Groundhog Day<\/a> A-<\/p>\n Beastie Boys (ASPCA Benefit Live Show) @ The Hiro Ballroom Oct. 4, 2006<\/a> Guy Ritchie\u2019s The Covenant<\/a> B+<\/p>\n Spy Ops<\/a> B-<\/p>\n GoldenEye<\/a> B<\/p>\n Saturday Night<\/a> A-<\/p>\n SNL 50 A<\/p>\n Ferrari<\/a> B<\/p>\n North By Northwest<\/a> B+<\/p>\n Meru<\/a> A-<\/p>\n No Reservations<\/a> A<\/p>\n Homeland<\/a> Terrific show. There is a little clunkiness in the middle episodes, but generally it started hot and stayed there. And the final three episodes are nuts, in the best possible way. I\u2019ll definitely be watching season two and then go from there.<\/p>\n A<\/p>\n Pearl Jam – Chicago – Wrigley Field Night 2 – 2024\/08\/31<\/a> A<\/p>\n Pearl Jam – Self Pollution Radio 01\/08\/1995 – Full Broadcast<\/a> A-<\/p>\n WarGames (1983): 20 Things You Never Knew!<\/a> Will Ferrell Breaking People on SNL for 5 Minutes Straight<\/a> Matt Damon Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters<\/a> Matt Damon & Casey Affleck Curse Like True Bostonians<\/a> U.S. Deploys Socially Awkward Men Along Border To Deter Migrants | Onion News Network<\/a> Inside Daniel Craig\u2019s Iconic James Bond Watch Collection<\/a> Watch Shopping With Marc From Long Island Watch: Building The Best Collection<\/a> Why the South China Sea is a time bomb<\/a> F*ck your wallet, go travel.<\/a> 100 Days of Solo Travel in 3 Minutes<\/a> How This New York Times Bestselling Author Perfected His Daily Morning Routine<\/a> Driving the World\u2019s Longest Road: Our Epic Journey Begins<\/a> We Landed in the SECRET World of Bhutan<\/a> I used 1950s technology for a week<\/a> Indianapolis, Indiana | John McGivern\u2019s Main Streets<\/a> I drove my lifted porsche 1500km through New Zealand<\/a> Fighter Jet Low Level in Norway 4K<\/a> THE LAST CRUISE IRAQ – F14 VIDEO<\/a> Top 30 90s Rock Songs You Forgot Were Awesome<\/a> We Put DIRT Host Josh Rosen in the Huckberry Hot Seat | Ask Huckberry<\/a> Why There\u2019s a Straight Line Through Scotland<\/a> Pro Designer Turns an Abandoned NYC Loft into His Dream Apartment | Architectural Digest<\/a> Building an official \u201cStealth\u201d Apple IIgs<\/a> Miracle on Ice Highlights<\/a> I Spent 10 Days In China Testing Electric Cars! Here\u2019s What Happened<\/a> Rivian Gen 2 Refresh – It\u2019s the Little Things<\/a> Tesla\u2019s Monitor Everything\u2014Including You<\/a> Sony vs Leica vs Hasselblad Photos<\/a>
\nEvery year I think, \u201cHey, I should watch this again!\u201d when February 2 rolls around. Then it either isn\u2019t available on a free service, or I missed when it would air on cable. This year I finally did it! Probably the first time I\u2019ve seen it all the way through since the mid\u201390s. I forgot how dark it gets for a long stretch. The final quarter feels very 90s, but, hey, that was the time.<\/p>\n
\nAMAZING performance brought to my attention by Brother in Music E$.<\/p>\n
\nPowerful film about the bond people form during combat. And a reminder how fucked up everything about our war in Afghanistan was after the initial satisfaction of driving the Taliban from power.<\/p>\n
\nThis Netflix series about various intelligence service operations fell oddly flat with me. I\u2019m not sure exactly what was missing, but something felt off about the entire thing.<\/p>\n
\nI was browsing the DVDs at the library and found this. It\u2019s been a few years since I\u2019ve watched it. Once again it confirms that the Daniel Craig era kind of ruined most of the old Bond films.<\/p>\n
\nI watched this the night before the SNL 50 anniversary show. I really enjoyed its look at the 90 minutes before the first SNL broadcast in 1975. I haven\u2019t read up on how much of it was accurate, but it was an enjoyable look inside how close they cut it with pretty much everything that first night.<\/p>\n
\nI wrote about this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nI remember hearing, when this was first released, how it wasn\u2019t what you expected it to be. That was certainly true. I understood exactly what Michael Mann was going for in this film. I\u2019m not sure I understand his reasoning behind that, though. I was never sure that Adam Driver was speaking with an Italian accent, either. It seemed to drift into some kind of strange Italian-Eastern European mishmash. Penelope Cruz was terrific, though.<\/p>\n
\nSomehow I had never seen this, considered one of the greatest spy movies ever, even if it isn\u2019t standard spy movie fare. It has that snappy dialogue common of its era, and also some scenes that stretch out far longer than they would if written and filmed today. Have I ever watched a Cary Grant film before? I\u2019m not sure. He was fantastic, never taking himself too seriously. Eva Saint Marie? Yowsa! Although I did the math and she and Grant were nearly 20 years apart in age when they made this movie, which is a little cringey, if typical of Hollywood. An absolutely wild ending was the only thing that made this film feel super dated.<\/p>\n
\nThis has been on my list for years and I honestly thought I had watched it, just not noted it. But when I started it to confirm, it was indeed new to me. The usual harrowing mountain climbing movie, complete with multiple brushes with death and a truly remarkable final ascent.<\/p>\n
