Emilia Pérez: This felt like a high school production of Emilia Pérez. I don’t mean that entirely derogatory
Emilia Pérez, 2024
This felt like a high school production of Emilia Pérez. I don't mean that entirely derogatory
Dog Man: Nailed the spirit, but didn’t quite capture the energy of the comics. Still, even attempting to bring this to the screen was a big endeavor and I’m impressed how much they were able to fit in mostly organically
(Oh yeah, kids loved it. Guess that’s what’s important…)
Dog Man, 2025
Nailed the spirit, but didn’t quite capture the energy of the comics. Still, even attempting to bring this to the screen was a big endeavor and I’m impressed how much they were able to fit in mostly organically
(Oh yeah, kids loved it. Guess that’s what’s important…)
Current Things: February 2025
Currently Reading
Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver 📚
Currently Watching
Currently In Queue
- The Brutalist
- The Substance
- I’m Still Here
- Nickel Boys
- A Complete Unknown
- Emilia Pérez
- Conclave
- Challengers
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Furiosa
- The First Omen
- Skinamarink
Currently Listening
Currently Planning
- Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!
Concurrently
- Academy Award nominations are out and I’ve only “organically” seen three of them. Have a lot to catch up with before the ceremony on March 2!
Finished in January:
January: Ski Trip to Québec Charlevoix
Silo, Season 2: there’s so much to like here, but it lost a step from Season 1: the middle of the season really drug for me. But ended with a bang and excited to see where it goes from here.
My Neighbor Totoro: The biggest takeaway I have from this movie is to trust your kids.
(i.e., I’d been hesitant to show them the Studio Ghibli movies because they’re on such a different wavelength and I couldn’t bear them not liking it. But they loved it and we played Totoro for five days straight)
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Live shot of me logging on to social media today: media.giphy.com/media/v1….
Mariann Budd is the bishop for my church. I don’t know her, but I’ve met her a few times and seen her preach before. Happy to report that this could have been a sermon she preached any Sunday and her bravery doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Very proud to be a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington today
(gift link! Watch the video!)
Silo, Season 2: there’s so much to like here, but it lost a step from Season 1: the middle of the season really drug for me. But ended with a bang and excited to see where it goes from here.
My Neighbor Totoro: The biggest takeaway I have from this movie is to trust your kids.
(i.e., I’d been hesitant to show them the Studio Ghibli movies because they’re on such a different wavelength and I couldn’t bear them not liking it. But they loved it and we played Totoro for five days straight)
My Neighbor Totoro, 1988
The biggest takeaway I have from this movie is to trust your kids.
(i.e., I'd been hesitant to show them the Studio Ghibli movies because they're on such a different wavelength and I couldn't bear them not liking it. But they loved it and we played Totoro for like five days straight.)
There are some people who can create things that make so much sense that they immediately ring true. And then there are people who can create things that make no sense, but somehow can ring even truer.
Going to have a damn fine cup of coffee in your honor tonight, Mr. Lynch.
Current Things: January 2025
Currently Reading
Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver 📚
Currently Watching
Currently In Queue
Currently Listening
Currently Planning
- January: Ski Trip to Québec Charlevoix
Concurrently
- Not really felt like blogging: it’s mainly because I’ve been slammed at work and with the holidays, but it’s also because I’m still in a bit of an election funk. Grateful for the habits I have in place for reviewing movies/TV shows to keep the blog going. Beginning to get the itch again– just have to find time to do it.
Finished in December:
post-Christmas trip to Kentucky
Nosferatu: Saw this as a double feature with Babygirl and I feel like Romy and Count Orlock could do each other a lot of favors.
Babygirl: what a performance from Nicole Kidman– she simultaneously shows how much she’s in control while relaying her want to be controlled.
There’s such a tightrope to be walked with telling a story about desire–especially one with these kinds of dynamics– and Reijn walks it perfectly.
What We Do in the Shadows, Season 6: so sad to see this show go. I didn’t find it as laugh-out-loud funny in the latter seasons, but it was still as good as ever. Gonna miss these guys– even you, Gizmo
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Nosferatu: Saw this as a double feature with Babygirl and I feel like Romy and Count Orlock could do each other a lot of favors.
Babygirl: what a performance from Nicole Kidman– she simultaneously shows how much she’s in control while relaying her want to be controlled.
There’s such a tightrope to be walked with telling a story about desire–especially one with these kinds of dynamics– and Reijn walks it perfectly.
Nosferatu, 2024
Saw this as a double feature with Babygirl and I feel like Romy and Count Orlock could do each other a lot of favors.
Babygirl, 2024
What a performance from Nicole Kidman-- she simultaneously shows how much she's in control while relaying her want to be controlled.
There's such a tightrope to be walked with telling a story about desire--especially one with these kinds of dynamics-- and Reijn walks it perfectly.
