what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “‘I’m going to need a number.’ ‘Ten. Six zeroes.’ ‘Including the one that’s in the ten?’” Jurassic World: Rebirth, released in 2025 Years ago at an InGen lab, there was a containment breach and a T-Rex got out. Now virtually all dinosaurs live around the equator and humans aren’t supposed to go there. A […]
{5/5} “Yeah, it’s just that it’s new and I know how important it is and I don’t want to mess it up or break it or burn it to the ground or anything.” — Sadness Inside Out 2, released in 2024 Riley is now a teenager and she has a couple of close friends that […]
Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t actually use that phrase in this interview but I love it. He explains that he believes a backlash against what 47 is doing will be swift. This is Malcolm Gladwell and Neal Brennan having a little chat: Malcolm Gladwell on Trump: A Moral Backlash is Coming
Here’s an updated version of this list. I have added soundtracks that I heard first in 2020 (I’m a bit behind). The big winner of 2020 is Daniel Pemberton for his delightful Enola Holmes. As for movies from previous years that I added, the big news is that I’m giving James Newton Howard’s Maleficent a […]
There are some credits that are a stunning melding of visuals and music. Here are two of them that are so stunning that other people have created their own versions by inserting actors from other shows. Dallas Opening Credits Here’s the original: Dallas Opening and Closing Theme 1978 – 1991 (HD Surround) Here’s TNG: Star […]
{4.5/5} “Later that day, when our class (again) went to the zoo, I stood next to Esther. When that lion roared, I didn’t flinch. I didn’t say a thing. I wanted to brag, ‘Hey, I just ran into his cage! He was this close to eating me!’ But it’s not like I had any proof. […]
{5/5} “The entire room is filled with argon. Just try not to rip your suit.” Project Hail Mary, released in 2026 Ryland Grace wrote a paper in which he said that water wasn’t necessarily required for life. Now he’s teaching, because of the people he ticked off. But now the government wants him on their […]
{5/5} “The safety and well being of our colony is Weyland-Yutani‘s highest priority.” Alien: Romulus, released in 2024 A ship grabs a big rock in space because there’s something Weyland-Yutani wants inside it. But that rock was near the wreck of the Nostromo, and it has something else on it that they haven’t noticed yet. […]
{5/5} “The ball is in play.” Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, released in 2026 Grace was taken to the hospital, where she is recuperating from her injuries. She’s handcuffed to the bed, and a police officer explains that there were dead bodies in the house and blood that wasn’t hers on her dress […]
I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Preserve.” Here’s the program: Pan from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid – Benjamin Britten oboe Another Spring – Tom Nazziola Everything – Rodney Sharman This Fragile Web – Christine Donkin with violin & piano Taiga – Leonard Enns with oboe & strings The Rose – Ola Gjeilo with piano […]