Happy Monday 🌖 Open Thread

It's 4:24pm here, suppose I should type something here. *types* Sunday Monday happy days, Tuesday Wednesday happy days, Thursday Friday happy days, Saturday what a day, rockin' all week for you... (but thinks about Beckett's Happy Days while doing it.)

"I'm a happy lad. Or I was. 'Til me best friend started acting the gilly-gooly."

Since you brought up Beckett, I'll mention The Banshees of Inisherin, which reminded me a great deal of Beckett's plays. If you've ever wondered what the backdrop of Godot should look like, you could do worse than the Erin Isles on a sunless day. It brought me great joy and a bit of despair too. I don't know what you've heard about it

but it's very funny until it isn't and then it's a hideous kind of awful. But still funny somehow. Like grinning through bloodied teeth. 

I realize there's a deafening Oscar buzz around this movie that's hard to ignore. Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are stellar, but Kerry Condon is the heart and brain, the only sensible one in a film about thick-headed, stubborn men who can't live with or without each other, while the cannon fire from the Irish Civil War (Jun 28, 1922 – May 24, 1923) on the mainland booms in the background. Barry Keoghan, who makes everything weird, makes this one a lot weirder too. They're all excellent. The supporting characters are grotesque and hateful. I'd write more, but you should just watch it unless

It was the first movie I watched during the kids' winter break. Watched it with my wife. The other movies I saw during the two week stretch are: 400 Blows, Black Phone, The Menu, The Candyman (2021), and Us with my older kid. Hope we can watch Nope next weekend. She's got some Jordan Peele movies to catch up on. Now that they're back in school, I can watch whatever I want.

So, what's new with you?