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Quarantine Watchlist

Pickpocket
The Outsider
David Crosby – Remember My Name
Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Wanderers
The Atlanta Child Murders
The Secrets of Nimh
Let the Right One In
La Jetee
Angel Heart
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
Peterloo
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Cloud Atlas
Jack Reacher
808
Mulholland Drive
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Withnail & I
Touch of Evil
Tender Mercies
Popcorn
Cromwell
Idiocracy
The Day of the Jackal
A Place at the Table
Dig!
Uprising
Hired Gun
Jew Suss: Rise And Fall
Children of Paradise
Up the Down Staircase
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
King Leopold’s Ghost
Raising Victor Vargas

Movies and tv shows watched from March 13 through August 24

How Long Does it Take – Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+does+it+take&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&inm=vs

1 How long does it take for COVID-19 (coronavirus) symptoms …
2 How long does it take to get to Mars – and why is it so difficult …
3 Coronavirus: How long does it take to recover? – BBC News
4 How Long Does It Take to Fall Asleep? Average Time and Tips
5 How long does it take for symptoms of COVID-19 to show up?
6 Digestion: How long does it take? – Mayo Clinic
7 How Long Does It Take to Get to Mars? | Space
8 How long does it take to travel to Mars? – A Mission to Mars …
9 Labor and Economic Opportunity – How long does it take to …
10 Coronavirus testing: How long does it take to get test results …

How Long Does it Take

To Be Thought Normal, To Appear Happy… Fast Food Stanislavsky Lists

To be Thought Normal
Agree with caution.
Ask dull questions.
Check appearance, opinions.
Be concerned about the time.
Don’t take up much space – unless trying to imitate others.
Seek reassurance.
Find others strange.
Be formal.

To Appear Happy and Contented with Everything
Behave as if you have a delightful secret.
Endow others with good intentions.
Endow others with humour.
Enjoy touching things, including yourself.
Have a pop tune inside your head.
Smile.
Laugh just from sheer pleasure.

To be Thought a Jerk
Be tactless – refer to broken love affairs, drag up old bones.
Bad manners.
Brag.
Be a bigot.
Have chip on shoulder.
Interrupt (change subject?).

Johnstone, Keith. Impro for Storytellers

Lists are ways of giving the players permission to create characters that may be alien to them.

Long ago I directed a play at the Danish State Theatre School and discovered that the students knew hardly anything about the ideas of Stanislavsky (the great Russian director and acting teacher). He believed that if an actor is absorbed in trying to achieve a purpose, automatic systems will kick in (as happened to Tony Curtis, who was screwing up his debut as a messenger-boy until an older actor murmured, ‘Try to get a tip’).

Fast-Food Stanislavsky was my attempt to speed up the learning, and to my astonishment it made the players seem boundlessly imaginative.

Setlist – Roger Waters Us and Them – Denver, June 3, 2017

Set 1:
Speak to Me (Pink Floyd song)
Breathe (Pink Floyd song)
One of These Days (Pink Floyd song)
Time (Pink Floyd song)
Breathe (Reprise) (Pink Floyd song)
The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd song)
Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd song)
When We Were Young
Déjà Vu
The Last Refugee
Picture That
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)
The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Pink Floyd song)
Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 (Pink Floyd song)
Another Brick in the Wall Part 3 (Pink Floyd song)

Set 2:
Dogs (Pink Floyd song)
Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Pink Floyd song)
Money (Pink Floyd song)
Us and Them (Pink Floyd song)
Smell the Roses
Brain Damage (Pink Floyd song)
Eclipse (Pink Floyd song) (followed by band introductions)
Vera *(Pink Floyd song)
Bring the Boys Back Home (Pink Floyd song)
Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd song)

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/roger-waters/2017/pepsi-center-denver-co-33e70cf9.html

NOTE –
Vera Lynn of the song’s name passed away June 18, 2020.

On their 1979 album The Wall, Pink Floyd released a song titled “Vera”, referencing Vera Lynn and the song  “We’ll Meet Again” with the lyrics “Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? / Remember how she said that / We would meet again / Some sunny day?”. “We’ll Meet Again” was also used as an intro to the live performances of The Wall in 1980 and 1981 (as can be heard on Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81). The 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall opens with “The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot” performed by Lynn.

Wikipedia

Ozzy Osbourne Picks 10 Beatles’ Songs

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“I feel so privileged to have been on this planet when the Beatles were born,” says Ozzy. “They are and will forever be the greatest band in the world. I remember talking to Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. He said, ‘I didn’t like the Beatles.’ I said, ‘there’s something fucking wrong with you.'”

