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Extra Ordinary Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman. 2019

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Extra Ordinary (2019) Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman.

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The Sun is dead and love is an unbearable thing (On Yudrein Aile & Grief)

(Above) KOURAISSANT / (Aeschylus: The Oresteia, Aeschylus & The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Anne Carson) / Things Haunt, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza / Chapter 514, Turning, 쿠유 / Morning in the Burned House, Margaret Atwood / The opposite of a haunting is something very lonely, heavensghost / A Rosario Castellanos Reader:  ‘Memorandum on Tlatelolco’, tr. Maureen Ahern / Sue Zhao / The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller / The Empress Yamato Hime, tr. Kenneth Rexroth / Spring and All, Cathy Park Hong / UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN / there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying, p.d / Chapter 1, Turning, 쿠유 / Lesbos (From Ariel), Sylvia Plath

(Below) The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), dir. Mike Flanagan / 6CHO1

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The History Of Rock 1967 Pete Drummond, Tony Blackburn, Dave Cash (DJ), Kenny Everett, Duncan Johnson, Chris Denning, Ed Stewart, Mike Ahern, John Peel, Emperor Rosko, page 119.

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Playlist for Saturday, April 19, 2025

This was a special three-hour Blacktop Memories, 1-4pm. We did some "Upcoming Concert Calendar" announcements during the early hour. But then, we had a regular show from 2-4pm. Next Saturday (April 28), Blacktop Memories will, sadly, not be on. But Mike of Mike's Mixed Mess will be there from 2-6pm! Blacktop Memories will return the following Saturday (May 3) from 2-4pm! Japanese Breakfast - "Honey Water" The Moles - "Had to be You" Bria Salmena - "Twilight" Dean Wareham - "New World Julie" Sparta - "Spiders" (May 1 @ Crossroads) I Am the Avalanche - "Green Eyes" (May 17 @ Crossroads" Sunny Day Real Estate - "Red Elephant" (June 5 @ the Lanes) Kevin Devine - "Alabama Acres" (June 13 @ Boonton Coffee) Jesse Ahern - "On the Road" High. - "Bomber" Momma - "How to Breathe" Jack's Mannequin - "Bruised (June 26 @ Stone Pony Summer Stage) The Gaslight Anthem - "The '59 Sound" (with Counting Crows; June 28, PNC) New Found Glory - "All Down Hill from Here" (with Jimmy Eat World and The Offspring; August 2, PNC Bank Arts Center) Taking Back Sunday - "Cute without the 'E' (Cut from the Team)" (with Foxing and Coheed; August 29, PNC Bank Arts Center) Bike Routes - "Rush of Energy" Fish Narc - "My Ceiling" Queen of Jeans - "Books in Bed" Iron and Wine - Anyone's Game" The Avett Brothers - "Laundry Room" Good Old War - "Coney Island" Wilco - "Annihilation" Black Country, New Road - "Goodbye (Don't Tell Me)" Sam Lynch - "Piece of You" From Indian Lakes - "Label this Love" L.S. Dunes - "You Deserve to be Haunted" The Get Up Kids - "I'm a Loner, Dottie, a Rebel" Further Seems Forever - "The Bradley" Cloakroom - "The Lights are On" See Plus - "The Door" Oh the Humanity! - "Siren Song" Boyscott - "After Dark" Sherwood - "The Simple Life" Straylight Run - "The Tension and the Terror" Ultimate Fakebook - "Little Apple Girl" Socratic - "Sleepless Nights" The Blue Stones - "Scared of the Dark" The Murder Capital - "That Feeling" Weatherday - "Hug" Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - "Milk Duds" Six Day March - "Retrophile"

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9 books I plan to read in 2025, as tagged by @tevos (thanks, friend, for something to do this evening)

If It Bleeds by Stephen King - I picked this up during TIFF 2024, once I knew I had tickets to see the film premiere of Life of Chuck, but I couldn't bring myself to read past the first short story until after I'd seen the film. Put it down, watched the film twice aaaaand... still haven't picked it back up. Will need to remedy that soon as the film is still whirring around in my brain and I need it to be released. I love Stephen King. I love Mike Flanagan.

Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Short Stories - I bought a special-made edition at Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal over a year ago now. It's the most gorgeous souvenir that I've still yet to crack open (I'm scared to break the spine). It deserves so much after making it safely through the rest of my backpacking trip in Europe and then all the way home to Canada again. My mind was fresh on Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher when I bought it and I wanted to dive deeper.

A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern - This will be a reread, but I found it in a little library in my neighbourhood and it's a book I remember loving in high school. I wrote a short film for one of my screenwriting courses based on the idea, and then adapted it to something shorter for my capstone film at the end of my program. I think the idea of missing things going somewhere concrete that we can't quite reach will haunt me forever.

Script Supervision and Continuity Course Handbook by J. Timothy Hunt & Beyond Continuity by Mary Cybulski - I have been lazy regarding expanding on my film knowledge and this needs to be the year I truly sink my teeth into continuity and script supervision as a genuine career path. If I want it on my resume, it's worth studying up on the subject a bit. I mean, I bought the books.

The Shining & Doctor Sleep by Stephen King - When I start in on reading King books, I usually go on a rampage for a few weeks and read... a lot of them at once. I borrowed The Shining from my cousin's library months ago, after finding the follow up in a little library, and I still haven't opened either of them. I just know nothing else will get done once I do. I live for the way King sucks me in, but I've gotta take breaks or I'll read his entire collection of works in a matter of months. (And that's really saying something.)

The Art of Misadventure by Dave Brosha - This one is a memoir from a photographer, which I've been meaning to finish. I like mixing up my reading with a biography or autobiography every once in a while, just to cleanse the mental palate. Brosha has been to a few places in the world that are very high on my 'desperately want to go' list.

Camino Island by John Grisham - Found this one in a little library in the neighbourhood. I've never read any of his work before, but I was on a kick of mystery novels at the time and desperate for more in the genre. The last few months, I've been getting bored of stories with male protagonists and just putting them down, so I'm very hopeful that doesn't end up being the case with this one.

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths - Another mystery book, but based in the UK! So, this one will definitely hold my attention longer. It's apparently part of a series and yet another book I hauled out a little library and then left on my headboard waiting to be read for months on end. There are too many little libraries in my area and they are dangerous.

Another 1 (or 6) of the Stephen King books I've collected from thrift stores and little libraries and free piles... Your girl has been having a love affair and there's no end in sight (save for the months-long breaks I take from reading novels).

No pressure tags to... anyone who wants to do this?

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Writing at The Room - June 9 at 3 pm

WRITING AT THE ROOM – Poetry, text, sound, song 3 pm Sunday June 9. Featuring Tom Bland and Dominic Lyne Hosted by Anthony Howell and Patricia Ahern The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale/Bruce Grove London N17 9AS – enquiries: 0208 801 8577 Open mike. BYO. (Please come 20 minutes early to book for the open mike. Tom Bland has two books out, Camp Fear and The Death of a Clown, with Bad…

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7 / 10

Título Original: Extra Ordinary

Año: 2019

Duración: 94 min

País: Irlanda

Dirección: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman

Guion: Mike Ahern, Demian Fox, Maeve Higgins, Enda Loughman

Música: George Brennan

Fotografía: James Mather

Reparto: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty, Jamie Beamish

Productora: Coproducción Irlanda-Bélgica; Blinder Films, Umedia, Irish Film Board, Inevitable Pictures, Epic Pictures, uFund, Wildcard Distribution

