2022.August.Albums

Originally titled this "The Disregality of August's Albums" before I deciding that breaking my current and then-new naming structure wasn't worth the pun.

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In August, I kinda forgot I was doing full-album listens. I started cycling more, rather than going to the gym as often, which interrupted my pattern. I was also watching the Tour de France everyday – which meant I was listening to TdF podcasts rather than albums when I was out and about. I only listened to a mere four albums the whole month, one of them twice.

(September rebounds.)

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Black Pumas – Black Pumas (iPhone)
Black Pumas – Black Pumas (HomePod)
Her Majesty – The Decemberists (iPhone)
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel (HomePod)
Weird! – Yungblud (iPhone)

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Detective Works

Saw this tweet and immediately wondered if I could use the newspaper Paul Newman is reading to identify the date the photograph was taken†. Turns out, yeah, I could.

I looked at the headline on the upper left of Newman's paper, and I was able to make out most of the words: "JOHNSON... RESERVE CALL-UP TO ASSIST SAIGON"‡. And there it was, the top result: July 14, 1965.

To put a bow on the find: inside that link was a photo/reproduction of the exact front page Newman is holding in the original image, with that article highlighted.

 
 
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A further bit of fun:

The guy getting Newman's hair correct is Jay Sebring.

I figured I could use that information (Newman and Sebring working together) to confirm that the photograph was indeed taken during the filming of Harper (1966; penned by none other than William Goldman). Turns out, no, I couldn't. And the reason I couldn't is Sebring wasn't credited as working on that movie. Or, for that matter, on any Paul Newman joint, on Bastille Day, 1965, or any other.

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The moral of the story: Sometimes searching pays off. Sometimes it results in an interesting whiff.

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† The likely date, that is – there remains the bizarre off-chance that dude was reading an earlier day's paper.

‡ The ellipsis elides "weighing" which was too tricky to make out and was, fortunately, unneeded.

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2022.August.Watchlist

Minor list, posted way, way late. Wacky.

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Tootsie (MacBook)
Unforgiven (MacBook)
Burn After Reading (TV)
10 Things I Hate About You (TV)
Mean Girls (TV)
Delirium (MacBook)
The Old Man (S01E01-07) (MacBook)
The Rehearsal (S01E01) (MacBook)
He Got Game (MacBook)
Three Days of the Condor (TV)
In The Mood for Love (MacBook)
The Old Man & The Gun (MacBook)

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That's 18 titles in 31 days – .58/d

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2022.July.Album

Keeping this rolling for seven months. Lotta albums in; many million more to go. (Altho there is a notable fall-off in July and, so far, in August. Just a lot of podcasts to catch up on.)

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Kintsugi – Death Cab for Cutie (iPhone*)
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends – Coldplay (iPhone)
Babel – Mumford & Sons (iPhone)
The Paper Hearts – The Paper Hearts (iPhone)
The Bends – The Bends (iPhone)
Only By the Night – Kings of Leon (iPhone)
Use Your Illusion I – Guns ‘n’ Roses (iPhone)
Use Your Illusion II – Guns ‘n’ Roses (iPhone)
1984 – Van Halen (iPhone)
Yellow Submarine – The Beatles (HomePod)
Different Class (Deluxe Edition) – Pulp (iPhone)

*This one also didn't include its method. Again, I'm 90% sure it was iPhone-only, so that's what I added.

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2022.June.Albums

Where I've doubled these up, by the way, I did indeed listen twice. I just never feel like noting that aside from the repeated listing itself.

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A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles (HomePod)
Beatles For Sale – The Beatles (HomePod & iPhone)
You Can’t Kill Me – 070 Shake (iPhone)
Help! – The Beatles (iPhone)
OK Computer – Radiohead (iPhone)
The King is Dead – The Decemberists (iPhone)
Kid A – Radiohead (iPhone)
Picaresque – The Decemberists (iPhone)
In the Aeroplane over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel (iPhone)
The Moon And Antarctica – Modest Mouse (iPhone)
Ten – Pear Jam (iPhone)
Girl Talk – All Day (iPhone)
Picaresque – The Decemberists (iPhone & HomePod)
Emily in Paris – Various (iPhone)
The Fact of Life – Black Box Recorder (iPhone)
Brothers in Arms – Dire Straights (iPhone)
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) – Various (iPhone)
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) – Various (iPhone)

