Huevos Rancheros
I think every profession should have its own egg dish
starting a new movie project
Heathcliff is the Garfield of the left
and yet it is easy to imagine a liberal Heathcliff wearing a Hamilton helmet
Wikipedia Finds: Kid Cudi's Film Discography
What is up with Kid Cudi's filmography page on wikipedia. They have labelled the sidebar 'film discography', a phrase I cannot find on any other actor/musician's page (Gaga gets videography to emphasize it has music videos and I found a case or two of artists with combined filmography and discography but this only contains Cudi's music videos and acting roles). Why are they using this picture of him?! It's a bad photo at a premiere for a film he doesn't act in. I had to go to his main page to even confirm he wrote a song for the movie
Today's Connections is fun
I was annoyed when I opened it and some of the clues were multiple words but I feel like it earned it
Mid-Afternoon Music
This morning's afternoon's music. An album by King Khan that is both a tribute to members of Sun Ra's Arkestra and a collaboration with some of the Arkestra
Sufjan Stephens quitter talk
But it's about Krzysztof KieΕlowski not making a movie for every countries flags
wait
I have, embarrassingly, not seen those films yet. Do White and Red also serve as Poland films. That seems eminently possible
Fun macOS bug
Sometimes when I plug my work computer into my external monitor, it runs into a situation where the cursor and absolutely nothing else renders incorrectly. It is wrong for all cursor types and it looks correct when I move it onto my laptop.
I don't really know what's going on. I sort of assume it's something about subpixel rendering and the differing resolutions and some flag not being set but why wouldn't it impact anything else?
Morning Music
Wait, I could be doing morning music during the hiatus. Anyway, Mammal Hands is band that I either found through Bandcamp's new & notable section or when looking at related music for another band I found that way. They're a jazz trio (sax, piano, drums) who tend to favour driving and somewhat ethereal compositions
only made it three films into my 1001 movies to see list
before I don't think I can really tell how many movies I've recommended.
I'm still having a lot of fun thinking about and writing about the movies on this list but it's tricky in a way I wasn't expecting. Coming up with the main movies is easy enough so farβthere are a bunch of movies I like a lot and have seen enough that I can pitch them. It's the related recommendations that are hard.
There's sort of a two-fold problem: there are movies that I think are interesting pairings but I haven't seen often or recently enough to be sure without a rewatch; and there are movies that are good pairings but I want to debut them on the main list before they appear in follow-ups (for the first films anyway. I promise you there is no way I am making it to 1,001 if I'm burning 4 films for each main recommendation). That part is also fun though. It lets me mention second films by directors early (in F for Fake I even mention that I am planning on recommending a different film by Peter Watkins), and also it's going to make it easier to mention something other than the big obvious choice film by some directors.
Anyway, movies rule. You should watch them and you should tell me about the cool ones you're watching
been busy this week, so it's nice to know that some things are constant
6 updates
oops
apparently when I (finally) added smaller versions of of photos for my website, I did it in a way that broke portrait photos. Weirdly they look right in my feed reader but not on my site.
I think I know what's happening. My camera stores all photos in landscape resolution and sets a flag for rotation in the EXIF data. My naive file conversion isn't doing anything about this and thus the resulting webp file is also in landscape. That EXIF rotation data isn't used by default (or is even out of spec?) for webp so at least in firefox on a mac it renders as horizontal on my website. My feed reader is actually using that EXIF data and fixing it? That's my guess without actually testing anything anyway.
I'll fix it by the next time I upload photos since that probably broke a tone of older pages
Connections 3
| black | coal | thin | ice |
| field | lawnmower | death | street |
| doom | third | wind | light |
| speed | gas | tonsil | running |
Answers
I don't know why this is rendering weird. I'll try to fix it for the next one :)
Answers
| Power Sources | coal | gas | wind | light | Metal Subgenres | black | doom | death | speed | Kinds of Hockey | ice | field | tonsil | street | The _____ Man (film titles) | thin | third | running | lawnmower |
|---|
| argot | cup | jargon | pot |
| box | golf | bowl | bat |
| cant | jog | flask | glove |
| ball | slang | lingo | plate |
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Puzzle Answers
- soup containers
- bowl
- pot
- flask
- cup
- needed for baseball
- bat
- plate
- glove
- ball
- terminology
- slang
- jargon
- argot
- cant
- canids with the first letter changed
- golf
- box
- lingo
- jog
notes
Wanted to try making one with the kind of bullshit letter change/partial word ones people hate. I realized I could make two of them wii sports actions so the rest of the puzzle is finding ways to fit in the others
Help Me Identify Plants/Animals
I remembered about a long-forgotten section of one of my websites and I updated it so that it's quicker/easier to updated in the future. If you are good at identifying plants/insects/birds/maybe other things eventually, please help me
Every day I wake up and think
I could be the hero who introduces rats to Alberta
blue sky
is basically the #1 site for if you want to hear people talk about blue sky
oops
bcj asks:
Hey weren't you going to add a movie to your 1001 films list every week?
