As we all find our homes in the metaverse I’m leaning towards beehaw as a permanent home. The quality of engagement here is high. That said, I’m experimenting on several platforms, so you can also see me at:
That was my first book of his I read as well, back in college when I was taking a true crime class. My school had great English electives that I kept taking for fun and it set me back a year because I didn’t have anybody smart to tell me that they didn’t get me any closer to graduating.
I’ll check it out for sure! Like you said, it’s human stories in historical context and he has such a knack for that. So much historical non-fiction struggles to either tell the human story while also providing the straight facts in an easily consumable way, or tell the history while providing human color. He is really great at striking a good balance with it.
Looks like bandcamp links work… soooo there’s that! I’ll try with spotify later but I’d rather share bandcamp links when possible anyway. Awesome! Beehaw rules ttyl.
On the same note as others here recommending instrumental jazz, I also listen to a decent amount of international. Not understanding the language helps me to not be distracted by it. So there’s an endless wealth of interesting music in the Sublime Frequencies catalogue and it just drifts into the background for me unless I actually choose to focus on it.
Curious about this one. From the trailers it looked a little… try-hard / cringe? Nothing against J-Law just seemed like an odd one that might suck. Will keep my eyes on it.
Fair enough! The stair scene was the one time where I actually laughed out loud and stopped enjoying the combat. But then whatever points I had detracted because it was dumb I gave back because I laughed. Honestly if I just had to rate the end of the movie it wouldn’t be a total winner.
There haven’t been any action movies pulling it off as well that I’m aware of for a long time. Most movies are very cut-heavy, because it’s easier to direct a fight scene if you’re close up and cutting to a different angle on every contact. The way they do it in John Wick is so satisfying and technically impressive, hopefully it catches on.
I’m moving that section to the top because it’s important and really should be the first thing I mention.
I had been using another name that expressed gratitude in the affirmative, decided to change it up to a name that is more for saying no politely.