Jen

To my former Republican friends, who are now looking to root for the Democratic Party to accomplish literally anything at all, welcome to hell.

The Diplomat is The West Wing but a soap opera. A ‘prestige’ soap opera, ok? Anyway, it’s great.

Bugonia was very good. I am a fan of Yorgos and am finding I’m able to see the Matrix a little bit when it comes to his movies. It diminishes the effect to some extent.

Emma Stone was incredible in this.

Bill Kristol’s inner social democrat? What a strange timeline.

Pluribus really planted a flag.

I hear good things happened on this day. Weird.

Harmonies are off the chain. The hooks go on for days. These both are very hard to do and extremely impressive to me, but it’s all pretty surface-y otherwise, when you think of their later work.

So. I would say that,like anthropologically, I can definitely understand how these albums propelled them into the stratosphere in the 1960s. I also, thus far, agree with myself in ignoring most of their music pre-Rubber Soul.

2 more to go. I have already heard, and don’t love, Help.

I did fall asleep (possibly non-derogatory). Will finish it tonight.

The lyrics in Little Child sound crazy in the year of our lord 2025, but I am pretty sure we are encountering some 1960s slang

Listening to The Beatles second album for the first time. Let’s see!

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Baseball

I like how silly Slow Horses is willing to get.

Baseball is cool, actually.

The Diplomat is just fun television. Feels like a throwback to a bygone time.

Remarkably I’ve never heard 70-80% of these songs. They write great hooks. Overall, really, really good for what it was.

Maybe low expectations are helping here, but I dig this. I think these songs would make really fun punk covers 🙂

I am listening to The Beatles first album for the first time in my life. I’m a pretty big fan but have always avoided “their cheesy era”

What even is he lol? 👽

I hope your team wins :)

Woo!

Watching playoff baseball and enjoying it. That LA sunset is classic.

These guys got it in one.

That saved time adds up.

I actually do think Eddington was a great movie, but One Battle After Another makes it look like the baby version. Wowza!

Salt Lake City, where every new restaurant is Mo’ Bettahs, the kudzu vine of eating establishments.

I cannot, for the life of me, understand why we eat artichokes.

The rapture did happen, just nobody was good enough. Sad.

Mood