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Another interesting reissue from Magnum. Larry Towell’s The Mennonites. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/09/a-community-out-of-time-larry-towells-images-of-mennonite-families

Haven’t seen. Michael Mann is executive producing a new series on HBO called Tokyo Vice. He’s also directing a few episodes, including the pilot, which I just finished. Worth checking out.

Had outer stitches removed from my neck today due a hole made recently extracting a growth. Not sure if it was ever really in doubt, but was tested and a simple epidermal inclusion cyst, thus benign. One of those I never felt in danger, but still felt strangely giddy when the expected test results came back.

Rewatched the first season of Better Things (Hulu) before tackling the new season. So beautiful from the start and so underrated as a series.

Pink Floyd reforms to help Ukraine. Roger Waters getting IQ tested. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/07/pink-floyd-reform-to-support-ukraine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Billy Bragg's The Million Things That Never Happened Ex.

Done.

Steve Albini to Nirvana https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana

Susan Meiselas’ Carnival Strippers Tell Their Stories A mosaic of interviews, field recordings and archival ephemera form an integral part of the seminal photographic project https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/watch-susan-meiselas-carnival-strippers-tell-stories/

So there’s competition… https://www.techradar.com/news/these-air-purifying-earphones-are-the-most-ces-thing-weve-ever-seen

Was Will Smith worst Oscar’s moment? John Wayne tried to assault Native American woman in 1973

I wonder if the earlier prototypes had more time?

Product page up now. https://www.dyson.com/wearables/dyson-zone-air-purifying-headphones/announcement

The product has four hours' battery life in low-filtration mode, according to Pocket-lint, or 1.5 hours in high filtration.

Who’s taking one for the team? https://www.ign.com/videos/these-dyson-zone-noise-canceling-headphones-have-an-air-purifier-ign-now Is it April 1st somewhere in the world already?

Sounds like the Baftas were even more fun. Rebel Wilson made light of the fact that Smith wasn't present to collect his best actor prize when she hosted the Bafta Film Awards in London earlier this month. "Will Smith won for King Richard, but I thought his best performance over the past year was being OK with all his wife's boyfriends," she joked from the stage, a reference to the couple's apparently open relationship. After an audible gasp from the crowd, the Australian comic added: "What? Come on, he didn't show up."

Yea, I don’t get the spreading the blame at all. Jada has alopecia, not stage four cancer. She’s struggled, but “became friends” with it last year. She no longer hides it and clearly going for a strong bald look now. The joke was a softball, that’s what they do at these shows, and Will initially laughed at it (rewatch). And he was protecting his wife how exactly? He probably just sabotaged both their careers. What a ridiculous mock manhood. That family, and I’m including Jaden here (I don’t know enough about Willow and should we mention the infidelities and hidden first family?), has been fucked up for a long time (while pretending to be the perfect Hollywood family). This was Will exploding. Simple as that. If that set him off what wouldn’t next time? And the speech he gave for Best Actor a few seconds later “love makes you do crazy things” sounded exactly like the justification court testimony of every boyfriend who’s killed their girlfriend. I can’t figure out if I hope he is banned from all future award shows or they book Ricky Gervais next year with the request he only makes jokes about the Smiths. Well, maybe let him make fun of CODA too. EDIT: His acceptance speech is even worse than it sounded like from reports. I don't pretend to understand the pressures he feels, but Will Smith as savior is a bit much. Who's "the devil" in this speech? Vessel and Ambassador of Love? And still giving him a standing ovation?

Will and Jada Smith?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ca7gcT4gz1O/?utm_medium=copy_link

Sean Penn: I’ll smelt my Oscars if Academy doesn’t let Zelenskiy speak https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/27/sean-penn-oscars-zelenskiy-ukraine

Placing here as we don’t have a what are you not eating now thread, but came across this this morning at 7 Eleven. When did we start caffeinating donuts?

So we had the same server as last week. This week’s attempt at “Esmé”.