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🎥 Heretic
6 Feb 2025 | original ↗

As someone who is agnostic, leaning atheist, I always find movies that examine religion and it’s foibles interesting. Hugh Grant was absolutely delightful as the villain here and while it...

Pups
5 Feb 2025 | original ↗

4+5/100

📺 Mo S2
5 Feb 2025 | original ↗

The final two episodes really, really got to me. Emotional, beautiful, and quite touching—it felt super personal to Mo Amer, which it clearly was. It didn’t quite feel like they...

Sunset
5 Feb 2025 | original ↗

I guess I’m doing the whole 100 photos thing now too… I’m counting these two snaps I posted earlier in the year so I’m up to 3! This is a...

🎵 Freckle by Freckle
4 Feb 2025 | original ↗

While I was a bit disappointed in some of Ty Segall's more recent music, I am digging this new band he formed with Corey Madden. There's some psychedelic rock mixed...

🦸 Ice Cream Man #43
3 Feb 2025 | original ↗

I don’t know what I expected… I was really looking forward to this—the entire premise of single page stories fascinates me, especially as someone who loves a good anthology series....

🎥 The Brutalist
2 Feb 2025 | original ↗

So I recently wrote about my rating system and, more importantly, what makes a perfect five star rating. Well, talk about perfect timing. The Brutalist is a perfect film. Throughout...

⭐ My Ratings System
1 Feb 2025 | original ↗

The below is how I personally use star ratings and how I view what each one represents. • ★★★★★ — Perfect • ★★★★½ — Exceptional • ★★★★ — Great •...

🎥 A Different Man
1 Feb 2025 | original ↗

[adifferentman.png]I enjoyed a lot of this. The style, the themes, the darkness surrounding Stan’s character were all great. But I also found most of the characters unlikable and the ending...

🫠 Expectations
1 Feb 2025 | original ↗

Don’t have them.

🦸 The Seasons #1
31 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Another first issue. If this weren’t Rick Remender, I’m not sure it had enough to get me to stick around, but it is Remender. That’s not to say the issue...

📺 Paradise S1E1+2
31 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I think we might be bailing on this after the first two… Might try the third before making that final decision, but it’s not looking good for us… There are a lot...

📺 Bookie S2
31 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I find this show absolutely delightful. It probably won’t be for everyone and I’m typically not a fan of Sebastian Maniscalco, but he’s great in this role.  It’s not trying...

🦸 The Lucky Devils #1
28 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I’m not going to do this with every comics—just like I had said with TV—I’ll reserve these for finishing series1. But since I just started doing these, I wanted to...

🎵 LOWER by Benjamin Booker
28 Jan 2025 | original ↗

This was my number one most anticipated album of the year and for the most part, it delivered. There are no huge hits, I don’t think, like his first two...

🎨 A Desire to Create
26 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I’m not an artist, writer, designer, or photographer—nor have I ever been any good at those things. The only things I’ve ever considered myself exceptional at are: math (but since leaving...

🎥 The Last Showgirl
26 Jan 2025 | original ↗

The entire time watching this, two words were stuck in my head: intimate and ethereal.  I think a lot of that had to do with the way Coppola used the...

📺 The Agency S1
25 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I had super high expectations for this show based on things I heard about Le Bureau, the French show it was based on. There were a lot of interesting storylines...

🎥 Trap
25 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Had a pretty good idea what I was getting myself into, but it was still fun. Every time I thought things were going to wrap up, they continued to push—and...

📺 Prime Target S1E1
23 Jan 2025 | original ↗

This one isn’t for me and I won’t be continuing on past the first episode. As I mentioned in foofaraw Monday, it’s not that surprising to me. There are some...

🙊 Silence Makes Us Complicit
22 Jan 2025 | original ↗

There’s been a discussion—to put it mildly—happening within the indieweb circles I follow closely. I haven’t had the mental energy to write up my full thoughts1 and adding to the...

🎵 Poetry by Dehd
22 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I don’t think I’ve seen Poetry on any top ten album lists of 2024, let alone sitting at the #1 spot, so I thought I’d give some love to my #1...

📝 My Pika Set-up
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I’ve been tinkering with my Pika blog to make it feel more expansive and aligned to how I think about things and the types of things I want to post on...

🎥 Alien: Romulus
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

This being only three stars could partially be my own fault. I watched it across two sittings, with my puppy going crazy, and my mind elsewhere—yesterday focused on building my...

📝 Lifenotes 2025.02
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Vol.003I know I just did these, but I have a bunch of stuff on my mind, mostly things I need to get in order, so I figured I’d try to...

📱 January Homescreen
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Apps that have stayed the same:• Albums • Safari • Drafts • Are.na • Mail • Calendar • Overcast Apps added to homescreen• Obsidian • Trying for the 47th time...

📓 Last /// Next Vol.001
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I mentioned on Mastodon that I brought back my notebooks a bit. The one on the left was in use for awhile and was used entirely for Grubs. Now I’ve...

📚 Moonbound
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I’ve already posted a bit about this one, but since I seem to have come up with the bright idea to make these images and build a little media library...

🌓 Finally getting back to reading Moonbound
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Just finished the delightful scene of beavers debating—there’s tons of lovely imaginative scenes like that throughout the book—the cooperative nature, stating each others arguments back in good faith, shared facts,...

🎵 Swirl by Flora Hibberd
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

This was the release of the week for me over on foofaraw: “It took a few songs for this to click for me, but eventually I started getting hints of...

🎥 Anora
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I had a blast watching this one. It’s a bit of a roller coaster, going from sultry, to hilarious, to anxiety inducing, and finally, quite depressing. When things start to...

🎥 Nosferatu
21 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I liked this, but also found it a bit disappointing. It probably didn’t help that we recently watched the Coppola version and the Netflix miniseries, so I had both of...

📺 American Primeval
20 Jan 2025 | original ↗

This was such a brutal show1. They really didn’t hold anything back or shy away from the pure violence and brutality that I imagine was pretty close to reality for...

📺 Severance S2E1
20 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I’m not going to be doing this for every episode of tv I watch; maybe I’ll try to do it it for full seasons though. I thought this season two...

🎥 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
20 Jan 2025 | original ↗

It’s a fine, fun romp of an action flick. Not much meat on the bones or character development, but I didn’t expect much in that regard anyways. Sometimes you need...

🎥 A Real Pain
20 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I’m not Jewish and my Polish family emigrated before the war, but boy did it still feel relatable. I’ve also never been one to really think about or care much...

🎥 Longlegs
20 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I had a lot of fun with this one. Nicholas Cage seemed like he was having an absolute blast playing Longlegs and the “intuitive” nature of Lee Harker played by...

🎥 MaXXXine
20 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I’ve of two minds when it comes to this movie. I appreciate it went in a bit of a different direction than the first two which were in that farmhouse...

🎈Balloon, Moon, Apartment
17 Jan 2025 | original ↗

One of the cool things about mornings in Napa is seeing hot air balloons out and about.  This was the closest I’ve ever seen them to our new apartment and...

📝 Having Multiple Sites* is Cool
16 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Kev asked the question (awhile back now) why do people have multiple blogs1 and while I think he hit on one of the reasons—bifurcating topics to not annoy/flood peoples feeds, whether...

🎤 Best Tiny Desk Concerts
15 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I was going through my YouTube history and the NPR Music YouTube channel to put this page together and two things really stood out: 1. How small a % of...

🩻 Back to the Chiropractor
15 Jan 2025 | original ↗

About a decade ago, I did something to my neck. I was lifting weight, doing a bench press, and then felt something pop. My neck was in pain for awhile...

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