I don’t know who it was that mentioned the Junior version of GBBO but… This is just, as the kids need longer say, “totes adorbs”.
The positivity of the show was always its magic sauce, but to see little 9 and 10 year olds asking each other if they need help…
All the feels.
Blood & Gold (2023). A German nazi revenge spaghetti western, brought to you by the same director who created Blood Red Sky (nazi zombies on a plane, in a nutshell). Not for the faint of heart.
I’ve been watching Bancroft on BritBox.
Cocaine Bear was so silly and fun. Yeah, we watched that.
Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson - 1986)
This COULD go into the ‘what are you listening to?’ thread, but much like the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, this concert film brings additional richness to the music. It’s hard to convey the beauty of Anderson dancing gently across the stage with William S. Burroughs in audio form. And Adrian Belew’s squealing, bending notes come not just from his technique, but from an actual BENDABLE GUITAR. To say Anderson was an innovator is putting it mildly. She’s in there with Kraftwerk and other early pioneers of electronic music.
Fun fact: This performance was recorded with what was then new state-of-the-art DIGITAL audio, and played back in at least one theater in NYC through a new digital sound system. It is the first (as far as I know) feature film with a digital soundtrack.
It’s never been put out on blu-ray, but this youtube pull from an old DVD copy is better than nothing. I was lucky to see a rare showing of this in 35mm many years ago.
Never gets old even second/third time around:
I loved this latest season Netflix put up. I think they have 6 or 7 seasons and I would love to watch them all. It’s the perfect antidote after I’ve watched some heavy drama or murder mystery on TV. The kids are all wonderful and so accomplished!
Watched the Master Gardener. Not bad but no so good as the Eastern Promises.
Emily the Criminal on Netflix is very good. Aubrey Plaza is really making her mark.
Finished Crossfire on BritBox, which was okay.
Started The Patients of Dr García on Netflix . It’s okay.
Nature on PBS, ‘Cuba’s Wild Revolution’. Wednesday evenings around here are dedicated to PBS science and nature programs. Nature, Nova, Secrets of the Dead, Changing Planet, etc.
(American?) Bar B Que Showdown on Ne. The Cook A Long and Hunger on Netflix on my list.
Really enjoyed The Cook Along. Apparently I had already watched some of an earlier season.
On one episode of “The Cook Along”, which is based in South Africa, they are sourcing Baobab tree dust. Apparently the tree takes 200 years to bear fruit, and lives for up to 2000 years. They also harvested moringa. One irritation in that episode was a seed saving guy said " all squash comes from the US", but I think he meant all squash comes from America.
From Wikipedia
" The Panke baobab in Zimbabwe was some 2,450 years old when it died in 2011, making it the oldest angiosperm ever documented[citation needed], and two other trees—Dorslandboom in Namibia and Glencoe in South Africa—were estimated to be approximately 2,000 years old.[26]"
The English voice over on Hunger is very irritating.
New show on the Roku channel. Morimoto’s Sushi Master. Sushi chef competition hosted and judged by Masaharu Morimoto. J Kenji Lopez-Alt is also a judge.
Standard professional competition show. No sign of a ‘screw your competitors’ vibe. These are all high end folks.
Morimoto is hamming it up a bit but that seems to be his public persona. The cooking is on point.
Worth your while if you like this sort of thing.
Can anyone watch Roku shows? I tried to download the app to watch the American version of Great British Baking Show and it didn’t seem to work.
i believe the roku app is available on most smart tvs. works fine for me, but then again i’m watching through the app on a roku.
the new season of black mirror:
i mostly appreciate this show. the new season is pretty strong so far. if you aren’t in the mood for the depressing bleakness that permeates much of the series, i’d recommend S6 Ep 1, as it’s tinged with a fair amount of humor. the current content streaming landscape takes a lot of hits in this season.
I believe you can also watch in a browser at