Género: Comedy; Fantasy; Horror

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ARIZONA COPS REACT TO $2 MILLION BATMAN TUMBLER

And the cops showed up checked it out and wondered if it was licensed and stuff and they said they're doing a Hollywood presentation and the cameras are there he got permits and stuff we have road apartments in Sydney I'm not really supposed to be in here with that and said that's a prop and it is not on so give him a little bit left and they left any comes back with people and we know why it's because he's after Tom Cruise so we said this we're tired are you doing that to everybody even if you're losing it's annoying as hell so we're at the station and we're out there gas station it's a mix and you said what are you doing back what they do cuz they're the ones in the wrong they said nothing what are you doing here in the same message with our caller in code that we said are you trying to harass the VIP like you're harassing us you don't have jurisdiction here your plates are out of date and your uniforms are not correct unless you're badges so hit him over and have their hands on the guns and we have paramilitary units and there's five of us five trucks is it hands off the guns if you go for your guns we open fire and they said no way one guys doing it and he sees a rifle Amy at him aiming at him any check the station and we said it's a no-go so the guys come over and talking in the handcuffs the idiots cuz we said it's a no-go and we're taking them away this is pretty smooth and who do you work for they said the United States and your terrorists and you're not coming back you start fighting in yelling and that was it and they're gone and the regions are leaving and the generals are leaving and soon they will not return ever and it's still a fight and we have a big problem but boy these people are suck and we're just talking about the fighting at the 18th ring and the inner rings they lost 18 households out of 20 and now it's 20 out of 20 and those people we listed were not there there are a few he knows who are gone and it is now the Bouvier they die their brothers and they're the two houses and he had kids and the other one had kids and he knew them as Steve wallaby and that was his name and John ahern and he doesn't remember them the other one had kids Michael Hunt and he was riding to school with Will and Bill house will and a couple of the people bja on occasion drive his own car if you could but he was in the car for a solid year and didn't talk much or argue or anything I used to driving around together and will pierce was a miscreant but he was bored and the guys were boring and her son was boring people were not so he stopped doing his stuff and he kept saying it's so cold it's not right and they started doing stuff so the point is that Michael Hunt is not Mark doobie and he just remembered but Mark doobie died too and he's from the other household the Bouvier house and she's the son of the short one and boy was he a weird kid and Mark Hensley is a different person and he was the son of Mark doobie. When Aaron Mike actually trying came out and harassed her son with Scooby-Doo and company he was already gone and he said how's Mark doobie he hit the roof and he said this kid is making fun of us and they said he should be a huge a****** and you need to get the hell out of there or we'll move you out they said no and they said yeah and they're mad at him and they should be the guy's a huge ass and he's dumb.

There's also something else going on he doesn't know how it works and our son's body would overcome your brain and you're a s******* meaning it would not get along with his body and our son would not let it happen and we won't and we can't stand you for saying that all the time so grab your people and we go in their bodies with things and computers and also stuff and take your stuff I'm doing it for years ever since you started saying it you're a moron and that's how we're taking over Trump

And all 20 are out you were at 33 so now you're down to 13 and those are pretty thin and there's only three Trump houses now there's four and one is John Riva Lord the second is Terry cheesman the third is Paul Blanchard AKA Dave next door and the 4th is an oddball it's Sarah and she's doing the women's movement which is real and they are a minority no the rest of the homes have their generals and they still do they have probably a quarter of of the warlock generals which is not that great but that's what it is so out of the 300 houses they have about 75 including their four and their generals in there and they're getting beat up about 10 clans are about to check out of his. Overall they now only have 260 households in the neighborhood 40 of them went to other groups including the pseudo empire. We anticipate them losing 10 from Trump 20 from bja and 30 from different groups today and tomorrow that's a total of another 60 bring it to 200 it's still a mother of a pain in the neck but that's what it is that is an actual very large change because they were concentrated here and punta Gorda in Port Charlotte and for them to lose the houses and not be able to infield with generals does signify an important change in the warlock not just Trump it's all of them and the pseudo empire is considered different clones or not they're lumped in with warlock now and to do their poor performance in the field they're too easy and they're falling. Couple more things

-you're not giving our son a chance to rest and he's exhausted and we're going to hold it against you who are doing it there's a huge force of police ready to come in and grab people remind you where they're watching there's a giant number of people here who are asking for a lot of trouble and they are going to find it this week is going to be a nightmare for you there's nothing easy about it that's coming up fast there will be a lot of people who are going to go away permanently.

-not only are you losing your regants that you are losing your areas. When they pass away there's infighting and lots of disagreements and usually one or two group skills for something and the other one ends up doing it and they're not coordinating on holding the place and they end up abandoning it. And it's happening a lot with more lots and abandoned huge areas and they also getting chased out of them and love their military bases are hit and others are being hit shortly and they leave those as well as areas of operation.

