I Love those Liberty Mutual spots.
Almost every Liberty Mutual spot I’ve seen (created by Goodby Silverstein & Associates) is a winner in my book, so I watch them with way more attention than most people.
Here’s a detail that some latent OCD caught. In the spot with the struggling actor, note how the river behind him is in the same loop with each take. Look for the white cap just beneath the rail to the actor’s left.
That accidentally makes it even funnier to me when the actor suggests “What if I come out of the water?” In this case, that would cost an extra $500K. And the actor playing the actor does a fine job of acting, I have to say.
Of all their great spots, though, the ones I’d love to be at the shoot for are the Limu the Emu spots. Emus are the Michael Richards of giant bird physical comedy.
https://youtu.be/QRREDL59u_o
Donna Brazile actually said this Oct 30. 2019
It went unchallenged.
Travels by Narrowboat
This show, Travels by Narrowboat on Amazon Prime, is so quirky and hypnotic I can’t stop watching. The chugging of the narrowboat diesel is soporific, the host’s ramblings are interesting enough to convince you to continue watching, and the scenery is nice.
By all rights it should be the most boring thing in the world. Where are the narrowboat chases? Who killed the vicar? When will the host officially go insane? Yet, it’s still watchable, and I think it’s because it’s peaceful, and it’s peaceful not just because of the chugging and the scenery and the British accent, but because there’s to politics or self-righteous indignation. It’s just soothing solitude we’re invited to for a bit.
Alexa mistakes a joke for a book
My wife and I joke about having a heroin-tinged bristle brush mounted to the wall at the height of our lower backs so we wold back into it when we have lower back pain. Joking, I told Alexa, “Alexa, order me a heroin brush.” She responded.
“I’ve put “Black Wave” in your shopping cart.
I then tried to tell Alexa to remove whatever she just put in my cart. She didn’t understand that, so I had to go online to delete it, and now my amazon account thinks I want to read whatever genre this is.
“You don’t need Alexa. It’s nothing but trouble,” said my wife.
I suspect she’s right.
“A Gen-X queer girl’s version of the bohemian counter-canon.” —New York Times
Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it’s officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird.
While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a sprawling and meta-textual exploration to complement her promises of maturity and responsibility. But as she tries to make queer love and art without succumbing to self-destructive vice, the boundaries between storytelling and everyday living begin to blur, and Michelle wonders how much she’ll have to compromise her artistic process if she’s going to properly ride out doomsday.
Caring for others
Robert Forster, the actor who was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of bail bondsman Max Cherry in the Quentin Tarantino hit “Jackie Brown,” has died of brain cancer, his family and a representative confirmed…
Forster in an interview with the Chicago Tribune in 2018 <www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-robert-forster-interview-1026-story.html> recalled going nearly two years without a job in a period of struggle.
“You know what, everything teaches you something. The job of real life is the job of caring for others. Everything you do in life is superfluous compared to that,” he said in the Tribune interview.