  1. She Loves You – 1963
    This is the one that sucked me in. I was a 14-year-old kid with this blue transistor radio. I heard “She Loves You,” and it floored me. It was as if you knew all the colors in the world. Then someone shows you a brand new color, and you go, “Fucking hell, man.”
  2. I want to Hold Your Hand – 1963
  3. I am the Walrus – 1967
    Lennon and McCartney were like sweet and sour. Paul would be the guy who said, “It’s getting better all the time.” John would say, “It couldn’t get much worse.” I loved Lennon’s plays on words. I love any song where you can go, “I don’t know what that means,” but you understand it anyway.
  4. A Day in the Life – 1967
  5. Hey Jude – 1968
  6. Help – 1965
    When I hear this, I hear Lennon thinking, “You can’t get bigger than big.” But they did. They got beyond massive. And he just goes, “Help!” because they don’t know what they’ve done. They only know how they did it.
  7. Eleanor Rigby – 1966
    “Eleanor Rigby” is fucking phenomenal. I don’t know why. I just know that every time I heard something from the Beatles, it made me feel better that day.
  8. Something – 1969
    Black Sabbath were doing a residency in a bar in Zurich. It was winter and we were driving in the van to get home for Christmas. We were homesick and had no money, one cigarette between the four of us. This song reminds me of that time, because we kept hearing it as we were going over the Alps.
  9. Strawberry Fields Forever – 1967
    I used to work in a slaughterhouse, and across the road was a meat-pie shop, and this was on the radio there all the time.
  10. The Long and Winding Road – 1970
    “It reminds me of winter in England. It’s cold, you’ve got fingerless gloves on. And it makes me sad, because it’s the end of the greatest movie I’d ever seen. You hear Paul going, ‘I’m out of steam. I can’t do this anymore.'”

What would be the dumbest, lamest, most boring super power possible that would still give you a one up over normal people?

What would be the dumbest, lamest, most boring super power possible that would still give you a one up over normal people? from AskReddit

silveredtori
Being able to predict which line in the grocery store will take the shortest amount of time.

ManCalledTrue
The ability to know the intent behind any statement communicated to you.

Omega_art
The ability to stop the hiccups buy yelling “hey stop it.”

juan-de-fuca
Being able to nap instantly Edit: this is not a disorder like narcolepsy, but a superpower that allows you to choose when and how long to nap (airplane trip? No problem. Deadlock traffic? Slam in park, take a nap for a few minutes…)

Guantanamo Mixtape

Here follows a sample of the songs played again and again at maximum volume to break the will of enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay and other US detention centers around the world. In the context of harsh interrogation with no legal recourse or hope of freedom, these songs and others like them became the soundtrack of Hell for those subjected to them.

Christina Aguilera, “Dirrty”
Barney and Friends, “I Love You Song”
Deicide, “Fuck Your God”
Drowning Pool, “Bodies”
Eminem, “Kim”
Marilyn Manson, “The Beautiful People”
The “Meow Mix” Theme
Nine Inch Nails, “Somewhat Damaged”
Queen, “We Are the Champions”
Britney Spears, “. . . Baby One More Time”

Bruce, Scott G.
The Penguin Book of Hell

Best movies of 2010s – IndieWire

Ten years ago, it seemed like we all had a pretty solid idea of movies — what they can do, who they’re for, and where they’re watched. That idea was inflexible, and supported by a century of precedent. It came with the added benefit of making the people in charge comfortable with the idea that cinema’s future wouldn’t look all that different from its past. DVD sales were strong, Netflix was still just a sad little envelope at the bottom of your mailbox, and China was starting to give studios the biggest safety net it ever had. Perhaps the arrival of James Cameron’s “Avatar” in the waning moments of 2009 could have been seen as a harbinger of strange things to come, but no one in Hollywood has ever lost sleep over a movie that grossed nearly $3 billion.

Things have changed. Cinema is in a constant state of flux, but it’s never mutated faster or more restlessly than it has over the last 10 years. And while the decade will no doubt be remembered for the paradigm shifts precipitated by streaming and monolithic superhero movies, hindsight makes it clear that the definition of film itself is exponentially wider now than it was a decade ago.

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-of-2010s-decade/

The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice

It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you.

• Don’t be the best. Be the only.

• Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them, they are waiting for you to send them an email, they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.

• If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting.

Read the whole list: http://kk.org/

Freakonomics has an episode on the list: Freakonomics

Who doesn’t love a little wisdom once in a while? We all seek it out — in the people we know, or would like to know; in philosophy and science and religion; in adventure and travel and all sorts of mind-bending encounters. Most wisdom is presented in a manner befitting its ambition, with an important-sounding title and a package designed to impress. But sometimes the wisdom is just sitting there — on a website, with a title like, “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice.” That’s what Kevin Kelly called the list he wrote on the occasion of his 68th birthday. And he published it on his website: kk.org.

