Spending my time in Courier 12 or making you laugh. Find my movies on YouTube. Find my prose on Amazon & Audible. New novel: Turning Corners out now!
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Robbie Williams understanding the difference between plagiarism and wearing your influences on your sleeve. Good for him.
Robbie Williams defends Olivia Rodrigo after she was accused of copying his song “Candy” with “take me home (4 christmas)”:
“Artists deserve to be protected. But there’s a difference between protecting your work and treating every vaguely familiar sequence of notes as a winning lottery ticket. It sounds to me as though she may have accidentally stumbled across a musical echo of mine in one of her new songs. And do you know what? I couldn’t care less. I don’t know whether there’s technically a publishing issue, a copyright issue, or no issue whatsoever. And I don’t want to know. I’m not going after her. Because I think at some point, some f**king sanity has to prevail […] We all stand on the shoulders of people who came before us. Sometimes consciously. Sometimes without even knowing it. That’s how music works. If we keep punishing people for accidentally arriving somewhere somebody else has already been, eventually we’re going to frighten the creativity out of everyone.”
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President Trump tonight criticizes the Senate for not making daylight saving time permanent: "Sunset was 5:06 P.M., and it was dark by 5:31 P.M. — Isn’t that ridiculous?"
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Tired of the election map? The yellow states are the states where you can legally own an otter.
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I love that scene in Good Will Hunting where Ben Affleck is talking to Matt Damon's titular character Will Hunting and he's like “you've got a gift man and you've gotta get outta this town and make something of yourself” and the gift in question is being really good at math and the town he needs to get out of is Boston, Massachusetts.
Finally watched You Can See Everything. Ahh!! Wild movie. I pretty much avoided all media on this to dodge spoilers, so send me the best articles, reviews, etc. I should read now…
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Finally filling my “Ridley Scott movies I’ve never seen” gap. Tonight’s movie: Black Rain.
Ridley Scott is a legend. The world is better off with his films, even the not-so-great ones. It’s fun debating which ones are the best. Also, Prometheus probably has one of the best trailers ever made.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcHYi…
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Just watched Love of Your Life. I didn’t expect to connect with it as much as I did. This was a beautiful little movie with some truly heartfelt performances.
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Finished @BovyMaltz’s book, and enjoyed the witty, insightful and funny writing throughout (plus the encyclopedia-level knowledge of 20th century American and British sitcoms).
Mike Smith retweeted
Watching old episodes of Legends of the Hidden Temple and forgot how amazing the consolation prizes were. Kids that lost the second round got a box of candy.
A BOX OF CANDY.
I enjoyed The Social Reckoning. The poor trailer/clips work better in context of the whole movie. There’s one narrative framing device that leaves a really bad taste in my mouth, but whatever. Sorkin still has it and the actors are all game.
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As a person who has taken this train many times, I’m very excited:
NEW: Amtrak announces second daily train schedule between PGH-Pilly-NYC. Service will start Nov. 18. Here are the schedules, by departure times. Philly has both arrival and departure since they change engines there and there is always a delay.
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Re: Digger’s box office: a different marketing approach would have probably generated a higher opening weekend, but doing what they did almost certainly resulted in a better viewing experience for the people (like me) who loved the movie.
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Taking big, risky swings and getting ambitious films made--even if they don't work or immediately connect with audiences--is the single highest use of star power. Good for Tom Cruise for getting out of his action comfort zone like this.
Re: Digger’s box office: a different marketing approach would have probably generated a higher opening weekend, but doing what they did almost certainly resulted in a better viewing experience for the people (like me) who loved the movie.
