RIP Brian Wilson.
Au début des années 90, par l’entremise de La Fête à la Maison (ce que je semble partager avec Tom Hanks) et Allô maman, ici bébé, les Beach Boys furent un de mes premiers émois musicaux, et ont continué de m’accompagner jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
Je repartage l’article consacré aux Beach Boys de la fabuleuse Encyclopédie approximative du Rock and Roll de mon ami Joe Gantdelaine.
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The Big Short, 2015 - ★★★★
This was my third time watching the movie, and I enjoyed it as always. Rewatchability might not be a requirement for great art, but it may imply it. The performances are outstanding. I don't think I had noticed the music before, but it is excellent as well, composed by Nicholas Britell, you don't say.
I see The Other Guys, The Big Short and Don't Look Up as a remarkable trilogy by Adam McKay.
It is also quite sad that he and Will Ferrell ended their creative partnership. These two guys made some movies with strong, often subtle statements, and it's a shame we can't enjoy more of their work together. They were on their way to winning my very own Peace Prize (and I am 100% serious).
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The Big Short, 2015 - ★★★★
This was my third time watching the movie, and I enjoyed it as always. Rewatchability might not be a requirement for great art, but it may imply it. The performances are outstanding. I don't think I had noticed the music before, but it is excellent as well, composed by Nicholas Britell, you don't say.
I see The Other Guys, The Big Short and Don't Look Up as a remarkable trilogy by Adam McKay.
It is also quite sad that he and Will Ferrell ended their creative partnership. These two guys made some movies with strong, often subtle statements, and it's a shame we can't enjoy more of their work together. They were on their way to winning my very own Peace Prize (and I am 100% serious).
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Whoever needs to go needs to go.
I just saw Stephen A. Smith on the Daily Show, and I must admit he made quite an impression on me. I feel bad for previously expressing my dislike for him when I was upset about FiveThirtyEight going dark.
While I still don’t appreciate loud, hot-take punditry, I’ve come to realize that he has much more substance than that. 🍿 × 🏛️
La victoire historique du PSG en Ligue des Champions m’a évidemment comblé. Mais davantage que la finale, impressionnante mais trop vite pliée, c’est le parcours de Paris depuis le match contre Manchester City qui m’a captivé, tout comme le reste de la phase finale. Paris, évidemment, mais aussi Liverpool, Arsenal, le Barça, et l’Inter — oserais-je ajouter Brest à cette liste ? — ont offert des matchs affichant une qualité collective inédite depuis trop longtemps.
Cette édition de la Ligue des Champions a été épatante. Gagner ce tournoi confère également un peu plus de prestige au vainqueur.
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Fini de (re)regarder Le Combat des Chefs, d’Alain Chabat. Excellent, tout le monde a aimé à la maison.
Mes highlights :
- Les title cards de chaque épisode sont superbes;
- Les animations liées à la potion magique, façon films animés du Spiderverse, sont hyper réussies;
- Les noms des Romains sont excellents;
- Toutes les interventions du gladiateur commentateur sont à mourir de rire.
Bravo.
Possible spoilers (cliquer pour déplier)
Les deux trucs qui m'ont surpris — mais pas déplu — sont l'apparition du trèfle à quatre feuilles dans la recette de la potion magique (qui par sa rareté rend donc la production de potion délicate — si les Romains savaient ça ?), et la relecture de comment Obélix est tombé dans la potion magique par rapport à l'histoire de l'album qui lui a été consacré.🍿
Je viens de me rappeler qu’à 6 ou 7 ans, à la sortie de N’importe quoi de Florent Pagny, j’étais fan. C’est plutôt rassurant sur le fait qu’il ne faut pas s’alarmer trop vite des goûts musicaux de ses enfants. Ça peut encore basculer du bon côté. 🍿
Okipic pomme, caramel, gingembre. Très bon aussi. 🧘♂️
Je pense aujourd’hui plus que jamais qu’il est important d’avoir une présence sociale sur le web.
Puisqu’il est sans doute trop tard pour un monde où l’influence des réseaux sociaux n’existe plus, alors on en revient à la question du “c’est comme tout, ça dépend comment c’est fait”.
Ma réponse actuelle à comment le faire bien est cet espace sur Micro.blog.
Je détaillerai ça très vite dans un post long, mais en attendant, je me réjouis de l’arrivée sur la plateforme de ma chère et tendre. Bienvenue Alkidel. 🤗
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Finished watching Andor S2.
It was very good.
I remember being impressed by a scene from S1 where with just the right questions and the wrong answers, tension between a policeman and a random passerby could escalate very quickly. That moment stuck with me — and I think plenty of scenes from Season 2 will, too.
It’s a dark show, no doubt. But knowing it all leads to a successful rebellion against a fascist regime gives it a strange, uplifting power.
I think i’m up to rewatch the whole thing from the beginning again, and queue up Rogue One right after.
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Extrait de Les vivants :
Bref, elle est restée bloquée dans le vieux rock, The Police partout, Justice nulle part.
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Bravo Ambre Chalumeau. 🍿
Après Un Été 2023, mon ami Joe Gantdelaine et moi rattrapons doucement notre backlog de nos compiles trimestrielles que l’on publie sur Dead Rooster. Aujourd’hui, nous sortons Un Automne 2023. Allez l’écouter, elle est cool et a une jolie photo de Guy Marchand et Bernadette Lafont en cover. 🎵
After a clean macOS reinstall, running a web project using the canvas package (via react-pdf) failed with the following error:
Cannot find module '../build/Release/canvas.node'
Many occurrences online suggested that fixing this only required to reinstall the package but it turns out that in my case, a Python library was missing:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
It turns out what fixed the error was:
pip install setuptools
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Le Hangar. 🗺️
Okipic citron concombre menthe. Très bon. 🧘
Aujourd’hui, je vois des publicités pour Instagram où la plateforme prétend jouer un rôle dans la législation européenne sur l’accord parental pour les téléchargements sur l’App Store. Les potards de pompiers pyromanes sont à 11 chez Meta. 💻 × 🏛️
My tech blog is now located at https://mickf.net/tech/.
For the last 15 years or so, I used the hostname bootstragram.com, but I grew tired of the name. It brings back stressful memories that make me clench my teeth. I prefer to consolidate all my online presence under mickf.net from now on. I have completed the most part of the redirection tasks and will finalize the details in the coming weeks.
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Finished watching White Lotus S3. The finale did not match the really high expectations we had from watching these reactions on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, but it was still pretty solid. I had a good share of laughs and of Schadenfreude satisfaction with this show.
Fun facts about the cast:
- Kate (Leslie Bibb) and Frank (Sam Rockwell) are married in real life;
- Timothy (Jason Isaacs) is Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies. Of course!;
- Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) is Arnold’s son;
- The show was written by Mike White, who is Jack Black’s friend in School of Rock, which he wrote, as well as the hidden gem Nacho Libre. He also wrote Migration, which I highly recommend1.
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My daughter will recommend the movie as well. I think she watched the movie about 20 times in the last few weeks. ↩︎
The producer of Bohemian Rhapsody, Roy Thomas Baker, has just passed away. Reading an article by the New York Times about the song:
Mr. Mercury, who died in 1991, always refused to explain his composition other than saying it was about relationships. (…) Mr. Baker said, with a hearty laugh, “If I tell you, I would have to kill you.”
Just this Monday, we listened to the song on our way home from a family trip, and I wondered what the lyrics meant. I wondered if the lyrics were appropriate for the kids and recalled that I had written an essay about the song when I was 12.
RIP Roy Thomas Baker.
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