Babylon looks great but it lasts too long – over three hours. I got tired of orgies, dwarfs, booze, drugs and a guy who ate a rat. There’s too much of this stuff. Brad Pitt gives an excellent understated performance while Margot Robbie is appropriately over the top. Lesser known actors are also excellent – Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, and Li Jun Li.
This 1929 scene is recreated in Babylon. Brad Pitt’s character is one of the stars.
Nuggets is a series of vinyl and CD collections started by Lenny Kaye in 1972. They are compilations of garage rock and pyschedelic songs from the 1960s, many by one-hit wonders.
Groundbreaking garage rock compilation ‘Nuggets’ turns 50
The 50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time
Here are some of my favorite songs from the compilations
I bought my firsr CD player and discs in 1984. There was no US disc manufacturing plant yet so my copy of Born in the USA was made in Japan. I like CDs and am not nostalgic for records – I scratched too many and there were some that were defective which you rarely have with CDs.
A few weeks ago, John Angelos, who runs the Orioles, held up the Rays as his role model. The Rays do not spend a lot of money. Now, we learn that the Orioles were the fourth most profitable team in baseball. They also have one of the lowest payrolls in baseball.
It was obvious that the Orioles were not going to keep Manny Machado in 2018. The team was bad and they didn’t want to spend the money.
The situation now is different. The team is good and they should find a way to lock up players like Adley Rutschman on long-term deals. Other teams have done it with their young stars. It would be terrible for the Orioles to accumulate all this young talent and let it leave. They can afford to keep the players.
The CNN video compared him to Larry King but I think Tony Randall became a father at an even older age. I’m sure neither of them had to get up in the night to change diapers.
I wish these were real but they were made by AI. It shows the potential for AI to be used to spread false information.
The Road Movie is a unique Russian film composed entirely of clips from dashboard cameras. There are guys negotiating with a prostitute though we can’t see any of the participants. There are fires and vehicles that turn on their sides. There’s a car that plows through two fences.
It’s worth seeing. I watched the Blu-ray and it’s on Pluto TV.
“Angie’ is a 1973 Rolling Stones song. I have never liked it and am only posting this because of the Steve Earle cover.
Keep up the trials and convictions.
Sad! 