In which there are pirates, social music, husbands, and fashionistas
- The Friendly pirate airship Cake Or Death, crewed by Brianne and Ayesha and their pets. I don't have enough Friends Lego to make a perfect rebuild of the Ninjago Raid Zeppelin but I did manage to make all the weapons systems into red flower bombs, although I also added new pink cherry bombs. I left the flag untouched in honour of Ching Shih.
- I saw the Miles Davis biopic(-ish) Miles Ahead at the cinema and loved it, despite usually avoiding both biopics and crime caper themed films. It condenses about 15 years of Mr Davis' life, with the judicious use of flashbacks, into days. It didn't shy away from honestly depicting drug addiction or physical/mental health problems or racism or domestic violence, whether our protagonist was the victim or the perpetrator. Don Cheadle's performance as Miles Davis is brilliant. There are a couple of moments when Ewan MacGregor appears almost wooden next to him, and it looks as if MacGregor was as entranced by Cheadle's performance as the audience in my screening (I remember actors having similar experiences acting with James Stewart - it's a thing that happens). The visual style often seemed to be trying to capture the handheld "home" movies of the 1960-70s period in which it's set, with the varying camera tricks reflecting our protagonist's state of mind at different points, which made it visually difficult for me to watch because of the close-up movement, and short depth of field, and later literal flashes, but also makes it art, obv. The sound and soundtrack are both great, even the awesome playing out music. (At least 4/5, maybe more if I hadn't had migraine problems).
- Reading, books 2016, 74.
69. Husbands, by Brad Bell, Jane Espenson, Ron Chan, Natalie Nourigat, MS Corley, Ben Dewey, and Tania del Rio, is a collection of crack auto-fanfic spin-off comics of a web tv sitcom, which I haven't seen, about two men who accidentally end up married. It didn't work at all for me as a standalone but then it wasn't intended to be read that way so. (unrated, obv)
70. Fool's Gold, vol.1, Amy Reeder Hadley, 2006, was the first book of a proposed serialised graphic novel but unfortunately only the first two of the three books were ever printed, because the publisher ceased to exist, and the second volume ends on a cliffhanger. It's possible to read this first volume as a standalone by extrapolating either an ending or further shenanigans but I wouldn't recommend it, which is a pity because the art is good and the plot is a relatively unusual depiction of high school dating from a female-centred perspective. (no rating due to unfinished wip status)
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- I saw the Miles Davis biopic(-ish) Miles Ahead at the cinema and loved it, despite usually avoiding both biopics and crime caper themed films. It condenses about 15 years of Mr Davis' life, with the judicious use of flashbacks, into days. It didn't shy away from honestly depicting drug addiction or physical/mental health problems or racism or domestic violence, whether our protagonist was the victim or the perpetrator. Don Cheadle's performance as Miles Davis is brilliant. There are a couple of moments when Ewan MacGregor appears almost wooden next to him, and it looks as if MacGregor was as entranced by Cheadle's performance as the audience in my screening (I remember actors having similar experiences acting with James Stewart - it's a thing that happens). The visual style often seemed to be trying to capture the handheld "home" movies of the 1960-70s period in which it's set, with the varying camera tricks reflecting our protagonist's state of mind at different points, which made it visually difficult for me to watch because of the close-up movement, and short depth of field, and later literal flashes, but also makes it art, obv. The sound and soundtrack are both great, even the awesome playing out music. (At least 4/5, maybe more if I hadn't had migraine problems).
- Reading, books 2016, 74.
69. Husbands, by Brad Bell, Jane Espenson, Ron Chan, Natalie Nourigat, MS Corley, Ben Dewey, and Tania del Rio, is a collection of crack auto-fanfic spin-off comics of a web tv sitcom, which I haven't seen, about two men who accidentally end up married. It didn't work at all for me as a standalone but then it wasn't intended to be read that way so. (unrated, obv)
70. Fool's Gold, vol.1, Amy Reeder Hadley, 2006, was the first book of a proposed serialised graphic novel but unfortunately only the first two of the three books were ever printed, because the publisher ceased to exist, and the second volume ends on a cliffhanger. It's possible to read this first volume as a standalone by extrapolating either an ending or further shenanigans but I wouldn't recommend it, which is a pity because the art is good and the plot is a relatively unusual depiction of high school dating from a female-centred perspective. (no rating due to unfinished wip status)
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