God, sometimes you just don't come through / 
Do you need a woman to look after you?
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Anthony Housefather should be Canada's next Liberal leader and Prime Minister, after Trudeau takes his "walk in the snow" and passes the torch. This is the most principled speech I've seen from a politician in a long time. And he is precisely, eloquently on-point: deciding now to recognize Palestinian statehood or take this as an opportunity to push emphatically for an immediate pathway to a Two-State Solution would mean unambiguously rewarding terrorism of the most evil and depraved kind. It would make Oct. 7 the Bastille Day or Fourth of July for a state led to independence by an eliminationist anti-Semitic terrorist regime, who would be valourized forever thereafter as revolutionary heroes -– despite cynically planning attacks that they knew damn well would lead in response to many thousands of casualties among their own people, who they continue to use as human shields while crying wolf to ill-informed left-wing Westerners. If Oct. 7 were to be the watershed for Palestinian sovereignty, the terrorists who slaughtered peaceful kibbutzim-residing civilians and weaponized sexual violence against women and girls, while recording and posting their attacks for social-media celebrity/posterity, would be perennially celebrated as the Paul Reveres and Alexander Hamiltons of said state. 

So, shame on the NDP, federally and provincially (in spinelessly throwing Selina Robinson under the bus, Eby and his government lost my vote, at least). A pox on both their Houses! At the same time, the vast majority of federal Liberal MPs –- Housefather being one of just three not among them –– who ultimately approved a sanely measured, but still dangerously ill-timed, version of the NDP motion should feel personally ashamed too. Propped up by the (increasingly radical) NDP, the Liberal minority government knows that a forced election now would be disastrous, and are thus clearly desperate to not lose NDP 'confidence' –– even if Trudeau's government, in so doing, erodes much of the remaining confidence of left-of-centre or centrist Canadians of good conscience and historical sense. 
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Just One Day Out of Life


After having recently, or semi-recently, revisited (x3!) the sublime Desperately Seeking Susan, read Peter Hook's very colourful book about How Not to Run a Club, and stood in solemn commemoration at the site where said badly-run club once truly did exist –– but now there's a high-end residential building called The Haçienda Apartments –– as part of the Manchester Music Tour (emphatically recommended if you're a. in Manchester and b. like or love the music that has come out of Manchester), I'm kind of obsessed with Madonna's two-song set at The Haçienda, aired on The Tube, just before she became MADONNA. There really needs to be a full dramatic feature film about this incredible and rather unlikely night in music history (=FAC 104). Not a career-spanning Madonna biopic, not merely a few minutes in a BBC doc about The Haçienda, nor 24-Hour Party People pt. II, but an exacting micro-historical recreation of the ephemeral –– ideally with either Florence Pugh or Sydney Sweeney as young Madge. And Christian Friedel and Paul Mescal as Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook, respectively. (I just can't imagine anyone other than Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson.) 

Until that hypothetical, hoped-for day, one must make do with internet deep-diving and reading news articles and blog posts and Shaun Ryder and Hook's recollections or David Connor's dismissive-but-admittedly-not-a-Madonna-fan account (not only was he one of perhaps just ~100 in attendance, he's pictured in Kevin Cummins' iconic photo from the show!). 

I am so with Uncle Rico. Right on...right on. 
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I get confused every day
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Oscars: Will Will, Should Win, Should've Been Nominated













PICTURE
Will Win: Oppenheimer :( 
Should Win: The Zone of Interest 
Should've Been Nominated: Napoleon

DIRECTOR
Will Win: Christopher Nolan :( 
Should Win: Jonathan Glazer or Scorsese 
Should've Been Nominated: Ridley Scott and Miyazaki

ACTRESS
Will Win: Lily Gladstone
Should Win: Lily Gladstone 
Should've Been Nominated: Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, You Hurt My Feelings and Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings

ACTOR
Will Win: Cillian Murphy
Should Win: Paul Giamatti 
Should've Been Nominated: Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers, Anthony Hopkins, One Life, and Joaquin Phoenix, Napoleon

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Will Win: Da'Vine Joy Randolph 
Should Win: Jodie Foster 
Should've Been Nominated: Vanessa Kirby, Napoleon

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Will Win: Downey, Jr. 
Should Win: De Niro 
Should've Been Nominated: Zach Galifianakis, The Beanie Bubble (!)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Will Win: Anatomy of a Fall
Should Win: Past Lives 
Should've Been Nominated: You Hurt My Feelings 

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Will Win: American Fiction 
Should Win: The Zone of Interest 
Should've Been Nominated: You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah 

CINEMTOGRAPHY
Will Win: Oppenheimer 
Should Win: Killers of the Flower Moon 
Should've Been Nominated: The Zone of Interest 

EDITING 
Will Win: Oppenheimer 
Should Win: Killers of the Flower Moon 
Should've Been Nominated: The Zone of Interest
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 Top 12 "Charismatic Voice" Critiques















                   Vocal Expert/Reacts Queen Elizabeth Zharoff is basically my favourite person these days (who isn't Noa Tishby or Michael Rapaport.)

Fingers-crossed wish list: Polly Jean Harvey, Morrissey, Corin Tucker, Joanna Newsom, Ian Curtis. 

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I Think I Need a New Heart

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