Happy belated birthday to me! 🍿
Back to the Future, 1985 - ★★★★★
Best way to start the year. First time with the kids. I think they enjoyed it. 🍿
The Stanley EP disponible en streaming
Il y a 15 ans, je sortais avec mes camarades de The Livingstones I Presume un EP 4-titres, The Stanley EP.
Les outils pour diffuser ce genre d’œuvres amateur se sont bien développés depuis, et j’ai le plaisir de vous informer que cet EP — enrichi d’un 5e titre démo que nous offrions comme titre bonus sur Bandcamp en cas d’achat complet de l’EP — est désormais disponible sur les plateformes de streaming. En l’occurrence, je suis passé par CDBaby.
Voici par exemple le lien pour écouter The Stanley EP sur Spotify.
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, 1994 - ★★★
The opening — parodying _The Untouchables_ — and the final — with the fake movies scenes for the Oscars — are the highlights. 🍿
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, 1991 - ★★★★
Not as good as the first one. But still very solid. 🍿
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, 1988 - ★★★★★
Pure joy. Laughed out loud many many times. My first watch in about 30 years maybe, and first time as an adult and in English. Loved it. 🍿
TIL comment écrire « être dans le coaltar ». Ça vient de l’anglais coal + tar (goudron de charbon). 🤓
I finished watching Breaking Bad and spoilers did not ruin anything
Last Monday, I finished watching Breaking Bad. It was excellent (duh), and I can only recommend it.
I had watched the pilot back in the day but I hadn’t pursued further. When the show became really popular, I read the Wikipedia page to get the gist of it, but I didn’t want to commit to 60 hours of viewing. So I knew the story and how it ended.
Fast forward to November 2025. The show keeps appearing on lists of the best TV shows ever — alongside The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Wire, etc. while Games of Thrones seems to have faded — and I started to fall in love with Hal, Bryan Cranston’s character in Malcolm in the Middle. So, I gave Breaking Bad another shot because I was curious about how Bryan Cranston could act in a drama. This time, I was sold.
Much has already been said about the show, so I’ll keep it brief with a few thoughts:
- An excellent TV Show does not get spoiled. Yes, I knew how Breaking Bad would end when I started watching it. I knew who would die and who would survive. Yet, I loved every minute of it. Spoilers are overrated. I can think of only a handful of genuine surprises that weren’t gimmicks in all the shows I’ve watched. Questions like, “Will Rachel and Ross end up together?” or “Will AFC Richmond win the Premier League?” are mostly irrelevant.
- I think the TV show characters who spend the most time in white underwear are: 1. Hal, 2. Walter, 3. Homer Simpson. The similarities don’t stop there: Hal’s dad’s name is Walter. Both Francis and Jesse (who is not technically Walter’s son but, come on, he calls his own son Jesse once, their relationship is ambiguous) aspire to go to Alaska.
- One of the best jokes I read about the show is that if Walter White were married to Lois, she would find out and make him stop by the end of the pilot episode.
- Also, this what if Breaking Bad was just Hal’s bad dream alternate ending.
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The segment on the Daily Show about Calibri vs Times New Roman was hilarious. It’s not every day you encounter typeface humor.
Previously, there was the SNL sketches Papyrus and Papyrus 2 with Ryan Gosling, as well as Elle Cordova impersonating fonts.
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Mes coups de cœur de la soirée de vendredi aux Trans Musicales de Rennes :
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Nouvelle compile : Un Été 2025 ! 😎
Avec Oasis, The Verve, BODEGA, ALVILDA, Black Country, New Road, etc.
Steven Robert Redford est sur la pochette.
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It’s that time of the year again: 40 questions to ask yourself every year.
I have been doing them since 2021. And I just realized this year that Stephan Ango, aka kepano, is Obsidian’s CEO. Funny.
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Je recommande l’interview de Gabriel Zucman par la librairie Mollat. C’était vraiment intéressant pour mieux comprendre son idée de taxe plancher à 2% du patrimoine. J’ai retrouvé l’article qui parle des “allocations familiales” versées à Jeff Bezos. Il s’agit de The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax, de ProPublica, qui contient cet extrait :
In 2011, a year in which his wealth held roughly steady at $18 billion, Bezos filed a tax return reporting he lost money – his income that year was more than offset by investment losses. What’s more, because, according to the tax law, he made so little, he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
Inimaginable.
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, 1999 - ★★★
The Phantom Menace may not be the greatest episode of Star Wars, but it effectively showcases a brilliant political plot.
Palpatine secretly orchestrates the Naboo crisis and exploits the Senate’s bureaucratic paralysis to discredit the Chancellor as weak. He positions himself as the decisive alternative and wins the Chancellorship by promising action over gridlock. Ultimately, he transforms the Republic into his Empire.
This follows a populist playbook: create or amplify a crisis, attack democratic institutions as slow and ineffective, offer strongman “efficiency” as a solution, and then consolidate authoritarian power while claiming that the system forced their hand.
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The Tomorrow Man, great album by Micah P. Hinson. I’m not sure about the cover art; it doesn’t look appealing at first glance. However, when I squint my eyes, I see layers of details that I can’t quite grasp. 🎵
She’s Gotta Have It, 1986 - ★★★
She’s Gotta Have It is an unusual blend: part Woody Allen in its talky, neurotic New York energy, and part French nouvelle vague in its playful breaking of form. The story itself is minimal, but Spike Lee seems more interested in his style than in the plot. It feels like watching a young filmmaker experiment, resulting in a vibrant and unique film. I was also pleased to encounter Spike Lee’s Mars Blackmon again: I knew him from his ads with Michael Jordan 🍿