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2022.May.Albums

Cinematically – The Epilogues (iPhone)
Sweden – The Mountain Goats (iPhone)
Full Force Galesburg – The Mountain Goats (iPhone)
All Hail West Texas – The Mountain Goats (iPhone)
We Shall All Be Healed – The Mountain Goats (iPhone)
Tallahassee – The Mountain Goats (iPhone)
Bitter Melon Farm – The Mountain Goats (iPhone*)
The Race for Space – Public Broadcasting System (iPhone & HomePod) Ghana – The Mountain Goats (iPhone)
The Race for Space – Public Broadcasting System (iPhone & HomePod) (again)
Relax – Das Racist (iPhone)
OK Computer – Radiohead (iPhone)
Abbey Road – The Beatles (iPhone)
In the Aeroplane over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel (iPhone)
Wednesday Morning, 3a.m. – Simon & Garfunkel (iPhone)
Plans – Death Cab for Cutie (iPhone)
Animals – Pink Floyd (iPhone)
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd (iPhone)
Meddle – Pink Floyd (iPhone)
The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking – Roger Waters (iPhone)

*I didn't note the method, for this one. I'm pretty sure I listened to it at the gym, which means on my iPhone, but I may have used my HomePod – who knows.

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2022.April.Albums

In my flurry of catch-up posts, I failed to also add my album-listens. So I'll do that now, in another flurry of ketchup posts:

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First, April:

Hunky Dory – David Bowie (iPhone)
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Public Enemy (iPhone)
Ramones – Ramones (iPhone)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie (iPhone )
Illmatic – Nas (iPhone)
The Band – The Band (iPhone)
Darkness on the Edge of Town – Bruce Springsteen (iPhone)
Once OST (iPhone)
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession – Laura Nyro (iPhone)
American Idiot – Green Day (iPhone)
Gonna Take a Miracle – Laura Nyro (iPhone)
Funeral - Arcade Fire (iPhone)
The Suburbs – Arcade Fire (iPhone)
Neon Bible – Arcade Fire (iPhone)
Is This It – The Strokes (iPhone)
Melodrama – Lorde (iPhone)
Modern Vampires of the City – Vampire Weekend (iPhone)
The Lonesome Crowded West – Modest Mouse (iPhone)
The Golden Casket – Modest Mouse (iPhone)
The Moon And Antarctica – Modest Mouse (iPhone)
In the Aeroplane over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel (iPhone)
In the Aeroplane over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel (HomePod + iPhone)
Wet Leg – Wet Leg (iPhone)
Wet Leg – Wet Leg (iPhone)
OK Computer – Radiohead (iPhone + HomePod)
I Put a Spell On You – Nina Simone (iPhone)
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven – Godspeed You! black Emperor (iPhone)
Pretty Hate Machine – NIN (HomePod)

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2022.July.Watched

in

Project X (MacBook)
Murder Mystery (TV) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S02E07-09) (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 8 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 9 (MacBook)
George Carlin’s American Dream (S01E01) (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 10 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 11 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 12 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 13 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 14 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 15 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 16 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 17 (MacBook)
George Carlin’s American Dream (S01E02) (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 18 (MacBook)
Tour de France – Stage 19 (MacBook)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (TV)
Tour de France – Stage 20 (MacBook) Tour de France Femme – Stage 1 (MacBook)
Tour de France Femme – Stage 2 (MacBook)
Tour de France Femme – Stage 3 (MacBook)
Tour de France Femme – Stage 4 (MacBook)
The Stranger (MacBook)
Sneakers (MacBook)
Tour de France Femme – Stage 5 (MacBook)
Tour de France Femme – Stage 6 (MacBook)
Tour de France Femme – Stage 7 (MacBook)
Tour de France Femme – Stage 8 (MacBook)

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2022.June.Watched

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We Own This City (S01E04-06) (MacBook)
Ozark (S04E8-09) (MacBook)
Celtics-Warriors Game 1 (Finals) (MacBook)
Cop Land (MacBook)
Power of the Dog (MacBook)
Emily in Paris (S01E08-09) (TV)
Warriors-Celtics Game 2 (Finals) (MacBook)
Apple WWDC Keynote (MacBook)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (MacBook)
Celtics-Warriors Game 3 (Finals) (MacBook)
Knocked Up (iMac)
Warriors-Celtics Game 4 (Finals) (MacBook)
Emily in Paris (S01E10) (TV)
Emily in Paris (S02E01-04) (TV)
Hustle (iMac, TV)
Warriors-Celtics Game 5 (Finals) (MacBook)
For All Mankind (S03E01) (MacBook)
Tehran (S02E01-02) (MacBook)
Licorice Pizza (MacBook)
Tehran (S02E03) (MacBook)
Warriors-Celtics Game 6 (Finals) (MacBook)
Emily in Paris (S02E10) (TV)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S01E01-07) (MacBook)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S02E01-06) (MacBook)
A Few Good Men (MacBook)

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54 titles.

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2022.May.Watched

What happened in May, you asked? What did I watch, you wonder? Well, sit back and... y'know... other verb.

