At the picture shop a few days ago getting a julian lage sf jazz residency poster framed (I caught the solo acoustic show and the duo with marc ribot, who is just the coolest 😍) and while I was trying to decide on a ready-made or not, the other table became the center of attention w/a full size (huge) star wars poster, which looked mint.
the owner helping him says he worked at lucasfilm in the 80s and that this was one of two sizes or something? he was very excited
The high school fan in me was pretty disappointed w/ the “becoming led zeppelin" thing that just came out. I bailed.
the second half is full of neat ‘68, '69, and ‘70 film of the band live, but not with the definitely available and in some cases highly regarded audio of those shows. Instead, studio or bbc session releases for completely different songs, and not even particularly good songs were used.
"Living Loving Maid”, to pick one they used, sucks, and was never in their actual live sets.
at least a band famously hostile to tapers (or passive to Peter Grant) and infamously noted for onion-on-belt songwriting credit lag didn’t profit off of tapers I guess? weird decisions.
also, it is full of stock footage cultural contextualization, which, as a device, ugh, the worst dreck of romanticism imo.
Half way through nabokov’s “pale fire” and istg every aside story in the commentary about stuff in zembla reads like a wes anderson scene
'Let ‘Em In’ by Wings ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re61B8sKQWk) has been in the rotation lately on mellotron ( https://www.lemellotron.com/) which I listen to on a JBL clip on the bike all the time.
'Let 'Em In' - PaulMcCartney.com Track of the Weekhttp://www.PaulMcCartney.comThis week's track of the week is 'Let 'Em In', taken from the 1976 Wings album 'Wings At The Speed Of Sound'.What are your though...YouTubeHome - Vidéo Showsglobal music radiolemellotron.comI didn’t grow up hearing much Wings so it’s just a delightful little pop thing w/ a good pedaling bass line to cycle to for me and not a Wings song I’ve heard a million times (some of those are great too of course) every time it comes on.
Watching a waymo creep in a crosswalk on howard parallel to me like a human would, even with probably-misplaced confidence that it is doing to so to
get a right on red, but for my walk
not be blocked by peds crossing when the light changes
drive more like a human so that the human drives behind it don’t lose their god damned minds that the person in front isn’t off the line on the green
because it is probably ultimately more efficient overall for the system
training
and I’m like, sure, makes sense, whatever, but this was a chance to reject all of that nonsense and use a computer driver to force-daylight both crosswalks and get rid of right on red and we didn’t do it.
damn.