More documentaries on the horizon for your viewing pleasure. Sport, music, literature. Something for just about everyone.
And, because some people didn't bring a trailer, as it were, there's just a pic and a summary.
“Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”
In 1969, during the same summer as Woodstock, a different music festival took place 100 miles away. More than 300,000 people attended the summer concert series known as the Harlem Cultural Festival. It was filmed, but after that summer, the footage sat in a basement for 50 years. It has never been seen – until now.
Summer Of Soul incorporates interviews with performances by B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson and Mavis Staples, Hugh Masekela, Mongo Santamaria, Nina Simone, and Sly and the Family Stone, among many others.
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Summer of Soul looks intriguing, even sans trailer. Once it's streaming I guess it will finally be time to bite on the Hulu trial I keep getting emails about.
grant wahl just released a multi-part podcast series about freddy adu’s journey as a professional soccer player. pretty fascinating stuff.
This is unrelated, but I strongly urge you all to listen to Bill Simmons' interview with Derek Thompson from The Atlantic. Starts at the 53:40 mark of Tuesday's podcast. Thompson has studied the virus and has a lot of unconventional takes that I strongly agree with. The lack of optimism and coherent messaging on returning to normalcy is a big issue, IMO. And I also think it's fair to have some issues about Fauci's messaging without being a Trumper.
Zman's buddies at The Bulwark have hit this theme as well. Would love to see Joey Bides do the same.
This is related - really excited about the Hemingway doc. I chugged through most of his stuff in my early 20’s and can’t overstate how powerful they were.
There's good news out there! Look at the plunging daily rates!
https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-all-key-metrics
I read a lot of Hemingway in college, first for Prof. Davis's class and then for pleasure. It's great stuff. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway takes care of you.
Rob, if I get married again, this my end up on my registry...
https://www.frome.co/collections/all/products/dumb-and-dumber
I didn’t read a ton of Hemingway but I have done a lot of drinking in Key West so I think that counts.
My kid had four of her baby teeth pulled today. They weren’t falling out and were causing crowding in her mouth while also not allowing adult teeth to fully come in. She was a fucking champ about it though. She gets all the ice cream she wants today.
Yikes, Mark. Sounds damn painful.
I'd like to do some drinking in Key West soon. I think I'd like to hit a few spots I like that get annoyingly crowded right before they get back to full strength after the pandemic.
GTB summits, anyone?
i also read hemingway as a young man-- weird how he appeals to young people, since he wrote "the old man and the sea." i highly recommend "nomadland," it's not quite a documentary but sort of . . .
co-sign the nomadland recommendation
If you dig desolate short stories, I highly recommend you check out Breece DJ Pancake. He died young at his own hand, so his entire published output is in a single, modest volume. The stories are really great.
I’m down for some G:TB summits in drinking-centric locations.
Mark Jackson has morphed into Verne Lundquist’s body type, where your neck disappears and your head looks like a small meatball on top of a large meatball.
I think of that as a Vito Spatafore.
We watched “Judas and the Black Messiah” last night. Wow!! Intense. I learned a lot, and it’s well-acted. Am even more horrified at J. Edgar Hoover. OMDL!
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