Envy - "A War Room"

solid postrock, found by one of the playlists (Osaka?) claude made.

Jessie Buckley covering Sinead O'Connor - "Troy"

Chillingly good performance of Sinead O'Connor's "Troy" by Jessie Buckley.

Seems she does more singing/covers?  Great stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbc9DV1Pws&list=RD8fbc9DV1Pws  

Thrash

film so silly it's enjoyable, about a big tornado (tsunami?) that brings sharks to a little town

Bill Frisell & Eyvind Kang

live in Cadogan Hall.

Amazing "structured dissonant" music (hard to describe) and amazing to see them play together. 

Casshern Sins (2008)

A remake../ reimagining? of the original 1993 (manga)

Casshern is a (robot/human?) who "killed the sun named moon", and killed Luna (...) starting The Ruin 

OK so far. 

 

Strange, alien and desolate world.  Robots think devouring Casshern will give them eternal life and protect against the Ruin.  Sophita just wants to fight everyone but is moved by his beauty.

Good music. 

Tom Waits - "Martha"

beautiful. Found via "Better Things" series

"This is a gardening show"

Gardening show with & by Zach Galifianakis.  Great stuff, particularly his conversations with kids are gold.

 

Shadow and Bone (unfinished)

meh, couldn't get into it.  Very Games of Thrones ish, but without the solid storytelling.

From wikipedia: The series is set in the Grishaverse, which comprises the nations of Ravka, Fjerda, Shu Han, Kerch, Novyi Zem, and the Wandering Isle. Each nation draws inspiration from real-world countries, reflecting elements of language, culture, and tradition from different historical periods.[1][2][3] In the Grishaverse, there exists a group of individuals referred to as "magic-users".[1] These people, known as Grisha, are practitioners of what is called "The Small Science", a unique ability that allows each Grisha to manipulate matter at the molecular level. 

Svalbard - "Lily" (One Day All of this Will End, 2015)

solid postrock

Rose Keating - "Oddbody"

body-horror stories, fairly short.  Good stuff.

All extremely physical, and without much said, yet showing depth and emotion with minimal words. Extra points for really weird stuff, like the sheep plants.

Interesting how pain is basically ignored, yet there's still the hint or background that things *could* be bad and painful. 

 

    When the knife sank into the tigh, tense muscle of her shoulder blade, she became a knot undone. She arched her back, breathing hard.
    "Good?" Mary asked.
    Jen nodded, her face smashed against the couch, legs squeezing together. She realised she had drooled on the armrest.
    Mary began sewing the wings. The repetition of the stitching soothed Jen. Each puncture of needle felt like releasing a breath held in for too long. "Tell me something about yourself," Mary said.

 

    

    The sheep wheezed, a whining, guttural giggle.
    Bridget straightened up. She placed the knife at the start of its neck, pointing the tip of the blade just below its throat.
    She pushed down. It sliced through easily, like cutting into a bowl of jelly. She cut from its collarbones down to crotch, the line clean and straight. The sheep sighed, the sound fluttering and pleasing.
    She held the line of the incision open with her hands. She reached inside the gash, moving her fingers through the tender folks with care. Under her fingertips, she felt the sheep throb.

Silent Hill 2

Didn't bother trying to geth the original working, as the stories are completely unrelated.

Pretty intense stuff. Good horror tropes, and they work really well. 

The Making of Tron

https://theasc.com/articles/making-of-tron-1982 

 

 

it required a tremendous amount of current to provide thousands of footcandles of bounce light. At one point Logan was using 12,000 amps, and the City of Burbank called the studio to notify them that they would be shut down if they continued to draw so much current. Fortunately the studio was able to rearrange their load and work things out with the city so that Logan and his crew could resume shooting after about 45 minutes.

 

 "The depth of field was so critical we were talking about half an inch, and that gets a little weird trying to play an intimate scene with a C-stand up your back. We would usually have a camera assistant with a telescopic sight with a cross-hair, and he would tell me through hand signals whether the actor was drifting ahead or behind the mark, and I would then, through hand signals, try to help the actor regain his mark, all the while giving his Academy Award winning performance.”

 

 

 

Better Things

(co-written by Louis C. K....)

Fun enough series about a mum and her three daughters, and her 80 yo English mother, and life just happening.

Snappy dialogue, not _too_ snappy. Good stuff.

The Beauty

Disney plus, "the beauty" being a substance that turns people into beautiful young versions.  And can be sexually transmitted.  But some people explode.

Agents trying to frame the big bad guy.

It's alright. Story a bit all over the place, but what's good is how sometimes whole episodes take the time to explain/show one specific story bit or character.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Good.  Proper story telling. 

Great visuals, even on a small screen from a plane.