Popcorn in Bed - Steel Magnolias

 

Are you ready for a chick flick? Are you ready to get EMOTIONAL. Time for "Steel Magnolias," if you can handle it.

You can read my weak observations on "Steel Magnolias" here.

This movie was right in the middle of an epic run of theater-going. October 1989 was "Look Who's Talking" and "The Bear"; November 1989 was "Back to the Future II" and "Steel Magnolias"; December 1989 was "The Wizard." Then January of 1990 was "Driving Miss Daisy" and February was "Glory" and it just goes on.

One thing I never noticed before. The old guy who's a love interest for Shirley MacLaine... that's friggin' Dropo, the laziest man on Mars from "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians." Holy moly.

Good Old R&B

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The newest hit from the annals of 60's Rhythm and Blues. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.

The Charismatic Voice - What a Fool Believes

 

An opera singer hearing Michael McDonald for the first time. Nice.

Watch the precision here. She zeroes in on both the "bounce" and the smoothness. The Yacht Rock genre is defined by two characteristics: 1) Smoothness and 2) The Doobie Bounce (with some exceptions). Not surprisingly, "What a Fool Believes" is the only song to achieve a perfect 100 on the Yachtski Scale.

Of course she also asks: if Michael McDonald was a smoothie, what kind of smoothie would he be? So there's that.

Her "Happy Songs that are Actually Sad" genre suggestion is eerily similar to a genre I've been thinking about for a while. Maybe I'll write more about that some day. I think the two things are different enough that it could still be valid.

Popcorn in Bed - Star Trek TNG

 

Good news everybody! Cassie is watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. She's going season by season. First she watched a few season 1 episodes and now a few episodes from season 2, where things get better.

When Judge Advocate General Captain Philippa Louvois calls Picard "a pompous ass and a damn sexy man," is that appropriate in the military?

Breadfruit

 

"The breadfruit grows on a spreading tree, about the size of a large apple tree. The fruit is round and has a thick, tough rind. It is gathered when it is full-grown and hard. It is then baked in an oven until the rind is black and scorched. This is scraped off, and the inside is soft and white like the crumb of a penny loaf."

A fruit that tastes like bread? Very intriguing. It is bound to disappoint but I may try the experiment anyway.

Here's a video about how to prepare it, if you'd like to learn more.

Re:View - Andor

 

I'm posting this with complete ignorance - I haven't seen any of this show, I have no opinions of it. But it's an interesting hour-long discussion about the Star Wars.

The Prequels ambitiously attempted to tackle two very big subjects. 1) How the Republic (or any Republic) devolves into tyranny. 2) How a Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader. And, again, it's like poetry, they rhyme - it's the Fall on the micro scale and the Fall on the largest macro scale.

But the attempt at great themes is a very minor credit, as the execution is terrible. And most of the most terrible movies are the most terrible movies because they are similarly ambitious. "Plan 9...," "The Room," "Birdemic." The humor is in the gap between what the movie tries to be and what it turns out to be.