weekly digest: I was extremely absent last week, sorry about that...
the very little bit that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, March 20, to Sunday, March 26
I had a terrible week last week, which made it even more difficult than it has been lately for me to focus on anything productive. I’m in more pain all the time from my damaged hip. Which uses up my spoons more quickly. And then there were so many more demands on my spoons in the last couple of weeks. Some admin left over from my mother’s death in September required a trip to the US Embassy here in London to get papers notarized... a chore that had to be done twice because of a foul-up that couldn’t have been foreseen. (This was also a double dose of a reminder that she left behind a small mess for us to deal with.)
There’s been all sorts of repairs and painting going on in the house I live in, which has been disruptive... but my hip means it was also nearly impossible for me to escape it regularly. I did escape a few times, spoons permitting. Usually it was just easier to hide out in my room. But part of the chaos was that my room needed to be repainted, because of several leaks in recent months. Which meant I had to get all my shit out of the room. My housemates were enormously helpful with that, but it was still not something I have the headspace for. And it was a reminder than I’m a 53-year-old woman cramming my entire life into one room, which is extremely depressing. (I had to spend a lot more spoons on that.)
Last week I found out that a film critic acquaintance of mine — not a close friend but someone I would talk to at screenings — died at some point last year. He was around my age. I was floored by this news.
And then, on top of all of this, I just discovered that a ton of reader comments are missing from Flick Filosopher: they just didn’t get transferred over when I moved the site away from using Disqus. One of the problems with Disqus is that it hoards comments in its own database, though you can sync them back to your site’s own DB if you make the concerted effort to do so. Clearly, though, this does not work as advertised. All comments were supposed to have synced. But it turns out that hundreds of comments, maybe thousands, are missing. So now I have to waste time trying to figure out a fix for this.
All of this would be annoying and distracting at the best of times. But now... I’m very close to my wit’s end. Everything is simply a tremendous effort right now, and sometimes something has to give. I’m hoping this week will be better. I’m trying my best to make it so.
—MaryAnn
PS: As you’ll see, I decided to post the daily stream posts to Flick Filosopher, too… though I managed only one last week. *sigh*
new at flick filosopher, Mar 20–26
loaded question: would you go to a pub or bar that showed movies (instead of sports)?
I imagine that a movie pub would mostly show classics, ones that people know by heart. This would not be a venue for quiet appreciation of a new movie but more of a communal bonding type of experience. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
daily stream: a hardboiled noir with deadly dancing [pictured]
2015’s John Wick is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic. [read more]
should I post my daily streaming recommendations here too?
The idea is for you to get a little treat in your in-box each day, but maybe some would prefer to see them here? [read more]
what I’m bingeing
The Mandalorian [Disney+ globally]: not this show raising up Grogu to be a Mandalorian!
Old Enough! [Netflix globally]: didn’t get back to this last week
Picard [Paramount+ US (via Prime)/Prime UK]: the nostalgia quotient got bumped up again this week; this is practically turning into Star Wars, where there’s only, like, a dozen people in the whole galaxy…
Tweet of the week…
In the absence of much else to offer you, I’m gonna share a bunch of fun tweets:
My life:
Now in my headcanon:
When cat Twitter and fandom Twitter intersects:
Truth:
And this is the retweeted tweet with its must-see image:
Finally, the best example yet of the new meme all the cool kids are into at the moment:
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
John Wick: Chapter 4
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
newly minted Oscar Best Picture Everything Everywhere All at Once
British indie rom-com Rye Lane
rom-com What’s Love Got to Do with It?
action comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
hippies turn religious freaks in historical drama Jesus Revolution
Cocaine Bear, which will surely be the film of 2023
animated flicks Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Amazing Maurice
as many Oscar nominees as I can get to (including the shorts)
#MeToo dramas She Said and Women Talking
indie horror Skinamarink
And more!
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weekly digest: I was extremely absent last week, sorry about that...
so sorry to hear you had such a rough time, MaryAnn. I’m going through some estate mess myself, although fortunately for me not transatlantically, and can commiserate. I hope the housework is sorted by now for you, at least.
also, I’m not on twitter, and your featured tweets always delight me. I howled at the banshees one, my cat got startled!