Disney's earliest Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter public domain as US copyright expires
Just because we’re on a way-one street hurtling towards death doesn’t mean we have to succumb to mediocrity.
Conductor Christian Thieleman spicing his unique tarragon to the Blue Danube Waltz and the New Year’s Day Vienna Phil. Mausebär, Schatzi.
ANDREW’s Weird Wednesday ‘Freud’ Film
To think Network grossed over $31million for its 10 month Broadway run. Figure! A Peter Finch story…what’s on offer? Your soul?
After watching Leave the World Alone, easy is it removing oneself from reality? Proxy. These days watching the news. Wish you hadn’t. Witness. No immunity…bliss. Don’t. Yet. A film produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s film company. A pre-exisiting novel though if anyone could know the impossible and improbable..
Reality is Louis Theroux’s middle name if not his first, everything illuminating our ever troubling times. It may have seemed strange to some that his new series ventures into celebrity lives. For him, I guess, a logical extension. Louis is that wished for councilor/therapist your life never had. His brilliance: listening, caring, curiosity. This cat ain’t never gonna die. Season 1 Season 2
When thinking of reality, well first, Ricky Gervais isn’t?!
“You always love it when you do a nice thing, don’t ya? ..admittedly it’s usually to apologize for saying something awful. Not awful just too honest. Not always the best policy”
Has ever there been more beautiful, brazen, cathartic comedic TV addressing loneliness, loss and suicide than Ricky Gervais’ Afterlife?Initially a turn off? Netflix, for all their rampant capitalism [well, great value $7.50 a month including tax, no contract], we are eating protein not cake, stuck with Ricky. Through his stand-up specials. Ricky Gervais dishes out controversial takes on political correctness and oversensitivity in a taboo-busting comedy special about the end of humanity.- Netflix must have a great retirement plan. Elon Musk’s Move On? We’ll die on Mars but maybe we’ll be happy?
Is Ricky Gervais the Noam Chomsky of comedy? [Never heard that rhetorical alliteration before! Come on, be honest.] The joke, or at least Ricky’s joke isn’t in and of itself offensive. Listeners may find it so. “Whatever makes the joke funny.” If Ricky’s stand-up isn’t your thing, then try Afterlife. Maybe too much your thing. That’s how I felt The Office. So real it was funny. Painful. Comedy is a strange, strange, strange creature. Why endure it when most likely we’ll be the butt of tomorrow.
Papageno and Papagena in Simon McBurney’s invention to behold The Magic Flute Met production so reminiscent of Lisa and Tony in Afterlife. How to change people’s minds?
How 'chatty benches' are combating loneliness in Britain
Amy Schumer: We’re all tired……If I sit down I realize I didn’t grab the remote. Wanna try out my robot Doodle, Amy? Forget rope and sticks! Creatures never have this problem do they!
Couldn’t help thinking of……when watching this:
The Theory of Relativity
Quintuple threat KITTY! I can just hear some of the great composers…
Leonard Bernstein NYT obit: He went to Philadelphia to audition for Reiner's conducting class at the Curtis Institute. The Hungarian maestro opened a score in the middle, put it on the piano and told Mr. Bernstein to play until he could recognize the piece. The aspiring conductor, who was having difficulty seeing the music because he was suffering from an allergic reaction to Copland's cat, nevertheless discerned that the work was the ''Academic Festival'' Overture of Brahms. He was accepted.
Ergo, cats are anti,,,,,
Leonard Bernstein: An American Life-an 11-hour audio documentary narrated by Susan Sarandon.
The Diplomat, hokey? Think again. So busy was, I, real life never had time for The West Wing. Apologies. Nor Homeland if that makes life more real ya ‘all. Isn’t Keri Russell she …! and have AI cloned Rufus Sewell, simply the most fascinating antagonist out there. Deems no heart yet hard not to like. The Man in the High Castle. The Man in
I grow old ... I grow old ...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Maybe the framework I’ve been given isn’t exactly how the world necessarily is. What if all these rules and all these things and categories and concepts are actually just made up. And what if no-one’s saying that out loud. And what if I could just make something different? …Something you’ve been told for a long time, what if it’s just made up and you could design something that feels more true maybe to you or to somebody else? Caroline Shaw (composer)
How to follow that Sweet Caroline! I’m sure Ms Shaw wouldn’t knock Mr Neil Diamond offa her playlist;)! Think about it. Not one human culture has never not had music as a mainstay in their lives. One can imagine some itinerants who thought /said ‘screw this a-tonal territoriality, or words of one consonant: let’s kill some more’. Roomful Of Teeth’s Rough Magic is 2024 Grammy nominated. Guaranteed to get the carnivores curious. So: two iguanas walk into a bar…
How, how times have changed…Beef. Not Tarantino, nor Barry nor the real Downton Abbey but you’re ever curious where it’s heading.
Just figured the wheels in my head whirring. Beef sizzling in our new comedy/drama milieu. Barry, Dead to Me, Ted Lasso et al, The White Lotus?. Mr. Gervais spinning on another plateau. A mother world, maybe. This strange unsettling genre’s been lurking if not living in us a long time. Back to David Chase (The Sopranos) and back to Norman Lear. Now more than ever.
We still need serious: Fleishman Is In Trouble, George & Tammy.
Poker Face, Columbo “follow the money'“
Jan 15-Quote of the Emmy’s 2024, Brian Cox [Succession]: Human beings want to be told ‘fuck off’.
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Can’t see everything. Mi dispiace. Well if you pay me could go back to 9am…;) Clearly I should’ve made morning or bedtime for The Bear given all its awards. And to think I got a last year Black Friday Hulu deal for $2 a month! Bet you haven’t seen Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up. Be honest Will Ferrell:) An old fashioned movie where the camera sits on actors. All very Checkhovian, under the surface.
One must ask, WHY have so many people gravitated to Succession and these, for the most part “human grease stain” characters? Catharsis? Greek tragedy? Perhaps always within us. Hello The Last of Us. Our only escape humor in adversity. Even then an island agin greed and ignorance.
Does The Killer need a hug?
Alas, life don’t imitate art. The latter’s wrapping itself ‘round the former. And alas, don’t think AI has much shrek for folk non obsessed with gold. What happens if one feeds more Chomsky into AI’s diet? Kinda with the NYT on this. There’s no way AI could have called me a scuba diver without scanning my website. No way. The Titan sub disaster was briefly mentioned. Basta. I do breaststroke at best. And cold plunge. Takes a James Cameron releasing one from chlorine to saltwater. We don’t do box jellyfish. Phone…So my AI CV …..Is AI feeding itself? Food for thought….
N’ anyone who can work philosopher B.F. Skinner in to a sitcom definitely most is human. Frasier’s not just a vanity re-boot. Dud episode dude, no bad anywhere.
Colin From Accounts. No noose ya neck. Life can be litter better beyond The Office. Said a litter, not a lot! Heartening a ‘break-out’ Oz comedy. That’ll cheer up the iguanas.
Run down by a comedian in a car. Well: vanity all relative, isn’t love. No bad.
Funny…relativity Lauren Bacall and I met not once, thrice. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. Reason to cast me, or something Chris Nolan. Once in my mmm life just may pay to see your flic on the big screen. Shame not to. Yours….
Appocalips [The Shed through January 21]
How many died in 9/11? How may died, let alone severely wounded, the current Israel-Gaza War? Give or take figures…
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
