How Star Trek: The Next Generation Predicted Meme Culture

a worthy read
2 days ago

Mailchimp's 2019 Annual Report

very much worth a browse, just for the design
3 days ago

King Gizzard, Chapter Music, and More Release LPs to Benefit Australia Bushfire Relief

if you aren't the donating type maybe buy some music and donate as a side effect
3 days ago

Friday Videos - Jan 10th, 2020

Have you watched the television series version of Fargo? If you answered no, cancel all of your weekend plans and start watching it immediately. Writer/Director Noah Hawley has done an incredible thing with that show and it's hard to articulate just how entertaining it is. If you're tired of overhyped Prestige TV, I hear you, but this one delivers.

Speaking of distractions.. here's a few.
  • Fargo: Season 4 trailer - every season of the show is in different times, locations and ensemble casts yet they feel like part of the same criminal world of mishaps. Season 4 looks real good.
  • Hellier trailer - if scripted dramas are not your thing, give Hellier a spin. It's on Amazon video and follows a group of paranormal investigators through a mind-numbing amount of twists and turns. This likely deserves its own post.
  • The $150,000 Banana - a 13 minute video may not feel like Friday Video material but this is a fascinating rundown of the high art world, this specific Maurizio Cattelan piece and what it all means.
  • Possums Eating Bananas - here ya go, this is more our usual speed.
  • Unsteady Smack Smack - ah yes, this is why you come here.
  • Your Own Larry David - always entertaining.
3 days ago

Quibi versus the world

Katzenberg's forthcoming streaming service sounds interesting but also rife with potential disaster. The Turnstyle tech sounds... tiresome? I'll reserve judgment until April. curious!
3 days ago

Behind the Soundtrack: 'Uncut Gems' with Daniel Lopatin

nice little 20 min doc on the making of the music
4 days ago

Disq - Daily Routine

this is my daily routine, stare at my computer screen
5 days ago

PodPass: Proposal for an Open Protocol

gotta admit, this seems like it will be entirely necessary as podcasts continue to find their footing in monetization
5 days ago

Filmography Club: The Master

I promised myself I wouldn't just post about every single new We Own This Town episode here on yewknee but when they're good, they're worth sharing!

Filmography Club is a film discussion podcast in which host Jason Caviness takes a look at the body of work from one particular filmmaker. Season 1 is all about Paul Thomas Anderson. The latest episode is a discussion about The Master, the 2012 post-WWII psychological drama that clearly has some parallels with Scientology, even if Anderson won't directly admit it. The guest for the show is my lovely fiance Becky Delius.
Becky is not a cinephile or a film auteur but she is a very studied individual when it comes to Cults and their ilk. She's done lots of reading on Scientology and provides some wonderful insight into how the characters Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman play are at odds with one another. Her takeaway from the movie is right at the top of the episode - "a nihilist exploration on the futility of being a human being." It's dark but it's also correct and the evidence that backs it up through the lens of PTA's storytelling is quite compelling.

Hear it here or wherever you like a podcast.
5 days ago

Nashville Demystified with Sean Nelson

The newest episode of Nashville Demystified finds host Alex Steed talking with recent Nashville transplant Sean Nelson - a name you may not instantly recognize but likely remember from his role as frontman of the band Harvey Danger. Nelson's accomplishment's far eclipse being a one-hit wonder from the late 90's but it's okay if you don't know that yet, that's what the podcast is for.
Nelson has spent a good bit of time writing for The Stranger and creating a wonderful ode to Harry Nilsson called Nelson sings Nilsson. Alex does a great job talking about all the things - Nelson's time in Harvey Danger, his experience covering the Trump election cycle, his ability to interview his idols and what's it like to move back to Nashville after some 20 years.

The episode is available streaming everywhere you like a podcast. I suggest you listen in.
5 days ago

Sandwich, not Sandwich Video

I have long been a fan of Adam Lisagor and his video production company, Sandwich. Their work is always fun, informative and distinctly Sandwich. They recently overhauled their website, rebranded themselves and started selling merch. All good things.

But mostly they just have a massive portfolio of work, all well worth watching. Watch this and this or this, just as a start.
5 days ago