Stuff I’ve Read, Watched, Done #28 – December 15th, 2021

We’re a little late with my “weekly” round-up post. Normally I try to get it out on a Sunday, but this week on Sunday I was away with my family (the four of us who are here at the moment–my eldest daughter is over east on a missionary training program.

(EDIT: And even later still than I thought–this was intended to go up on the 15th, as it says, but apparently I forgot to press the “publish” button for a full week after that! Oops! Way to break a streak).

Stuff I’ve Read, Watched, Done #24 – November 14, 2021

What have read, watched and done this week? Not a lot it seems!

And yet somehow, I’ve still felt pretty busy. How does that work?

Stuff I’ve Read, Watched, Done #21 – October 24, 2021

Another day, another dollar. Another week, another holler. Or something.

This is me, having successfully hunter / gathered our family’s food last Monday night, braving the elements to do so. I got a little wet but I was rocking my the steps!

Some interesting viewings this week:

(Warning–all of these things are old but there are spoilers…)

100 Years, 100 Creators – Part 4

Over a few posts, I’m choosing different creators or creative teams–novelist, composer, scriptwriter, comic book artist, etc–who have influenced or inspired me, and in most cases brought me a lot of enjoyment.

Yesterday (All my troubles seemed so…well, you know)

Yesterday is an interesting little romantic fantasy written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle, about a struggling musician Jack Malik (Himish Patel) suddenly becoming the only person on earth to remember the Beatles and their music.  This shift in the status quo is courtesy of some barely explained blah-di-blah-blah-fantasy-blackout-head-injury-thing, but it scarcely matters. The emphasis isn’t on the mechanics of it, but how Jack responds, and what it does to him and his relationships.

Mild spoilers ahead.

47 Movie Blogs #22 – Interesting Adaptations

It’s oft been quoted, “The books is better,” but is that really true?  Or is the issue simply that the book came first, establishing expectations that the subsequent movie simply couldn’t live up to?