously because you would imagine that some night at two AM someone is going to waltz into your emergency room and you’re going to have to save their life.
Well, my friends, someday at 8 PM someone is going to walk into your concert hall and bring you a mind that is confused, a heart that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again will depend partly on how well you do your craft.
You’re not here to become an entertainer, and you don’t have to sell yourself. The truth is you don’t have anything to sell; being a musician isn’t about dispensing a product, like selling used Chevies. I’m not an entertainer; I’m a lot closer to a paramedic, a firefighter, a rescue worker. You’re here to become a sort of therapist for the human soul, a spiritual version of a chiropractor, physical therapist, someone who works with our insides to see if they get things to line up, to see if we can come into harmony with ourselves and be healthy and happy and well.
Frankly, ladies and gentlemen, I expect you not only to master music; I expect you to save the planet. If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness, I don’t expect it will come from a government, a military force or a corporation. I no longer even expect it to come from the religions of the world, which together seem to have brought us as much war as they have peace. If there is a future of peace for humankind, if there is to be an understanding of how these invisible, internal things should fit together, I expect it will come from the artists, because that’s what we do. As in the concentration camp and the evening of 9/11, the artists are the ones who might be able to help us with our internal, invisible lives.”
I realize this is the epitome of TL;DR. . .
Thanks for sharing, Jack. It was a good read.
This should be shown to every school district that has downplayed (or is about to downplay) their music department. Music has been given the cold shoulder in public education as something that isn’t necessary like STEM. I think more people need to think of music in this way and realize that it is far more important than most people think it is.
School districts (and for that matter a giant number of parents) constantly downplay COVID and gun violence. There’s no hope for the arts.
Shake Hands With Danger is probably the defining moment for Rifftrax as its own thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nqa6e6WV2o
Crap joke for the day:
A blonde female bought herself a new Mercedes. She could drive the car during the day, but at night the car wouldn’t move at all. She tried driving the car at night for a week with no luck.
Furious, she called the dealership, told them the problem and they sent a
mechanic to the house. The mechanic gave the car a thorough inspection
and could not find anything wrong.
Eventually, he asked the blonde, ” Are you sure you’re using the right gears?”
“Of course I am. I’m not stupid. I use “D” during the day and “N” at night!”
Bonus crap joke:
A father passing by his son’s bedroom
Noticed the room unusually clean and saw an envelope propped up prominently on the pillow. It was addressed, ‘Dad’. With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter, with trembling hands.
Dear, Dad. It is with great regret and sorrow that I’m writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mum and you.
I’ve been finding real passion with Stacy. She is so nice, but I knew you would not approve of her because of all her piercing’s, tattoos, her tight Motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am.
But it’s not only the passion, Dad. She’s pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. We share a dream of having many more children.
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that mari*juana doesn’t really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people in the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want.
In the meantime, we’ll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!
Don’t worry Dad, I’m 15, and I know how to take care of myself. Someday, I’m sure we’ll be back to visit so you can get to know your many grandchildren.
Love, your son, Josh
P.S . Dad, none of the above is true. I’m over at Jason’s house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the school report that’s on the kitchen table. Call when it is safe for me to come home.
LOL
Today I cleaned my kitchen and bought cat food. That’s about as exciting as it’s going to get this week.
Maybe Wednesday I’ll do a movie
CP: Sometimes — Larkin Poe
God my neighbour likes to talk. If Webern happen to be outside at the same time. A quick check of the mail becomes a half hour endeavour
Weborn = we both
https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/21331611/underrated-animated-movies-box-office-bombs
Interesting
Ah Treasure Planet, I enjoyed that one and Patrick McGoonan’s last role
I promise I’m not trying to trash the content of the link… but I’m honestly confused. I see two paragraphs that say that they are going to talk about these cartoons, then a video ad for HBO Max, then a list of previous articles. I even tried clicking on the ad for HBO Max thinking it was the only way to the content. It just opens up HBO max. Am I missing something? I can’t find the content. And I’m really interested in this one.
Nope, it’s basically a list of links to articles covering each film.
Got it now. Some fascinating stuff in those articles. And I’ll be adding Quest for Camelot and Cats Don’t Dance to my watch list. Maybe Sinbad, but it will be far down the watch list.
