Zjef Vanuytsel -- "De Zotte Morgen"

Kwam tevoorschijn via bloody spotify nadat ik Wim Sonneveld e.d. had geluisterd.

Is goed. Moet ik vaker luisteren.

Soft Cell - "Happiness Not Included"

New Soft Cell album! So far, sounds like their original stuff. So, that's nice.

Pachinko

Cool series about a Korean family, from the 1910 Japanese occupation to the "now" in 1989.

Different colours for Japanese and Korean subtitling, which is cool.

Anatomy of a Scandal

interesting enough, particularly with the current Tory fuckups, of a scandal in west minster.

Röyksopp - "Profound Mysteries"

New album. Quite nice.

Really like "If You Want Me" with Susanne Sundfør. 

Also, "Impossible" was with Alison Goldfrapp.

Cynan Jones - "Stilicide"

Strange, near-poem like story. Chapters of different people, slowly interweaving, of a world without enough clean water. The Water Train, the iceberg being towed to London. Amazing how the chapters wrap into each other.

Originally broadcast by the bbc, one chapter at a time?

Reminds me of Paul Auster's "In the country of last things", Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" and Daisy Jones' "February" (?? I can't find this!), as in short, strange books that leave you bewildered and confused.

Focus, John.

The hospital behind him.

The scene below an object now. A coin through a jeweller's loupe.

Watch the bridge, he coached himself. Focus on the bridge.

The protest now was filtering. The crowd seeming to pour.

Something microscopic in the fact the smallest tap could send a hundred-and-seventy-grain bullet three-quarters of a mile.

Move your finger just a millimetre and you could end a life; but you cannot save one. Her. Not with the strength of your whole body.

Branner felt himself sliding again, away from the wider world. Into the big hole in his ground, the time ahead without her.

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

Watched straight after finishing Severance. Still beautiful, still sad, still amazing.

Palm Springs

(seem to have missed logging this)

great time-loop movie, quite enjoyable. Don't bother with the set-up because they assume the audience is familiar with the premise, which is good.

Severance

Wonderful series about a company Lumon that "severs" work and private lives of people in their mind. When you go in, you don't remember your personal life, when you leave, you don't remember work.

Amazing absurdism. Great by role by Christopher Walken.

Story kept entertaining. Quite interesting to see the "innies vs outies", how people basically fight themselves (their outies want them to stay inside).  Good visuals of long maze-like corridors, bright and white, no mirrors, strange dialogues. Computer terminals without the escape key.

Quite a bit of Philip K Dick / Black Mirror feel to it.

Ten Percent

ok series – based on the French "Call my agent" series" – about a London based actor agency and all their troubles. Interesting how a fair amount of actors and actresses play themselves. Bit too silly / contrived at times.

Aliens & Alien: Covenant

Aliens was still good. Nothing like Alien, but a good action film. 

Alien: Covenant, where android David, who betrayed humans before in Prometheus, wants to create (and does so) "perfect life".

Similar to Mother and Father in Raised by Wolves.

Raised By Wolves (s2)

Still as whacko as s1 was.  Both Mother and Father feel the need to create, Mother has given birth to Number Seven, Father has resurrected a millenia old android called Grandmother, who turns out to fix the equation "make humans happy" by intentionally degenerating them into "simple" aquatic humans.

Lots of ancient references to Christianity and other faiths. Plot and story writing wise a bit easy, people just randomly find new artefacts or relics that do amazing things.  But that's kinda the idea.

Turns out that this, according to some, is setting up the stage for Prometheus (and then Alien: Covenant) as androids want to create biological life. Also, learned that Alien and Bladerunner are expected to share the same universe, where the Tyrell corporation and the Wendyll Corporation in their corporate fights have created evolved androids.

Aniara

Swedish scifi film where a trip to Mars gets thrown off course and spends years in the blackness of space. Slowly people deteriorate.

Good film

Lewis Carroll - "The Hunting of the Snark"

Amazing version with drawings from Quentin Blake!  Found in Fosters Books in Chiswick.

Jon McGregor - "Lean Fall Stand"

An expedition in Antartica goes wrong. One man dies, the general assistant has a stroke and needs to learn how to speak. Gripping in its short repetitive sentences at times. At first I was a bit bummed there was not more taking place in the Antartic, but the other two third were actually still great to read, albeit not happy stuff.

We'll be anomalous, she told Bridget. Anomalous? Yes. So, essentially, you're going to marry him on the basis that he won't be around much? Yes, Bridget, that's correct. What? Anna, you are fucking perfect. You are my hero. I should marry you myself. Well, I don't think that's possible.

Sara had the same questions. She hadn't been home for a while. She'd been busy at work and said it was difficult to get away. But she'd also admitted that she found it hard to see Robert like this: hesitant and stumbling, repeating the same few phrases. The anger that flashed across his face when she didn't understand what he was trying to say. The way he kept turning impatiently away from people. Anna said she hadn't noticed him doing this, exactly, and Sara had said that no, she didn't imagine she had.

Claire-Louise Bennet - "Pond"

short stories, very dry and deadpan.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

So so martial arts "suddenly I realised I'm warrior descendant" type.

Can't remember it making much of an impact.f

Adaptation

Still as good as it was the first time.

The Sparks Brothers

Amazing documentary of this duo I never knew. How could I have missed them?!

I did hear their collaboration with Franz Ferdinand, but still... Amazing stuff.

The Many Saints of Newark

Prequal to the Sopranos series.

It couldn't really grab me. I don't know the series, it felt like chaotic story telling. I didn't get the importance of the ice cream shop as the last shot (also final shot of the final series?)

Just didn't care.