Winter 2024: favorite movies I watched
🇯🇵 Monster (Kaibutsu, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2023)
it won best screenplay at Cannes and you can certainly feel the craft of writing as you watch it
for fans of: story told from different perspectives, mystery slowly unfolding, anguish of not being normal, charming Japan, children so cute you want to eat them
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🇪🇸 Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve, J. A. Bayona, 2023)
I thought I wouldn't care since I already knew the story but it's a bit like Titanic, it doesn't matter that you know it sinks
for fans of: gorgeous scenery, trauma bonding, male camaraderie, unlike the film above you don't want to eat anyone but you do watch them eat each other
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🇫🇷 Junkyard Dog (Chien de la casse, Jean-Baptiste Durand, 2023)
as you watch it you think "my god this guy is so charismatic and believable, give him a César" — which is what happened, he won a César
for fans of: hyper realism, anguish of village mentality, loud-mouth guy & quiet guy pairing, toxic masculinity friendship, great acting
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🇬🇧 All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh, 2023)
I'm usually not a fan of that kind of confusing dream-like narrative and wait-what ending, but the general atmosphere is worth it
for fans of: excruciating loneliness and existential dread, the gay experience, Japanese whiskey
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Holidays 8.21
Holidays
Actuaries Day (India)
Appreciation Day (Elder Scrolls)
Aquino Day (Philippines)
Argonian Day
Ask Questions Day
Bitcoin Infinity Day
Black Indie Authors Day
Buhe (Ethiopia)
Bunny Day (Japan)
Cadillac Day
Crazy Day
Eagle Scout Day
821 Day (Texas)
Festival of Goliath, Parade of Giants begins (Ath, Belgium)
Fête de la Jeunesse (a.k.a. Youth Day; Morocco, Western Sahara)
Good Roads Day
Gospel Day (Micronesia)
Grandfather and Grandson’s Day (Argentina)
ICBM Day
International Day of Mosques
International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism (UN)
Internet Self-Care Day
Kosrae (Gospel Day; Micronesia)
National Brazilian Blowout Day
National Dreams Are Possible Day
National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
National Meme Day
National Report Upcoding Fraud Day
National Senior Citizens Day
Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
Officer’s Day (Russia)
Order of the Lone Star Day
Our Lady of Knock
Poet's Day
San Martin Day (Argentina)
Senior Citizens' Day
Six-Row Barley Day (French Republic)
Thiruonam (Parts of India)
World Entrepreneurs’ Day
World Fashion Day
World Goat Day
Youth Day (Morocco)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Beer Institute Day
Grog Day
National Shiraz Day (Australia)
National Spumoni Day
National Sweet Tea Day
Independence & Related Days
Hawaii Statehood Day (Original Date; 1959)
Latituda (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]
Latvia (Passing of the Constitutional Law on the Status of the Republic of Latvia as a State and Actual Restoration of the Republic of Latvia; 1991)
3rd Wednesday in August
Hump Day [Every Wednesday]
JUVEDERM Day [3rd Wednesday]
Miss Crustacean Hermit Crab Beauty Pageant and Hermit Crab Races (Ocean City, NJ) [3rd Wednesday]
National Medical Dosimetrist Day [3rd Wednesday]
Wacky Wednesday [Every Wednesday]
Wandering Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]
Website Wednesday [Every Wednesday]
Wiener Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]
Festivals Beginning August 21, 2024
Corn Palace Festival (Mitchell, South Dakota) [thru 8.25]
gamescom (Cologne, Germany) [thru 8.25]
The Great New York State Fair (Syracuse, New York) [thru 9.2]
Hythe Venetian Fete (Hythe, United Kingdom) [thru 8.21]
Idaho County Fair (Cottonwood, Idaho) [thru 8.24]
Pluk de Nacht Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [thru 8.31]
Ransom County Fair (Lisbon, North Dakota) [thru 8.25]
Reading and Leeds Festivals (Leeds and Reading, United Kingdom) [thru 8.25]
Tønder Festival (Tønder, Denmark) [thru 8.24]
Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) [thru 9.1]
Feast Days
Abraham of Smolensk (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Albert Irvin (Artology)
Amontons (Positivist; Saint)
Apologise Day (Pastafarian)
Asher Brown Durand (Artology)