What We Do in the Shadows, Season 6: so sad to see this show go. I didn’t find it as laugh-out-loud funny in the latter seasons, but it was still as good as ever. Gonna miss these guys– even you, Gizmo
Current Things: December 2024
Currently Reading
Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver 📚
Currently Watching
- Dune: Prophecy, Season 1
- Silo, Season 2
- What We Do In The Shadows, Season 6
- Disclaimer
- Shrinking, Season 1
Currently In Queue
Currently Listening
Currently Planning
- December: post-Christmas trip to Kentucky
- January: Ski Trip to Québec Charlevoix
Concurrently
- It’s been a month: with the election and traveling for two weeks, I haven’t had much time for anything.
Finished in November:
Moana 2: It’s hard not to be a bit disappointed that animation this beautiful and voice acting this good is accompanied by such a bland story.
Agatha All Along, Season 1: It was running out of juice by the end, but it felt so fresh for being a Marvel property. Primarily on the performance of Katherine Hahn, but also because it (mostly) ignored the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Anora: it’s not who you think you are, but who you actually are
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Moana 2: It’s hard not to be a bit disappointed that animation this beautiful and voice acting this good is accompanied by such a bland story.
Moana 2, 2024
It's hard not to be a bit disappointed that animation this beautiful and voice acting this good is accompanied by such a bland story.
Agatha All Along, Season 1: It was running out of juice by the end, but it felt so fresh for being a Marvel property. Primarily on the performance of Katherine Hahn, but also because it (mostly) ignored the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Anora: it’s not who you think you are, but who you actually are
The polls are close, but my running playlist from this morning clearly indicates a Kamala Harris victory. Here are the tracks that pushed her over the finish line.
At midnight, Nate Silver ran his election model’s simulation 80,000 times. 40,012 times Kamala Harris won. 39,718 times Donald Trump won. 270 times the election ended in a tie.
But this morning I went for a run, hit shuffle on my workout playlist, and it presented a much different picture: Kamala Harris will win this election and it’s not even going to be that close. Here are the ten tracks in the order that they played that pushed her to victory:
Shatter by Maggie Rogers
A little on the nose, but there’s nothing subtle about these pieces of the glass ceiling we’re walking over.
Life’s a Happy Song from the 2011 movie, The Muppets
The ultimate good vibes song: the world of the muppets may be a slightly different one from ours, but only because they choose for it to be that way.
You’ve got everything you need / right in front of you / nothing’s stopping you / nothing that you can’t do / that the world can throw at you
(Some of you may be asking why this was an option on my running playlist to begin with. Everyone else also has it on their running playlist.)
Lonely Boy by The Black Keys
There are only a few people that have lost a presidential election more than once. But if that happened to me, I imagine I’d be a lonely boy.
love is embarrassing by Olivia Rodrigo
Rodrigo’s ode to cringe kicks into another gear during that final bridge. Kamala may be brat, but the one thing she hasn’t shied away from is cringe.
I Want You Back by Jackson 5
Admittedly this seems like it would be a song that indicates Donald Trump is going to win. But remember, there’s not a single line in the song that indicates she actually did take him back. I choose to interpret this as Donald Trump saying “I want you back” and the women of America saying “Nah, we’re good”
all-american bitch by Olivia Rodrigo
When we all finally realize that the melody of The Star-Spangled Banner is from an old English bar tune, I’m pretty confident this will be our new national anthem.
Supersoaker by Kings of Leon
‘Cause the supersoaker red, white, and blue them all away / with a kiss as unclean as the words that you say
No one will accuse Kings of Leon of having lyrics that make sense. But I can think of someone that the supersoaker red, white, and blue him right away!
Anywhere with You by Maggie Rogers
Roll the windows down, kill the radio / I’d rather hear the wind than hear that song I’m supposed to know / by some fucking bro
Stone cold and what the men of America need to hear.
get him back! by Olivia Rodrigo
There are a lot of us that want to get him back, that want to key his car and tell his mom he sucks.
There are an almost equal amount of us that want to get him back, that wanna make him lunch and kiss his face.
Life is weird. People are messy. Ambiguity is often the definition of what it means to be human. But somehow– somehow – we’re all still Americans. There’s one side of today’s election that believes we’re stronger together. There’s another that believes we’re stronger apart.
If you are– like I am– on the side that believes we’re stronger together, that means together. You don’t have to like what everyone is doing and you can and should call them out on it, but leaving people behind is not the answer. That’s what Donald Trump wants to do. Let’s not do it.
(Just a reminder that this is the fourth single from 2023’s GUTS. My God, that album is a masterpiece)
Bleeding White by the Avett Brothers
[We’ll] probably never make a sociopolitical record. But if we did, it might sound something like this…
When I heard get him back! come on, I pushed hard for that to be the last song. But I wasn’t quite fast enough. No matter. While get him back! may be the song most indicative of today’s election, the first song off the Avett Brothers 2019 album “Closer Than Together” is the perfect capper to this list.
Equal parts angry and disbelieving in the situation we find ourselves in, this song sounds more like something from The Black Keys than the Avett Brothers. But there’s hope. There’s always hope:
Y’all left me behind, but I can find you / If you don’t wander too far away
Today is our opportunity to not wander too far away. I have faith we’ll stay close.