Maybe not a bad list to draw inspiration from:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies-on-netflix/
I’d say at least half that list, if not more, I have no interest in
Some of those aren’t available in the UK on Netflix, which is a shame as I like Midnight Run.
I’ll say one thing about Disney’s What If…. We seem to watch some of the related movies. We rewatched Black Panther on the weekend after seeing the most recent one
CW: Y The Last Man episode 4
Yorrick is a total dick in this series and his whining is getting is so
Bloody annoying.
Yeah, you should probably stop watching.
100%. I know I have….
Van just read the goddamn book.
From Twitter (@gankstrr):
Y: The Last Man features only one man and he is somehow completely insufferable, so like. i’d just let humanity die
Well the update to iOS 15 seems to have worked.
German movies about WW2 that you have probably not heard of:
https://youtu.be/NwFccbEA_zU
Also by the same bloke, the 5 German WW2 you must see:
https://youtu.be/C9d6Kt_vduc
In regards to Das Boot, watching the mini series version is the way to go.
Jeez doesn’t Jürgen Prochnow look so young.
So last night we had an election. Things stand pretty much the same as they did before the election was called, with the Liberals in a minority government. I’m glad no time and money was wasted calling an election during a pandemic.
Seems like Alberta is trending toward becoming the Little US.
This was actually a federal election, not local. Think president vs. governer.
The thing to remember is Canada has more than two viable political parties. So the federal government can be run by a party that has less than 50% of the votes if the remaining votes are divided among the other three (4?) parties.
However, then they have to play nice with at least one of the other parties to get anything done or the other parties can gang up to create majority for putting in or putting down legislation.
Interesting (to me at least) concept. When I was in middle school and high school I had a healthy combination of vinyl and cassettes. I also really liked Iron Maiden to the point where they were the first concert I went to on my own (as in my mother didn’t take me). All of my Maiden was on Vinyl and I heavily traded the records back and forth with my siblings. Towards the end of high school I switched to cassettes and as I started college I started gaining CDs. Somehow, Iron Maiden never made it to the transition to cassettes or CDs. I never found myself consciously disliking Iron Maiden. On the other hand, I never found myself in a position where I wanted to go out and purchase any either. It was one of those odd things where I find myself 30 years away from listening to a group with no real good reason for it. So I went to Amazon Music and listened to the Powerslave album because I know it was one I had. I definitely fondly remember Aces High, 2 Minutes to Midnight, and Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The rest of the album didn’t spark anything. But I did really enjoy the nostalgia of the songs that I remembered. I will be exploring more of their stuff again soon.
Anyone else have an experience like that where you just kind of lose touch with a band and can’t really explain, even to yourself, why you just don’t listen to them anymore?
I have gone back to beloved cassettes from my early days and found that they didn’t quite hold up to my memory of them.
“Kilroy Was Here” by Styx is the most recent example I can recall.
Somethin Else sounds pretty cool when sung in French:
https://youtu.be/mIpZ5jX9I90
Deeply concerned today about our cat, Beckham.
Fingers crossed it’s treatable.
Thanks. He comes home from the vet in a bit. We just have to do our best for him.
Oh no! I wrote a thing this morning and it seems to have been vaporized. Jack, can you see if it just got held up because I fat fingered my email address or something?
I retrieved the comment from The Roaming Asshata.
Oh no, that’s Roaming Asshat A, the mirror mirror version of me. Now that you’ve released him watch out for posts that use “hella” a lot.
CP: Sacrilege — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
So I’m saying this here, because I don’t want to babysit a social media shitstorm involving strangers.
By all means, though, feel free to gripe at me here if you disagree:
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It’s equally tragic when the murder victims aren’t pretty, white, blonde girls.
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All due respect and sympathy for Gabby Petito. Her story is truly horrifying, but I kinda feel like the story would get far less media attention (if any) if she was less photogenic. Or brown. Or a boy.
I agree on all points.
As an employee of the gov that has to deal with FOIA requests… yup on all fronts
Yep.
November 12th:
https://t.co/wyq7NFdob2
Wile E. Coyote in the city:
https://unm-bioblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/wile-e-coyote-in-city.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3WFRfPUZECYsxYs4zWvX4d2xToElEOtD-qztsibT9plWWoMQ-ms2t4qRY
Not a fan of the urban Coyote.
They have gotten too aggressive around here.
Not sure about Canada, but Y The Last Man is now streaming on Disney+ in the UK.
