If you’ve not yet seen A Real Pain then not should, really you must!
Now Hear This: Chopin’s Polish Heart
Maybe 10 years time there’ll be tours of Gaza [Kosher lunch included]
Talking of hospitals:
Money talks yeah not heal?
Funny. Thinkin’ watchin’ The Met Opera’s Tales of Hoffmann, talk about reality! Bartlett Sher is a director eminence. His production is good as it has gotten. Correct me please if there’s a German opera house refuting that! Always felt E.T.A. Hoffman has forever deserved better! Offenbach’s musical genius vs Meyerbeer bears itself. Needs director Richard Jones, Nigel Lowery or long shot Robert Wilson to truly bring this classic into present faith. Can’t imagine what Peter Sellars might see in this. You never know! Always need we food for thought. Hardly a stretch of the imagination from E.T.A. Hoffman to Black Mirror! Lebensansichten des Katers Murr.
Natürlich, we segue to The White Lotus [S3]. Well, did keep wandering back to HBO every week rather than waiting for the library DVD. So can’t be that bad!:) A slow burn that finally doesn’t exactly explode rather implode. Writer/director Mike White has created a ‘cash-cow’ streaming franchise. Genius. The SNL parody did all piece together. All it needed was a gay Thai security guard with hairdressing dreams bearing a clock-face tattoo [as did a real-life innocent Scotsman] that ICE deemed GANG MEMBER! Not White Potus family, though. Aimee Lou Wood, tough Mancunian yeah delicate flower beneath. Guess we share a more subtle British alternate SNL dental humor.
Goodness knows, we all need more of this in our lives. Just be very careful what you wish for! Wishes come true…
Sia clearly wasn’t in Disney hair ’n’ make-up. What are two poodles doing on her head? Some creatures are simply UNSTOPPABLE!
So where were were? All at sea? Well, some. Oh yes: hospitals or lack thereof. Some folks just ain’t hospital drama affectionados. Yours truly. Ventured into HBO’s The Pitt though being the ever curious soul. So, so impressive. Of course great ensemble cast. Familiarity breeds contempt. Surely, hopefully not;) And there’s ‘family’: leading Noah Wyle was a yougin’ to George ‘Kittin’ Clooney in E.R. All power to Mr. Wyle for thinking’ all this up during Covid! Here’s a ‘thread’: memorable hospital dramas? Steven Soderbergh, always retiring and never, was the first to see/explore streaming possibilities with The Knick, all historically accurate. Riveting. Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom.
Just can’t bring myself to remember American hospital dramas after watching SNL’s White Lotus parody with RFK wielding a hack saw to discombobulate the MUN-KEY! Apologise, SNL! My nightmares! Maybe that’s the peyote…hmmm. So I’m in The White House….
Walton Goggins spies his boudoir Prohibition carvings and sees his own face! Might just be ‘Happy Hour’ though. Legal dismissing that.
Remember The Substance? No, the MOVIE with Demi Moore, moron! Get a Mubi subscription and watch The Revenge [and Reality +]. Why this film didn’t garner more traction?! Long time since remembering Park Chan-wook’s Lady Vengeance or Abel Ferrara’s Ms 45 though seems just as viscerally brilliantly, morally exacting. Something you can’t show in The Pitt: Coralie Fargeat’s EVCFU [Extreme Visceral Close-Fuck Up]. Did you know actress Minka Kelly worked as a scrub nurse?
Wouldn’t we all wish awakening to her as a hospital scrub/Chaplain. [She admitted a patient actually proposed to her. Watch-wouldn’t you?!] Luke Lorentzen’s doc A Still Small Voice is a very quiet, provocative, somewhat unsettling gem. Latter by nature not design. Chaplain Margaret. are you happy with your theater troupe in Berlin? When, when do we follow our heart not our mind? The more you think about it: EVCFU.
PBS and NPR are in a once-in-a-generation funding fight.
Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut killed in deadly Russian attack on Sumy
