Media
This week’s earworm: Electric Light Orchestra, especially Livin’ Thing. 🎵
If anyone’s interested in the history of Melbourne transport, I can recommend this YouTube channel. He has a few videos on the “forgotten freeways” — freeways planned in the 1960’s that never got built — that I found quite interesting. 📺
📺 Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Discovered that Enya is still releasing albums. Started listening to this one over the weekend. Quite good. 🎵
A lot of people I follow online have been recommending Cabel Sasser’s XOXO conference talk. I watched it last night and thought it was quite good. Definitely worth a watch. And yeah, try to avoid the spoilers. 📺
Really enjoyed this YouTube interview with Dr. Alok Kanojia on the Diary of a CEO channel. Very interesting talk about mindfulness, stressors, motivation, amongst other things. 📺
📺 Office Space (1999)
Clip sharing is now available in Pocketcasts for Android! I was looking forward to this feature since I heard it was coming (this was why I was poking around About screens). Here’s my inaugural clip: a segment of Sharp Tech that I absolutely agree with. 🎙️
📺 Dune: Part 2 (2024)
The whole segment on incorrect names on Hemispheric Views #120 was very enjoyable but this story from Scotty J. was the capper. I burst into laughter when I heard it. 🎙️
This week’s earworm: The Wind Chimes by Mike Oldfield. 🎵
This one’s a bit surprising since it’s not a new addition to my collection. Maybe because I haven’t been listening to it all that often.
Been listening to The Truman Show soundtrack after watching it again on Friday. One of my absolute favourite soundtracks. So good. 🎵
Falling behind on posting a couple of weekly ear-worms, so here are two:
Last week’s: Before Too Long, by Paul Kelly
This week’s: An Extraordinary Life, by Asia (this one via Reconcilable Differences).
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This week’s earworm: Warsaw in the Sun by Tangerine Dream. 🎵
📺 Everybody’s Free (to Make Websites)
One word: this!
Edit: Kev Quirk shared a link to the post by Sarah Joy, who wrote the narration for this video.
Really enjoyed the conversation between Sam Harris and George Saunders. I’ve not read anything from Saunders, but they had quite an insightful discussion about writing and culture (and a hint of politics) that it might be worth looking at some of his fiction. 🎙️
📺 Fallout: Season 1 (2024)
Must say I enjoyed The Rest Is History’s recent podcast on Dragons. They go into how these mythical beasts developed over the years, how they’re seen differently in different cultures, and how they entered the mainstream. Just watch out for the odd spoiler for House of the Dragon series 1. 🎙️
I found this video on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson to be absolutely fascinating. A great example of Disney enshittification and promising more then they can deliver. Many of her other videos are great as well (I actually went on a binge session over the weekend). 📺