Week in Review
Huh, I should figure out a snappier thing to put in the heading here, since last week I had the clip show joke. Gosh, what a week. Armed fascists descending on the town. Mealymouthed nonsense from our electeds. Mealymouthed nonsense from folks who want to be our electeds. It’s enough to drive someone off the edge, or at least to the edge if someone wasn’t there already. It’s tough enough to have to live in Ohio without having to watch the state collapse under the weight of the myriad grifters who hold fast to the levers of power. And to think! It’s still not enough for them! Anyway, it’s the holiday season, so let’s see what I’ve been up to.
The Brain Dump
I’ve decided on an actual metric for how I’m cherry-picking things to make me look coherent here. Let’s see if it works.
lotta Crew fans out chanting about the World Cup or something [I am driving down High Street at 50mph while looking at my phone]
can't believe Elon would soil the history of American space exploration by enabling Nazis
[CinemaSins guy watching Sesame Street] uhh, Cookie Monster is OBVIOUSLY not really eating the cookie here 🙄 [ding] Cover your eyes, kids, I can see Grover's rod! [ding]
i would be mad as hell if i were trying to sleep and got visited by three spirits
"do you have a humidifier?" no i have a suite of water glasses on the nightstand that evaporate at different rates
I don’t know that that was any more or less coherent, but it’s what you’re getting. Don’t like it? #Vote
At the Movies
Lot of Christmas movies lately, for some reason. Not exclusively though! And hey, a new release! I never watch those!
Christmas in Connecticut (1945), dir. Peter Godfrey ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤️
I really think this is a slept-on film. The romantic parts work, or maybe I just like Barbara Stanwyck. The comedy parts work, or maybe I just like S.Z. Sakall and Sydney Greenstreet and Una O'Connor. The conceit is simple: a popular food columnist makes up all her content and has to make it real on account of her employer forcing her to host a returning G.I. at her farm for Christmas. But there is no farm. And she can't cook. And she's not married, and she has no kid. And also her employer will also be coming for Christmas. Will she pull off this farcical subterfuge?
The 400 Blows (1959), dir. François Truffaut ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Paris
The Menu (2022), dir. Mark Mylod ⭐⭐⭐
The MID-nu
nothing Discreetly Charming about these Bourgeoisie, even after the Exterminating Angel investor
much like Anya Taylor-Joy, I was left wanting more
Ralph was fiennes
I guess if there’s a movie you want my opinion on that hasn’t been covered by my Letterboxd… let me know?
One Picture
Ugh, it’s so much work to get stuff off the Insta, in that it’s any amount of work. Here’s something from the Twitter.
In closing,
Do try to get out more, despite the cold.
ive seen that tree (no it wasnt a palm tree😡)
spoilers!