From the same man who directed “My Girl Friday” and “To Have and Have Not”:
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that movie STILL gives me nightmares.
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The Olympics this year are even more of an absurd destructive farce than usual, but I’m watching them anyway. The absurdity just adds to the spectacle, really.
But this is the first time that I’ve ever watched an Olympics with access to modern streaming TV, and the local channel covering it is using its streaming app to live simulcast basically everything that happens.
So, instead of being restricted to watching endless hours of tedious swimming (which always saturates the Oz coverage for nationalism reasons), now I can watch the stuff that’s actually interesting to me but barely ever gets televised.
Got some good fencing on now, hoping to catch some archery later, will have to look up when the kayaking is on.
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Sounds good. Here in the US we also have an overdose of swimming, and also female gymnastics hosted by John Tesh.
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i love the swimming. give me that over gymnastics any day.
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Seriously, though:
That’s classic horror, and one of my fav movies of all time; glad you enjoyed it.
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A couple of weeks ago, my weekly Discord watch party decided to start viewing Black Mirror episodes.
I managed to get through two of them (“Fifteen Million Merits” and “National Anthem”)… and then I let the next two episodes play in the background without paying full attention to them. They’re well-done and thought-provoking, no question; but they’re also very depressing and down-beat, and TBH that’s just not appealing to me right now.
Unfortunately, more Black Mirror episodes won the viewing poll for this weekend, so I might skip tomorrow night’s party. I understand there are at least a couple of episodes with somewhat happy endings, and maybe I’ll check those out on my own, but I’m trying to limit my consumption of doom-and-gloom right now. I’ve got nothing against dystopian visions and such, but at this point, I just need happier fare.
–though I’d gladly rewatch The Thing. Horror movies aren’t as depressing to me, especially when they’re that well done. The practical effects are excellent.
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Incidentally, the music they had playing while introducing the fencers for the Women’s Epee Gold medal bout sounded a helluva lot like the Imperial March from Star Wars…
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I was well into my 40s and really had no idea what I was getting myself into.
I think some reference or meme made need to watch it.
So good.
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Olympic soundtrack continues to be weird.
Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing in the background of the kayaking; The Cure’s A Forest behind the skateboarding. No idea what audience they’re aiming all this at.
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Unsurprisingly, Tasmanian media isn’t so much reporting on Australia’s Olympics performance as it is Tasmania’s performance. Thirty seconds on the overall results, then five minutes in-depth on whichever athlete (a) performed well that day, and (b) has some minimally-plausible claim to Tasmanian identity or origin.
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i love Black Mirror, but they do tend to be depressingly frightening. i do like them as worst-case “what if?” technology cautionary tales, though, and now it seems like the earlier ones are becoming downright prescient, which is… yeah, not good.
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All those goth skateboarders, of course. The ones who do ollies in their PVC fishtail skirts with New Rocks, doncherknow 
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I’m a cord cutter so it’s frustrating for me. I have this scattered coverage but really want to see the gymnastics. I signed up for Sling but that mainly has all these weirdo categories - mainly only the swimming events interst me. And Peacock has just highlights and then replays at odd hours. I don’t want to get cable just for this.
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the NBC Sports app has been mostly ok for us – you can watch a "limited’ bit of the current content, but the replay stuff is all free, so i just check a day later to see highlights and watch recaps. they still throw in commercials, which is a bummer, but what can you do. also, the app seems super slow to me (navigation can be frustrating if you can’t tell what’s going on), but being able to see the stuff we’re interested in is worth the hassle so far.
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I can understand the depressing feelings you get from this show. Most of the episodes are pessimistic indeed.
If you know in advance that the selection is going to be San Junipero, trust me and watch it.
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The author attempts to understand nespresso’s new super proprietary pod system. A refractometer is involved.
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Ugh, coffee pods. That stuff isn’t strong enough for me.
But then again, I started drinking A. A. coffee when I started drinking coffee, sooo…
There is something about this aimless, pointless movie that perfectly captures 1996.
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Have you tried them? The Nespresso Vertuo is a long way from those K-cup machines. My main objection is that they’re pretty pricey and generate waste, but the coffee itself is pretty good.
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Nah, I have no desire to. I’m happy with my Melitta pour-over funnel.
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