Fleabag

Series written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Nervous, missing her dead friend with whom she ran the guinea pig café. Amazing dialogues and good fourth-wall breaching.

Katherine Arden - "The Bear and the Nightingale" (1st in Winternight Trilogy)

Wonderful story about 17th century Rus'. Writer has studied Russian folklore and fairytales. Just started but it is quite captivating.

First book was amazing. Fairy tale themes but harsh. Step mother dies, but father too. And the priest... Now reading the second book.

ragtime stuff

Random ragtime stuff

• "Graceful Ghost" by William Bolcom
• "Gangsta's Paradise" in '20s ragtime style - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rve03u7oEvI
  by Robyn Adele Anderson. She also did a similar cover of Wham!s "Careless Whisper"
• "Creep" by Haley Reinhart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lF2qEA2cw
  TIL postmodern jukebox (PMJ)

Keith Houston - "Shady Characters"

Amazing book about the history of the octothorpe, interrobang, quotation marks, pilcrow and a few others. Must reread. And reread.

Simon Griffin - "Fucking Apostrophies"

Fun little booklet about proper apostrophe usage. The only thing that irritates me is that it's *always* "fucking apostrophy". After a few pages or a chapter I get it.

random music

• Mariah Careh ft Marilyn Manson - "All I want for Christmas is the beautiful people"
  amazing mashup. made my morning.
• Funker vogt - "Fallen Hero"
  Industrial?  Good stuff!
• Covenant - "Call the ships to port"

Watchmen (series)

Amazing series retelling the Watchmen alternative universe. Still don't know what Ozymandias is doing on a moon of Jupiter, but amazing.

Also, great soundtrack. Both songs and score as done by Trent Reznor.

True Detective - season 3

Quite good again. Still watching.

"Living with yourself" series + music

Great series (one season) of a man "cleaning his DNA" which turned out creating a clone of himself, who (un)fortunately survives. Smart, fast paced. Funny and sad.

Music: Nancy McCallion / The Mollies - "On We Go"

nederlandse nummers... of piano nummers

Claudia de Brey - "Wilhelmus"
wow, never heard. In de "Annie MG Schmidt" prijs
Natuurlijk - zo kwam ik hier - Yentl & De Boer - "Ik heb een man gekend"

Karin Bloemen - "Geen Kind Meer"
auw. ouch. the fuck.

Terminator: Dark Fate

Enjoyable film.  They do a good job with leaving the earlier Terminator timelines behind them, but there's serious plotholes.  Still, okay.

The Irishman

Amazing - and long! 3h30m - film from Martin Scorsese which makes you want all of Al Pacino, Robert de Niro,  Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and all the rest.

Robert de Niro as a hitman.

Also, now I know how Jimmy Hoffa is. For real.

Prisoners

Intense gripping drama/who-dunnit with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman. Two girls kidnapped.

Also the guy from "There Will be Blood", the fanatic one...

Michael Ondaatje - "Warlight"

Le Mans 66

Terrible feel-good racing film about Ford and Le Mans, with Christian Bale and Matt Daemon. Don't recommend.

"I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off"

https://www.myname.website/im-not-burned-out-im-pissed-off

Foggy - Come Into My Dream

Good trance. Voice/lyrics aren't great, but nice background music.

Ladyhawke - "My Delirium"

Bouncy happiness.

Ólafur Arnalds - "Happiness does not wait"

Beautiful piano music.

John Waters - "Mr. Know-It-All"

Enjoyable though sometimes a bit of a boring, 'and then this film happened, and then this happened.' But great quotes.


The chapter about music is amazing. Music about mutilations! Current discoveries:

• Eileen Rodgers - "Treasure of your Love" : amazing old 50s (?) style ballad
• Jimmy Cross - "I want my baby back"... over there was my baby...  and over there was my baby!... and over there was my baby!!!