what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “There’s a difference between looking at stuff and really seeing it.” Harriet the Spy, released in 1996 Harriet is in sixth grade. She and her friends Janie and Sport always make fun of class president Marion. Harriet often goes out spying on people — she goes out looking for interesting things, and writes them […]
{4.5/5} “The willingness to be confused, I now realise, is a prerequisite for a good life. Wanting things to be simple can become a kind of prison, it really can, because you end up staying trapped inside how you want things to be rather than embracing how they could be. You end up closed. You […]
{5/5} “‘Well, I’ll give you one thing. You got confidence.’ ‘Thank you.’ ‘You get a second thing, you’ll be unstoppable.’ ‘Sounds like I’m halfway there.’” — George & Georgie Young Sheldon season 7, aired in 2024 Mary thinks she and Sheldon should go back home because of the tornado, but Sheldon disagrees. Sheldon is stunned to […]
I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Starry Night.” Here’s the program: Sven-David Sandström – Ah, Sunflower! Nicholas Kelly – Earthrise Leonard Enns – Nocturne Eriks Ešenvalds – Stars Morten Lauridsen – Sure on this Shining Night* Laura Hawley – Be Music, Night Eric Whitacre – Water Night Randal Thompson – Choose Something Like a […]
{5/5} “We believe apes built this as a refuge for humans… Perhaps here humans were cared for, fed, maybe even taught.” Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, released in 2024 Noa, Anaya, and Soona are out gathering eagle eggs for bonding day. They catch a glimpse of someone not ape in the forest. They […]
{4.5/5} “‘Sir, you invited me here to work together. So let’s work together.’ ‘I’m afraid that offer expired when your friend tried to kill me.’” Captain America: Brave New World, released in 2025 Thaddeus Ross is now President, and Sam Wilson is now Captain America. In Mexico Sam and the Falcon, along with a team, […]
{5/5} “‘Where do you stand on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division?’ ‘I’m against it.’” — Sheldon & Billy Young Sheldon Season 6, aired in 2022-23 George and Dale drive down to the border to bail Connie and Georgie out of jail. Connie is feeling unwelcome at church so she decides to leave. Since George lost […]
{5/5} “The statue’s expression was a gentle half-smile made strange by the disturbing filmy eyes. What this balding creature was doing, or what he represented, was beyond Janeway’s comprehension. But the entire feeling from the statue was one of a people Janeway felt she might have liked. So where had they gone? What had happened […]
{4.5/5} “I’m telling you there have been 9 Soviet/Russian heads of state and 13 US presidents since the coalitions were formed. And not one of them has known about the Gorge.” The Gorge, released in 2025 Levi is a sniper who’s recruited and taken by plane to an unknown location — he parachutes out, walks […]
{5/5} “Ever since I read The Naked Sun. I’ll admit, I came for the ‘naked’ but I stayed for the interplanetary conspiracies.” — Dr. Grant Linkletter, regarding Asimov’s novel Young Sheldon season 5, aired in 2021-22 While having drinks with Brenda, George has a heart attack and is taken to the hospital. Georgie decides to […]