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June 2021 recap

My apologies for the delay. I knew i’d forgotten something!

Music listened to and TV watched

Bo Burnham’s Inside: A strong candidate for my favourite Thing of 2021. It is, frankly, unfair that one man can make me feel so many emotions in the span of an hour and a half — loved almost every minute of it! (That song about sexting does drag on a bit, though…) (A+)
Wolf Alice’s Blue Weekend: Bloody brilliant. (A)
Beabadoobee’s Our Extended Play: Yeah, this’ll do for new music from The 1975 while we wait for that Drive Like I Do compilation album. (B+)
Haim’s Days Are Gone: Didn’t really do much for me. Some alright singles, though! (C-)
Porter Robinson’s Nurture: After months of promising i’d listen to it in full when i got my hands on the vinyl, i finally admitted to myself that it was out of stock and i’d have to wait until August otherwise. It’s a pretty good album, but part of me wonders how i’d feel about it if i hadn’t worn the singles to death already… (B)
Euro 2020: I’d never really thought myself the football fan type. Nevertheless… come on England!!

So this is June
and what have you done?
Another month over
a new one just begun

Guy Ritchie’s Snatch (2000) (A-)
Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black (1999): Ruthlessly efficient. Gets in and out in 90 minutes. (A-)
Dreamworks’ Shrek (2001): Watched as it was meant to be seen, in the original Polish (C+)
Peter Weir’s The Truman Show (1998): While sailing across the internet, i happened across a copy of the original draft of the script. It is so much darker, and so much weirder.
- It’s set in a constructed version of New York City instead of a small town in Florida
- He finds his own name in a dictionary
- Truman threatens to kill a baby and it is played completely straight
- Instead of ending when he disappears out the door it continues and he hijacks a tram and has a shoot-out on the roof of the studio????
- He hires a prostitute to recreate his encounter with the girl who told him it was all a TV show
Anyway, the cut that got released is a very good film to show to your friends who haven’t seen it before and watch their reactions. It’s also — for me personally — one of those Back to the Future-type films, where it’s all so immaculately put together that you can watch it over and over and there’s always something new to enjoy (A+)