On the One Hand
On the other hand maybe I’ll just enjoy the joke.
Ah damn I can’t help but be curious about it, HOW DOES THE NUMBER OF DEATHS GO DOWN did it turn out to be something else? It starts to get into a “the bullets and the fall killed him” hair-splitting argument from COLLATERAL, but at this point any numbers feel a little suspect given different contexts like Japan, where there may have been a suppression in reporting while they felt holding the Olympics on time was still a possibility. Besides, what would the athletes do with their spare time if they hold the event but ban the big bone-fest that always occurs inside the Olympic village, it hardly seems worth it at all.
Watch This: All of the Bong Joon-Ho. Or at least most of it. - Now available on both Netflix and Hulu - While the two films on Netflix, SNOWPIERCER (Chris Evans battles class inequality aboard a train riding around a new Ice Age) and OKJA (little girl has to stop an international conglomerate from reclaiming an escaped genetically enhanced big that she’s befriended. Also the pig is 5 ‘c’s thiccccc) have been available for awhile, today sees the release of additional films from the Korean gawd onto Hulu. Along with his most recent, the (deservedly) Oscar-winning PARASITE, Hulu now also has THE HOST, MOTHER and BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE, the oldest of the bunch and the only one I’ve yet to see. With this, all but two of Bong’s features are now available to stream and, ranging from great to masterpiece, are all worth your time.
Hodinkee, a site for watch enthusiasts and for people to drink hot coffee at their screens while finding out about the prices of watches, has a piece that explores one of the more interesting watch faces available for Apple Watch, the Solar Dial. While I find myself typically gravitating towards simpler faces and designs, it’s an interesting guide to decoding all the various symbols and markers on the face. Seriously though, while you’re there take a look around Hodinkee to find out about a whole new strata or seven of watches. While people laughed at the first-generation Apple Watch that was made of no-joke gold and ran five figures, it was actually competitively priced in the world of fancy watches, until you stopped to consider that it stopped being able to run the most recent OS, and isn’t exactly something worth PULP FICTION-ing down the family line.
From the “Okay 2 Chainz, but Have You Considered” Department:
I don’t know what the rules of etiquette are for questions like this, whether it’s gauche to vote for yourself, but when your biggest competition is a double-digit number of plays on ‘ass’ (Big Sean, also known for “Dance [ASS]” in what appears to be a bit of a telegraph) then the bar to clear isn’t incredibly high.
I’m not quite sure what’s going on in this video, other than someone who really misses baseball lashing out in a weird way, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that this is a where-are-they-now update on the child/adult combo from this classic:
This is a surprisingly deep dive into the consistency and trends in censoring by the Kidz Bop franchise, which must be one of the more interesting writing gigs around. If you’ve somehow managed to avoid Kidz Bop until this point, it’s like Now That’s What I Call Music for prudes, removing most any reference to drinking, drugs or sex from the songs, which feels like a quixotic task if there ever was one. Let me know when they take on the Weeknd or Ying Tang Twins or something, but until then I’ll be occupied with all the charts and data available on that site, even sorted by type of censorship. A surprising time sink.
