Author: robertjames1971

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Rebel Moon II: Atrocious?

I said in a post the other day that I was planning on watching the new Rebel Moon movie (part 2) on Netflix. I was thinking about re-watching the first movie because even though I watched it a short time ago I couldn’t remember anything about it (except for the thing about Daario Naharis doing a scene with Daario Naharis). I figured I’d watch part 1 to refresh my memory and then watch part 2.

Last night, that’s what I did. I watched part 1 again. It’s still bad, but probably not quite as bad as the reviews made it out to be. The dialog is worse than I remembered. It’s really bad. I mean… really bad. The complete and total lack of plot was just as I recalled. The movie isn’t so much terrible as it is just boring.

This morning I have started watching part 2. I am about 45 minutes into it and… oh my goodness, is it terrible. I mean. Atrocious. It’s not like we are expecting much out of Zack Snyder these days but sweet christmas this is ridiculous. I still have about an hour and a quarter to go, so it might improve, but I am not what you would call hopeful.

My favorite part so far is the slow motion, action farming scenes. We watch them harvesting grain in slow motion while super intense, dramatic music plays and I gotta be honest with you all, I laughed out loud at how incredibly stupid it was. Just ridiculous like you’ve never known before. That was briefly topped by the scene of the general filling his water bottle in slow motion. Like… wow. Just… wow. I mean, it’s probably Chekhov’s water bottle, right? It’s got to have some meaning at some point further on in the movie, right? He filled a water bottle in slow motion… that has to have meaning, right?

I’m 48 minutes in now… it can’t get worse, can it? Can it?

Cool Down

Daily writing prompt
How do you unwind after a demanding day?
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I’m not sure how to unwind. I feel like I carry things like tough days around with me for long after they stop being an issue. I try not to hold grudges and I try to just let stressful things go, but the only thing that seems to work for me is time.

I try to relax after a hard day. I try listening to music, watching a good TV show or movie, maybe put up my feet and watch a game or something. Maybe have a nice dinner or just sit and breath and calm myself down. It really doesn’t work though. My idiot brain just keeps cycling through whatever happened and my attempts at relaxation are just a waste of effort.

Bummer, right?

5-1 Final

I watched most of the first period and then just followed the score on my phone until I fell asleep during the third. The Bruins took game one from the Maple Leafs by a score of 5-1.

I am happy. One win down and three to go.

Game two is tomorrow (Monday) night.

Go Bruins!

Two-Two-Two Songs in One!

A couple of years ago I was working on the Record Every Month Challenge and I had a couple of song ideas going at once. I didn’t realize until well into the recording process that the two songs had almost identical chord changes in their respective choruses. Ooops. I could have done the right thing and dropped one of them, but instead I leaned into my lack of creativity and used a line of lyric in both songs and turned them into parts one and two. Doofus, yes, but what do you expect?

Fast forward to the current re-recording project I’ve been torturing the universe with and I thought it would be further fun to sort of duct tape the two songs into one and record the whole shebang as if it were one longer song.

Done and done. I just finished mixing it. Here you go, universe. Enjoy my shitty song!

Random Pics from Saturday Morning Errands

Out and about. Grocery shopping, running errands, stop light theater pics. The usual.

And just for luck, a bonus picture of a cat cuddling up between me and my wife on the couch earlier this morning. Perfect.