🎵 Florence + The Machine, Everybody Scream — I have no prior Florence experience but really like this album. The whole “start slow and build a song to a wild ass peak” thing works for me. “You Can Have It All” is a favorite. A little called out by “It must be nice to be a man and make boring music just because you can” in “One of the Greats” but, fortunately, narrowly escape as I only aspire to make music that is good enough to be boring.
🎧 Get Up in the Cool — Podcast from Cameron DeWhitt totally focused on the heavily niche musical interest of Old Time. My friend Darin was on recently.
🎥 Predator: Badlands — What a friggin masterpiece. This is why going to the movies exists. I loved how predator boy shows up at the end and uses like every single thing he learned on the death planet in the final fight.
🕹️ Ball x Pit — Just fun as heck. I the end I didn’t even hate the meta progression city building stuff. Really enjoyed the different characters and upgrades that take some of the monotony away just as you’re starting to feel it.
🎥 Eddington (why don’t all movies have an obvious “this is the official website of the movie” website? If I made a movie you’d better as hell know it would have a banger website.) — I loved how this movie evokes how it feels to observe the foreverbattle of the far right and far left. And how there is a sliding scale of just how crazy any given person on either side can be. When the movie gives way to violence, it felt like a release to me, like obviously this is where things are going.
📺 Stranger Things — Just a fan like everyone else. Anxiously awaiting this story to continue, wasn’t disappointed when it did, and can’t wait for Christmas for the next four.
📕 I am Rebel — A very helpful lady at Barnes & Nobel helped Ruby and I find the perfect book to buy with her birthday gift card. We both really enjoyed this story of a dog sticking to his feelings and finding his owner despite changes, both physical and emotional. I wanted a little more about the corrupt king and the revolutionaries plan, but that would have aged the book up.
🎵 Western Centuries — What an amazing band, I’m sorry I missed their active period. They lost a guy and must have just called it, understandably. This is just perfection to me: