HAH Wk. 4: Weird as Aesthetic

In his fourth episode (mad late), dD discusses Beck's Odelay; Romeo and Juliet on the Balcony by Julius Kronberg and Vermeer's the Milkmaid; beginning Edith Nesbit's Ghost Stories and Diarmaid MacCulloch's the Reformation: A History, the tale of Lothario from Don Quixote, as well as Black Empire and fascism; the podcast Legal Ease; the films Sinners, Eighth Grade, and the Friend; and lastly, Absolute Martian Manhunter 2, Absolute Wonder Woman 7, Ultimate Black Panther 15, and Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums.

Romeo and Juliet on the Balcony by Julius Kronberg: https://x.com/wikivictorian/status/1911441749479924051

Vermeer's the Milkmaid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_%28Vermeer%29

Chapters

• 0:00 Music
• 8:47 Visual Art
• 18:53 Literature
• 27:11 Podcasts
• 29:26 Movies & TV
• 42:49 Comics
• 53:45 Outro

Transcript

Hello, and welcome to. The fourth episode. Now, of my podcast habdominal aesthetic. Heuristic. Um, where I was talking about the art that I have been engaged with in the last week. Um, I'm going to be jumping directly again into music. Talk a little bit about things. I want to try to.

Bring the Total length of these episodes down so that I can I thought that's uh, makes a little easier to get through and listen to enjoy. Um so I'm going to focus for this week, just on a single album, that is Beck. Olay. So, when people ask me like, Who is your favorite artist of all time?

Nine times out of ten. I think the answer Beck. The other time, I just refuse to answer because I just like the question but I just because, you know, it's it's very difficult to pick one, you know, when in a situation like that, I don't probably, you know, I don't try to like Decide my favorite music, quite as Um, strongly.

And An ambiguously as I do with, like movies and things. Um, But this album, Does overlay by back from 1986, is one of um, one of the Heroes of his. It's It feels like it's very As much as you can be with someone who is, I think pretty Fluid and his genres.

I think it's about as characteristic famous anything. Um, So, I I guess the place where I want to start is like, what about Beck, do? I love so much? Why do I Feel like he's maybe one who are artists of all time. And part of it is that genre fluidity the fact he's got a lot of different things.

I mean I think at this point he's got two or three albums. Um, At least two albums and several of the genres that he sort of played with some that are being more like each other than others. Um, Olay is I mean, there's some rock elements to it. There's only some weird, like, sounding kind of stuff.

I don't think it fits as well into a genre as some of the other ones, probably a little bit more folky than some um, But, When I think about, I think there are Several things. The one to really get to me is the way his lyrics sort of. Straight between completely opaque and seemingly without meaning.

And Occasionally really like Seeming to mean something. I think very deep to me. Um, The example I kind of want to give I'm going to throw out honestly. It's like the first thing they came to mind because the first song the album is Devil's haircut. Is just line. The main line of the song is I've got a devil's haircut in my mind and there's something like it's not It's not like obvious what that means, right?

At the very outset, it's it, sounds kind of like a line of gibberish. Um, but I think there's something like kind of deeper there. There's this idea. A devil's haircut as like a metaphor for maybe some like, seeing something sort of evil in yourself, but it's not that he has a not that he Is a devil in his mind right though, it's entirely.

Um, Sort of it had and also not just like a guy devil's haircut, right? As this very visible image of, right? He is presenting himself this way, it's a little bit. I mean that fluidity between the two. So again this is I guess kind of an example, there's going to be there's a lot of other good examples.

Um, Just lines that. Kind of all over the place. You'll do whatever you want and I'll do whatever I can. Um, Don't call us when the new age gets old enough to drink. I think there's like there's something in those lines to some extent but also they're very Um, As soon as a lot of it is just about sound.

Some of them truly do feel like they're just about the noise like, Um, one of my favorites is Chainsmoke Kansas flash, dance ass pants. It's First of all, Kansas mentioned. One of the ones I was probably the most proud of. And as my, in my youth, Um but I think like also just like yeah it just sounds like something and it doesn't necessarily appear to mean anything and I think that's kind of somewhere.

Again, I'm not totally sure that's true. Like I think some of it like there may be some meaning, which is a little bit, just digger a little deeper into Um, It just feels like it's about sound. Another example of this is really interesting is. Uh Swan like it's a line in Spanish that.

I don't know what it means, if it means anything. I'm Do my best to put it into Spanish because I think I know what this is saying. At least I know the words are if not Um, What? I mean? I've never had any desire to figure out what they mean.

I don't think that's just like midwestern thing. I think it's just genuinely like I love the way it sounds and I kind of don't want to know. Uh, this line. Nothing goes apartto. Okay, I know. No Tengo. I I don't have. I know my zapato, my shoe. I don't really know what Chiclet is.

I don't know if I have missed understood that but I really just Yeah, I just love the way his lyrics sound and flow and go and sometimes. It's just sound and sometimes it's like weirdly. Open to very interesting interpretation. I'm gonna play a couple of things. I think there are I could harp on on.

Weird sounding. Um, Lines forever. But I'm gonna hit a couple of these pieces. From the songs just to kind of give you a sense. Also, I think of the musical elements that I find really interesting. Um, I don't think any of the ones I've got here. Have. Um, Any words in them, but I'm gonna go ahead and play for you.

This first one here, from hot wax. One of the first two or three tracks on the album.

Yeah, um so I mean that's heavily distorted. You've got Elements of um I'm not even sure what happened to instrumentation. I think like, It feels like some of that is like harmonica like it's but it's got, I don't know. Yeah, I can't. Explain it in a detail. But I really I love Um, that from him, pull up.

Another one here from Um, From Lord, only knows.

And this last bit is from where it's at, which I think is probably the most famous Trek on the album.

Yeah, I will leave you there. With those pieces. I I love everything about the way back, does things in general, but this album is again, one of my favorites, it's my recommendation to you for this week, I'm going to come back talking about visual art here in a bit.

All right, welcome back. Um, so I'm going to talk about visual art here this week. I've got a couple things. Um, taken from Something I found on Twitter which I think is still interesting. The other is. A coming back to going back to what is you know artley look at something by Johannes Vermeer.

So I'm going to start really quickly with A painting that I found on Twitter, is another one from Wiki Victorian, which I will link in the show notes. It is Called Romeo and Juliet on the balcony by the Swedish painter. Julius or Julius Crumberg 1886. Is also in a private collection.

Um, It's it struck my eye for a couple of reasons. One. I'm a sucker for any art, which is a Attempting to adapt something literature or something, a story that I already know and is trying to present it in a visual form, that's Always going to be exciting to me.

Uh, it actually reminds me a lot of Uh, Rodan's Cupid and psyche. Um, which again, I like partially for that same reason, but also, because I think it's an extraordinarily beautiful image of love and of the human form. This one is similar, uh, it is a picture of Romeo sitting on the balcony.

Holding Juliet. One hand on her face on hand or back she sort of leaned back in. Not reclined, but she is standing. But tilted back, he's tilted her head back to kiss her and his you know their mouths are very Uh, close. If I'm actually touching, it's a little hard to tell.

They're very close. He's got He's kind of a different Romeo. I think that I've seen, he's Got a mustache. He Seems a bit more like an Italian lothario type. Then maybe I had imagined, I think It's always interesting the ways that So many Shakespeare stories become so decontextualized. So that when I think about Romeo and Juliet, my first thought is not necessarily A young Italian couple um, which is kind of fascinating under itself.

Um, this feels sort of There's a little bit like water house. It feels a little bit like The. I'm gonna forget their names of the pre-raphaelites. I just got a very sensual Vibe. The light is very strong, but it's creating a sharp contrast between the faces. Uh, the parts that are faces that are getting like in the parts of their faces that are in darkness, Um, Um, her arm is back around his body, and her other hand is sort of hanging back behind her, in a way that makes it seem.

As much of this really makes it seem like he is, he is taking controlled. She is sort of. Submitted to his desires. Which, Um yeah, it's a very interesting image. Um both in connection both just sort of on its own as a person who is Perennially. And Um, Disastrously in love.

Which is. I don't know, it's a little. Maybe was true before I, but it's definitely true now, Um, There is something just Exciting about an event like this. Um, Just that it portrays and such in a way that really speaks to my own heart as a person in love.

About what it feels like, that sort of feeling of being in love. Um, but also I think it speaks to my understanding of that play which I, I love Um, I love the use. I love the use of the contrast in the light. The way, the lighting is. So, I think it's supposed to be sort of evening and it gives a very strong contrast between these These pieces that Getting strong lighting pieces that are not.

I think it creates A sense of sort of, I don't know what is it that evening does? When we I would talk about that golden hour and film? This just this the way that it Creates, I think creates contrast in an image creates. Something that feels romantic in the non-phalsophical non-literary sense, and I think, Yeah, that's really compelling at its.

I mean honestly I'd absolutely worth it's compelling. In a way that, you know, the way that people talk about music is as pulling you. Whether it, you know, Sort of beyond your ability to sort of understand and reason with it, I think images can do a similar thing. You can pull you in the direction that they're crying to get you.

Um,

It's this, the style here is generally, very realistic if if heightened if sort of romantically heightened, Um, again a style that I think is In literature as well as movies and music and whatever format, whatever. Genre your genre, whatever medium you're using. Um, I'm always going to be drawn to things that both feel very realistic and also have this romantic heightening.

So yeah that one really struck me and it's one that I'm probably gonna hold on to if only because at some point I'm gonna read Romeo and Juliet again. And I'm going to want to look at this image while I do it or see it or whatever. Um, The second thing, this is the one again from that from artley, from the famous artwork section.

The second painter they've got on here is Johannes Vermeer and they've got a Painting here called the milkmaid from 16 around 1658. This is currently being held at the reichs Museum and Amsterdam. And, I think that it is kind of a very similar, got some ways you got similar Vibes, it's a single figure.

But it's not, I think stage particularly It's a single figure at its staged in ways that are also illuminating some contrast although again they're not coming from that sort of romanticizing. Um Place effective. If anything it's sort of the opposite right? You're being given to believe that this is a very Not a Homeland in the sense of the woman.

But homely incense of the scene, it is a very Pedestrian scene, right? All we're seeing is this milkmaid. Engaged in her daily work. She is. She's pouring milk from one jar into another. I would assume that it's part of the milk making process. I don't actually know what I'm talking about but it's definitely got some of those standard things that you see in Dutch.

Uh, painting of this period again, this is all. Oh, this is based upon my, my understanding of my knowledge, I'm sure somebody can correct some of it. Um, but bright yellows and blues in the Um, the costume and in The stuff around them. Um, there's bread on the table.

Um, it all just feels very Um, Very much part of the home. Um, The woman's hair is almost completely, not visible. They made that mention in talking with a potato eaters of that sort of Image of the woman whose hair is almost or completely fully covered. She's got a white cloth over her head.

I can't quite tell exactly how it stays on is probably some mechanism that I don't understand. Um, With that sort of we imagine as the Pilgrim collar. Um, but without the black Which I think is, Right. There's connections there to that time period but without some of the maybe more somber.

Um, Or sobering. Senses in terms of what it's doing. I find I don't know. Just one of those things. I don't again. One of those things, I don't have the instinct for as that is diving into detail in terms of how I making art. My instincts are right. Checkhouse gun.

If it's there, it's important, right? Um, and I don't think that's necessarily how. Art is done and certainly that we're done done. The best I am as Box on the floor behind this milk made. And here's the thing, it's in frame, right? The frame is a certain shape. And it seems to me and some level that Vermeer doesn't include this because he's like I need this.

He does it because it's in the frame and there's Would otherwise be empty, space. Um, which would seem strange in the situation, right? The bright basket's hanging on the wall, the lamp. The window. I mean the window and the lamp are probably, there are some extent so you can create a sense of light in the room.

Again, this is much darker than the other one. I think it's supposed to seem a little duskier unless Um, exciting. Her sleeves are rolled up. Yeah. So that's kind of that and I I think I'm gonna get hopefully a little bit more of a sense of what Vermeers doing.

Um this section also includes the astronomer and a girl, the Pearlier which I'll probably talk about coming up next week, maybe. Um, if I don't find something more interesting to talk about, In my own searches. Um yeah, thank you for listening to this section and I will come back here with literature in a minute.

All right. Welcome back. Um, so I am talking again about literature this section. And I've kind of done, I think I've gotten everything recapped, the things that I have been reading over the past few months, and weeks, and months and some of them honestly back to years. Um, but I So kind of wanted to talk to speak about the things that I've been focused on the things that I remember the things that have sort of Jumped out to me.

Um, the first thing to note is that I did start something new this week. Um, that is Edith, Nesbitt's. Ghost stories. Um, I am I wasn't particularly familiar with her before from the inklings biography. They made reference to Her, as a writer of children's stories, And honestly, I kind of picked up ghost stories because it was available and I didn't really even looked that closely at it.

Um, but I got halfway through this first one and um I'm pleasantly surprised that the story. Uh, It's Maybe not the most, I don't know. In genius, sort of ghost story, kind of thing, but it reminds me a lot of Uh, Dorothy Sayers and her Laura Peter, Whimsy Mysteries.

Some of the more. Soapy stuff I've seen in dermatologist. Um, Yeah. Overall. Pretty happy with it. The first only half of the first story. So I'll tell you how I feel about the Um, man-sized in marble or whatever it is, it's A story about, you know, Young couple who.

Who's servant has abandoned them on Halloween because she's worried about these Uh, marble statues of the local church. That That according to her come alive and this you know very uh skeptical. Man, who Who doesn't really buy it? Um, I'll tell you how that goes once I get a finished.

But um, That is the only thing I've started this week. I think, actually, I may also have started um, German McCulloch's. Reformation the reformation history. Uh, a book that actually picked up. A physical copy of last year. When I was at a conference for my school, and I'm very happy.

I got it. But I haven't read nearly as much as well. I want to so an audiobook has helped that a little bit. I'm going to be able to kind of go back and forth and and engage with it that way. I like it so far. I haven't gone very far, it's mostly Pre-Affirmation stuff.

A lot of it is feels like it draws or is drawn. From the stripping of the altars a book by Oh, That's gonna bother me. Um, One of my favorite authors. Who I've read as a historian. Amen. Duffy Um, I love this. I've never quite finished it as a book.

I really enjoyed. But I'm actually hopeful that there's an audiobook for that as well that I'm able to. Um maybe hopefully finally finish it because I I've been reading I started reading it several times over the years and Yeah, I think that's the one that I'm going to be excited for as a history.

Um, As a history nerd. Um, Para, those are the ones I started this week. You know, the ones I would maybe make specific reference to I think Don Quixote. Is that a fun place right now? As just apparently finished. The Reading of, I mean, several chapters, he's Cervantes is the, you know, dedicated to Um, Telling.

Reading out the story. Uh, one of these sort of romantic. Um, Well, these romance Tales from the Lake Middle Ages. Um, That he's, you know, he's sort of that that is one of the things that drove Don Quixote mad right and This story is, you know, It's insane. It's very funny.

It is about a man whose wife is so, chaste that he decides to Basically, bully his best friend into trying to seduce her. To prove how chased she is. And of course, it backfires and the guy not only Um, You know, he actually falls in love with. Benadistes her and all of it goes the worst possible way in the end.

He's just cuckolded and doesn't know about it because his wife and best friend have Um, feels much shame. Tell them ever discover their their secret dressed. So And we're like, It feels like five pages from the end, and Saint Joe Ponza just like, Uh, barrels into the rooms so hard that they stop reading and tells everybody that is, Has killed the giant that they are supposed to be on their way to fight.

But he's just, you know, lopping off the ends of wine skins and spilling wine all over the floor. Um, I if I haven't already recommended this book, I really do enjoy it. I'm, I'm, you know, I think I'm maybe 40 of the way through this book. But I do think it is.

It's one of my favorites that I have sort of. I say, stumbled upon every, I'm a third of the way through it. Now, I I establish upon it, in a sense that it's one of those books that everyone says you're supposed to read and I have put it off for many years.

Um, I don't know because I was waiting to be able to read in Spanish, I don't know. I've, I've got a lot of weird desires and beliefs that I'm gonna things that I'm gonna accomplish. In the near future. Um, they don't ever actually end up happening. So um, Yeah, there's not a whole lot else.

I want to focus on today. Um, or I would mention black Empire has just got another point where they're doing, full-on like germ warfare genocide. He's dropped a bunch of rats with typhus and black plague, and Malaria and whatever not into basically every major European capital. And yeah, one really starts to get the sense that George Skyler really did.

Just like he was like so many other people in the 20s and 30s who truly just believed. Right? This was progress and it was inevitable and you couldn't stop it. And the only way to not be trampled underneath the foot of everyone else was just Fight dirtier than everybody else and Yeah, it's kind of terrifying.

That he's not terrifying that that's how people thought then. Even again, even black people, people who War. Bearing, the brunt of these kinds of policies. Still believe that this was just kind of the only way you could possibly live. It's terrifying. And it makes me worry even more for the For the world we live in, right?

I think the, you know, this is a time, that's not unlike that time and I think people are starting to fear that. Playing dirty is the only way to ever win? That we can never hope. To do to accomplish anything except by stooping lower than the person who came before us, which is terrifying.

And uh, yeah, I still leave it there but I think it's It's All right, guys. So that's where I'm gonna stop for a literature this week. I'm gonna jump in here for an in a minute. And talk about um, podcasts.

All right, welcome back. So this is my name is section on podcast. I only have one to talk about this week. And really, I'm just kind of shouting out a friend of mine's podcast. Matt. And Mike are doing a podcast for Family Law Firm. Brothers, this podcast is called legalese LEGL, sorry.

L-e-g-a-l Space E-a-s-e. Uh, Nice little pun. I like, um, so, uh, this podcast, I just, honestly part of it was, I'm starting my podcast. I I At the same time, I I was telling my friends about it. They were telling me he was telling me about his and uh, it's, you know, it's for their, it's sort of an advertisement for their Law Firm.

But I think it's also really enjoyable and has some good information. At the beginning. Mike, who is the lawyer is talking mostly about? Um you know what to do in a car accident information that is eminently available uh sorry Emily valuable for people who, you know, most people are going to be in a car accident at some point in their lives and it's good to have that kind of information.

Um, and I find that most of it is pretty works, pretty well. Sort of wherever you are, although I do know, there are a couple things maybe that were pretty Kansas specific, which is where they're located. Um, but uh, they also Uh, had a good conversation. I think about sort of some philosophical topics.

A podcast that Mike had watched about, You know, Jordan Peterson and me one other guy, the name is skate me here, but just having a conversation about, you know, sort of What the what you know, what makes happiness and Uh, I think uh, it's always enjoyable to hear. Mike, I think he's got a good mind for this sort of thing, and him and Matt, um, have a great rapport.

Um, And uh, yeah, I think if you guys, uh, have some time and are also, you know, Maybe interested in a little bit of legal advice. Definitely a podcast, I would suggest. And again, no one will also do this week. So We will come back, I think next week I'll have some more To bring up but uh, yeah, that'll make me for this week and then I will be coming back here in a bit to talk about TV and film.

All right, welcome back. So I'm going to be talking about my movies for this week. I'm not even going to pretend that there's, uh, TV to really talk about I really don't think we've watched anything much. I might talk a little bit about Fargo here at the end. Um, just And, I've got a couple things, maybe.

Um, but I've got a lot to talk about this week in terms of movies. So I'm gonna hit them kind of hard. The first one is Sinners. Uh, which I got to Roswell early in the week, I was very happy to finally get to it. I meant to get to it earlier.

Um, it is, I'm really really happy that it's doing so I like a lot of things about it. I'm gonna acknowledge that. I find some elements of it pretty difficult. I'm probably gonna talk about some of those. So, um, one, if you haven't seen it, I would suggest jumping ahead, maybe a couple of minutes, or I'll give you the heads up when I'm really gonna get into it.

But, Yeah, I'm really happy to see rankler doing well, I I've been very I'm very happy to see that he is getting what he deserves and I honestly was very excited. To go see this. Lordly because of how much, I think one, right? Hulu is an amazing guy, but also just loved to watch the thing a video about him.

Um just sort of talking about like the formats he was playing with and all of the sort of things he was trying to do and that was honestly really exciting to see. He's just got a great vision. Um, From here, I would say, if this might be some spoilers or if you haven't seen the movie, I'm going to talk about it a little bit more generally.

Um, I would say jump probably two minutes if you want to be safe. Um, The thing that really gets me is that I feel like there's some problems with Some of the themes as they come out. I think if the movie goes on, and it really doesn't end up becoming a movie about vampires.

And it's really just about these brothers. Trying to move back to Mississippi and and make good. Um, That I think it would be a great movie. I think it would be a great movie entirely without any of the other stuff. Any of the vampires anyway. Um I love the scene with the kid and all they bring in, you know, all of these people from Sort of the history of music in a sense and just sort of talk about, you know, The.

The genius of. Black musicians, and the ways that they have moved. Forward American music can change it entirely. Um, The difficult thing comes, when Right. This white vampire shows up and They clearly are playing with right? The the questions of race. The wave Empire shows up. He first turns the Most white person in the Duke and then right, it slowly infiltrates and they end up, you know, killing and taking out most of the people.

And, The movie seems to be very committed to the idea that What this vampire is offering all these black people is a false promise, right? He Like any way people before offering them freedom by submitting themselves to him, rather than the other white people that he claims, he's not really, he's not like at all.

He's yeah, he believes in the quality. He's not a clan member. He's A good guy. And, But you can see all these characters become sort of subservient to him. And become not themselves in being made into vampires by him. Um it's a different division of being a vampire, I really really like the way that that works out.

But the ending really kind of messes are that for me because in the end where you have this guy You have the one who chose to be a vampire. May chose to be Empire who became a vampire. Experiencing something like that, sort of Liberation and freedom. And he gets to live into the 1990s and have you know, this whole Future existence, which feels very liberated.

As a result of becoming a vampire and somehow, it doesn't seem like it. It it downplays what the movie had been playing up the whole time, the idea of vampirism as like a A loss of your soul. A loss of your autonomy. So, I don't know, the ending kind of really messed to that for me and I, it's part of why I haven't gone to see it again.

When I honestly assumed that I would go see it IMAX Um, So that's all my spoilers for that to the side. Um, I am going to jump over to The next one, uh, which is I finished eighth grade. Um, Eighth grade has been one of my favorite movies for a long time.

Uh, it is very rare homeless, it's my top 10. And, Um, Ever, since I first saw it, I think I thought, wow, this is like truly a Next Level film. Bo Burnham is an extraordinarily talented individual lc Fisher is amazing. Everybody involved seems like they're really amazing, but I just think it's The thing that really gets me of this movie, is the extent to it.

I feel like it is An extraordinarily um, insightful vision of what it looks like to be a kid. What it looks like to be a Early. Teenager in this world and the ways in which that's different from what it was. Even 15, 20 years ago, and But also the ways in which it is timeless, right?

The ways in which, you know, something about that age, doesn't seem to change. All at least hasn't changed as much as people think, maybe it has. Um, Yeah, the difficulty of being, you know, 13 to 14 year old girl. Um, And I just think, you know, Trying to show some of that from the inside some of the awkwardness, some of the frustration.

The ways in which, Things can feel so overwhelming. Um, things that to us we can look back and be like, haha. Those celly kids, they don't know how little these moments May and the end really matter in our lives. Um, But, you know, the, the girl walking into The pool party and the music just pounding to give us that sense right of Um, Of what it feels like to try to enter into a place where you don't feel like you belong.

And to somehow, Live through it to live through these moments, that seem so big when you're in the middle of them. So huge. And, Again, you may forget about in some ways but like, we're still like Have leave this mark on you and a weird way. Who's so? Finally, I think the dad is just so

So ideal but also so real like he's So good at getting some really difficult moments, right? But also just absolutely Ruining, you know what could be an easier or a simpler situation? Um, Yeah, it's a great movie. It is my number four and honestly I I would be surprised if that changes A Samsung.

Um, The last movie I watched this week is one. That. Is probably a little further down. I would say it's a four star and that for me. To explain my system a little bit. Um, you know, I go by the classic, Netflix, five star rating system which according to them, five stars is I love it.

Four stars as I like it. Um, Three stars is I Sorry. I love it. I really like it. I like it. I don't like it. I hate it. So for me, what that means is that before star at its core, a four-star is different from a five star because A four-star.

I'm happy I watched but I'll probably never watch it again. Um a five stars movie that I think I'm gonna watch again. Like I think at some point in my life, I'm going to be like, oh I want to watch that one over. Um, So, yeah, for me, I think it's probably a little before four star.

The friend is about a A woman, who's Mentor? A lot of the things. Uh, who is a writer dies? And leaves her this dog, and She? You know, here's the thing. I love a good dog movie, it's about a woman sort of falling in love with us animal and Finding that her life.

Feels like it's connected to him, and You know, it's a great dog actor. It's nailed me Watts, and Bill Murray and uh, host of other. Um, constants Wu, a host of other people who are really talented and do a really good job. Um, but it's not. It's, it's unassuming in a lot of ways, which could be, you know?

Uh, A really good thing. It's not probably the most fantastically read thing. It's It's got better actors. I think it's got writers, but I do think it's. Again, it's very passable and it's something that I would genuinely recommend people to see, especially if you like a good dog movie.

The dog actor is probably the best actor movie, not to say that, anybody, but all lots of other good actors with the dog, really kills it. Um, So that for me is the end of the week. I, We'll probably talk a little bit. I did watch terrible Born Again this week.

I finished it. And, Honestly, I really liked it and I think um I'm happy that they ended it sort of on a cliffhanger. I think that. There is a lot of Like, I'm really glad that we here's the thing. One thing I don't love Is the need to sort of.

Always want to have Dared, that will be like. To have Matt Murdock. Not sure. I'll be sure that he wants to be Daredevil. Seems to be a big part of how the Netflix. And then the MCU version of its character is gone. And I'm really excited for us to get past that it's just really kind of put that to the side.

