What I Watched Listened To as Background Noise: Thursday Night Football.
I’m doing these posts ahead as time permits, so the most recent game was Chargers vs. Vikings. I tend to look askance at football (CTE, trite announcer speech, injuries, etc.) That said, broadcast games are a comfort sound from my youth, and I can multitask while listening to them. This particular game was a mess of injured players, thin team lines, and generally pain-filled plays, really very sad for the players.
What I Read: Hexed in Haws: A DI Adams Mystery, the latest in the series by Kim M. Watt. Here’s the blurb:
There’s more than one way to get to Faery. It’s getting back that’s the problem…DI Adams is not having a good summer. Her house has been hexed. Her DCI’s muttering about mental health breaks. Her invisible dog keeps disappearing at inopportune moments. And to top it all off, her parents have just turned up, determined to experience all Yorkshire has to offer. And they’re going to get more than they bargained for, because someone else has turned up too.
He calls himself Velmyr Duskthorn, Lord of the Fae, and he’s demanding a powerful book Adams doesn’t have, can’t get, and couldn’t hand over anyway – unless she fancies starting an inter-species war. But when her parents go missing, the whole game changes. Now Adams is racing against rogue portals, dangerous sheep, and trigger-happy farmers, plus the closing net of her own colleagues. Her allies are thinning out fast, but she still has her duck, her Dandy, and one very large stick. And this is her family.
So if Faery wants to fight? Come on and give it a go …January’s sure it’s an urban legend, but when new victims show up with no logical explanation for their deaths, Conjure Ink sends her in to investigate. Now, January must not only navigate the new life she’s trying to build, but the paranormal beasties she’s sent out to explore, as well as a hot new neighbor, who seems to be hiding a shadowed past of his own.
What I Listened To: Grady – Open the Blinds; Seer Believer – Hard; and Avery Tucker – Like I’m Young:
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…so…I gave in to amazon’s desire to juice the streaming numbers for it rather than actually give any thought to what to hit play on & “playdate” is…if you like things like the good suicide squad movie or peacemaker but aren’t expecting deadpool levels of laughs or moments you probably need to pause to see all the funny bits of…it’s sort of charming?
…kevin james is the step dad feeling ill-suited to the perceived preferences of the not-much-like-him step-child when they get sucked into…basically the pacemaker thing…sort of…not so much they’d sue…but enough that if you swapped out reacher guy for john cena you’d assume he was just wearing civvies & the nonsensical parts would be mostly where you’d expect?
…whatever else I might have watched or read might come back to me if I ever calm down enough to remember further back than the last couple of days for a passive entertainment fix but that’s it off the top of my head
Sounds about right for the Vikes.
A friend of mine is a big Vikings fan (I don’t understand it either) and he’s also a Leafs fan. Those in his friend circle think he’s big into pain and suffering.
Yeah that’s simple masochism.
We’re watching a crime/mystery show on Netflix called “Absentia” which stars Serbian hottie Stana Katic. It’s not too bad. For some reason, the wife didn’t like “The Lowdown” so I’m watching it by myself on the lowdown.
I watched the Fantastic Four movie that came out earlier this year.
The most charitable review I can give it is that I’m glad I streamed it because I would have been really annoyed to have wasted theater money on that.
Character motivations made no sense, the plot made less sense than I expect from a Marvel movie, and like it’s this alternate earth timeline with amazing technological advancements, but like there’s still segregation and Jim Crow? Sure, they have a few token nonwhite people in the background roles, but like the vibe is definitely “all the movie decision makers are white and their idea of what the background looks like is standard US 1960s.”
i watched devil may cry
which honestly…was a pretty decent watch (hey for a guy what doesnt much care for westernized anime or netflix originals….thats high praise)
tho it did kinda cheat… i mean…if your gonna be decently animated…and have a soundtrack featuring rage against the machine, papa roach and limp bizkit…you are at least halfway to holding my attention
oh also..powerglove…granted…not the stuff i really like from them… but still… makes me happy seeing them in a soundtrack…i hope it got them a nice paycheck
oh also…the bunny villain is just cool
you know…if your gonna be unhinged… posh and bunny is the way the go