Of course, I’m watching more Catfish. The end is in sight! I don’t know who made this awful decision, but while every season prior had about 20 episodes, season 7 has FORTY. I made it about halfway through the season, which should’ve been its own season, but here we are.
After watching short clips of it online for God-knows-how-long, I finally decided to start officially watching Billy on the Street since 4 seasons are on Netflix. Not that it matters in the theme of the show, but season 1 isn’t available, so I’m starting with season 2. Maybe later I’ll go back and track down the first season?
Honestly, there were so many one-liners that I wanted to screenshot, but I had to narrow it down. The show makes no sense in the best possible way, and feels like what I imagine running errands on Adderall feels like.
I also worked in two episodes of Drunk History, but I have nothing pithy to add about that, so moving on.
My weekend was spent preparing for retreat, almost sleeping through retreat, and going on retreat with my sorority. While there, I discovered that my cabin had WiFi (my little secret) so when I sequestered myself for my mandatory introvert time, I decided to check out Dark Tourist. It’s a show about a white guy from New Zealand who travels the world looking for dark/depressing/gruesome/scary attractions he can experience as a tourist, and it’s a really great reminder as to how annoying/privileged tourists are, especially in the first episode (in Latin America) when he complains about the volume of the screams coming from the woman he’s watching being exorcised. Or him judging the town’s residents in Medellin (the home of Pablo Escobar) for memorializing him as the man who brought in financial capital and literally built a hundred homes for the homeless families in the town. Obviously he’s not a totally swell guy, but Dave really needs to find some compassion. He seems to be better in the rest of the season though (for the most part) and he begins to recognize how his own culture plays a part in his understanding of others.
Now, I’ve always been fascinated by serial killers. The more graphic, the better
David Farrier, Dark Tourist (AKA a mood)
Some highlights:
- he meets a coven of vampires in Louisiana
- almost gets arrested in Cyprus (twice)
- gets initiated into Voodoo
- meets Charles Manson’s pen pal
And of course, who could forget the community of white people who segregated themselves from the rest of the country in South Africa? And have doomsday plans for the eventual day when the black people in the country decide to rise up and kill all white people?
Sunday night, during an impromptu babysitting gig, I ended up watching Captain Marvel (2019), even when the kid almost immediately fell asleep after the movie started.
I’ll level with ya: the movie’s good. It’s fine. I just really REALLY don’t like superhero movies. I can get through them when Paul Rudd’s there, but that’s about it.
I followed that up with two movies I have seen before: Zootopia (2016) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). The Princess and the Frog is by far one of my favorite Disney movies, and never gets the recognition it deserves, which is a hill I will die on.
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Dark Tourist: Season 1
Maybe it’s because he’s from New Zealand and New Zealanders are weird, but he has no idea how to pronounce the names of some of the places he goes.
Case in point: he pronounces Hiroshima like “heh-roh shih-muh” with emphasis on the second AND third syllable? An icon.
Captain Marvel
I still can’t get over the fact that the bad guys had a small, cat-sized muzzle prepared ahead of time for when they inevitably captured a cat.
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