🎵 I Don’t Live Here Anymore (2021) by The War on Drugs
🍿 Letters to Juliet (2010)
I wouldn’t use movie art to describe this movie, but it still becomes more interesting with a little backstory. It seems Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero have a story with some similarities to the movie.
This has been a wild ride. A horror comic with many surprises. Volume 8 found me mostly confused, though. Volume 9 brought it back into focus a bit. I need to get my hands on volume 10.
I have a series of photos I want to share online. I want the page to basically just be the picture, possibly with a caption. I want the photos to be as large as it can be. I want them to be the focus. I want it to work well on mobile, with swipes.
🎵 The Dream (2022) by alt-J
It’s finally out. Let’s see how it sounds…
The poetry books I’m currently reading have quite the titles. Will see if these bring out my angst or if they are just clever irony. 📚
With my return to daily coding, my wrists and left pinky are hurting while using my Apple keyboard. I ended up getting a Kinesis, which is long overdue. I also broke out my old Logitech thumb trackball. It’s working OK, but I might try one of their new versions.
🦹 Eternals (2006)
Neil Gaiman lends his considerable talents to revisit Eternals. The book felt like there was more to come, but I don’t think there was?
I’m coding more again and starting to get pained using my magic keyboard. Though I wish for a new magic keyboard with Touch ID, I think it’d be good to try an ergonomic board. Anyone have a good recommendation for an ergo board with no right-hand numpad and Apple key mapping?
📚 The Dream of Reason (2018) by Jenny George
Lots of poems about animals. I didn’t jive with this one so much, but it had it’s moments.
Recipes. Seriously. Tonight I picked up the knife for a “preparation 5 minutes” recipe. First ingredient: whole bulb of garlic (10-12 cloves), chopped. lol
I’m starting to build up a list of my favorite albums as well as tracking those albums that I spend significant time with each year going forward. Thanks to Shawn for some styling help!
(Working with text boxes in blogging software does get a bit tedious and makes me revisit my decision to go with hosted versus self-generated.)
📚 Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox (2003)
I may be 20 years late, but this is a good celebrity memoir. Some interesting stories backing a tale of the metamorphosis of a man.
🍿 The Maze Runner (2014)
This one really did depart quite a bit from the book. Partly I think that was for pacing. The big difference is that the book had a lot of inner dialog, which wasn’t the case in the movie (because that would be boring in a movie).
Learning to sharpen chisels today.
📚 Prognosis by Jim Moore (2021)
Now this is what I meant when I wrote about mixing with my mind by reading poetry. This is a collection I will come back to, grabbing from the shelf and reading random bits.
Genius.
🎵 Obviously by Lake Street Dive (2021)
I’ve listened to this 4 or 5 times in the past week. It makes your toes tap! I’d actually say the first 9 songs are near perfect – the last 2 songs kind of take out the steam for me. Maybe that’s intended!
🦹 Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon (2013)
This through volume four is roughly the basis for the Marvel Hawkeye show. I’ve read through volume six. Good stuff!
📚 The Maze Runner (2010)
I’ve tried to read along with each of the kids on at least one book series (RE: The Hunger Games and Found), and now it’s time to read with the youngest. This one was a particularly brutal dystopia.
🍽️ Spicy Thai Basil Chicken (Pad Krapow Gai)
This is my favorite Thai restaurant order and Chef John is probably my favorite YouTube chef. I made it last week using serrano peppers. While it was cooking, each person in the family started coughing in turn. Some of the kids were 20-30 feet away! We were all coughing for the last 5 minutes of cooking time. It was pretty spicy, but not unbearable like I thought it was going to be. We still gobbled it up.
The picture doesn’t do it a lot of justice.
🍿 Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
It took a bit for me to get into the movie, but by the end I was quite fascinated by Dolemite Is My Name. Midway through, Eddie Murphy’s Rudy Ray Moore mocks a film producer’s plans to make a saccrine underdog story, all the while participating in a film full of joy and positivity from its own underdog. The movie is truly Capraesque, despite the extensive language and nudity.
I’ve decided to run a edited newsletter montly. It will collate many of the posts here at the blog as well as having a touch of original writing. If that sort of thing piques your interest please do subscribe!
🍿 Red Notice (2021)
Nothing ground breaking here, but a few laughs never hurt anyone.
Whelp, the money shoe has dropped (RE: G Suite legacy free edition), which probably makes it so I’ll actually figure out transitioning my email from Gmail. The question is Fastmail, Zoho Mail, or some other.