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The Americans (S05E01-02) (TV)
Yes Man (TV)
The Americans (S05E03-08) (TV)
Celtics-Bucks (MacBook) (TV) (Round 2)
The Americans (S05E09-11) (TV)
Grizzlies-Warriors (MacBook) (Round 2)
The Americans (S05E12-13) (TV)
The Americans (S06E01-05) (TV)
Warriors-Grizzlies (MacBook) (Round 2)
Winning Time (S06E02-05) (MacBook)
Bucks-Celtics (MacBook) (Round 2)
The Americans (S06E06) (TV)
Warriors Grizzlies (MacBook) (Round 2)
The Americans (S06E07-10) (TV)
Mavs-Suns (MacBook) (Round 2)
Celtics-Bucks (MacBook) (Round 2)
Heat-Celtics (MacBook) (ECF)
Winning Time (S06E06) (MacBook)
Warriors-Mavs (MacBook) (WCF)
Winning Time (S06E07-10) (MacBook)
Grosse Pointe Blank (TV)
Emily in Paris (S01E05-8)
Warriors-Mavs (MacBook) (WCF)
Severance (S01E01)
Ozark (S04E01-02)
Celtics-Heat (MacBook) (ECF)
Ozark (S04E03-04)
Warriors-Mavs (iPhone; MacBook) (WCF)
Ozark (S04E05-06)
Celtics-Heat (iPhone) (ECF)
We Own This City (S01E01-03) (MacBook)

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Unless my math is off, that's 59 titles – and a reminder that I never finished Ozark.

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2022.April.Watched

And here, he said, catching up with all speed, is April's watchlist:

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Bucks-Nets (MacBook)
Nets-Cavs (MacBook) (Play-in)
Timberwolves-Clippers (MacBook) (Play-in)
Hawks-Hornets (MacBook) (Play-in)
Pelicans-Spurs (MacBook) (Play-in)
Hawks-Cavs (MacBook) (Play-in)
The Americans (S03E09-10) (TV)
Clippers-Pelicans (MacBook) (Play-in)
The Americans (S03E11-13) (TV)
Celtics-Nets (MacBook) (Round 1)
Warriors-Nuggets (MacBook) (Round 1)
Pelicans-Suns (MacBook) (Round 1)
Mavericks-Jazz (MacBook) (Round1)
Celtics-Nets (MacBook) (Round 1)
The Americans (S04E01-06) (TV)
Bulls-Bucks (MacBook) (Round 1)
Warriors-Nuggets (MacBook) (Round 1)
Grizzlies-Timberwolves (MacBook + HomePod) (Round 1)
Nuggets-Warriors (MacBook) (Round 1)
The Americans (S04E07-13) (TV)

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When last we left off....

Welp, time passes quickly.

Here's the list of stuff I watched to completion in March. Remember March?

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Grizzlies-Spurs (MacBook)
Clippers-Lakers (MacBook)
The Americans (S02E07-11)
Celtics-Grizzlies (MacBook)
Celtics-Nets (MacBook)
After Life (S02E03) (TV)
Nets-Sixers (MacBook)
Warriors-Bucks (MacBook)
Nets-Knicks (MacBook)
Mavericks-Celtics (MacBook)
Timberwolves-Spurs (MacBook)
Nets-Magic (MacBook)
Yellowjackets (S01E01) (MacBook)
Ordinary People (MacBook)
Celtics-Warriors (MacBook)
Yellowjackets (S01E02) (MacBook)
Dear Evan Hansen (MacBook)
Amadeus (MacBook)
Celtics-Kings (MacBook)
Sixers-Mavericks (MacBook)
Timberwolves-Bucks (MacBook)
Yellowjackets (S01E03) (MacBook)
Spurs-Warriors (MacBook)
The Problem with (The Stock Market) with Jon Stewart (MacBook)
Yellowjackets (S01E04-05) (MacBook)
Winning Time – The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (S01E01) (MacBook)
Bucks-Bulls (MacBook)
Nuggets-Clippers (MacBook)
Grizzlies-Nets (MacBook)
Sixers-Lakers (MacBook)
Warriors-Heat (MacBook)
Clippers-Jazz (MacBook)
Suns-Warriors (MacBook)

Looking at this list of 34 stuffs, my thought is, "What the fuck was Yellowjackets"? Also, "Winning Time" is problematic, sure, but I enjoyed it thoroughly.

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Flu.Cold.Covid

Not sure what I intended to say when I was down with the Covids (spoiler: I had Covid). I started but never really began a post with the above title.

I recovered, after a few days of pretty-sick sickness. Had I not been triple-vax'd, I surely would've been hospitalized. Shit kinda sucked for maybe four days, including the highest fever I had probably since childhood.

The interesting thing was how severely the illness and down-time impacted my health generally. Returning to the gym, which I began around two months prior, showed a substantial fall-off in my fitness. Muscles atrophy fast, folks; and fitness flees at speed.

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