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I had a running commentary during the first episode of The Book of Boba Fett: Stranger in a Strange Land. There are spoilers.

 

Recorded December 30, 2021

 

Commentary notes:

 

-Second time I’m watching

 

-Fighting sleep

 

Commentary notes:

 

-Intro montage

 

-Seeing Return of the Jedi in the theater in 1983

 

-Jabba’s Palace play set

 

-Bacta

 

-Boba’s physical trials

 

-PTSD as a child and adult

 

-The Sarlacc Pit

 

-Cleanliness of Book of Boba Fett

 

-Jawas

 

-Hero’s Journey

 

-Motivation of the Sand People

 

-The Mandalorian and the Sand People

 

-How did Boba survive?

 

-Score (yes, it’s the same composer as Mandalorian)

 

-Conan the Barbarian

 

-Temuera Morrison

 

-Stranger in a Strange Land is an excellent Iron Maiden song

 

-Child Tusken Raider

 

-Is this an initiation?

 

-Sand Peoples’ faces

 

-Boba’s childhood

 

-Fighting sleep

 

-Chewing gum

 

-Massiff and subtitles

 

-Rodian

 

-Projecting emotions

 

-Too much like a set

 

-Dangerous desert

 

-Another trial

 

-Brain damage in Star Wars?

 

-The Tusken Raider language

 

-Back to the batch

 

-Ming-Na Wen

 

-ER and Must See TV

 

-The Godfather

 

-Getting ready for work

 

-Difference between Boba and The Mandalorian

 

-Getting protection money

 

-Trandoshan

 

-Bossk

 

-Subtext

 

-The mayor

 

-Claiming the throne versus keeping the throne

 

-Physical and mental acumen

 

-Fett’s code and morals

 

-Mos Espa and cleanliness

 

-Not extravagant

 

-A cantina scene

 

-Jennifer Beals

 

-Parkour

 

-A little too choreographed

 

-Gamorrean guards

 

-Marauders

 

-Water

 

-Reading action subtitles=

 

-The Kraken

 

-Clash of the Titans

 

-Looks like hybrid of practical and digital effects

 

-Rodian

 

-Centaur/Kraken

 

-Fett and the Tusken Raider child

 

-Color of outfits

 

-Robert Rodriguez, Jon Favreau, and Dave Filoni

 

-The Last Jedi is still the best

 

-The Mandalorian

 

-Something new while being grounded in the original trilogy

 

-The artwork

 

-Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett

 

-Fully awake

 

-Get your information from credible sources (BBC Global News Podcast), NPR Up First, The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, etc.)

 

-Get vaccinated and wear masks (N95s)

 

-Knowledge is Power

 

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Recorded 12/30/21 - Happy New Year

 

-Horror movies

 

-What this movie was

 

-Climate change and COVID

 

-Listening to the scientists

 

-Evidence

 

-Hope and consequences

 

-Meryl Streep

 

-Hedging bets

 

-Tax the rich

 

-There’s always something we can do (it’s the fight that keeps us going)

 

-Realism of 2021

 

-Social media

 

-Bothsideism

 

-The performances

 

-The coolest part

 

-Being informed versus being over informed

 

-What despair brings

 

-Funny and terrifying

 

-2+2=4

 

-Increasing the chances for change (personally and politically)

 

-What the movie evokes

 

-I meant 2021, not 2020

 

-What I thought of the movie

 

-What’s hopeful now

 

-Climate change affecting New York

 

-Adapting

 

-If there really is a comet…

 

-Ways to increase our chances to stay alive

 

-I just moved

 

-Links!

 

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-Vote for the Democrats, the party of facts and science

 

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I react and comment with no dead air.

 

Recorded on November 29, 2021

 

-The first trailer

 

-I’ll edit this?

 

-Reaction videos

 

-Spider

 

-Western motif

 

-The Godfather (spoiler alert for I and II)

 

-What I expect

 

-Teaser

 

-YouTube commercial

 

-He is Boba Fett

 

-What I’m not going to do

 

-Not completed excited but…

 

-My expectations

 

-The Mandalorian

 

-Crime, drama

 

-Outer rim

 

-The throne

 

-What I hope

 

-Sarlacc pit

 

-Boba’s identity

 

-Jango 

 

-A mother figure?

 

-Human element

 

-All the Star Wars

 

-The only really bad Star Wars (aside from the Holiday Special)

 

-Plugs!