-couple more things these two next door and Terry cheesman need to leave we're going to put in for them to be pulled out again and removed we want that order rushed and we're putting what's going on right now and we need them out now

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Mike Ahern, former Queensland Premier, dies at 81

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Mike Ahern, former Queensland Premier, dies at 81

Former Queensland Premier Mike Ahern has died at the age of 81.

The National Party leader only served as prime minister for two years, but he presided over one of the most tumultuous periods in Queensland’s history.

After assuming leadership from Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Ahern ruled during the explosive Fitzgerald Inquiry into official corruption.

Yet Ahern is largely overlooked in political history, eclipsed by the controversial Bjelke-Petersen era and then Wayne Goss’s election victory that lifted Labor’s 32-year-old out of the political desert.

But Mr Ahern will be remembered as a man of integrity who led Queensland through times of crisis.

In a statement, Ahern’s family said he was a man who “often fought against the will of his peers for the good of the people.”

Ahern died “peacefully” on Friday morning in his hometown of Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast after a “valiant battle with cancer,” according to the statement.

Mike Ahern will be remembered as a man of integrity who led Queensland through times of crisis.(ABC News)

Early life

Born into a family of dairy farmers in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, Michael John Ahern followed his father’s interest in Country Party politics.

He entered parliament in 1968.

Nicknamed the “Conondale Kid”, at 25 he was the youngest MP ever elected in Queensland.

But the party’s old guard was suspicious of his youth, moderate views and tertiary education (he was the only Nationals deputy with a degree) and he spent more than a decade on the bench.

Mr. Ahern was elevated to the ministry in 1980 and held various portfolios, notably health and environment.

nationals in crisis

In 1987, Sir Joh’s leadership was beginning to falter.

His “John for PM” campaign had collapsed and the Fitzgerald Inquiry had inflicted fatal injuries.

Under pressure to resign, Sir Joh named a date and announced that he would “retire on the 8th of 888”.

But the party room did not wait.

Sir Joh tried to dismiss the dissenters, including Ahern.

But Mr. Ahern went in first. He told reporters at the time: “I had a conference with the Premier this morning and asked him to step down.”

Mr. Ahern challenged for the leadership and won, but the Governor would not name him.

It was an extraordinary matchup.

Ahern had the backing of national parliamentarians, but had to admit to reporters that he had not been able to oust Sir Joh.

But after days of political free fall, Ahern prevailed and immediately set about reforming a badly damaged party and government.

“The wheels are back under the green and gold bus,” Ahern said on becoming prime minister in 1987.

“The new Queensland government will be an innovative government, it will be a government that puts people first.

“We will be a consultative government and we will be a cooperative government. My vision for Queensland is a vision of excellence.”

Mike Ahern in 1988.(ABC News)

He inherited World Expo 88, the festival that launched Brisbane onto the world stage, but his rule barely got off the ground.

He struggled to bring the old guard with him, and expanding the Fitzgerald Inquiry’s terms of reference to include politicians didn’t help.

Mr. Ahern later said: “I did not hesitate for a moment knowing the cost to myself and my government.”

Upon receipt of the long-awaited Fitzgerald Report, Mr. Ahern uttered the defining phrase of his premiership.

“We will be implementing Fitzgerald’s recommendations safely and effectively,” he said.

Tony Fitzgerald QC delivering the Fitzgerald Report on corruption on 7th July 1989 to Mr Ahern.(Queensland State Library)

Just 22 months after taking office, Ahern was ousted by his then police minister, Russell Cooper.

Two months later, the Nationals suffered defeat at the polls, ending 32 years of Conservative rule and ushering in a new era under Labor Prime Minister Wayne Goss.

After Cooper’s landslide electoral defeat, Ahern felt vindicated, telling ABC: “My party moved in thinking I was the problem… I think in hindsight they’ve proven otherwise.”

The Duke and Duchess of York with Ahern and his wife in Brisbane Parliament in 1988.(Supplied: Wikimedia Commons)

political withdrawal

Mike Ahern left politics in 1990.

