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Weekly Ramblecast 195: A Netflix Sub Guarantees Citizenship

🕑 Added 2025-03-04 19:41:22 +0000 UTC

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Forrest Sarles

who needs May the 4th when the whole month is Imperial March

Brian Streleckis

Best Foreign Language Film is now Best International Film, I think because the language isn't always representative of the country. Emilia is French movie in Spanish, and Flow was nominated for Latvia but is dialogue-free. And of course, they speak Portuguese in Brazil.

girlbiter

Hahaha I also just canceled Spotify and have been loading up all my music onto a HiBy music player and just downloading everything off of band camp and soulseek… it feels sooo damn liberating and reconfiguring musicbee is so much fun

Kristheanalogman

As a bass player it was more or less obligatory to study Sly and The Family Stone during my musical education due to Larry Graham. I really got into the weeds on the whole group during that time. The family relations are Sly and his siblings Freddie and Rose (cant remember what they played). He also had a turbulent relationship with founding member Cynthia Robinson, they also had a daughter together. As for the band and Sly, he could be hard to work with and the internal drama was a constant, just read up on how Larry Graham left and who Hamp “Bubba” Banks was as a typical example of band-drama during the family stone years. If you want to listen to Sly and the Family Stone with out any moral asterisks at all hanging above you like a cloud I recommend leaving the part about Sly and Cynthia and their daughter alone. Its not as bad as one can think but we are talking about a man who has cultivated a ego and persona around only doing what he wants, anyone else be damned while also doing heavy drugs, being a addict up until relatively recently. Peace

Pantalones Johnson

Had to go check out that YouTube clip of Seal gushing about Layne and Jerry Cantrell myself. Seal’s music has always been imbued with beautiful soul and it’s fascinating to me to see him drawn to Soul that is so damaged and broken but also so unmistakably beautiful as well. Talent recognizes talent, even across genres that could not be further apart.

Neil Cooper

I haven't listened to this yet, but saw the chapter heading about common courtesy. I was in NYC last week for a trip with my wife and 12 year old son, both of whom have never been before. I'd been before, but more than 15 years ago. I saw plenty of trademark NY behaviour on those trips and had my little boy ready to encounter all kinds of weirdness. I also told him to always be alert, don't suddenly stop while walking on the street, etc. After all that, we saw nothing weird and people in general were polite and friendly (and not just those who were being paid to have that attitude like wait staff). Nobody got visibly annoyed at us Brit tourists, nobody bumped into us on the streets, people even held doors open for us occasionally, while a lady on the subway even warned me a zip on my rucksack was open and that I should close it before someone tried to rob me. I think my son was a little disappointed and thought I'd been making stuff up, but I was really impressed by the courtesy on display in the city. Thought I'd chip in with some positivity in these troubling times.