So if you going to try Star Wars Visions it defaults to Japanese with no subtitles, so English dub/subtitles needs to be selected manually.
I wasn’t aware that it was out already
So. . . .it looks like Tiffany’s going to be working a bunch of Sundays. So, I realize that I already threw a monkeywrench into the plan for a Palooza chat this Sunday.
Are we still interested in doing Oct 2? I’ll have limited times when I can be free, but I can figure that out, once we’ve selected that date. And which movie we plan to cover.
Depending upon the time, it works for me
https://theconversation.com/napping-in-the-afternoon-can-improve-memory-and-alertness-heres-why-154423
Back to bed!
Ok Deadpan, today’s movie is Crawl
While trying to save her dad during a hurricane, a woman becomes trapped in the flooded crawls space of their home as a deadly threat lurks beneath the water.
This one looks particularly bad
A swim meet
That one has tan lines
Wait, Sam Raimi is one of the producers?
Where’s dad?
Don’t shoot guns in a hurricane
I can’t let you through
Stupid bitch drove through anyway
Found the dog
Oh dad, where you go?
Dads phone is there
Tree!
Nope. I’d just let dad die down there
It’s not the rats that would bother me
Awww. Poor raccoon
I don’t understand. Why does she think dads down there?
And yet, she found him
Pulling dad in the mud is hard work
Guess who’s come to eat her
Now she knows how dad got hurt
How can she not get out through there?
She needs he phone
It got her
And she poked it in the eye
The water level is rising
Stealing the atm
Oh Mark. You missed the danger
Now Stan notices
And now Stan bit it
… or got bit
Looking for plan c
Meanwhile, the dog’s all be like wtf is going on
The weeds are hurting the police boat
Pete is bing an idiot
And now, because of Pete, they are both dead
Now some back story
Pea-brained lizard shits
Creating a distraction
Caught one
Chopping his head with a shovel
Headed for the drainpipe
The drainpipe is full of bodies
And babies
She found a gun
She got out of the house. Now for dad…
No more dad
No splashes
Boat race
The police radio
I always keep my emergency flares in the cookie jar
It’s just a house
Flashback
Just so you know, the dog survived
Phew!
So tvos15 let’s you use spatial audio on AirPods Pro when connected to an AppleTV. So the spatial effect seems weak to me but that could be my hearing.
But really I’m now wondering if I could have just not bothered buying the Sonos Arc…
CP: I Am One — Smashing Pumpkins
New Laura Jane Grace album stealth dropped today.
https://www.spin.com/2021/09/laura-jane-grace-at-war-with-the-silverfish/
My 15-month old Dell Laptop fan has been going ballistic for the past week or so. Warranty ended 3 months ago.
I just want shit to work.
On the plus side, fans are hella cheap.
So….. Sunday Oct 2 for the 5th Element Palooza? The “Multipasslooza”?
I’ll have to find out the time that works best for me. And we should try not to keep Van up all night.
I think you mean October 3rd. 😀
That won’t work for me, but feel free to continue without me.
Oops. I guess I’m Calendarly challenged.
How is your Saturday?
Worse. I have no free time on that weekend.
Well….. I *can* do this Sunday solo, I just realize that it’s very short notice for many of us.
I probably can do this Sunday. How does that work for Pixie. I know you wanted to change to Saturday because her Sundays are pretty much spoken for.
I can do this Sunday as well.
I think, no matter what day/time you pick, somebody will not be able to make it. Just pick something that works for you & Pixie, and go with it.
I agree with TEB. This weekend won’t work for me either.
Pixie won’t make it for awhile. . .
ditto, we hate to lose you. I hope it’s fun stuff.
Looks like a new Public Service Broadcasting album drops tomorrow.
Oooooooooh!
It’s very German.
Enjoyed the album but no standout tracks like Go! Or Progress.
I watched and enjoyed the first two episodes of Visions. It is worth watching in Japanese with English subtitles, imo.
Man I’m trying real hard…
Haven’t read any other reviews yet, but this doesn’t look promising for Apple TV’s “Foundation” series:
https://gizmodo.com/they-said-foundation-couldnt-be-filmed-and-it-still-ha-1847731204
The IGN review is a lot more positive:
https://www.ign.com/articles/foundation-premiere-review-apple-tv-plus
Oh and this one:
https://t.co/4BrLH8lA6O
Going to watch the first episode as I eat my supper.
