You can’t wait for them to tune you into it

Reaction videos, a whole genre on its own. Regarding music ones:

There’s the non experts that try to come up with their own vocabulary to express how they feel about what they hear:

• Metallica/Orion – Touching, beautiful
• Megadeth/Holy Wars… The punishment due – Madness!
• System of a Down/Aerials – grand and glorious!

And there’s the experts that confront themselves with collegues, but in a different genre that their own:

• Drums: Death/The Philosopher en deze – creative! (“He’s making this look terrifyingly easy.”)
• Vocalen: Type O Negative/Love you to death en deze – seductive!

Both versions offer a way back to your own first time hearing these, finding new ways to express what touched you.

Waiting to be seated

Short documentary about jazz musician Jackie McLean, the painful battle between artistic freedom and making a basic living.

Rewatched Margin Call, it’s fascinating. On with The Big Short.

More experiments in Lego printed Brunetti-style characters.

#weeknotes 2020-42