When I first heard this song I thought it was Rachael Price and Lake Street Dive, but no, it’s someone named Rachel Mazer and her copycat Lake Street Dive band with “Is It So Wrong?” … nevertheless, I dig it:
Vacant as a Closed Down Fair
Adrianne Lenker with “Zombie Girl” … I dig it:
Play Times of Top Board Games
Using the top board games listed on Looria for this day:
GLOOMHAVEN 90–115 minutes
CATAN 60-120minutes
SPIRIT ISLAND 90-120 minutes
SCYTHE 90–115 minutes
TERRAFORMING MARS ~120 minutes
AZUL 30 to 45 minutes
ARKHAM HORROR LCG 60-120 minutes
CARCASSONNE 30-90 minutes
WINGSPAN 40-70 minutes
AGRICOLA 30-60 minutes
DOMINION ~30 minutes
EVERDELL 40 to 80- minutes
BRASS BIRMINGHAM ~120 minutes
MAGE KNIGHT 60 to 240 minutes
TWILIGHT IMPERIUM 4 to 8 HOURS
PAX PAMIR 2E ??
ARNAK 30 min per player
CONCORDIA 90 minutes
MARVEL CHAMPIONS 45-90 minutes
ROOT 60-90 minutes
HANSA TEUTONICA ~40 minutes
TICKET TO RIDE 30-45 minutes
TERRA MYSTICA 90-120 minutes
MONOPOLY 60-90 minutes
OATH 45-120 minutes
SPLENDOR 30 minutes
ECLIPSE 120-180 minutes
GAIA PROJECT 60-150 minutes
AEON'S END 60-90 minutes
PANDEMIC 45 minutes
Movies Watched -- Drive My Car (2021)
In Japanese. 180 minute running time, that’s right, THREE HOURS LONG … this was boring and tedious, I hated it and call bullshit. No idea why it’s gotten so much critical acclaim and a Criterion release … must be the Haruki Murakami short story connection. John Farr LOVED it, which is such a disappointment. Full red, avoid!
Before she inexplicably dropped dead
Movies Watched -- Close-Up (1990)
In Persian. 100 minute running time so the perfect length. I really enjoyed this one … it’s a documentary of sorts but with several re-enacted sections, though it makes you wonder what’s documentary footage and what’s re-enacted … grabs you from the get-go and holds your interest the entire time … you get some real insight into Iranian society and culture … this is a green-go, recommended movie. John Farr also liked it.
Pain and suffering
Movies Watched -- Now, Voyager (1942)
117 minute running time so 20 minutes too long … Bette Davis was sort of homely, I don’t know why she was such a big Hollywood star … Warner Brothers studio pic … Gladys Cooper plays a good mother from hell but I wasn’t super interested in this … a love story from a repressed era, didn’t click with me 80 years later.
Heavy smoker
I Got Honey, I Got Sighs
Big fan of Alice Phoebe Lou and Ziv Yamin … “honey thighs” is their best song as strongboi:
Holding Out In Case
I love Gaidaa .. here she is Falling Higher:
Charlie Munger On Playing Poker
“Playing poker in the Army and as a young lawyer honed my business skills. What you have to learn is to fold early when the odds are against you, or if you have a big edge, back it heavily because you don’t get a big edge often. Opportunity comes, but it doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does come.”
Movies Watched -- The Hawk Is Dying (2006)
112 minute running time so 10 to 20 minutes too long … my buddy Dave recommended this one, telling me “you’ll hate it,” but I wouldn’t say I hated it, I just didn’t like it and wouldn’t recommend it. It’s too weird and too depressing and I didn’t get its deep message, assuming there was one … sad-sack Paul Giamatti, who specializes in playing losers, the bald, the glasses, the straggly beard … but he’s a good actor … the girl is Michelle Williams, whom I didn’t immediately recognize because she’s chubbier here, she’s talented too, I really liked her in Shame … but as I said, I didn’t really get it and don’t want even to think about it. As James Greenberg said, “Loaded with obtuse symbolism, the film is not only hard to understand, it isn't much fun trying to figure it out.”
Menage a trois?