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• Hrishikesh Hirway
Santigold is a singer, songwriter, and producer. She’s put out 4 albums since 2008, and she’s been featured as a collaborator on songs with Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Diplo, and more.
In this episode, Santi takes apart her song "Ushers of the New World," from her 2022 album Spirituals. She made it with some other collaborators she’s worked with before, including Grammy-winning producer Rostam, and producer Ricky Blaze. She told me about how she tries to channel her gut instincts, and how she wanted to transform some of the darkest feelings of 2020 into something galvanizing.
For more, visit songexploder.net/santigold.
I very much appreciate that people made a movie like this with all itsold-school costumes and effects. And this part really works and is whythe trailer immediately appealed to me. But ultimately andunfortunately, this is a lot of silly nonsense that even makes its justabout 70 minutes runtime seem long.
The Ringer’s Craig Horlbeck, Danny Kelly, and Danny Heifetz feel like a ... like a slice of butter melting on top of a big ol' pile of flapjacks after rewatching ‘Pineapple Express,’ starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This film is an audio-visual delicacy. If you’re into Metal, you are not only my friend, but I’m sure, you too will enjoy this – if purely on the visual level. But it’s hard to not dig the soundtrack, either. I would guess this is great on drugs. Or unbearably terrifying.
A lot of scenes are reminiscent of David Lynch’s style. The story however is not: it is very straight forward, which I found surprising given all the wild trippy visuals.
The acting is overall great, and I indeed enjoyed Nic Cage’s performance a lot. The action and fight scenes are great, too. It’s funny, but also serious. However, there’s no focus on the latter, I’d say.
It’s certainly a unique experience. And one I could experience again!
(Oh my god, the Cheddar Gobblin!!!)
This is quite the spectacle! A beautiful, violent, serious, funny, well choreographed and well acted “me too” middle-age spectacle. The three different perspectives of the same plot is the kind of thing I really enjoy. No exception here. The only thing we found irritating occasionally was the language: both the actors’ accents as well as the words seemed way too modern. But that shouldn’t stop one from enjoying this a whole lot!
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Here are a few shaky POV rallies of tennis I played with Jenni a few weeks back.
And next time, I’ll make sure I’ll wipe my lens in between.
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Celeste Ng is an American writer and author of three novels. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, was published in 2017 and became a #1 New York Times bestseller. A television adaptation of the novel, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, premiered in 2020.
Little Fires Everywhere is set in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and centers around two families—the mothers of these families especially. One family is upper-middle class with a “typical” suburban structure: a mom, a dad, and four kids; the other is a single mom, Mia, and her daughter, who are newcomers to the town.
In her conversation with Susan, Celeste discusses a flashback to how a young Mia first became interested in photography as a medium.
For more, visit bookexploder.com/episodes/celeste-ng.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey have got brass balls to rewatch the 1992 American drama film adapted by David Mamet, ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, and Alec Baldwin. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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