what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “All right, Jack, listen to me. Ron’s in the bathroom diapering his kid. When he gets out, it’s playtime. And son, lately your colouring’s been sloppy and your Elmo song — well, unfortunately, it’s lacked heart. Now you and I, we both know that your super-secret go-to toy are your building blocks. Well, it’s […]
{4.5/5} “How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we use to knit together this place we call the world? Without stories, our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It’s a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.” Generation A by […]
{5/5} “However dark and scary the world might be right now, there will be light.” Gotham season 1, aired in 2014-15 When Bruce Wayne’s parents are killed, Detective Jim Gordon promises to find their killer. But he only later realizes that the man he thought was the killer was really framed by the mob and […]
{5/5} “I love Beyonce. I love to listen to her when I’m in the bath, and then I go to bed. So it’s kind of like Bed Bath & Beyonce.” Whose Line is it Anyway? season 11, aired in 2015 Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles are back as performers and Aisha Tyler is […]
{5/5} “FIFA… An international crime syndicate that occasionally organizes soccer matches.” Last Week Tonight season 2, aired in 2015 John Oliver, formerly of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, tackles all the issues of the day. He discusses important issues in a way that probably no other show does. He shows his outrage at things […]
{4.5/5} “As for the project we’re engaged in here, well, the threat you’ve hinted at seems rather bizarre, but the country is awash with rumours about Hitler’s super-weapons. A Nazi time machine isn’t even top of the league table of outlandishness, believe it or not. If only for the sake of morale, the government must […]
The volume at movie theatres isn’t just loud, it’s absurdly loud. It’s so loud that it could hurt your ears. If you’re interested in protecting your ears, I recommend that you wear ear plugs. That’s what I did yesterday, and it worked very well — I could still hear everything and my ears didn’t hurt.
{5/5} “It has been seven days since I ran out of ketchup.” The Martian, released in 2015 The Ares 3 mission on Mars is cut short due to a huge storm. One of the astronauts, Mark, is presumed dead when his signal is lost. But he’s really still alive — and must survive alone on […]
When compiling my list of directors worth keeping an eye on, I noted that the vast majority of those directors were male. I then linked to a list of female directors that I’d found. I just found a better one, which lists 100 female directors: 100 Women Directors Hollywood Should Be Hiring For many of […]
I went to DaCapo Chamber Choir’s first concert of the season, “Winding Toward Peace.” Guitarist Kevin Ramessar joined the choir — I think I’ve seen him before, a while ago. It’s a bit unusual for a guitar to be played with a choir but it worked well in this case. The choir and guitarist were […]