Diversions to entertain you
I watched this video to figure out music. You see I am an old man who doesn’t follow what any of the kids listen to these days. I am no longer cool. So I feel like learning about the music from the last decade. All I learned was “hauntology.”
While I went to see Wicked Little Letters in the theater, I was just wanting to watch a movie. It was a movie to watch. That’s what I can say for it. I was the youngest person in the audience. I guess that was what happens when you pick a film that isn’t a superhero film or horror film, which seems to be only things coming out nowadays.
Hollywood is missing these type of smaller films. Something that has low stakes and a good story. Something that will make people come back to the theater to watch. I was just wanting to watch a movie and eat popcorn, so I ended up with this film.
It’s supposedly a true story from England at the turn of the last century. About some letters that riled up the countryside. Small stakes even though it was a national sensation at the time. I guess it satisfied that urge to just be in a darkened theater.
3 of 5 stars.
Sooner or later you’ll let me down.
Third month. Three is a magic number!
The first time I heard De La’s “Three Feet High and Rising” was senior year in high school and my friend Stan was playing “Me, Myself, and I” at some random party we were at. He was like saying, “So good. So good,” but I was high and just grooving out on this funky new shit. I did not comprehend what I was listening to. Just grooving and riding the buzz.
I’ve been riding the buzz with them for 35 years!
https://music.apple.com/us/album/3-feet-high-and-rising-35th-anniversary/1731021243
Analytics from my twitter feed say no one sees these when you post them so late in the day. So therefore, today’s comes up just about an hour earlier than yesterday’s. I guess maybe we’ll get an extra view?
Yeah!
But no one clicks through on their twitter feed. So no one’s gonna see this. But you’ll be missing out on something great.
A couple of weeks back, Nogizaka46’s TV show’s YouTube channel posted that they’re now going to include subtitles within a week of the showing. YES!
Yup, you too can now become as big a Nogizaka fan as me. The episodes go as far back as GomenFin back in 2021.
You’ve got a long way to catch up. What are you waiting for? Only click through!
I guess I should post a blog post sometime this year. Considering that this year’s Academy Awards were announced this morning, my first post this year will be that list of best films from the past year. Like always, it’s a list of the films I thought were the best and achieved a rating of 4 or more stars. Unlike previous years during the pandemic, I did see a few more films this year, and it seems that I’ve seen more good ones than bad.
These are all 4 of 5 stars.
I enjoyed all these films. I did enjoy going to the theater. I want to try going to more movies this year.
Well here we go. Nogizaka46’s 34th single, Monopoly. They, the members, will bankrupt you with their gourgeousness. Let’s all get ready. It will be released on December 6th. Consider that the dollar is crushing the yen at the moment pick up all five versions. You know I will.
It makes no sense that it’s the 40th Anniversary of the Talking Head’s concert movie, Stop Making Sense. Where has the time gone?
I used to have the cassette tape of the album. It was much shorter than the 90 minutes of the film missing several cuts. I have never really seen the entire film so imagine my surprise they even had the Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love!” Did not know that was in the film. Now I know. Genius.
If you haven’t listened, then listen or watch this film. I wanted to dance. The audience was older than I was when I watched it. I would have to say they were maybe college students when this movie came out and Talking Heads were their jam. I can say it was also my jam. I played the cassette all the time in my VW Golf while going to school. Psycho Killer. Naive Melody. This must me the place.
I guess I did enjoy it.
4 of 5 stars.
A Haunting in Venice is an Agatha Christie mystery story as filmed by Kenneth Branagh as part of his Poirot Cinematic Universe. It is a Scooby Doo film. Yes, you heard that right. It had a supernatural twist behind it but the motivations was really human. I was expecting the culprit to have said that they would’ve gotten away with it except for those damn, meddling kids.
The story is about the death of girl in Venice. She threw herself into the canals. It was rumored that her death was caused mainly by the curse surrounding the family’s history and the ghosts in their villa. Now, that is a good setup for a mystery.
Except, it was all quite easy to see where it was going. If you’ve watched enough movies, you know really quickly who was the culprit. I don’t think I am spoiling it if I say that it wasn’t ghosts that did it. The ghosts weren’t spooky enough, and typically the scariest thing in this were the humans. So, if you read the books or know your films, there wasn’t quite a mystery there. And since it was really humans, the fright wasn’t there either.
3 of 5 stars.
I find the Conjuring Universe to be a favorite. I hate scary movies, but I love getting scared. I love goosebumps, and I love being creeped out at night. The Conjuring Universe is a fine source for these scares. The first Conjuring was pretty good. Everything else not so, but it still is full of scares. And now it has some gore.
The Nun II continues the story from the the first one. It follows Sister Irene and her new sidekick, Sister Debra as they try to stop the demon, Valek’s rampage across the French countryside. At first, the film starts out as horror, but with Sister Irene and Sister Debra it became a mystery. They must pick up the demon’s trail from Romania into France as it leaves a bloody trail of bodies looking for a holy relic.
I really didn’t see any of the scares as I hid behind closed eyes. So I missed most of the deaths. Yet, I still loved it. It took me two nights to not be worried about what lurks in the dark in my room. Thanks, Nun!
3 of 5 stars.
