Category Archives: Thoughts

My mental reactions to the world.

Tomorrow, In a Year

I was initially excited to find out that The Knife had released another album. Then I was kind of dismayed to see that it was an opera. But I still wanted to hear it anyway.

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Similarity 2

Doesn’t Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show resemble this endangered bird endemic to New Zealand (the North Island Kōkako)? I think he does, if only a little. Also, Kōkakos have a beautiful call.

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The Straight Story

The Straight Story (1999) was a thoughtful and well-constructed film about a man and his cross-country journey on a lawnmower. David Lynch directed it, but didn’t write it, so the things which I don’t always appreciate the lack of in Lynch’s films, like a coherent plot, linear continuity of time, and so on, were present. […]

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Similarity

Album covers for Judas Priest’s Ram It Down (1988) and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication (1999), respectively.

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Everybody died

This is what I thought was actually said the first time I watched this scene from Exorcist: The Beginning. Of course, the line was: “Who buried them? Everybody died; who buried them?”, but I didn’t hear it correctly. So I made this clip to illustrate how stupid this scene seemed to be when I watched […]

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