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I love absolutely everything Grant Green has ever played, and this album is one of my new favourites by him! It's fairly short but such a good time and such a treat to listen to :-) I've listened to it a few times over tonight, it's veryveryvery excellent! Plus the cover is very pretty.

This is a little cheating because I didn't see this play, but we did read it aloud in my playwriting class so I'm choosing to count it. I think I'd have liked it better if I saw a proper production of it—like this I thought it was alright, definitely a bit overwrought. I think most of its novelty and originality comes from the way it's performed, with the audience participation and whatnot, which I think is neat and I wish I could've seen it that way.

Decided to bite the bullet and finally read this in the interest of continuing my Magnificent Atwood Journey and I'm so glad I did. I felt queasy about every 5 pages so I consider this book a rousing success.

On a more serious note, I feel like this deserves a more serious review - one that shows more consideration on my part - but I don't really have anything to say because I feel like everthing I want to say is already right there in the book.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Listened to the audiobook while at work! The wonders of 1.5x speed...

This book is an overview of the moon landing through the lens of how people felt about it/what it meant to the world when it happened vs. today. I liked it -- I used to be really obsessed with space but it was more in the sense of facts so it was neat to get this more sociological (?) perspective. I thought it was funny that he brought up conspiracy theories because it feels like such a fringe idea to be like "oh the moon landings were fake", but apparently a lot more people believe in that than I thought o_o

He also discusses how astronauts are like modern-day knights in that they're so instantly recognizable and fuel jingoistic national pride and rhetoric which I'd never really thought about. All-American boys everywhere... I'd never thought about it that way before so I really appreciated the insight because now I can see that that's totally true.

Of course this isn't my first time listening to this album but I listened to the whole thing several times this week so I thought it would be good to add here. It's so quintessentially G&tH...

There's only 6 songs on this album and I like them all soooo much but my favourites are probably "Avalanche! Oh, Avalanche", "In Fact", and "Fin Song 8". Something about "Isabelle" makes me really sad...

I'd never listened to any Cocteau Twins before this for a very silly reason (my friend whose music taste I dislike on principle likes them). But then I sat down and listened to the whole album with them and UNFORTUNATELY. I really really liked it... -___-

My favourite songs off the top of my head are "Evangeline" and "Summerhead" but I'd have to relisten because I know there were more I liked that I can't remember right now. Whatever. Who knew that if you try new things you might like them.

The longer I think about this book the stupider I feel it was. Its premise was vaguely fun (what if there were wormhomes in pseudo-Ikea) but it's sooo heavy-handed with its nebulous theme of Capitalism Bad that it honestly felt like I was choking on it at times. The characters are insufferable partly because I think the author assumed you'd like them off the bat because they're Bravely Diverse and Tortured or whatever and they all use gratuitous therapy speech.

The whole thing pissed me off. I have a problem where right after I read a book I want to be nice to it and then my opinion of it plummets in the following days (if I disliked it) and then we wind up with reviews like this. READ SOMETHING ELSE!

This is going to be an extremely biased review because I have never seen an episode of Demon Slayer and I went to see this to make my siblings happy.

(Speaking of, we went to a theatre we'd never been to before and I liked it a lot...)

The guy sitting next to my brother was sooo stressed for the characters the entire time. At one point he actually started clutching his head which I thought was very funny because I could hardly understand the significance of whatever was going on. A guy in this gets his head chopped off like 12 times. The music was pretty good though :-) + I'm following this lawyer on Instagram whose current marketing tactic is making ads about this movie. Incredible sentence. Women love me btw.