 

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The review is much shorter than the movie

 

Recorded October 21, 2021

 

-What I thought

 

-It’s length

 

-The trailer

 

-My history with Dune (the books and the David Lynch movie)

 

-My quick review of the Lynch movie

 

-I butcher the pronunciation of Denis Villeneuve

 

-Left me wanting more

 

-Some tastes (even though it was a long movie)

 

-Soundtrack, effects, acting, storyline

 

-What the Star Wars prequels could have been

 

-Father/son, mother/son

 

-Supernatural, politics, messiah

 

-The fighting

 

-Lynch and the Weirding Way (ugh)

 

-I yawned

 

-Part II needs to be released tomorrow

 

-Things get weirder

 

-I’ll leave you wanting more

 

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-Get vaccinated

 

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What a destroyer from Alanis…I love it. Recorded on 9/21/21

 

Show notes:

 

-It’s a destroyer

 

-What music can do

 

-Jess Locke

 

-Alanis on tour

 

-Jagged Little Pill

 

-Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

 

-The live version

 

-Buzzing

 

-The flute

 

-Lyrics on the Internet

 

-I have the CD booklet

 

-Lyrics

 

-Self worth

 

-Societal pressure

 

-Internal and external validation

 

-Developing a solid foundation

 

-Doing nothing in a pandemic

 

-The Internet and “thumbs down”

 

-Shield of anonymity 

 

-Our own worst critics

 

-Being sick as a kid

 

-Positive versus negative self talk

 

-Weight and societal pressure

 

-Marvel superhero physique

 

-Bankruptcy 

 

-Baldness

 

-Reframing the aging argument

 

-Post Jagged Little Pill

 

-Alanis’ childhood career

 

-You Can’t Do That On Television

 

-Seeing Alanis live in 1996; Taylor Hawkins was on drums and Radiohead opened up

 

-Knowledge 

 

-Losing any part of yourself

 

-After I stopped acting

 

-My life now

 

-Substance Abuse

 

-Trying not to beat yourself up

 

-Being overwhelmed

 

-Toxic positivity

 

-What not to say (if this worked, no one would be angry or sad)

 

-How to work with it

 

-Fearing of what someone thinks of you when you get angry

 

-Feeling feelings and safe spaces

 

-Validation

 

-Your feelings are always right

 

-Giving a person space

 

-Clinging, codependence, and boundaries

 

-Labels

 

-Another layer to the lyrics

 

-Relationships

 

-Learning from breakups

 

-Breakups and grief

 

-Co-dependence

 

-Music validates

 

-Music as a way to heal

 

-If music disappeared…

 

-A strong foundation

 

-Longevity

 

-Garbage and Cat Power opening

 

-Liz Phair

 

-I saw Garbage in 1995-96 at Roseland

 

-Links:

 

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-New York and the pandemic (get vaccinated!!!!!)

 

-Follow the science

 

-Get your information from credible sources (New York Times, NPR, BBC, USA Today, etc.)

 

-Knowlege is power. Stay powerful. Stay safe.

 

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Recorded August 13, 2021

 

Spoilers are ahead.

 

Show notes:

 

-Better than The Dead Don’t Die

 

-Plausible

 

-Adam and Eve

 

-“Humanity” of the vampires

 

-One possible implausibility 

 

-Eva

 

-Blood

 

-Implying

 

-Showing and not telling

 

-Gloves

 

-Knowledge and conversations

 

-Marlowe

 

-John Hurt

 

-Predicting

 

-Jeffrey Wright

 

-Time

 

-Similarities in Adam at howe and being locked down (get vaccinated, please)

 

-Back to Eva

 

-The ending

 

-Compulsion

 

-Possible unrealistic aspect

 

-Passing off their work

 

-The acting

 

-The pace

 

-Finally got a chance to see it

 

-Movies versus TV (I love them both)

 

-Get vaccinated, wear a mask, I hope for mask mandates, speak up

 

-Greatest good and least harm

 

-Get your knowledge from credible sources (New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post, BBC, etc.)

 

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He certainly can.

 

Spoilers are ahead!

 

Recorded August 3, 2021

 

-Annie Murphy

 

-Just watched the season finale

 

-Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

 

-Allison and Kevin’s relationship

 

-The sitcom version 

 

-Watching sitcoms growing up

 

-Sitcom tropes

 

-“It’s just Kevin”

 

Who’s married to a woman that you don’t normally see with a guy like that

 

-A prequel would be cool

 

-Kevin, his father, and Neil

 

-What the show did well

 

-Abuse by Kevin in both multi-cam and single cam

 

-Kevin and privilege 

 

-I hope it gets renewed

 

-Serious moments in sitcoms

 

-Family Ties

 

-More sitcom tropes

 

-Taking a dramatic turn

 

-Single cam version of characters

 

-Subtext

 

-Pressure on Allison and Patty

 

-What did Neil really hear?

 

-Really good representation of despair and loneliness (even when you’re surrounded by people)

 

-Sam

 

-The traditional sitcoms, modern sitcoms, the evolution of sitcoms

 

-He really can

 

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-Get vaccinated, follow the science

 

-Get information from credible sources (New York Times, BBC, NPR, Washington Post, etc).

 

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I say “quote unquote” way too much. Spoilers are ahead.

