Super Stars Warses

SuperbOwl weekend has, in the past 5 years or so, become a different sort of tradition for us. We generally travel to Carlsbad on Saturday to celebrate Julie and Ross's birthdays, then travel back home for Super Star Wars Sunday, wherein we eat junk food and watch a Star War. This weekend was no exception. Celebrated and played games (Dungeon Mayhem, Chess, and Swords & Strongholds) with Ross and Jalie on Saturday; ate nachos and watched The Last Jedi on Sunday. Pretty great weekend, sinus trubs notwithstanding. Oh, and Ross is turning 18, which is kind of crazy. He was born right when Carrie and I got together. He's heading to NMSU in the fall. Will be good to have him close and get to do some gaming with him on more regular basis.

Gandalf

Put on the extended Fellowship of the Rings today, and while I was moving around doing laundry and stuff during a lot of it I made sure to stop and watch the "what to do with the time that is given to us" Gandalf speech. Love it.

Ready Player...sigh

Last night I watched the end of Ready Player One. I'd put in two sessions of about an hour apiece already so I figured I might as well finish it. It was super uninspiring and trite with a bunch of nerd pop culture pasted all over everything. I enjoyed the book for the latter, but it had some of the former in it too so the movie result is maybe not too surprising. Spotting the bits of nerdery in the background was more enjoyable than watching the action, for sure.

After it was done I fired up No Country for Old Men because I wanted to watch something good and I hadn't seen it since it was in the theaters over 10 years ago. The nihilistic elements make me squirm more these days but the movie is still fantastic. Also, drinking Coors Banquet in chub bottles while I watched it felt like some kind of synergy was going on.

Cool Clear Water

Buster Scruggs put an itch on me that this album scratched. I listened to it on a loop while I built an add-on to the chicken coop yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-9RpAcSbE

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'Burbs

These kids have no respect for classic cinema.

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"You shot me in the back!"

Ballad of Buster Scruggs. I'm in favor of it.

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Bandito

Rewatched Smoky and the Bandit. Turns out, despite the inclusion of Jerry Reed, not a good movie.