Well I enjoyed the first episode.
/shrugs
Ugh, website updates are going to be the death of me.
So, I guess I should ask this on Facebook as well. . .
Can we get a headcount for this Sunday, if we’re doing a Palooza call?
I’m in!
While I’m in, I did vote for next week on FB as it would be easier.
Early results are pointing to Oct 3. That works.
I can do October 3
Surprising Doctor Who news:
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/doctor-who-showrunner-russell-t-davies-returns-1235073307
While yes, I think this is good, people need to remember that Davies also oversaw some absolutely goofy storylines. (The farting, giggling aliens, for one.)
As long as he doesn’t bring David Tennant back.
FUCK OFF
Ok, Great!
OFF FUCK!
Great, ok!
As much as I am loving What If…?, Visions is having the opposite effect. I LOVED episode 1 but have been super meh on 2-4 so far. I love the premise. I LOVE getting Star Wars out if its current funk (Mando excluded) but man, I just can’t get into it. Luckily theyre short so I have no prob watching them all.
All of the What If?s have been fun, but I wouldn’t call any of it “required viewing.”
You could say that about the comics as well. They were still entertaining, though.
We’ll see. 2 eps left…
Well, I say that. . . but the very last scene of this past episode felt important. (I don’t know who that was)
(cough) Vision (cough)
Well…. not necessarily my good man…
Well, a Vision variant at least.
Not…necessarily, my friend. What we know as Vision was built to be the perfect body for Ultron. The reason we know it as “Vision” is because of the merging with Jarvis which gave Vision its ‘personality’ and, therefore, we know him as Vision.
This could simply be true form Ultron in his ultimate body sans and part of ‘Vision’.
Gawd my protector just fell out….
I did note the gem on his forehead, like Vision’s. I’ll say “We’ll see” – – but maybe we wont.
Not necessarily, my good Lo Pan. Much like the Ship of Theseus, where does Vision end and Ultron begin?
VISON ENDS WHEN JARVIS ISNT INSERTED INTO HIM AS A.I.!!!!! COME ON!!! OK! GREAT!
cough. Sorry. I’m used to arguing with Van. cough.
LOL
So Cindy Loo Hoo from the live-action “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is actually the lead singer of The Pretty Reckless. The mind boggles.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170016/mediaviewer/rm1872655872/
JESUS CHRIST THAT WAS TAYLOR MOMSEN!?
I feel… weird.
lol True enough. 😀
So between this and Cannibal Corpse appearing in Ace Ventura, Jim Carrey has been quite the Metal ambassador.
I haven’t yet listened to The Pretty Reckless. But I can tell you that when someone comes out with a fact that makes you feel old about a child from a movie that made me feel like a cranky old mad at the time for not liking it makes me feel hella old.
CP: Vertigo — Alice Merton
Oh…oh oh oh..OH!
The Hallmark Channel has declared war on my geeky icons. So war it shall be Hallmark Channel. Keep your dirty mitts off my 80s people!
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3683620/bruce-campbell-will-star-upcoming-hallmark-christmas-movie-one-december-night/
https://geektyrant.com/news/back-to-the-future-stars-lea-thompson-and-christopher-lloyd-reunite-for-new-hallmark-christmas-movie
As long as Bruce is bringing his chainsaw arm … I’m in.
Geeky icons gotta eat too, man.
Watched this last night on Netflix –
“Synchronic”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9016974/
Slightly different take on a sc-fi theme. Had some nice ideas.
Worth a viewing if you don’t have anything else you really want to see.
Binged the whole first season of Ted Lasso last night. It was much better than we expected.
I truly hear great things about this show
I heard somewhere that the reason this show works is because of its sincerity. And I think that’s really accurate. It’s a bit like a soccer version of “Major League” but done better and with a lot of heart. And it still is pretty funny.
Not gonna pay for Apple Streaming… I hope this becomes available elsewhere.
JW: Free Guy
Well that was fun, good laugh at the cameos as well.
So today finished the audio book of A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark, which was bloody great. Anyway the author is being interviewed as part of the National Book Festival and it starts at 6pm EDT:
https://2021.nationalbookfestival.com/adult/?session_id=session027
Interesting. . . .
Watched WALL-E last night. I haven’t seen it since its original theatrical run.
