I was gonna go see 2022's "Downton Abbey: A New Era" with my mom tomorrow, so the plan for today was to watch 2019's "Downton Abbey" -- having got through three seasons of the show -- but then my parents' car had a nervous breakdown, so that's been postponed.
Instead, one of those Letterboxd never shuts the fuck up about, #148, or #798, 1994 Chinese picture "Chunking Express."
#150, or #800, but I don't know what it is yet, leaving now for Sneak Preview.
I did my Sneak Preview guessing last night.
#172, or #822, I'm watching the tea documentary referenced in #171, #821, 2021's "After Yang," 2007's "All in This Tea."
Will I have anything to say about it? Impossible to say.
🐶 🏀 "Air Bud" (1997)
@Alexis Not against the rules, though.
🐶 🏀 "Air Bud" (1997)
@kurt Most American states do actually have laws against this exact kind of mischief.
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@Alexis sorry, there is a rule that says a 30-something can't play basketball in a children's league
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@The_T damn
they got me with the rule meant to keep out the retired basketball legend who's now the old man janitor who gives advice in the dark
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Physician: clown thyself
is one of the great jokes of the past. (I can't figure out how to make it clear this is a pagliacci reference)
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@The_T More like Physician: Clown myself.
(I love a good Pagliacci.)
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Physician: clown thyself
Patient: but doctor, I am clown myself
@Alexis Ladies?
@kurt Dames, lassies, boids, all just different ways of spelling trouble. (So far, not even inaccurate.)
@Alexis It’s spelt BIRB. Don’t corrupt the language.
It's all a bit a white guy going Oh The Ancient Chinese Rituals Of It All mixed with pretty dry (wet?) documentation of the tea business in China circa 1997.
But I can see why Colin Farrell's character in 2021's "After Yang" was into this.