I think Dominic implicitly offered his DP services to make the live blogging easier.

I'm allowed to live stream on YouTube. I'll let you two connect to my channel if you need that.

The Titan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4986098/

Overpopulation is wiping out Earth's resources so a group of military personel volunteer
to be genetically modified to allow them to survive on Saturn's moon, Titan.
Great sci-fi drama.

Revenge

A French rape revenge movie. Highly stylized. I thought it was OK, not amazing, but not terrible either.

That's a real bummer, man.

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I have a gig tonight. I hope I don't suck.

Looks interesting!

Today is the 50th anniversary of Night of the Living Dead. So many followup movies have recycled this film's ideas that it's worth revisiting the original just to see how groundbreaking it was. Every trope and cliche of the genre was there: gore, paranoia, the breakdown of society, survivors turning on one another --there's almost nothing in any zombie flick that wasn't done more brilliantly in the original. That shot of the girl in the basement is still utterly horrifying.

I think also these are both thoughtful sci-fi movies that call back to the golden age of "what if" storytelling. I feel like in the past few years there's been a return to form for the genre and we're seeing movies and TV shows with a more cerebral angle rather than post-apocalyptic shoot em ups.

It's still ridiculously scary and shocking today. I remember feeling completely betrayed by the ending....and then being exhilarated that movies could do that.

This guy is insane:

^^^ Hope I get to see it on a big screen. I live in a town that likes movies, but not so much documentaries...

Alex Honnold was featured on 60 minutes back in 2010/2011...watching the footage of him free soloing still makes my heart palpitate.

Alex Honnold is a sicko. I first heard about him a couple of years ago after watching Valley Uprising on Netflix. If that kind of stuff interests you, you should def check that out.

More Ryugu shenanigans:

Co-sign. This is one of the better docs I’ve ever seen. Completely surprised me and now I recommend it to everyone. Sicko is the perfect word for that guy. The shots they get are almost unbelievable.

^ What they said. I am in awe of the guy. What an interesting passion.

My sister worked on the movie deal for the book so we talked about this one a lot. Her theory (which is not confirmed or anything) is



I’m not entirely sure what this all means but I think she’s on to something.

From watching that preview I'd say the guy has a death wish.

Some people just love competing at the highest stakes more than anything. If you ask them, they’ve never felt so alive.

Yeah but they said every single person who has done that many times has died. I'm sure it is exciting. Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute is probably exciting too.

It is.

He must just be part of a fraction of a percent of people who don't experience fear like human's are genetically "supposed" to.

No matter how experienced or amazingly skilled he is, he should still be ****ting himself to some degree, although probably not as much as me when I'm watching those documentaries.

Some people are addicted to excitement and adrenaline. Injury or death is the risk they accept (or live in denial of) for the high.

Cold Skin https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034385/

In 1914 a man goes to a remote island to man a weather observation post only to find the island infested with deadly creatures.
His only chance of survival is to befriend a deranged lighthouse keeper who has been fighting the creatures alone for the past year.
Not a bad horror movie, nothing special but still worth a watch.

Some hopes go unfulfilled.

The live music scene in Los Angeles is really strange. Believe it or not, people will go out, drop $20 on entry fees and alcohol, just to see one act for 30 minutes.

The first set apparently had a lot of friends willing to go see him, and there was about 40 or 50 people there. As soon as he got off stage, everyone poured out. The next set played to a completely room, short of me, the sound person, and maybe one other person.

I go up and I'm playing to the people before me, the sound person, and whoever the next set is. The sound was way off with a strange clicking and static, and it really threw me. I didn't stop and go out of time, but I definitely made a lot of mistakes, skipping entire sections of music and so on.

I ended playing a shorter set than the agreed upon time, but it was okay. I was sort of glad to just get off stage and be done with it.

It's night like these that makes you stay up until 6am, wondering what the **** went wrong with all the things in your life that you end up on stage, alone, playing music no one gives a **** about. You wonder if you should post yet another ad looking for a singer, but then you think back to the 30 prior people who you couldn't work with and decide it maybe isn't worth it.

I'm all for people doing what they want in life as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. He seems like he's living his life to the fullest and is aware of the risks so more power to him.

Probably shouldn't be getting into serious relationships though. Seems kinda selfish.