I had thoughts during the movie – – mainly – – “This is not a kid’s movie.” There’s nothing inappropriate, and plenty of cutesy stuff, but man, the whole story is pretty advanced.
I’d have had more thoughts, but I kept dozing off. . . because. . . I’m old and sleep-deprived.
I love WALL-E as a well executed and highly entertaining movie. The only problem I have with it is the insane cojones it takes Disney to make a movie who’s main message is about the evils of large corporations.
WHAL-E is terrific. SO much more than Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
But you. . . always come back for more.
I’ve started reading “The Song of Achilles” based on its hype. . . At 26% in, I’m beginning to think I was tricked into reading a romance novel.
I hope it gets better, because the premise is pretty great.
Skimming Amazon reviews of the book (had idea, I know), I get the sense that I should keep going.
But I’m feeling a lot like the Princess Bride grandson right now. . . “Is this a kissing book?”
Here’s your soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_-_VAryyiA
I get the ‘song of Achilles” every morning after I get out of goddamn bed.
When trying to get to sleep I can definitely recommend not watching top 10 western films on YouTube.
As we seem to be on about books, I just started The Vorrh by Brian Catling. Can’t remember who recommended it. I’m a good 2 hours into the 15 hour audio book and I’m only just starting to suspect that I’m coming across something vaguely resembling a plot. Every time a threat he pulls on starts to make some sort of sense he stops mid streams and starts a completely different story in a seeming entirely different time (although I’m starting to think it is all in the same time period and internet reviews seem to agree). It’s had insanely good reviews so I’m hoping it will become more coherent at some point.
Update on The Vorrh. I think much of the problem is that I can only manage to “read” fiction any more as audio books (physical reading is for text books lately). No matter how much I try, my attention is always somewhat divided for audio books. I had a long day of canning activities in the kitchen, started the book over and stopped now and then to take notes (forcing me to pay closer attention). This time it clicked and everything now makes sense. I would like to do this for all future audio books, but I mostly listen in the car where I can’t really stop to take notes.
TIL This was a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG9lTgu0R-M
It’s a dangerous thing when a bunch of geeks team up together.
Wow. I need to carve out some time fir this.
Holy crow this is already 3 years old!?
They did a “Special Edition” last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgU7P6o-GkM
I like the original better though.
CW: Hidalgo
Haven’t seen it since I saw it at the cinema, enjoyed it at the time.
The warning about people smoking in the film at the start is one of the few things that pisses me off at the Disney+ service.
An old school adventure even for 2004 but heck that was still a lot of fun.
FINALLY saw Bill and Ted 3.
Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine – MOST excellent
Surprised how much I enjoyed it.
This looks better than I expected. And I’m a huge fan of the Sandman series. I still am not convinced Netflix can pull it off though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBXqrBl6pEo
I see all the misogynists have come out to play with the gender flipping in the new Foundation series.
Sigh.
Par for the course. Ignore it.
Morning Pan
Saw the new Suicide Squad on the weekend. It was fun.
Covers by a Harpist, there is a visit by a deer at some points:
https://www.youtube.com/c/NaomiSV/videos
A co-worker just recommended Midnight Mass on Netflix.
Thirty years ago this month:
https://www.stereogum.com/2161757/nirvana-rhcp-pixies-sept-24-1991/columns/sounding-board/
What a time to be a music fan. Man great stuff.
“Skid Row’s Slave To The Grind, out in June 1991, was pop-shunning arena turbulence that went to #1 without a hit single” I guess I just assumed Monkey Business was a radio hit
I thought the title track was a hit.
I know my Metal buddies will cry foul, but I don’t think SttG is a great collection of songs. Important to the changing genre, sure, but the songs themselves just weren’t great.
Except the title track. That song is fire.
A little bit of history from the letter pages, Asimov doesn’t come off well:
https://justinelarbalestier.com/books/battle/letters/
https://www.mothershiprpg.com/
An RPG that stresses the simplicity of its system.
I’m intrigued. Of course, I’m the type of person who will buy an RPG manual just to peruse how the game is played, without ever playing or running a game. Looks like D&D is getting a rules refresh in 2023 as well.
JMS talks about the B5 reboot:
https://t.co/b49qGJ4GtK
Wow, I got a lot done this morning.
Sometimes being up stupid early means being done stupid early.
I got a new microphone last week. I guess I should test it before this weekend.