Flanked by his wife Andrea and their five children, he told reporters he would do it all over again.

“I have no regrets at all, I am very proud of the accomplishments I have had, and I would simply advise others, children seeking to serve, that there is no harder job that I know of,” Mr. Ahern said. he said in 1990.

Mr. Ahern later became a successful businessman, receiving an Order of Australia for services in everything from politics and business relations to education and charities.

In 2010, he received the Queensland Greats Awards.

Mike Ahern presided over one of the most tumultuous periods in Queensland’s political history.(ABC News)

‘He challenged the prime minister of the day’

Ahern’s willingness to go “against the will of his peers” was most evident as health minister in the 1980s when he “protected the state’s indigenous community” from AIDS, his family’s statement read.

“He defied the prime minister of the day to order blood tests on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population and stop an epidemic and save hundreds of lives,” they said.

“As AIDS hysteria was sweeping the state, he openly held the hand of a man with HIV.

“Throughout his political life he led by example.”

Former Queensland Premier Mike Ahern dies.(ABC News: Josh Bavas)

‘Mike, your work is done, rest in peace’

Ahern was with his wife Andrea and their five children, Louise, Claire, John, Christine and Sharon, when he died.

They described a “loving, kind and generous” father with a “lively humor,” who was “tall in stature and big in heart,” whose great love in his later years was spending time with his 10 grandchildren in his home of more than half a century, in Shelley Beach Caloundra.

But his “biggest achievement by far” was as a loyal husband to his wife of 52 years, Andrea, “an undying love that stayed strong to the very end.”

Ahern became prime minister at the state’s “most troublesome time,” the statement said.

“Implemented the Fitzgerald ‘lock, stock, and barrel’ report.” Although he inevitably cut short his political career, he was always satisfied that he had made the state a better place for everyone.

“Mike often reflected on his time as Queensland’s premier and said, ‘My job was to clean up corruption in the state.

“Mike, your job is done, rest in peace.”

‘A good and decent man’

Former colleague Rob Borbidge, who later took over as leader of the National Party and served as prime minister from 1996 to 1998, said he was saddened by Ahern’s death.

“This is very sad news… I always had the greatest respect for him,” Borbidge said.

“I was first appointed minister under Mike Ahern…he was a very laid back person and good to work with.

“Mike was a good, decent man who made a great contribution to Queensland and was a great public servant.”

Michael Crutcher, former Queensland Police Detective Nigel Powell, Mike Ahern and author Matthew Condon at the Three Crooked Kings book launch in 2013. ( AAP: Amanda fast)

Borbidge said Ahern’s legacy was the “reinvention of government in Queensland” following the Fitzgerald investigation.

“Labour is often thought to have been responsible for introducing much of the Fitzgerald Inquiry Commission reforms and certainly played a very important role.

“Mike Ahern was the person who started the reform process … and in doing so he set a new model for how government should operate in the state,” Borbidge said.

“I knew that time in office took its toll on Mike and his family.”

The leader of the Federal National Party, David Littleproud, also paid tribute to Mr. Ahern.

“The National Party family has lost one of its greatest today,” he said.

“It is difficult to describe all that Mike Ahern accomplished and represented, but integrity is what Mike Ahern embodied in everything he did during his time in public office.”

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said Ahern “ran his party seriously”.

“Mike was a prodigy and widely recognized for his intellect and wisdom beyond his years,” Dutton said.

“Commendably, he was never self-important, retaining the humility, conscientiousness and work ethic of his upbringing in the country.”

‘Let the sun shine’

Queensland LNP leader David Crisafulli said Ahern had “let the sun shine on the Queensland government”.

“The decisions he made laid the foundation for integrity in government,” he said.

“Mike Ahern’s actions and legacy still resonate strongly with Queenslanders today.”

Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said Ahern started Queensland on the “path to honesty” in government.

“He was a completely honest and decent person – in fact, one of a kind. He had my deep respect.”

LNP Chairman Lawrence Springborg remembered Ahern for being “very statesmanlike” in his contribution to the Queensland parliament.

