Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: I just absolutely forgot how gorgeous the animation is in these movies. It makes it feel so alive! But you know what doesn’t make me feel alive? Movies with no ending
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023
I just absolutely forgot how gorgeous the animation is in these movies. It makes it feel so alive! But you know what doesn't make me feel alive? Movies with no ending
The Fall of the House Of Usher: So much of the running time was dedicated to each heir’s downfall, but we didn’t really spend enough time with any of them for me to care about them individually. Like most Netflix shows, there either needed to be four fewer or four more episodes.
Loki, Season 2: this did a lot of things that a lot of people wanted, but it didn’t do what I wanted. I wanted to be watching the show that Ke Huy Quan thought he was in.
I’ve been like ten times, but I always forget how great the Udvar-Hazy annex of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is. It’s a 45-minute drive from DC, but it’s worth every second it takes to get there
I’m so damn proud of Kentucky. If you want to understand how Democrats can win red states, Andy Beshear just showed you how.
Heading to Long Beach for a conference next week where–fair warning– I’m planning on wearing shorts the entire time
Current Things: November 2023
Currently Reading
- I promise I’m actually going to start Sea of Tranquility!
Currently Watching
- Loki, Season 2
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Changeling, Season 1
Currently In Queue
- The White Lotus, Season 1
- How To with John Wilson, Season 1
- Invasion, Season 1
- Dexter New Blood
- Resurrection
- Shrinking, Season 1
- BlackBerry
- Babylon
- Aftersun
- Emily the Criminal
- After Yang
- Speak No Evil
- Catherine Called Birdy
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Reservation Dogs, Season 1
Currently Listening
Concurrently
- Still listening to Olivia Rodrigo and still loving it. Need to go back and listen to her first album
- I finally bit the bullet and beat Tears of the Kingdom. I’d been avoiding it because I didn’t want the game to end, but finally realized no one will stop me from keeping to play it! (Except the fact that I got Super Mario Wonder on sale and Super Mario RPG comes out in like two weeks)
Finished in October:
Archer, Season 14: I’d stopped watching after the noir season, but picked it back up since this was the last season. Season 14 started as strong as some of the earlier seasons, but clearly ran out of steam towards the end.
No One Will Save You: This one’s a weird one. I very much enjoyed it overall, but the ending seems to undercut its main theme so much that I really question I understand what this movie is about at alljordonwadlington.com
Party Down, Season 3: I’ve always been a bit cooler on this show than most (it plays OK straight, but it very much feels like it’s really written for Hollywood types by Hollywood types), but it was good to catch up with these characters after ten years.
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Archer, Season 14: I’d stopped watching after the noir season, but picked it back up since this was the last season. Season 14 started as strong as some of the earlier seasons, but clearly ran out of steam towards the end.
DCPS is off school Thursday and Friday for unknowable reasons, so Julie is taking the kids to see her mom in Jacksonville and leaving me at home to fend for myself/live my life.
The one promise I can make to all you is that if there is ever mainstream media coverage of Sasquatch, I will make sure everyone here is aware of it
One of those days where I had to put a suit on in the morning and still be wearing it in the afternoon
No One Will Save You: This one’s a weird one. I very much enjoyed it overall, but the ending seems to undercut its main theme so much that I really question I understand what this movie is about at all
No One Will Save You, 2023
This one's a weird one. I very much enjoyed it overall, but the ending seems to undercut its main theme so much that I really question I understand what this movie is about at all
I went from below average cardiovascular health to above average today by turning 40. I’m looking forward to similar health improvements in the coming years.
Great idea out of my home state of Kentucky to address the childcare worker shortage: free childcare for childcare workers
Kentucky had an outside-the-box idea to fix child care worker shortages. It’s working
Party Down, Season 3: I’ve always been a bit cooler on this show than most (it plays OK straight, but it very much feels like it’s really written for Hollywood types by Hollywood types), but it was good to catch up with these characters after ten years.
One of those weeks at work where more and more keeps getting piled on, but I can see actual progress being made on many things. It’s much easier to not feel overwhelmed when you see things heading in the right direction.
I’m also grateful to have spent the time to create systems that can handle weeks like this. Thank you, past self!!
Current Things: October 2023
Currently Reading
- I promise I’m actually going to start Sea of Tranquility!
Currently Watching
- Party Down, Season 3
- The Changeling, Season 1
- Archer, Season 14
Currently In Queue
- The White Lotus, Season 1
- How To with John Wilson, Season 1
- Invasion, Season 1
- Dexter New Blood
- Resurrection
- Shrinking, Season 1
- BlackBerry
- Babylon
- Aftersun
- Emily the Criminal
- After Yang
- Speak No Evil
- Catherine Called Birdy
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Reservation Dogs, Season 1
Currently Listening
Concurrently
- Olivia Rodrigo’s new album is such an accomplishment. It’s fresh and modern, but clearly influenced by all of us olds' favorite bands. Green Day and Weezer are most obvious, but there’s plenty of Damien Rice. But then it becomes obvious she’s listened to a ton of Paul Simon! How is this happening???
- I got all the Tears and (I think) the only main story task left is to beat Ganon in Tears of the Kingdom. But then of course I got distracted by some sky islands that I’d not yet visited and got sucked into some stuff in the depths. I gotta finish this game because Super Mario RPG remake (probably my favorite non-Zelda game) is coming out in like six weeks!
- I somehow got a ticket to Maggie Rogers at The Atlantis. It was such an incredible all-around experience (both the show and venue). I blogged a bit about here!
Finished in September:
Guardians of the Galaxy, vol 3: This was so much more successful than any of its contemporary Marvel movie because it was allowed to tell only the story it wanted to tell jordonwadlington.com
Foundation, Season 2: started out slowly, but ends just as strongly as the first season. It’s hard sci-fi and not going to be for everyone, but it hits everything you want it to hit
Justified: City Primeval: Picks right up where it left off: a slick, but dirty indictment of our systems from the tip top to the deep depths
What We Do in the Shadows, Season 5: it just continues to invent more batshit crazy plot lines and somehow pulls them all together while further deepening these characters. No sweat, right?
Now bring back human bartender, Jackie Daytona, you cowards!!
The Afterparty, Season 2: that first episode was so bad that I almost didn’t watch more, but gets better quickly. Very obvious that Chris Miller had a limited role in this season
Asteroid City: -“I still don’t understand the play.” -“It doesn’t matter. Just keep telling the story.”jordonwadlington.com
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