Movies reviewed this week: Mandabi, The House, Nosferatu, Fallen Angels, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Population: One
Movies reviewed this week: Ganja & Hess, Dracula, The Perfection, Carrie, Vampyr, The House of the Devil, A Taste of Honey, August 32nd on Earth, and Phenomena.
I made a thing! I have been on a minor roll with python recently and this seemed like a fun project so I started working on it. Towards the end I reached out to the awesome person who inspired me, since she didn’t seem to have been keeping her tracker up to date, and she said I should go ahead and launch mine. So here we are.
I used this as an excuse to try out new technology and libraries. Click and Cloup made the list; the first because I wanted to try out new argument parsers and the second because I needed option groups. This forced me to learn to use setuptools better, which was a win. I am gonna keep using this tech going forward.
I also wound up sticking Rich in there for better CLI output and it’s kinda great, so that’ll stay in my toolbox too.
Dataset turned out to be too limited, because it’s really just for columnar data in a single table and it turns out itch.io jams have one little thing which break that paradigm; namely, multiple owners per jam. So now I’m using sqlite with JSON support and honestly it’s a bit grungy. Maybe next time I’ll learn SQLAlchemy for real.
My python has gotten significantly better over the last year with this kind of small but enjoyable work, and I am gonna keep doing it.
Movies reviewed this week: X, Cat People, Spider, Pandorum, Creature from Black Lake, and Village of the Damned.
Movies reviewed this week: Angel Heart, The Deadly Bees, Dead Snow, The Darjeeling Limited, Suspiria, The Penalty, The Masque of the Red Death, Seoul Station, and Where Is My Friend’s House?.
Movies reviewed this week: Phantasm, Saloum, Life, The Crawling Eye, The Entertainer, Hungry Wives, Santo vs. the She-Wolves, and The Mummy.
Movies reviewed this week: Look Back in Anger, Penda’s Fen, Thirst, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Howling: New Moon Rising, Rabid, Working Girls, and Foreign Intrigue.
Movies reviewed this week: Bad Day at Black Rock, Kung-Fu Master!, Ley Lines, I Died a Thousand Times, La Notte, Five Shaolin Masters, Walker, Inferno, and See for Me.
Movies reviewed this week: Colma: The Musical, Room at the Top, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and A Kiss Before Dying.
Or: ”A Lyric Scenario for The Yellow King RPG”
- Gather no more than three people.
- Watch Last Year in Marienbad together in silence.
- Select characters from those depicted in the movie.
- Discuss your motivations, remaining in character. It is unnecessary to agree on the facts of the fiction.
- If there is disagreement on motivations, play Nim to resolve them.
“It’s a stupid game.”
“There’s a trick.”
“Just take an odd number.”
“There must be rules.”
Credit is due to Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.