They'd be like, actually I have no qualms right. Like I have no qualms of being there and I've It's something I love and The duality and the duplicity of, it doesn't have to be something, he's always a lawyer, we're gonna snakes like Of the idea of a, you know, the necessity of a lawyer character being you know, totally Totally above board.

And and Refusing to be too fast or depleted s's. God silly. So I I think it's it's me best. I think this show is going to be better. In the second season in part because I really just want to see him kind of Except that. Yes, there is some Duality to this.

Yes. It does feel weird. But also, I can be both, I don't have to choose between Daredevil. Matt Murdock attorney at law. I can be both and that That sort of happy Darifiable, I don't know if I want to say happy but like Um, Dear development that accepts who he is, the accepts, the duplicity the duality of his life and just runs with it.

It's what I'm most excited to see going forward on the show. Um, Yeah, I think that is probably where I'm Gonna Leave It. Um, Thanks for listening. And yeah, we'll come back to the next section here in a little bit.

All right, welcome back. So I'm going to be jumping to Comics now, uh, this A week. That's actually probably a little busy. I actually got some of these later so I didn't even read them during that the week that I'm covering, but they came out this week and I only didn't pick them up because my Little combrook shop was.

Having some trouble. And so I'm very glad that I can come in and Uh, get these and talk about these this week, because there's some really, really cool stuff that came out this week that I really loved. So I'm gonna throw these things out here. Um, the one that I really want to focus on Is absolute martial manager.

Number two, I have really enjoyed almost everything that the absolute Universe that's come outly absolute Universe. I think maybe Green Lantern and Flash are probably the ones that I'm the least confident about where they're going. But, I really enjoyed the Batman Superman and Wonder Woman, those have been out for longer.

So I have Just, You know, generally been like these things are really, really killing it. I have to say the the one that's jumped to the top of my list for this is absolutely martial manhunter. Um, the first one was really really good and I was excited about where it was going.

Put number two is so much better. Like not so much better, it's not even so much that is better. It's that I now kind of see like where they're going and I am I'm Blown Away by it. It's one of my favorite books. Maybe ever but definitely that's coming out right now.

The thing that I love about it so much is that if you know the story of Marshall Man Hunter which I'm not by any means the world's expert, I've always kind of liked him, despite the fact that I really only seen him in like maybe, Um, I really don't think I've seen them in a comic book more than maybe two or three times.

Um, What I love about him to some extent is that he is he's like you get something kind of like the Superman Outsider character. It's actually closer, maybe a Supergirl. It's this character who who's Society? Um, who was an adult who knew their society and saw it breakdown? Um, but he's come to Earth and what I love about him is Having come to Earth is an adult.

He doesn't He doesn't have the, the The nice thing about, Um, Superman. Is that somehow mysteriously? He looks exactly like a human being. Um, right, the Martian looks very different, Jon Jones. Looks very different. Um, but he comes to Earth, and he has the ability to shape shift, so he hides himself as this.

Police detective. I don't know why I love that idea. This vision of Marvel manner is is pretty different from that in many ways. Um, it really focuses on two things. Right. His strangeness and to his telepathy. So um, In this case, you've got a character who I'd be lying if I said that, I know that they've set his name like I think maybe he's still Jon Jones but he does not feel like he doesn't feel like a character that I've known in that way.

Like I don't hear a lot. It's not, he doesn't have a lot of time, talking to other characters. He spent a lot of his time talking to this quote, Martian thing, who has identified itself, not as actually from Mars. But as like, Just Martian being used as a term.

Make himself understandable to this. Earthling, and he is a Telepathic being who can see into people's minds and hearts. And he has come to help this guy like, You know, defeat the psychic fragmentation of Earth Society. And honestly, I just really love. It's a really trippy book, it's a really weird.

It's a ton of crazy colors all over the place, and, you know, seeing people's true motives and seeing who they are, or maybe on a deeper level, there's something of that sort of. Uh, screw tape, kind of like Analysis of human. Reasoning and motives, that is really reminiscent of what.

Of one of the things Lewis does so well. And I think It's being done here in a very, you know, Um, secular environment. But the idea here is that Right, trying to figure out what is going on. Psychically in the world that has made things, I don't know. Makes our worlds, okay, addict.

