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My friend and collaborator, filmmaker Faraz Shariat, sent me a screener link to this new series he produced in Germany. No spoilers: it's about two 20-something best friends in Hamburg, and I think it captures something about contemporary culture that we haven't seen yet on screen. Very funny and entertaining, yes, but also bafflingly nuanced and troubling. Lamin Leroy Gibba created the show and plays the lead: he is amazing.
Jan 28, 2025
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We threw this on in the background on a random dinner night, and I got so hooked and finished the entire series the same week. The setup felt like a StateFarm commercial, except the narrator is Colin Kaepernick and it revolves around how he “navigated race, class, and culture”. You don’t have to be a football fan to like this one, it’s a great short series!
Dec 2, 2021
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A dark comedy - true crime satire meets real caper. One of the funniest and most interesting shows I’ve watched.
Jan 28, 2024
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The United States Postal Service is, second to the Department of Motor Vehicles, my favorite American institution. I'm a hoarder, I order a lot of things off eBay, so I'm always looking out for the mailman. Rain or shine! And I have so much reverence for those who work in the actual post office behind the counter. I'm always impressed by the intense emotions they can inspire in customers standing in line--panic, fatigue, stress, fury, ego-mania, depression, denial...I also really loved Post Office by Charles Bukowski when I read it in 2013. I wonder if it holds up.
Jan 28, 2025
Wearing Velcro-strap ankle weights around the house helps me feel grounded and productive. Beyond walking my dogs, I get zero exercise otherwise. I like wearing them when I work because they remind me not to get up from my desk every twenty seconds--those extra few pounds provide me with just the right amount of lag. And somehow I also feel more spiritually integrated on days I wear them. I guess my ankle weights are my "hair shirt."
Jan 28, 2025
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If I were to recommend any of the Youtube channels I watch most frequently, I would feel irresponsible. It's a lot of crime scene clean-up, thrift-store vloggers, raw police interrogation footage, at-home cyst-lancing, segments of "The Oprah Show" home video-taped with a camcorder off the TV in the 80s, etcetera. Maybe less shameful--but just as dangerous?--is my affection for Eddie Vedder. He had just quit stage-diving, I think, when I saw Pearl Jam play Boston Garden on their "Vitalogy" tour in April, 1994, a few days after Kurt Cobain died.
Jan 28, 2025