Shit, yes. I worked out what is going on the list but I haven't written it up yet. Tomorrow maybe. I am still excited to recommend movies
Proving false the narrative that technology continues unabated
We're out here using brannock devices when we used to use fluoroscopes
I've never seen it but
If they had localized fear.com to the appropriate domain for each country (e.g., .ca, .co.uk, etc.) it would have done so much better
Anyway, I think we should forcibly make every US corp change their domain to com.us if it's a US site
It's wild for letterboxd to make me feel so out-of-step with culture when it is not really a 'modern' (derogitory) site
and yet, every time I see the tag section for reviews (which I have forgotten for roughly all of my spooktember (wait, I guess it should be spookvember. how did I not notice this until just now?!) film I am greeted with the 'helpful' tag suggestion netflix. Truly, why would I want to tag a film/review as being netflix?
A horror movie I'd like to see. A horror movie I'd like to make
Just rewatched The Stepfather (1987) which I forgot has a completely-out-of-place soundtrack that sounds like a decade out of date and unfit for purpose. There is a synth flute early on that is literally this flute
The obvious takeaway from this is that I would love to see or make the film for which Univers De La Mer is the perfect fit
imo
Richard kind of looks like an asshole here
On Pizza
I think we should just call cheese pizza pizza. You can have pizza without cheese but I feel like that's a modification and cheese is the default. This is not to lessen cheese pizza, it's the opposite. It is enshrining its place.
Alternately, we should start calling the base version of anything in a sort of redundant way. Like calling cars without any optional features wheel-cars
Stop calling me gormless
They were out of gorm last time I was at the store
guy next to us on the airplane just opened his Mercedes Benz iOS app, stared at the image of his SUV for a minute, then swiped through the different angles of the model you own that it will apparently show you before closing the app again
there are so many kinds of guy in this world
and this is one of them no doubt
What's Old is New Again
#recommendations #techGuy Who has only seen older movies where the credits are at the beginning of the film (where they belong)
yeah, I hope there's a post-credits scene. Otherwise what am I even watching?
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
I don't know how many people alive in the 20s when the statement was made are still alive but we can't be more than a decade away from that being definitively false.
So, uh, get ready for the rapture in the next 5 years I guess
bcj keeps winning
stopped by the cheese shop on the way home from working at a cafe and because it was near close they gave me a free baguette
Horror movie request
Is there a better (which is to say good) election-themed horror movie? I am feeling like I have to watch the Dead Zone and I think it's just not great (maybe I'll have a change of heart). I guess I could watch something like lottery related?
The Union Representing NYT Games is on Strike
Here's a connections board made by me to tide you over. Answers will be posted tomorrow:
#NYT Games
#connections
#games
| button | north | dash | rush |
| hie | nil | love | fly |
| nothing | blue | nada | lies |
| zip | cinch | clasp | snap |
Answers
Puzzle Answers
- zero
- nil
- zip
- nada
- nothing
- ways to secure clothing
- button
- clasp
- snap
- cinch
- go quickly
- hie
- rush
- fly
- dash
- true _____
- north
- blue
- love
- lies
notes
I came up with the last category while making breakfast and then built the puzzle around it. If True Lies (1994) is before your time, it might not be easy to spot. I thought love would be a fun decoy word because love as in zero in tennis feels clever and therefore correct and then made two categories zip could fit into to help sell it. I'll be the first to say that hie is a word that simply doesn't exist outside of the crossword and other word games anymore but I figured it would be acceptable in a word game for that reason. Hope you enjoyed it
Social Media should basically be about good soups you ate
This soup looks real good
(hmm, why is my site not letting me import this post? problem for another day)
Spelunky 2
I mentioned previously that I had completely switched my speedrunning set up (pun unintended). how's that going? Okay.