“I found that he was always a very values-driven and decency-driven person,” he said.

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Extra Ordinary (Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, 2019)

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Playlist for Saturday, February 8, 2025

Isaac Martinez - "Killer" Martin Devaney - "Division St." Valley of the Moon - "Smoke Billows" Pedro the Lion - "Modesto" Lord Huron - "She Lit a Fire" T. Hardy Morris and the Hardknocks - "Young Assumptions" Julien Baker - "Shadowboxing" Jesse Ahern - "Tonight in the City" Spooky Mansion - "What about You" Almost Monday - "Can't Slow Down" The Dreaded Laramie - "Mess" Maritime - "Apple of My Irony" Death Cab for Cutie - "Rand McNally" Fountains of Wayne - "Trouble Times" Camera Obscura - "Look to the East, Look to the West" Bad Astronaut - "Grey Suits" Our Girl - "It'll be Fine" Blitzen Trapper - "Ain't Got Time to Fight" Field Medic - "Always Emptiness" City and Colour - "Northern Blues" Good Old War - "Better Weather" Balance and Composure - "Sorrow Machine" L.S. Dunes - "Violet" Chastity - "There are Missing Years" Mike Pace and the Child Actors - "The King of Corona" The Dodos - "Competition" Don’t forget to follow us on Bluesky! xo - b. To download or stream the show, click here!

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some movies that I watched on 2020 that I liked

(Insert relatable intro about 2020 and lockdown). One good thing was that I had time to tackle all the things I said I’d do “when I have the time”. What’s funny is that sometimes when I said stuff like “no yeah I’ll totally watch it when I have the time”, I thought to myself “I’d need something like a quarantine to get through that list…”. Ha hahaha hahahaha haha imsosickofitthough.

I have spent more than 6 months doing my best to watch at least one horror movie a day, for example. And my watchlist has slimmed down a little bit. Which makes me happy. Also, I thought this year would only add to my edges and my stiffness, but in some ways, it softened me and that makes me happy too.

Extra Ordinary (2019)

(Still thinking what to say here. Idk had fun.)

The Lure (2015)

When I say “I think you'd like this Polish horror musical with mermaids”, my heart sings (and I get a little ego boost because sometimes I’m horrible). I don't know what took me so long because I had a lot of fun and I wish I could speak like those mermaids…

I’m No Longer Here (2019)

This movie will break my heart every time and I’ll let it. I'm thankful that someone acknowledged and preserved this movement because I didn't know how special it was and how little it lasted; I liked the honest and beautiful way in which a story like this was told, I liked Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño's performance. Most of all I loved it for what it made me think and learn, and that it made me clean the lenses through which I see my country and its people.

November (2017)

I don't know why I didn't know anything about this film, but I like it so much. It is beautiful, I am always happy to see well-told folk tales… 10/10.

Palm Springs (2020)

This film made me finally grow up, stop generalizing, and stop hating on rom coms. It also made me feel a little more hopeful about relationships. That is why I try not to overthink it, but they do get extra love for taking inspiration from The Great Beauty.

Host (2020)

Social media horror during the lockdown… I expected a lot of mediocrity from this film. But it was the opposite. I liked its self-awareness, the pacing, the scares, and the creativity.

Pee Mak Phrakanong (2013)

I thought this film is charming, and while it's not perfect, I had a lot of fun learning about Thai ghosts and superstition. Also, someone watch it so we can learn the dance and do it together.

Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (2020)

I have watched many documentaries about Egypt and history because I was that kind of kid growing up, and I went into this documentary without expecting anything. The color, shapes, and shadows of hieroglyphs on the walls still give me butterflies.

I thought the tomb was interesting itself, I am happy they found it, and I like that they showed us the process rather than just giving us a history lesson. Most of all, I loved to see Egyptians working with their own history and heritage, the lovely relationship they have with it, and how much fun they are having. It reminded me that there are cool people out there, who are doing important work I care about, whom I can learn from. And I really needed that.

There's a good chance I forgot 237647823647816234715347783124, but also this is my first post on Tumblr so who cares. Movie recommendations are very welcome though (: