Another weekend gone by far too quickly. I stayed up late Friday night, getting sucked into For All Mankind (from the creator of my beloved Battlestar Galactica). I’m a sucker for alternative histories and for space stuff so, yeah, I’m the target demo for this one. I have a few complaints but it is promising. And only available on Apple TV+. We already had too many streaming channels but now? Our household has both Disney+ and Apple TV+. It’s getting ridiculous.
Saturday I stopped by a friend’s birthday party before sneaking out to attend an amazing house show. Left there feeling blissed out, even though this evergreen tweet hits too close to home:
Dating someone in your local music scene is cool if you wanna hang out with them and 9 other people they’ve slept with once every week or two.
Sunday was getting-things-done mode. Not for me, personally, as much as the friend I paid to tackle my To Do list. He relocated my window a/c units to the basement, assembled and installed my new desk (which I am using right this very moment) and replacing my dining room light fixture. This place already felt like home but now it feels even better. After all that hard work (on his part) I took myself to see the Ford v Ferrari movie. Utterly fails The Bechdel Test, which is a bummer, but it was an engaging film.
Five Good Things:
- Last week I treated myself to the Charlie’s Angels reboot. It’s not doing well at the box office, which is a shame. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. And have a bit of a crush on Kristen Stewart now.
- Alice Fraser is sneaky. She lures you in with the promise of comedy - and she is very very funny - but then sucker punches you with sadness. And I absolutely love every moment of it. I highly recommend her podcasts. I had the pleasure of seeing her in person as well, last year, in Dublin, when she was with The Bugle.
- The Woman Who Recorded 70,000 Tapes Of American News - I’m fascinated by how prescient Marion Stokes was.
- A Giant Fire-Breathing Mechanical Dragon Operated by 17 People Parades Through the Streets of Calais - my bucket list includes a visit to Nantes, France to see the home of La Machine:
La Machine is a street theatre company founded in 1999 and led by François Delarozière. It came about thanks to artists, technicians and theatre designers working together for the construction of unusual theatre objects. The work that we develop in public spaces relates, in the first instance, to theatre, urban planning and architecture.
- I have always loved reading and am baffled by people who don’t share this passion. So this pleased me: Former ‘Reading Rainbow’ Host LeVar Burton Hilariously Addresses Kanye West, Trump: ‘Oh, Here We Go With These Non-Readers’
Tomorrow night I would have been torn between two delightfully different events. King Diamond at the Palace Theater and The Allusionist podcast, live, at the Parkway. But the choice has been made for me. Neither. As I am teaching during the exact window these events are occurring. Alas and alack.
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