First - apologize for the lack of a post yesterday. Second, as you can likely guess from the title, there will be more than one film discussed over several posts. Anyway... For one reason or another, I've managed to watch, and enjoy several movies out of Norway over the last few years, most recently the story of Thor Heyerdahl [https://infogalactic.com/info/Kon-Tiki_(2012_film)] and the raft christened Kon-Tiki [https://infogalactic.com/info/Kon-Tiki_expedition]. Highly recommended. The…
Have a good weekend.…
While I'm never not going to be a metal/rock guy, I took a long tour through trance, and other modern dance including the Cruxshadows end of darkwave, and more recently, The Midnight and other retrowave groups. As a result, I was overjoyed to stumble into Didact's recommendation of Scandroid [https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-neo-tokyo-drift.html]. The first track he shows, "Empty Streets" has not only an excellent and evocative sound but a stylish 8-bit lyric video. So, to follow o…
Saw John Wick the other day. Lots of action, interesting characters, with yet again a lot of John Wick's history and background exposed by how he is treated by the people he meets, including the surreal experience of a fanboy out to kill him. If you liked the first two, go see it. Men of the West has an interesting, spoiler filled take [https://www.menofthewest.net/john-wick-is-gen-x/] on it and the relationships between boomers, gen-X, and millenials, after their initial teaser setting up the…
To everyone who's lost someone, to everyone who's fought and died for what they thought was right in this country, even if the system wasn't always what it should have been, thank you, my prayers. And you know who you are. Miss you.…