I have to force myself to get out of the house soon. Writing this now is part of the process. I need to do my Pesach shopping. All that means is buying a 5-lbs box of matzoh. If I could get it local that wouldn’t be a big deal, but I can’t. I have to go to Stop & Shop. I need to do buy other things that I prefer to get at Aldi but it’s too complicated to stop at both when I don’t have a car. Sunday is the day that I always have lots of streaming music that I love but it’s also the only day where the bus stops near my house, so it’s my preferred shopping day. I’m going to have to bring the big shopping cart. I don’t often use that but the matzoh makes it a necessity.
I almost succeeded in yesterday’s mission, getting Gord’s Gold finished before midnight. I sent the files to Folk Music Notebook at 12:04. I could have had it in on time, but I decided that I wanted to add something to one of the host segments. I don’t talk that much during the hour my show is on, so I want to make sure that every word counts. I could just announce the songs but that wouldn’t feel like the show was mine. I want to personalize it, like I personalize everything else in my life. If you listen on Tuesday night, which you should, you’ll learn what Roud numbers are, I just learned while prepping for the show, and Joe Crookston’s term of endearment for me.
I was able to get things done despite two streaming shows and one zoom afterparty. First there was Jim Infantino’s every other week livestream. I hate that I can’t put this more succinctly by saying biweekly or semiweekly. The problem is that both can mean twice a week or once every two weeks. I have seen this cast as an argument between presciptionists and descriptionists. No, the point is that a word only means what people agree it means. There is no agreement therefor the words are useless. This is why I figuratively blow my stack when people use literally to mean figuratively. If you say that’s Ok because people use it that way you are saying that the word is useless. There I never a need to say figuratively except in grammar discussions. We need literally for those cases when people might think you meant figuratively when you meant literally. If I said I was literally blown away by the jet exhaust you know that the force of the air pushed me away from the engine. Not that I was impressed by the power of the jet. I came up with a definitive resolution of the semi-vs-biweekly argument, but it was not as definitive as I thought as I don’t know what I decided. Oh right, now I remember, bi-weekly should mean once every two weeks as we don’t have that problem with bicentennial. Nobody thinks that means twice every century. Keep that in mind and use things that way yourself. Let’s try this again. First there was Jim Infantino’s biweekly livestreamed followed by the zoom afterparty. I love my fellow partygoers. It’s a new social scene for me. Then Sharon Goldman did a livestream performance of her album, Kol Isha, that’s Hebrew for “A Woman’s Voice” for women’s history month. I can’t believe the album is five years ago. It feels like it came out recently. Many of the people that watched that were good friends of mine and I wish we could all go to the Remedy Diner on Houston Street afterward to hang out like we would if it were a Rockwood show. The crowd were the Chicks with Dip and their friends and fans. Even though I’m not married to any of them I still consider myself part of the Roosters, the group’s male auxiliary. I have never spelled auxiliary correctly. I couldn’t use it if it weren’t for spellcheck.
Time for a TV reviews. WandaVision has finished its run, what am I watching now? The natural replacement is Falcon and the Winter Soldier also on Disney+. When Disney+ announced it’s planned original programming FatWS was the one I was excited about; I was ambivalent about WandaVision. I had my doubts about a superhero sitcom. Marvel lived up to their name and did a marvelous job. WandaVision is Kafkaesque innovative engrossing television. I enjoyed Falcon but the first episode was not special. Watching Wanda was going to church, Falcon isn’t there yet. It had a great action sequence but that’s not enough for me to love the show. The problem is that it’s being sold as a buddy picture and the two protagonists have not shared a scene yet. I’m going to keep watching and hope their chemistry raises the show to church level.
Over at the CWverse, formerly the Arrowverse, things are not as sanguine. Superman and Lois is too busy being a family drama to get minor details like saving the world get in the way. Black Lightning is losing its steam. There is an awkward recasting that they should have just ignored, not made up a stupid rationale for. The Flash is still enjoyable, but I wish they would stop preaching that reasoning is evil and only emotions can be trusted. Most of the characters are scientists, this is such a strange stance for them to take.
I watched Zach Snyder’s Justice League; the director’s recut of the film that was originally taken over by Joss Whedon. It is an exercise in self-indulgence, a four-hour movie that is two-and-a-half hours too long. I fell asleep when the movie to start over again with different characters. He tries to cram the origin stories for Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Cyborg, and the half-hour epilogue, which is a setup for movies that will never be made, into one movie. It is relentlessly dark and needs the comic relief that Whedon put in. The original was too dark even with that. Thank me I just saved you four hours.
Now back to my first point, forcing myself out of the house. Here I go.
Wise Madness 