And I just think it's done really well, and I'm so, so excited to see where this goes. Um, And yeah, I think it's one of the best books out there. Um It. Apparently people are agreeing with me because it's got a 4.7 on. But, yeah. Who knows if that's particularly good by the standards.

Apparently, absolutely one woman is very cost 4.6, On legal comic books, which I am enjoying as a way to A very efficient way to sort of keep track of comic books on what's going on with that. Absolutely Wonder. Woman number seven also came out this week. Um, I enjoyed it also quite a bit.

This is A really cool story, connecting to Greek mythology. Uh, if you don't already know, one of the conceits of Um, Absolute Wonder Woman is that she was raised not with among the Amazons. But in Hell, by Searcy, as some people will call her. Uh, QK as you say in Greek and There's a story between.

Wonder Woman Diana and Persephone, or prosophrenia. And I just think they do like a job with that character. With. Analyzing the story of. You know, as often referred to as the rape of Persephone. Um, in a, in a way that is both aware of the ways in which that story is Stranger to us today than it was to the Greeks.

And and is you're taking the account. My understanding is a, you know. Uh, Power Dynamics and Consent and we're not. And I think it does a really good job in sort of Right. Breaking down the Greek gods as The the sort of weirdly evil thing that they were, I say, weirdly, not weirdly for the world.

They can't they came up in, but weirdly for maybe the way that we see them, And the way that we have seen them in the west, for the last 200 years, where often we sort of toned down some of the things that were weirdest and pretended as if some things were not weird, that were weird.

That's uh, It's certainly more to talk about there, but I think the way that they're doing that in this book is really good. Both of those like A5 stars, I think they're amazing. Also like Panther number 15 also came out this week. A book that I I'm enjoying, but I will say that I'm not like Overwhelmed with the, with the most recent several issues.

I think that there's some interesting stuff there with the new Sorcery Supreme, I don't actually know her. Her nail stuff my head but I think they're going some interesting places. Um, but Talking about sort of what Africa is like and the problems of corruption and all the stuff in the postcolonial Africa, and all the All of that, and connecting it to.

Um, sort of This is a sort of pan-africanism built into. Black Panthers, a character. Yeah, this is an interesting stuff there but it's not it's not certainly I was high on my list as any of these others it's not my favorite ultimate thing coming out right now. Um it's definitely not the lowest but it's you know in a sea of particularly good things it's maybe not.

Super high. Um, The only other one I want to mention. For this week is I just got the new Saguio Jimbo. I'm the first two issues. So, I think some of those, I don't think either of those came out this last week. Um, but I really like them, and I want to talk about them.

I love Wasagu Jimbo, I love Stan Sakai. I love that. He's committed to this life of Making this character and bringing it bringing him to life and continuing on with him, right? Over a long period of time and telling Telling I, one of the things I love about Comics, I love about serial storytelling.

Is that? Right? You can tell the story of a person's life and so much detail and the TV can do this too. If it's done, well, Um it can tell the story of a person's life in so much detail, right? Because the stories that we hear stories about those lives, Right, so much is cut out.

So much is lost. So much is like The life of a single person can contain. Thousands and thousands of stories that are worth telling. Um, And this is particularly true in someone like this. How you Jimbo a samurai? Um, who happens to be a rabbit and As you've not actually looked at Osagio Jimbo, it's amazing.

But this particular story is already been fun. It's a connecting me to They call sour plums, which are umibuchi, I think is what they call it. Um, Which is a particular kind of fruit that has. Uh, I'm excited to try. Honestly, all if I can find it. Um, But has, you know, allegedly has some healing properties, and right, they go to this place where these trees are being attacked and, and there's these, you know, Uh, Samurai from the Shogun.

And these Ronan come in and they're being, they're being hired in and it's a, it's an exciting thing. I forgotten his name. The uh, Rhino guy that he that comes and helps him. Sometimes his cousin is with him which is I love cheeky. I believe his name. Um, Has been really fun.

I read him in the, the last one I ice and snow, I think is what it's called. So I'm a big sorry, Eugenberfan, I haven't read everything, but he starts to imagination. I kind of really got into him. Like maybe a year and a half ago, but I'm a huge fan and I think this book is really good and I'm really excited to To sort of follow it.

To further on. Um, I think. That is. For the week. Yeah that's uh it thank you for listening so far. Come back with food and drink to close us out here soon.

All right guys, I think I have nothing left to add for any games or food or drink this week. It's been a pretty boring one and those terms. So I will leave you guys and close it out this week again, happy Easter and hopefully you guys enjoy it. Thanks.