\nI ran across a blurb how the old Anthony Bourdain shows were the perfect anecdote to both the state of the world, and state of TV these days. It noted how No Reservations<\/em> was available on Prime Video. So I knocked out the first three episodes of season one over a couple nights, with the plan to slowly work through the series as I had time over the coming months. When I went to watch episode four, they had mostly disappeared from Prime. Which was weird, as this was in the middle of the month, not at the beginning or end, when shows usually drop off. Alas, it will show up again at some point and I\u2019ll work through it then. Even with AB not fully locked into the persona nor the show into its eventual format, it was indeed a wonderful reminder of how great this was.<\/p>\n
\nOver the years several friends asked if I watched this show, as it seemed right up my alley. My answer was always no because we never had Showtime during the show\u2019s initial run, and I wasn\u2019t sure what platform it was on in more recent years. I was also daunted by there being eight seasons or whatever. But I recently saw it was on Hulu, and read that, really, only the first two seasons are essential, so I jumped in.<\/p>\n
\nI watched night one last month, made sense to watch night 2 this month.<\/p>\n
\nI skimmed through this, listening only to the PJ songs. What a time.<\/p>\n
\nShorts, YouTubes, etc<\/h3>\n
\nProbably the least interesting and informative of these I\u2019ve watched, but there are still some good nuggets in it.<\/p>\n
\nShouldn\u2019t the Jimmy Fallon ones not count, since he broke in every sketch he was ever in?<\/p>\n
\nGeorge Clooney Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters<\/a>
\nSamuel L. Jackson Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters<\/a>
\nI can\u2019t get enough of these. I also just wait for YouTube to spit them out at me rather than seek new ones. That makes it kind of fun to see who pops up and when they hit my feed.<\/p>\n
\nNot as much cussing as the title promised.<\/p>\n
\nGenius!<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThings I Would Steal\u201d for $400, Ken.<\/p>\n
\nRestoration of an Omega Flightmaster – Crazy Transformation<\/a>
\nRestoration of a Rusty Omega Seamaster Professional watch – Severe Water Damage<\/a>
\nYeah, so I added a new watch to my collection this month, thus tweaked my algorithm with a bunch of watch vids. These restoration ones are oddly soothing and fascinating.<\/p>\n
\nJust one of many reasons\u2026<\/p>\n
\nGood advice. I wish I would have taken it in my 20s.<\/p>\n
\nAgain, to be young, unencumbered, and motivated\u2026<\/p>\n
\nI may start following this plan to see if it elevates my blog readership.<\/p>\n
\nAlaska to the Yukon: The Most Breathtaking Views on Top of the World Highway<\/a>
\nI tried this series but after two episodes I just wasn\u2019t into it that much.<\/p>\n
\nThen you have this video about one of the most isolated countries in the world and the host could not be cheesier, which kind of ruined it for me.<\/p>\n
\nFun concept but this guy is 35% too goofy for my tastes.<\/p>\n
\nA look at my favorite part of Indy, Mass Ave.<\/p>\n
\nMore travel than car related, and it\u2019s not an EV, so this goes into this section.<\/p>\n
\nFilm this for IMAX and name your price, I will pay it.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the odder, while also delightfully dated, jet videos I\u2019ve come across.<\/p>\n
\nTop 30 Cheesiest One Hit Wonders of the 1990s<\/a>
\nThere are a few interesting\/odd choices in these, but still probably several songs that you haven\u2019t heard in years and will send you to the streamer of your choice to revisit in full.<\/p>\n
\nThe next DIRT location is revealed here, if you\u2019re into that kind of thing.<\/p>\n
\nWhy are so many countries called Guinea?<\/a>
\nWhy the Dutch always say what they mean<\/a>
\nFun with maps!<\/p>\n
\nThis is gorgeous and all, but tell me what the budget was.<\/p>\n
\nGeek powers being used for good.<\/p>\n
\nNever a bad time to re-watch this, which is now 45 years old!<\/p>\n
\nCar Content<\/h3>\n
\nOnvo L60 Is The First Serious Tesla Model Y Competitor I\u2019ve Driven<\/a>
\nFirst Chinese EV Road Trip! Quick NIO Drive From Hefei To Hongzhou<\/a>
\nUltra Luxury NIO ET9 First Look & Full Tour! The Next Chapter Of Chinese EV Engineering<\/a>
\nShanghai To Beijing EV Road Trip! Fast Charging & Battery Swapping Through China In The NIO ET7<\/a>
\nThe Out of Spec crew traveled to China to see what the EV landscape is like there. In short, it\u2019s pretty amazing. Thanks to a variety of reasons, the US pissed away its clear lead in the battery race over the past few years. And thanks to a different variety of reasons, Chinese car manufacturers have leapt ahead of pretty much every US manufacturer other than Tesla. Now they are making amazing cars that are cheaper than anything built in the US and pushing the battery side of the equation forward faster than we are. Naturally tarriffs, rather than innovation and government support, are the answer. \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n
\nOK, I like their trajectory. We just need to get the R2 manufacturing lines cranking, iron out the first gen issues, and have them available and affordable in the spring of 2027.<\/p>\n
\nThe future of all autos, sadly.<\/p>\n
\nPhotography<\/h3>\n
\nCorky Lee\u2019s quest for \u201cphotographic justice\u201d<\/a>
\nRoots & Ranches<\/a>
\nMy weird love for the Fujifilm XT3 (not buying the Fuji XT5, for now)<\/a>
\nWhat\u2019s the BEST focal length? 28mm? 35mm? 50mm?<\/a>
\n50mm Prime Lens ONLY Challenge: What I Discovered<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPodcasts<\/h3>\n