Aubrey Beardsley (Artology)
Bernard Ptolemy, Founder of the Olivetans (Christian; Saint)
Blessing Against Jealousy Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Bonosus and Maximilian (Christian; Martyrs)
Broderick Crawford Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Christian Schad (Artology)
Consualia (Ancient Roman festival to the god of the harvest and stored grain)
Euprepius of Verona (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Consus (God of Good Council; Ancient Rome)
Heraclia (Celebration of Hercules; Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)
Jane Francis de Chantal (Christian; Saint)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Artology)
Joseph (Muppetism)
Jules Michelet (Writerism)
Luxorius, Cisellus and Camerinus (Christian; Martyrs)
The Magic of Lemon Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Maximilian of Antioch (Christian; Saint)
Menashe Kadishman (Artology)
Narcisse-Virgile Díaz de la Peña (Artology)
Nathaniel Everett Green (Artology)
Our Lady of Knock (Christian; Saint)
Pius X, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Radish Tordia (Artology)
Richard, Bishop of Andria (Christian; Saint)
Robert Stone (Writerism)
Sidonius Apollinaris (Christian; Saint)
Stephen Hillenburg (Artology)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 233 [51 of 72]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [29 of 37]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 39 of 60)
Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [22 of 30]
Premieres
Ain’t Misbehaving’, recorded by Fats Waller (Song; 1938)
American Ultra (Film; 2015)
An American Werewolf in London (Film; 1981)
Axe Me Another (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1934)
Bambi (Animated Disney Film; 1942)
Be Here Now, by Oasis (Album; 1997)
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, by A.J. Liebling (Memoir; 1959)
Blade (Film; 1998)
A Brief History of Time (Documentary Film; 1992)
Crazy, recorded by Patsy Cline (Song; 1961)
Diesel and Dust, by Midnight Oil (Album; 1987)
Dirty Dancing (Film; 1987)
Dynamite, by BTS (Song; 2020)
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart (Novel; 1949)
Eve of Destruction, by Barry McGuire (Song; 1965)
Facelift, by Alice In Chains (Album; 1990)
Fireman’s Brawl (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1953)
First Monday in October (Film; 1981)
House of the Dragon (TV Series; 2022)
How You Remind Me, by Nickelback (Song; 2001)
Inglorious Basterds (Film; 2009)
Kiko and the Honey Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)
Life with Fido (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Animated Film; 1992)
Motörhead, by Motörhead (Album; 1977)
Next Stoop Wonderland (Film; 1998)
Ready or Not (Film; 2019)
Ritual de lo Habitual, by Jane’s Addiction (Album; 1990)
Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)
Sherman Was Right (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)
A Sunbonnet Blue (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)
The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James (Novel; 1902)
Wrongfully Accused (Film; 1998)
Today’s Name Days
Pius (Austria)
Agaton, Pio, Sidonija (Croatia)
Johana (Czech Republic)
Salomon (Denmark)
Sven, Sveno (Estonia)
Soini, Veini (Finland)
Christophe, Grâce, Ombeline (France)
Pia, Oius, Maximilian (Germany)
Hajna, Sémuel (Hungary)
Cristoforo, Pio (Italy)
Janīna, Linda, Sidnejs (Latvia)
Gaudvydas, Joana, Kazė, Kazimiera, Medeinė (Lithuania)
Ragni, Ragnvald (Norway)
Adolf, Adolfa, Adolfina, Alf, Bernard, Emilian, Filipina, Franciszek, Joanna, Kazimiera, Męcimir (Poland)
Jana (Slovakia)
Pío (Spain)
Jon, Jonna (Sweden)
Gianna, Jane, Janelle, Janessa, Janet, Janette, Janice, Janie, Janine, Janiya, Jayne, Shanice, Sheena (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 234 of 2024; 132 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of Week 34 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 18 (Ding-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 17 Av 5784
Islamic: 15 Safar 1446
J Cal: 24 Purple; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 8 August 2024
Moon: 94%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 9 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Amontons]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 63 of 94)
Week: 3rd Full Week of August
Zodiac: Leo (Day 31 of 31)
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