Condolences; really sorry to hear this.

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Mozart, Jupiter Symphony on CBC 2. Just before, Gruff Rhys's soundtrack to Set Fire To The Stars (which I kind of want to watch now despite the lukewarm reviews).

I left with twenty minutes to go (no way Juve were coming back after that) but I had a really good time watching (and enjoyed the wings I ate in the meantime).

Damn; that sounds awesome. I grew up in Louisiana—loving the food though taking it a little for granted, a mistake that's really hit home during my past fifteen years in Michigan—but never heard of catfish and waffles.

"Penis" upvote (stir-fried rutabaga actually does sound intriguing).

Is there going to be a specific Aquaman movie? The concept amuses me and I like Jason Momoa (his appearance in that one pre-WW showing multi-superhero trailer whose name I forget was certainly entertaining), so that's another one I might see my way to check out in the theater.

Saw it Saturday and loved it (and I don't watch a lot of superhero movies, certainly not in the theater). Had a few quibbles with some of the moral architecture, so to speak, but they were addressed later in the film. Already seeing a quarrelsome college friend of mine try to drum up Internet rage over the specific…

I think it was also the stereotypical WW1/post-Victorian London setting; yeah, there was smog and shellsmoke, but the sun shone occasionally.

Awesome closer (the Dirtbombs really ought to be better known outside of SE Michigan; their show at my local club twelve years ago was easily one of the best I've ever seen).

Grabbed the first volume of Wonder Woman: Earth One from my LCS Saturday (before seeing the movie) and greatly enjoyed it.

Congratulations!

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My mom just depresses me; though there's a lot of talk about “fascist” Trump supporters, I'm pretty sure she's a monarchist at this point, and I'm going to have to spend the better part of a week with her in early August, and in rural Wisconsin. We've been independently working on genealogical stuff (part of it out of…

The Kinks – Wicked Annabella
Television – Prove It
Johannes Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 8 (Abbado/Vienna)
Crystal Castles – Doe Deer
Arrah and the Ferns – Bernadette
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
The Pipettes – Why Did You Stay?
Frank Ocean – Thinkin' 'Bout You
Gruff Rhys – Rhagluniaeth Ysgafn
Family – Willow Tree
Thin Lizzy…

Co-signed on delaying the DVDs until a relationship develops; best of luck!

This; I've been on record before saying that, while I think the "creep index" (half your age plus seven) tends to be a useful guide on the whole, I also think that once both parties are twenty-five or so, they should be old enough to know what they're getting into. Not to say that power or experiential differences…

He was great in one of the recurring supporting roles in The Pallisers as Bonteen, the chip-shouldered, social-climbing bourgeois politician. While a nasty piece of work (especially when pit against the charming, even more relatable Donal McCann as Phineas Finn), you could kind of see where he was coming from. What an…

I know it's a cliche not to take it into account, but that's one gorgeous cover, too. The premise sounds compellingly bizarre and yet thought-provoking, so that certainly helps.

The trailers! I forgot how ridiculous the trailers have gotten (I actually can't remember the last movie I saw in theaters), and I got there right as the first of three or so "turn off your cell phones" shorts appeared (and, quelle surprise, I still caught a few screens flashing here and there throughout the course…