Everything posted by Stringer
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Concerts you are attending
Not sure a username has ever checked out more
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US Open - LA Country Club north courses
So. Many. Commercials. Christ.
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World Class Holdings offices raided
Nothing on this yet?
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The Business of Hollywood & Streaming
This is probably a dumb question, but what is the reason for reducing the libraries? Is there an ongoing cost for them (I didnāt think so as that is part of the WGA fight) or is it just a way to have a huge tax write off for things that arenāt driving revenue? Some of both?
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NBA Playoffs 2023
Fucking Jokic, man.
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The movie you just watched
You Hurt My Feelings My wife and I really enjoyed it. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a legend (not sure how she keeps getting better looking...maybe I'm just getting older) and the movie is very funny. It's an easy 90-minute low stakes movie about the small lies we tell each other to keep everyone afloat. I really enjoyed Enough Said, the last Louis-Dreyfus/Nicole Holofcener movie and this was in a similar lane. Highly recommended for a fun/easy watch at the end of a long week.
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Netflix Recommendations
Halfway through but this is my favorite so far. Killed me when that happened. This show is hit or miss but itsā hits are about as good as it gets.
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Succession -- HBO
However you dice it up, looking through that list is a reminder of how much truly great TV HBO has put up over the last 25 years. No other network has 10% of the essential TV they have put out.
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I caught the cancer
Quoting myself for a little follow up. After 6 rounds, the levels were really low, but there, so we moved to a trial oral drug. A couple of weeks into that, the cancer cells showed strong signs of regeneration. It's not back yet, but it's coming sooner than later. So, we are going to transplant as soon as we get insurance approvals (our medical system is broken) and get a donor set up. Donors are identified, but they can't schedule until insurance is approved. Basically, once we're all set, I'm going to Houston for roughly 100 days, 30ish in the hospital and 70ish isolated in an apartment near MD Anderson. I can have one visitor at a time and need 24/7 monitoring when I get to the apartment. I can't see my kids (3 and 6) the whole time we're going through this as they are germ factories. I'm going to be super tired and beaten down the entire time and the recovery is brutal. That's if things go great. There is a also a 10-15% chance of mortality. So, I could leave my house in a few weeks and never see my kids again. I know that's true of everyone at any time, but it's different when you're choosing (right or wrongly) to put yourself in that position. The good news is I am a healthy (you know, other than cancer) 41 year old with very good donor matches. I am also going to be at MD Anderson where they do this all of the time and have a whole floor of just bone marrow transplants. That decreases the mortality chances. It's going to be tough road, but as long as I get to the other side, I don't care how hard it is. Godspeed to all of you guys.
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HBO Max streaming service
My wife and I love it. Great mix of absurdity, grounded humor and pathos. Molly Shannon has had a really strong second act over the past 5 years or so.
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NBA Playoffs 2023
Maybe donāt talk shit to Jimmy Butler. Just a suggestion.
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NBA Playoffs 2023
Man I love Jimmy Butler. He does not give a fuck.
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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
They spent their CGI budget on Tom's face.
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Succession -- HBO
I havenāt been able to peg Connorās age on the show. Obviously Ruck is a good amount older in real life. The intro of the show, though, has the four siblings but the oldest doesnāt look but a couple of years older than the second oldest kid. Maybe Iām putting too much weight on the intro or they werenāt thinking about it that closely.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Went Friday night. Wife and I counted and this was the 6th time seeing him, starting from the Texas Union show in 2015. Had a great time. I liked the heavy weighting toward Southeastern. I think that Sadler Vaden song is fine, but that main riff is killer live. Literally 3 minutes before they went on, my doctor sent me a message that we need to do a bone marrow transplant to try and treat my leukemia. An hour later, that mother fucker pulls out Elephant. I was a mess. My wife said that at least he didnāt do If We Were Vampires, which was a good point. We would have been puddles if he did that one.
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Fun Ass Movies
Outside of the the usual suspects (that movie rules too), Layer Cake is one I keep going back to if I just want to watch a movie on a random week night.
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2023 ACL Festival
Are you a wizard or something?
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3
Went earlier and really enjoyed it. Easily the best Marvel movie since Endgame and much better than Volume 2, which I didnāt really care for. Thought it was really fun with several LOL moments and a good cap to this series. I got emotional a few times which is saying something about a movie with a talking raccoon, a mono sentence tree, a half robot being, a bug, a green lady, a big purple guy and a human. Also a really dope hallway scene. As always, top notch needle drops throughout. Definitely recommend. I would watch the Christmas Special before you go. Both because itās great and because it does explain some of the set up and characters. Itās too bad Gunn is going to DC. I guess his time was over with Guardians ending anyway, but he brought a lot of fun. Itāll be interesting if he can revive DC. There are some signals that the comic book film era is slowing down, but maybe the product has just been subpar and over extended the last few years.
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2023 Rain Thread
Very little rain but power just went out in Highland Park West. Guess Iām going to bed.
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Ted Lasso (Apple+)
She's not. The benefits of fucking the creator/star.