 

Recorded July 25, 2021

 

Show notes:

 

 

-I have whiplash

 

-The title

 

-A lot of fun

 

-The true story behind the plot

 

-History

 

-Time period

 

-What I liked about this movie

 

-Don Cheadle

 

-A Cheadle Extravaganza 

 

-The cast

 

-Matt Damon (The story so far -  https://variety.com/2021/film/news/matt-damon-addresses-f-slur-1235032441/) 

 

-George Clooney

 

-Brendan Fraser

 

-Levels

 

-Crime world and business world

 

-What drives people in regards to money

 

-Soderbergh on the fish eye lens

 

-A possible reminder to the viewer

 

-Insufferable Bastards podcast

 

-Plugs

 

-I’m fully vaccinated

 

-Get vaccinated — think of things you can do and if you want to be a hero . . . 

 

-Get your information from credible sources (NY Times, BBC, USA Today, NPR, Washington Post, etc.)

 

116.

 

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“Totally on purpose…bring you out of the space in which you have a 90 degree grid…a world in which things are that squared off…felt wrong to have images that were to have images that were that sort of square”

 

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Recorded May 31, 2021

 

I review Invincible (not the Muse song that I can’t get out of my head)

 

Show notes:

 

-Star Wars

 

-Superhero shows

 

-Watchmen, The Boys

 

-Back to Star Wars

 

-Why Invincible  wasn’t tempted

 

-Human qualities

 

-Grayson

 

-The cast

 

-Steven Yeun

 

-JK Simmons can be terrifying

 

-What makes Omni-Man terrifying

 

-Omni-Man compared to Superman

 

-Omni-Man versus Invincible

 

-Omni-Man’s conflict and identity

 

-Why information and knowledge is so powerful

 

-Balance 

 

-What may be keeping Invincible from turning evil (for now?)

 

-One of many problems with Omni-Man

 

-Next season

 

-Other superheroes 

 

-Cecil

 

-Physical and mental capabilities

 

-Nazis

 

-Other planets and species

 

-Episodic shows versus a movie

 

-What movies and music can teach us

 

-Doom Patrol

 

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I watch and comment on the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble

 

Recorded February 19, 2021

 

Notes:

 

-Real life superhero

 

-I will comment during the doc but this podcast won’t be the length of the doc

 

-What he’s been through

 

-That mugshot — https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/622844317162434560?lang=en

 

-Pre-COVID

 

-Elijah Cummings

 

-Organize, mobilize, legislate

 

-Being brutalized by cops for waiting on line to vote

 

-Knowing the risk

 

-The power of voting

 

-Pettus bridge and unlawful assembly

 

-Parading permit

 

-Troopers advancing with weapons

 

-Civil disobedience

 

-Bashed in the head

 

-Present day voter suppression

 

-Constant struggle

 

-“There’s so much more progress to be made”

 

-“My greatest fear…”

 

-Misinformation, hatred, and cruelty

 

-Comic Con story

 

-Equity

 

-Getting involved

 

-Ripple effects

 

-Good trouble

 

-Say something, do something, good trouble, necessary trouble

 

-2018 and the blue wave

 

-Change from then to now (so much more to do)

 

-Preaching to chickens

 

-Picking cotton

 

-Nashville and non-violence

 

-Non-violence as offense, not defense

 

-Starting locally to desegregate downtown Nashville

 

-Systems versus an individual 

 

-Under a constant threat

 

-Training

 

-One big temper tantrum from people in power

 

-Fear and insecurity

 

-First Nashville sit-in

 

-Optics

 

-Doing everything you can

 

-AOC

 

-How racism morphs

 

-Barriers

 

-Voting requirements

 

-Senator Warnock

 

-Beto O’Rourke

 

-Election Day 2018 and 2020

 

-James Clyburn

 

-John Lewis Voting Rights Act

 

-Republicans want to suppress votes

 

-AOC and the speed of freedom

 

-Moving slow versus moving fast

 

-Results of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act 

 

-Long wait times to vote

 

-HR1

 

-Opressors framing themselves as victims

 

-Freedom Singers

 

-How music lifts the spirit

 

-Thurogood Marshall

 

-John F. Kennedy and intentions

 

-We cannot be patient

 

-Democrats vs. Republicans

 

-Fast vs. Slow

 

-Wife and son

 

-Lawlessness and hypocrisy of the “law and order” Trump administration

 

-Viral videos

 

-Julian Bond and the danger of registering people to vote

 

-Rise into politics

 

-Becoming an “insider”

 

-Tense moments with Bonds

 

-Activism from the outside and inside

 

-Protest on the floor and the non-coverage of Fox “News”

 

-Stacey Abrams and the power of Lewis’ story

 

-The resistance to the right to vote

 

-The more who show up…

 

-President Obama

 

-Looking back 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020

 

-Paul Wyrech - he’s not from AIPAC, he’s from ALEC and he didn’t want everybody to vote

 

-Removing the filibuster

 

-This is not a time for despair

 

-The struggle

 

-2019 Edmund Pettis Bridge (Trump wasn’t there)

 

-Putting in the work

 

-Medal of Freedom

 

-A good start

 

-A giant

 

-There were post credits

 

-Inspiring

 

-Equity and progress (and justice)

 

-Plugs!

 

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