Yeah, I thought he did OK. I'm glad if people who saw the movie were maybe introduced to the musician who wasn't just "that guy on the speakers in the bus station." Maybe not a great movie, but Foxx did great, and he had the advantage of picking a little piano himself, and no biopic movie is going to satisfy people who know every note the guy ever recorded, at least that was famous.
TNP is kind of disappointed the "ragtime revival" of the 1970s is over, since he or she would like to see a biopic of Ferd "Jelly Roll" without all that Cotton Club veneer put on it. Bonus TNP if he or she can figure out who would be a good Jelly Roll Morton as a younger man and also into the Library of Congress recordings days.
TNP has noticed that gas stations delay processing credit/debit card receipts until sometime the next day or so. Bars as well, IME, tend to process them all at closing time. And can explain why. In graphic detail. Hardcore, deviant detail.
No. That's the guy with the fancy hair, right? No. Never heard it.
TNP has observed that 1970s TV dramas "evolved" very early indeed, almost ab principio, at about 1970-1971 into a pattern of "a very special episode." Vide, The High Chaparral, Then Came Bronson, and so many more, even including "comedies" like Alias Smith and Jones. And doesn't like the formula.
No. There's no information to be gained, nor any entertainment value for me. It's not live, so there's nothing to be surprised by, or that cannot be edited within the span of a brief delay.
TNP can explain the appeal of this lurid spectacle over, say any other garish spectator sport, including watching training films and posting on the web.
I thought it was live. And yeah, some people are just political junkies, and some are fans of one candidate or the other and want to see him win big, and some are genuinely undecided (although I can hardly imagine why) and want more information in order to decide how to vote.
[Wasn't meaning to criticize viewers of the "debate," and the reasons you state are indeed sensible. I'm sure there's at least a broadcast delay, in case Biden flipped his wig and started cursing like a stevedore or made the jerking-off motion in response to nearly everything that other "person" "said."]
TNP has seen lots of helium-filled balloons lately, for some unknown reason, and thinks they're pretty annoying and desires to pop them with either a sewing needle or a lit cigarette.
Sure. Haven't done that since I was a kid. Nitrous oxide edges out helium in the "Inhaled from a balloon" category, though. By a fair amount, really.
TNP is almost experiencing a bit of physical discomfort as the upcoming US elections approach nearer. Maybe not as bad as nausea, fatigue, dyspepsia, incontinence, but almost.
Maybe by an eensy-teensy-tiny margin, yes, but I like 'em both just fine. Too much is never enough of either, especially with homemade pancakes and real maple syrup.
No. I'm in the mood for bacon. Tomorrow morning will be the third day in a row it formed most of my caloric intake. But, yes, sausage is the correct answer. But I still like bacon more nowadays. More texturally interesting.
Not really. I don't count driving a car as "outside." Pretty nice weather, but there's too many asshole cornshucking motherfuckers on the road to risk walking even on a sidewalk.
TNP has noticed that today All Saints' Day happens to be on a Sunday, and will say if he or she has any special plans for this strange coincidence.
Some. Not a lot. Red Alder's leaves haven't changed. Quite a few Bigleaf Maple but their leaves are mostly now mottled red and littering the streets.
TNP thinks it would be a good idea to duck tape a piece of paper with a Sharpie-scrawled note saying "DO NOT KNOCK OR RING BELL EVER!!!" to one's front door.
Yes. It was no problem in NY State to get deliveries, and I was shocked moving back out here that the state "commission" or whatever control group didn't do that kind of thing. Now, appararently, one can have demon rum and cactus whiskey delivered.
TNP has had in the past day or so a fantasy of ordering a few (gin, natch) gimlets on the rocks instead of the usual beer at his or her friendly watering hole.
Yeah, I do. I did have a good forty or so minutes playing the CD/album Louis Plays Fats yesterday, though,and while it was just what I wanted to hear, I'm not wanting right now to play another Louis LP. Louis is the king of jazz: rhythm, melody. He was the whole deal.
TNP needs a lot more James Brown in his or her sonic diet right now. If not, thou will explain thyself! ETA Cold Sweat Pts. 1 and 2. I'm scared shitless about the election in the US next week, and while Mr. Brown may not have been a reliably constant political figure, nor a particularly great example of treating people well, I want to see some of that fire.
Yeah. It's getting to be I'm starting to plan ahead to take Wednesday off work...either way it's going to be a big deal, and I don't particularly want to hear the "news on the march" on the shop floor.
TNP has ever had an "adult beverage" so tasty that one actually enjoys drinking it. Turkinpippuri in vodka for example.
False. I think I know how to make one, vaguely, while having to look it up: it's a cream drink, IIRC. But I've never had one. Nor even heard of somebody IRL ordering one.
TNP can name one cream drink he or she or someone he or she knows orders or likes. You know, like a Grasshopper. White Russians don't count, though.
In theory, true for the first part, except for some lapses in memory. However, I don't have the right supplies or equipment (the correct glassware, the right additional ingredients [garnishes, various bitters, vermouths, the liqueurs, mixes, simple syrup, soda gun, etc.]) at my place. Technique is pretty solid, though, I would say.
TNP prefers to reward, not discipline, a bartender who pours a draft beer with the absolute minimum of head/foam.
Stop it. I'm supposed to be doing stuff. In other words, yes.
TNP would describe the bulk of his or her daily working life as tedious and repetitive, from which he or she draws buoyancy only by the occasional light-hearted interpersonal amusement.
Yeah, but kind of indirectly. I think the reconstruction/Gilded Age period is pretty interesting in US history, and it has the advantage of a few events or periods in Europe/S.A/East Asia/well...the whole world, pretty much.
TNP's first instinct upon having terms of a contract thrown against him or herself like "offensive behavior" is to start, very calmly, looking for a lawyer whose specialty is civil litigation with homeowners associations and so forth.
Yeah. IRL, a few people I grew up with. Not really good friends or anything any longer, but there is mutual knowledge. In total, also IRL, there are certainly over three I know, or have known as acquaintances, family, etc., in social settings, flung pretty far and wide throughout the country.
TNP's sense of outrage and confusion is at the max when considering that random individuals can simply, without substantiation, use a corporation like an HOA to unilaterally levy fines. Particularly when the credibility of the likely accuser or accusers is low, considering they are not in compliance with the bylaws themselves. TNP would go so far as to call that a form of harrassment and TNP thinks is a matter that should be pursued in civil litigation by both parties.
No, I've never seen Gladiator ever. I think the only Russell Crowe movies I've seen have been Master and Commander the recent Unhinged. Maybe some others I can't remember now. But it would be appealing, just so I can truthfully say, "I like gladiator movies, Johnny, how about you?"
Thanks for the vote of confidence re the HOA: I think the tides are tending right now to have all these spurious complaints dismissed on appeal. It's a ludicrous system, devoid of any obligation of the complainant(s) to produce evidence beyond vague suggestions, which is empowered to levy extrajudicial punishments at will. Absurd. But now my new hobby will be to produce complaints at every violation I see perpetrated by my neighbors. Great volumes of substantiated complaints. Bunch of Karens or otherwise demented sacks of tainted amoebas.
TNP is about full up of extra BS to deal with in private life, what with the COVID, politics, and any number of things that must be observed or dealt with.