Speaking of JMS, the night before the big B5 announcement, “Together We Will Go” became available to me through the library, so I paused the Achilles book to start that one.
So far, excellent.
Bunny, I did get Tyche’s “Woof!” email
That’s one cute puppy.
Are you entering the contest?
No.
So I’ve watched the first three episodes
Of S3 of Doom Patrol and it’s still wonderfully weird.
Superhero fatigue has kept me away from Doom Patrol, but I’m def curious about this show.
But, but superheroes don’t get fatigued!
Tune in next week for another adventure with Sick of This Shit Man!
I’m Tired Man!
CP: P.O.E — Adam Ant
Archer will get a season 13:
http://dlvr.it/S8Xf9F
CP: Hug from a Dinosaur — Torres
Did anyone post the new Stranger Things trailer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsUzL75Yjk
I believe you beat Van. 😀
Nice trailer. Is that the same house from Lovecraft Country?
Crap joke for the day:
Two nuns are out golfing, the one nun is trying to teach the other nun how to golf so the nun learning swings but she misses the ball and she says, oh shit I missed! And the nun teaching her said “sister we don’t talk like that, lightning’s going to come down from heaven and strike you dead” the sister learning says I know I’m sorry I didn’t mean to so she swings and misses again and says oh shit I missed! The other nun says to her, “sister stop saying that lightning is going to come down and strike you dead we don’t talk like that! “ I know I’m sorry I just got real frustrated I promise I won’t do it again but she swings and misses and once again she says oh shit I missed! Well lightning does come down from the sky but it strikes the other nun dead then you hear this big voice come back and says oh shit I missed!!!
This is cool.
CP: Driving to Texas — Tom Morello feat. Phantogram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UZuTeMYa4s
I threw my back out yesterday morning, but at least I can say I did it ensuring the survival of a pathetic, helpless creature.
(I picked up the heavy dog food bag first thing in the morning)
OK. . . I guess this is relevant to the Tom Morello link somehow. . .
A Britney Spears/Deftones mashup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13wwndvI1K4
Zoom meeting for this Sunday’s Fifth Element Palooza has been set up! I sent an email calendar invitation to the list of emails that Tiffany compiled for the Zoom call back in June. (I also created a Facebook event for this.) If you didn’t get the details via either of those means, reply to this comment or contact me at amybowenwrites AT gmaildotcom.
I have seen The Fifth Element, but I may try and rewatch it on Friday. I have not seen either Tenet or The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, so I look forward to watching those, too.
Nice!
I still haven’t watched Tenet, but I’m ready to do 5E. Watched BoBS, but I have less material.
WTF:
https://t.co/Y68OoxgPbE
*messy hair*
Aliens.
/*messy hair*
https://boingboing.net/2021/09/29/site-collects-old-video-game-advertisements.html
Cool!
This is the actual site:
https://retrocgads.tumblr.com/
A little slice of history:
https://www.historyofdatascience.com/abraham-wald-a-statistical-hero/?utm_campaign=GLO%20CONTENT%20History%20of%20Data%20Science%202021&utm_source=emea-twitter&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_content=hods-wald
Morning Pan
It’s a national holiday here in Canadaland
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/30/1041836090/canada-indigenous-residential-schools-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation
This concept should go global.
Atari ST still in use after 36 years:
https://youtu.be/6LxPEz9x2fs
I had an Atari 800XL in high school and upgraded to a 130XE which was still an 8-bit computer, but I lusted over a 16-bit Atari ST. Eventually, though, I got an Amiga 500. It was a lot of fun. I sold it eventually, but somewhere at my folks’ house in Kansas is my 130XE.
I actually owned neither the 800 or the ST, but a friend had them both.
Sometime around 1989, he played me a 5-second snippet of a song on the 800 from a floppy disk and said, “This is the future of music.” Turns out he was right!
Of course it was a sample of a Rush song.
Great fondness for the Atari ST.
So after a visit to the dentist I now have one less tooth.
Took the dentist bloody ages and a lot of effort to extract it. So going to be sore for the next few days.
Woe is me and all that jazz.
Not a good day. Will it need to be replaced?
It’s at the back so hopefully not.
Straight Outta Compton as a polka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLY4TsZBExY
Well ticket booked to see the new Bond flick tomorrow at an actual cinema.
New page:
http://jackmangan.com/multipalooza/
Saw a dead bunny when I went to check the mail. Now I’m sad