Currently Reading

Currently Reading: God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn 📚

Currently Watching

• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1
• The American Revolution Season 1
• Hacks, Season 3
• Shrinking, Season 1

Currently In Queue

• Hamnet
• The Secret Agent
• Train Dreams
• Sentimental Value
• Jay Kelly
• Frankenstein
• The Phoenician Scheme
• Black Bag
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

• Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

• Oscar Noms are up and they look pretty good to me. Surprised F1 got in there: it’s a fun movie and I try to be happy that the academy sometimes nominates fun movies.

Finished in January:

Stranger Things Season 5 Watched out of obligation and felt like one every second of it. I’ve never been too high on this show, but it’s a textbook case of a story not evolving with its actors. It clings far too much to what worked in the past and feels pretty stale because of it.

Marty Supreme: Presumably one day we won’t be able to make our own luck. But today is not that day

Bugonia: the logic may be wrong, but the facts are not

F1: There aren’t any square pegs in round holes, but you never mind that there’s no friction. from a different era in all the best ways.

Wake Up Dead Man: Not as fun as the others in this series, but the most thematically resonant to me. The faint outline of where the cross used to hang at the front of the church nails what this movie is going for

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