Mostly, I haven't had much time to play around with it. I haven't tried modding the pro controller to give it bigger deadzones but I picked up a bluetooth receiver so I could use the xbox controller I had been using on windows.
For a little while, I had thought this was adding some lag to the system. Controls felt off and I wasn't sure if this was the controller or the receiver. Then, today, I had a revelation. The problem is my TV. I had never set it to low-latency mode and I sure can feel the difference. No wonder I didn't think the OBS stream latency felt that bad. Unfortunately, the low-latency mode on my TV is also not great. The game feels way better to play but the ghosting is incredibly noticeable.
I think I might need to move my switch to my office so I can use a monitor instead. That means I'll have to use my laptop to record (or my windows machine, ha). This should be fine, my laptop is more powerful than my desktop, but it makes it a bit more annoying if I want to listen to music while I stream as I don't want that captured in the recording.
I don't have time to move things this afternoon but maybe I'll try this out this evening and report back. I feel like we're close to being in a position where I can start improving runs again
Vacation
Photos from the second half of my vacation last month are now up on my blog (part I, interlude).
What did I do for the rest of my vacation? I went to Paris to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the writing of my favourite book. I wrote a little essay/journal about it. Mostly though, I just wandered around and ate good food and and took photos (some also good). As I mention in the journal, this book, has had great effect on how I approach photography so if you're going to check out both, maybe read it before you look at the photos
Thanks
Okay, I said I might drop No Such Thing as A Fish as a podcast when they served me a true crime podcast ad
It just gave me an ad for a Jordan Peterson tour
Deciding to Make a Joke Real Before I've Even had a Chance to Make the Joke
While I was in the shower, I thought of the post:
oh, so you like movies? name 1,001 of them you should see before you die
Unfortunately, I was in the shower so I couldn't easily post it and had to stew on it instead. Why couldn't I make my own list of 1,001 films to watch before you die? I've probably seen that many. I could probably earnestly recommend several hundred.
Now, months and months ago, my buddy Richard asked me to recommend some horror movies because he wanted to check out the genre in October. I made a big list of like 100 movies with the idea of formatting it in terms of movies that I think are important to the genre and then what to watch next if any given one piqued his interest. Having let the scope creep incredibly like that, I never actually sent him the list as I was still working on it (two other people he asked actually were helpful and then I made a few suggestions based on their great lists). My next plan was to post it to Cohost but then it was shutting down and I was busy so it's lingered in this partially completed state ever since.
So, fuck it. I am going to make my own list of 1,001 movies you should watch before you die and it is helpfully going to recommend what else you might want to watch if you like any given film. I'm not going to make it all at once because clearly it will just never get done but I am going to make a tentative list over on One Gross Online of X Movies You Should Probably See Before You Die. I am going to commit to adding at least one movie a week until I finish it or I get bored. Sometimes I'll probably post a bit more frequently. At least once, I'll sour on a movie or decided a different movie is a more important introduction to a style of film and relegate a movie to the "fans of the genre" section. I'll probably post them here too? We'll find out
It's about time my website where I am trying to add 144 things to it got a section where I'm trying to add an even bigger number to it
and done
The first of the 1001 movies to watch is up on my site.
There may be some slight tweaking of the format as I write more but I wanted to strike while the iron is hot. I've started with a movie I sometimes call my favourite film. Will you like it too? I hope so
French Immersion Blender
post now
Anatoly Vapirov Ensemble - Misteria
The first few minutes are misleadingly chill, but once it gets going this is just top notch prog jazz.
A Good One
I'll admit I have a bit of a backlog of morning music. I can see at least 3 tabs I opened meaning to listen to them once a meeting ended and I never did haven't yet.
Anyway, this one is a jam and the warning is useful
Everyone's favourite Halloween tradition
watching a bunch of horror movies on halloween to amp themselves up for watching a horror movie a day in November
gotta decide what i wanna watch during trick-or-treating
needs to be something I can either pause or leave running without a kid seeing something horrible. probably something i've seen before. might rewatch the stuff
update
After thinking possession, and then videodrome and realizing those were both bad ideas, I'm gonna watch coherence and then who knows what after that.
lemme know what the spookiest movie you've ever seen was and maybe i'll download it