Homecoming (season 2)

Enjoyable enough. Slow paced story telling, but okay.

End of the F***ing world (season 2)

Still enjoyable. Took a little while to get into it. Never realized: it takes place in England, but they give it a really American backdrop; empty roads. Small road side restaurants. Dont' remember that from the first season. Also, the guy who did much of the score / soundtrack, Graham Coxon (he's from Blur?) has some nice swamp rock stuff.

Malcolm Gladwell - "Talking to Strangers" (as audiobook)

Interesting enough about spies and, unfortunately, inbred racism. Levine - "Duped" - we trust people by default. Only when there are triggers, we start to doubt. Supposedly, we need "enough" triggers or red flags to not believe someone. Saying in hindsight "how did you not pick up on that [red flag]?" is the wrong question. The question is: how many red flags were there?



Finished.  Enjoyable listen, but he often seems to love his own theory too much. There are lots of interesting issues and stories here, but he loves the simplicity of people "just not" knowing how to talk to strangers. Ignoring inbred racism, lust, evil.

Ip Man - Ip Man 2 - Ip Man 3

Nice "wūxiá" style (like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) films, based on a true Chinese martial arts expert popularizing wing chun ("Chinese kung fu"?) Stories made more popular of course, but still. Ip Man 3 - particularly liked the duel between Ip man and Evil Tattoo guy; different styles but obviously equals. They use "shifu" a lot: https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&text=%E5%B8%AB%E5%82%85 Shi = 師 = teacher Fu = 父 = father

The People vs OJ Simpson

interesting. and harsh to see in the current George Floyd death context.

covid-19 madness

parodies Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eo9M4-BrJA Michael Jackson - Billy Jean - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygdB-ZE0daY Taylor Swift - ... that one famous song - Do Re Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMBh-eo3tvE John Lennon / Beatles - Imagine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7GAn7s3c0k Everything I learned about COVID-19 from horror films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUdV7Xf9sT4