29: Kisses to the Crying Cooks

Online dating still sucks, go see Love Lies Bleeding, the tyranny of charity, being a class act and texting people back, psych nurses are weird, the heroic blind psychiatric manager, completely wrenching human moments, a few compelling movies about blindess, some songs and movies about hearing voices, fake fox meat, the compelling Peter Greene, the tragedy of frog legs, ride cymbals can be devastating, an Ernest Hemingway experience, go get Mexican food in Winnemucca, another George C. Scott reference, John Sturges is not to be trifled with, and some quotes. Stuff mentioned: Love Lies Bleeding (2024), Saint Maud (2019), Twilight (2008), Frank Bruni "The Friends Who Got Away" (New York Times, March 14, 2024), Howard Jones "Things Can Only Get Better" (1985), Jennifer 8 (1992), Blink (1993), The Up Series (1964-2019), Drive (2011), Ryan Gosling, Mark Ronson, Slash, and the Kens "I'm Just Ken" (2024 Oscars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmG0983hPUs), Sonic Youth "Schizophrenia" (1987), Kim Gordon Girl in a Band: A Memoir (2015), Thurston Moore Sonic Youth: A Memoir (2023), Guided By Voices "Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox" (1992), Guided By Voices Propeller (1992), Clean, Shaven (1993), The Mask (1994), Pulp Fiction (1994), Bill Conti "Gonna Fly Now/Theme from Rocky" (1976), Chuck Mangione "Feels So Good" (1977), Lipstick (1976), Basic Instinct (1992), Islands in the Stream (1977), Ernest Hemingway Islands in the Stream (1970), Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers "Islands in the Stream" (1983), Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea (1952), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), Elmer Bernstein "Main Title/The Great Escape" (1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbsuAbTTsV8), Queen and David Bowie "Under Pressure" (1981), Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (1929), and Evil Dead 2 (1987).