28 Tuesday Oct 2025
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I watched this last night (it was made in 2021) and was left feeling so… disappointed. We had a real chance to re-set, to become more caring and empathetic, make a fresh start. Instead people chose to double down on greed and selfishness and now look at us. Anyhow, it’s worth a watch (Apple TV) just to see what can happen (and did happen for a while) when humans stop, well, being humans.
03 Tuesday Dec 2024
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I’d never heard the term Yacht Rock before watching this documentary but apparently it’s a THING. What was really interesting (to me at least) was discovering how much influence many of these yacht rock artists had on other major albums over the following years, and how many of them actually ended up playing on these albums, mostly in the background. It’s a fun watch and I added quite a few tunes to my streaming list.
10 Friday May 2024
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I am blown away by this documentary. About a year or so ago I was tucking into some perfectly char-grilled tender octopus at a bar here and suddenly I just couldn’t. Eat it. Why? I dunno. But every time I mentioned it people assumed it was because I’d watched that creepy Netflix “My Octopus Teacher”. It wasn’t. It was because I’d been coming across various articles and videos about octopuses on Twitter and then that one day it just felt wrong. Anyhow, if you get a chance to watch Secrets of the Octopus (on Disney and Nat Geo) I highly recommend it. Fascinating stuff.
29 Monday May 2023
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Came across this by chance and omg it’s wonderful. From 2021.
What a woman. What a life.
02 Thursday Sep 2021
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When I got my new birthday iPhone 12 in January it came with a free year of AppleTV… and so well okay, why not? Turns out there is some pretty good stuff on that platform, but I already subscribe to Netflix, and Amazon Prime comes with that account, that’s really enough to be paying for. Meanwhile, this week I’ve been watching this Apple documentary series that is absolutely mindblowing. Not just for the music – though I was amazed at just how much of my teenage soundtrack came from this one year. I was 14 at the time, and music was everything to me. So watching this doc has been quite the nostalgic trip down a musical memory lane. But then there is everything else that was going on back then that, as a 14 year old, I was pretty much clueless about. Well, okay other than some random knowledge about the Vietnam War, the Black Panthers… global politics was not something a young girl stranded in fucking Thompson Manitoba was overly concerned about.
Anyhow, this doc has been taking me ALL OVER THE PLACE and I’m not even done yet. If you have a chance to see it, I heartily recommend that you do. Even though it’s a bit heartbreaking to see just how little has changed.
Guardian Review: It has stood the test of time: was 1971 the greatest year in music?
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