NORMAN MAILER: Ten Favorite American Novels

With the exception of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which I reread recently, the other books were devoured in my freshman year at Harvard, and gave me the desire, which has never gone completely away, to be a writer, to be an American writer. They’re all selections from the mainstream of American novels, not a surprise on the list, which separates me, I suspect, from my colleagues. But it’s an honest list, even if it doesn’t bring a deserving writer out of obscurity. Freshman year at Harvard is luminous because of these books.

John Dos Passos
U.S.A.

Mark Twain
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

James T. Farrell
STUDS LONIGAN

Thomas Wolfe
LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL

John Steinbeck
THE GRAPES OF WRATH

F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE GREAT GATSBY

Ernest Hemingway
THE SUN ALSO RISES

John O’Hara
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA

James M. Cain
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

Herman Melville
MOBY DICK

From – The Reader’s Catalog: An Annotated Selection of More Than 40,000 of the Best Books in Print in 208 Categories (Reader’s Catalogue)

Classic Rock – Top 50

Selection from:
Rock n Roll America’s
Top 1,000 Classic Rock Songs

Rank Song Artist
1 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin
2 Hey Jude Beatles
3 All Along the Watchtower Hendrix, Jimi
4 Satisfaction Rolling Stones
5 Like A Rolling Stone Dylan, Bob
6 Another Brick In The Wall Pink Floyd
7 Won’t Get Fooled Again Who
8 Hotel California Eagles
9 Layla Derek And The Dominos
10 Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd
11 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
12 Riders on the Storm Doors
13 Rock and Roll Led Zeppelin
14 Barracuda Heart
15 La Grange ZZ Top
16 Dream On Aerosmith
17 You Really Got Me Van Halen
18 More Than a Feeling Boston
19 Sultans of Swing Dire Straits
20 You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC
21 Kashmir Led Zeppelin
22 Lola Kinks
23 Carry on Wayward Son Kansas
24 Tiny Dancer John, Elton
25 Locomotive Breath Jethro Tull
26 I Still Haven’t Found U2
27 Magic Carpet Ride Steppenwolf
28 Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd
29 Purple Haze Hendrix, Jimi
30 Tom Sawyer Rush
31 Let It Be Beatles
32 Baba O’Riley Who
33 The Joker Miller, Steve
34 Roxanne Police
35 Time Pink Floyd
36 It’s A Long Way to the Top AC/DC
37 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin
38 The Chain Fleetwood Mac
39 I’ve Seen All Good People Yes
40 For What It’s Worth Buffalo Springfield
41 Black Magic Woman Santana
42 Nights in White Satin Moody Blues
43 While My Guitar Gently Weeps Beatles
44 Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones
45 Gold Dust Woman Fleetwood Mac
46 Fortunate Son CCR
47 American Pie McLean, Don
48 Bad Company Bad Company
49 Waitin’ For The Bus/Jesus Just Left ZZ Top
50 Over the Hills and Far Away Led Zeppelin

CTRL f  *analysis* on the whole 1000 list
Love – 41
Baby – 6
Money – 8 (Includes Eddie Money)
Car – 22 (Includes The Cars)
Rock – 27
Get – 14
Summer – 2
Night – 31

Woman – 13:

948 Rock And Roll Woman Buffalo Springfield
910 Just Like A Woman Dylan, Bob
779 A Woman In Love Petty, Tom
717 Kentucky Woman Deep Purple
519 Woman From Tokyo Deep Purple
496 Pretty Woman Van Halen
310 Evil Woman ELO
307 Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress Hollies
245 L.A. Woman Doors
204 American Woman Guess Who
180 Witchy Woman Eagles
45 Gold Dust Woman Fleetwood Mac
41 Black Magic Woman Santana

How is your New Year’s resolution holding up? – AskReddit

We are nearly 1/3rd of the way into 2020, how is your New Year’s resolution holding up? from r/AskReddit

forman98
I made a resolution to start bringing my lunch to work instead of eating out everyday. I have to say it’s going pretty well.

probably-a-lunatic
Resolved to be more positive and to write down at least one thing I’m happy/grateful for each day.

I can legitimately say it has made me a happier person, and I’m actively looking for the good, not the bad.

Haven’t missed a day yet, and usually I write at least 3 examples. Definitely want to keep it up for the rest of the year, or hell, even the rest of my life.

shampoo_and_dick
Mine is staying alive. So far all good. Let’s see what May has to offer.

How about we have a game called, “Survival: 2020” ?

mattsffrd
I vowed I would stay inside and learn about gay tiger meth cults, so it’s going pretty well.