#I had to study today so I tried to stay offline but i'm giving up i'm bingewatching this show set in naples so now I'm affectionate

[mchiti]

I was thinking (and this is not a thingy against the happiness of my ac milan moots bc I don't support napoli either it's just a casual thought)

it's poetic and romantic and everything that is good in football right now that napoli is leading serie A. I say this as a supporter of that stupid club from the north who also lives up north. Napoli is south italy, and south italy has had quite a terrible history of discrimination from northeners: from being poorer, from being just...more mediterranean? more distant to "europe" ? closer to africa?

just think: some ugly inter milan, ac milan, juve, atalanta or lazio supporters (etc) still love to chant about people from napoli deserving cholera. And Naples went through a terrible cholera epidemic back in the 70s, something unreal when you think of a european country, right? When people from the south migrated up north to find jobs, it was even difficult for them to find houses to live, because nobody wanted to rent to them. financial exploitation of the south from the north it's what italy was built upon. And that discrimination is still very true today, with half of the country way much poorer than the other.

And if you look at serie A only THREE clubs out of TWENTY are from anywhere under Rome. And this is why Napoli is very much into football and the whole city is already celebrating. You might say this is just a sport but it's not and never will be.

[fhohenfall]

Lofi beats to study/relax to -- My Old Ass -- The Greatest Night in Pop -- The Name of the Wind

I used Lofi Girl to keep my work computer screen turned on at all times. Makes it so that my status never goes offline and I don't have to unlock the computer every time I come back from the bathroom. Works really well. I always keep it muted, so in the interest of a fair review I'm going to leave it playing while I write this.

Editorial Note: I left it playing for a while, and the music is inoffensive and easy to tune out. Solid for working. Delivers its brief. Still, if I wanted to have something slow and ambient with a beat I'd choose better made stuff. Usually what I put on if I actually want to focus is Music has a Right to Children by Boards of Canada.

Four and a half stars.

My Old Ass SPOILERS

This movie had good acting and the characters were all believable and charming. Aubrey Plaza is in it. Margot Robbie is a producer on it but isn't in it at all, which is probably a bad move if you want to get people to watch it. Give her a bit part and throw her on the thumbnail.

The plot: girl meets future self, future self says stay away from boy, girl tries and fails to do so, future self gets mad and reveals that boy is gonna die at some point pretty soon. Like if you cry every time.

But then you do cry every time because I woke up today and Aubrey Plaza's husband died.

I can't imagine playing a character where the love of their life dies and then your actual husband dies very soon after. I would feel like I was cursed. I might quit acting forever.

I mean, technically, the movie answers the question of what you're supposed to do in that scenario, which boils down to "don't cry because its over, smile because it happened."

Personally, I wouldn't find that very comforting.

Three stars I guess? I feel bad rating the movie at all, and having to think about it made me very tired.

The Greatest Night in Pop

I don't want to write about this at all because the above rattled me into not wanting to talk about funny stuff. It's a documentary about the creation of "We are the World" the USA for Africa song. The song really sucks. I watched it to see how uncomfortable everyone was. The original video is one of my favorite cheesy 80s relics. Bob Dylan looks like he wants to be literally anywhere else.

Idk four stars.

The Name of the Wind

This is what I actually wanted to write about today, but I'm having trouble getting it up after the super sad and weird coincidence withe the Aubrey Plaza movie. This might be short as a result.

I stayed up really late finishing this book, and it was really really good. I can still feel the current of the story pulling at me the next day. The book is almost exactly what you hope for when you pick up a fantasy novel. I avoided it for years because I assumed by the stupid cover and font that it was going to be schlocky trash. Like a Terry Goodkind novel, or some R.A. Salvatore bullshit, both of which I've been tricked into reading. This book is not one of those books. The protagonist bears some superficial resemblance to typical fantasy protagonists. Male, smart, resourceful, very cool, etc. The story within a story situation helps to mitigate that because you see that he is much diminished after whatever happens in the book.

Patrick Rothfuss is a very talented writer.

Talent is a measure of weight, then later a currency. It comes from the Greek for balance. More specifically a balance. As in a set of scales.

So being talented is having innate wealth. Or worth.

I think it's probably wrong to imagine that Patrick Rothfuss has some kind of gift from the heavens that makes him good at writing. It's probably just a lot of work. I wish I could put in that much work. But work is supposed to be joyful? But comparison is the thief of joy.

So if work is joy, and comparison is the thief of joy, then the one who compares never has to work a day in their life.

This is all fucking nonsense. The book is great, but I'm incapable of making sense right now.

Five Stars