Movies

[Matt]

I’ve had the misfortune and/or pleasure of attending more than a few bachelor parties.

[sophisto000]

Never have I had the in-person experience. Video was suffice.

[Jett129]

I think you guys might like this story. There was a girl doing ping pong shows in NYC,right by a place that I was working at. I had gone on a few occasions. I get a call to audition for this band,I go to the audition,we hit it off, and they ask me to stick around and wait for the singer to show up. I agree and in walks the girl from the ping pong shows. We both recognize each other,after hearing her sing,I declined the offer. The singer was Wendy O. Williams,and the band would become The Plasmatics.

[sophisto000]

Legendary

[Bridger]

Ha, that's a fantastic story @Jett129!

I looked at the YouTube comments, and there is no mention of her table tennis career.

Perhaps you should add your story - for the Plasmatics fans that don't realise that Wendy was a renaissance woman

[Jett129]

@Bridger I think her background was pretty well known at the time. Although I don’t think anyone would’ve called her Wendy Supreme,maybe. Thanks for jogging that memory.

[Nik]

The Safdie's working conditions and their dull approach to women characters left me unconvinced of Marty. Glad One Battle and Sinners were recognised by the oscars. Also Matt I think it's fine to not be a chala-fan.

[flannel slut]

Watched “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” yesterday and fell into the, what-did-I-just-watch category but in a good way. Reminded me of “Adventures in Babysitting” meets “Lawnmower Man” but again, in a good way.

[ARNC]

I’m did make it to the showing of Shigeru Yoshida’s doc Shades of Indigo this afternoon. I suspect it will be hard to find, but a great insight into Japanese indigo growing, harvesting, processing into sukumo, fermenting and dyeing. I hadn’t appreciated that natural indigo is a living being. The main contributor, Ryuta Sasaki, compares indigo to a woman seen from the perspective of a child, like a grandma or great-grandma in the case of his four year old indigo pot (we heard in the intro that this pot is sadly no more following a relocation). Apparently natural indigo has good days and bad days and if she’s not feeling well she won’t give a good colour but if she’s happy she’ll give you something beautiful.

There were some genuinely moving moments when an old indigo pot was returned to the earth and when a new pot came alive and started giving indigo.

The live intro from Dr Linda Brassington (also featured in the doc) was also good - I might post something more in the books thread.

[mclaincausey]

Just finished the remake of “The Running Man” with Glen Powell. I enjoyed it immensely.