Djo - End of Beginning (Official Visualiser)

 

Just one more tear to cry

One teardrop from my eye

You better save it for

The middle of the night

When things aren't black and white

Enter, Troubadour

"Remember twenty-four?"

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

This song has started now

And you're just finding out

Now isn't that a laugh?

A major sacrifice

But clueless at the time

Enter, Caroline

"Just trust me, you'll be fine"

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

(Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye)

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the-

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

Oh, I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

(Goodbye, goodbye)

Video Credit: Djo Music

Site Makeover

I think the last time I fully updated the site was pre-pandemic around 2019. I needed to revise the colors as a light background now hurts my eyes and my over-all preference has switched to dark mode in everything. 

Cleaned up and refined the content. Removed dead links, did a lot of color tweaking. So far so good. I don't really want to do a full site upgrade as this layout and design still meets my needs for blogging. 

Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight Performed by Zayde Wolf (True Detective Night Country)

Save tonight

And fight the break of dawn

Come tomorrow

Tomorrow I'll be gone...

Save tonight

And fight the break of dawn

Come tomorrow

Tomorrow I'll be gone..

Video Credit: Zayde Wolf

Completed Pinboard - Alice in Wonderland 1

 

Alice in Wonderland 1

This is the second iteration of this board. Completed sometime in March 2022. The first version didn't flow as well as this one does. I bought some new pins from a past birthday and I re-did the board. I am pleased with how this came out the second time around. I have a few other Alice pins that I am slowly accumulating to build a second board. 

I always think of Alice as the first "isekai". The first time I watched this as a child, I didn't really understand the story, how trippy the whole movie was. It felt disjointed, only later did I understand it was paced like a dream. 

I do love the live action as well. Probably the only live action Disney series I enjoyed. Every other live action movie was kind of meh. 

This reminds me that I need to further purge my Disney pins. They are not really done well unless they are the super limited ones and even then, their best pins, are like the mid of an independent artist/pin maker's product. I have seen beautiful ones that Disney would charge an arm and a leg for if they made it at that level. 

Disney pins I noticed tend to bank on the character with very little or no effects on their pins. So I have been really picky and tightened my standards. 

I am hoping the next couple of months, I don't want to jinx myself, I am expecting work to be a bit slow, and hope the down time will give me the space to really get into my hobbies. 

True Detective Series

True Detective S1 - S3

I was seeing the ads for S4 with Jodie Foster so I decided to check out the series and it does not disappoint. My favorites are S1, S3 and S2 which comes in real distant. I would not rate a favorite at all. 

S1 has two of my favorite actors to watch, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Episode 1 of S1 immediately caught my attention. It reminded me of Hannibal the TV series in the early seasons. I love how time is intricately tied to each season. That sense of time being a flat space. The forward and backward that tells the story. 

I started watching the series while on lunch. I needed something to watch while eating and I was hooked. I was so entertained that I binge watched the first season in a matter of days. Nate saw me watching the last three episodes and he was intrigued enough to re-start the series on his own and finish S1 so that we could watch S2 together. We did quote Interstellar quite a bit when we were watching Matthew McConaughey but it couldn't be helped. Needless to say we were eager to watch S2. 

However, S2 first episode did not intrigue us like S1 episode 1 did. It was rough and it took me until episode 5 to find anything cohesive in the story line. The actors didn't seem comfortable with the characters they were playing. Very stiff and Vince Vaughn plays the same character no matter what movie or series he's in and he was the most unbelievable character in this season. He was meh. No characters I felt like I could root for and in the end it was a relief it was over and we were eager to move onto S3. 

Considering how S2 sucked we were nervous about how S3 was going to play out but we found ourselves once again fascinated with the first episode of S3 and felt that the season had a great start. S3 overall did not disappoint. It felt like the writers knew S2 kind of bombed maybe and got back into the vibe of S1 and brought back that story telling in S3. Mahershala Ali played a great character but my favorite was Stephen Dorff. The last time I saw him on a movie honestly was Blade and to see him doing this and doing it well was quite a treat. The costuming caught my eye too and the dresses (80s) on the show were cute. 

S4 - Night Country

Finally, we finished S3, excellent but we feel did not de-throne S1, so we are now at S4 with Jodie Foster who I haven't seen doing a movie or series that I have seen in a long time . The first episode was as exciting as we were hoping for and we are hooked. It's also spookier than previous seasons. The only thing that sucks is the episodes are released weekly so we got to wait and we have something to look forward to on Sunday nights. 

Definitely recommend to watch S1, skip S2, watch S3. I mean if you have time maybe watch S2. Maybe.