“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.” ― Seth Godin, Poke the Box
Oh, hi everyone. Yeah, my hair is hanging in my face. I haven’t had a haircut in a while and I could use one. I’m torn between doing a review of this book, which is absolutely fantastic, and talking about this book, I just am breezing through the first part because I’m realizing now that I know everything it has to say in the first part. Okay?
Hi everyone. Well, I don’t have a review today, but I just thought I’d let you know that right now we are supposed to get together. I’m supposed to get together with the department heads, the people who handle photography, sound, script supervisor, 1st AD. All these people who I’ll be working with on the film. We’re all supposed to get together and discuss how it’ll work, what they need, all this kind of thing.
So there’s a lot of stuff to do in pre-production still. Hopefully we’ll be shooting this thing July 8th. I think. Hopefully. We’re still looking for a possible church location. Anyway, having said all that, I’m reading this and very interesting book.
Very interesting. There are certain similarities in our upbringings, but I won’t go into that. There are certain differences, too. So anyway, this is also something I’m reading.
American Sky by James Grady. Very good. So far, I’m enjoying it.
That fell, sorry. Sorry to disappear on you. Yeah, I am really looking forward to reading this one.
I love this author, Katy Brent. Yeah. Yeah. I read another one of hers where this protagonist is murdering guys all over the place and it’s a laugh. And it’s a laugh. People are being murdered. I’m laughing.
Anyway, I’ll just end by saying I read this a while ago, a long while ago, and The Torqued Twerked Man, and I got to say, I think it would make a most interesting movie. It would be different, that’s for sure. It would be different. Anyway, that’s it for me, and I’ll be seeing you. Take care.
I’d tell you what I’m reading on my e-reader too, except that really it’s not as much fun and that would just be like reading from a list and, meh, what’s the point, right? I can’t even show off the book to you. Oh, well, whatever. See you.
PS: Watch out for spelling and misunderstandings when using AI transcription. Hmm?
Okay. I’m gonna do these at the same time because they have certain similarities. Aurora by David Koepp. I don’t know if I’m saying that right. Koepp. Aurora, I believe this is being made into a miniseries or something or limited series, sorry or something. Maybe I could be wrong about that, but it’s really, really excellent. It should be if it isn’t being. It’s about what happens when all the electricity goes out due to a natural disaster, something that we can’t control and suddenly there’s no electricity, the cell towers are down.
Speaking of which Palaces for the People. I wanted to mention this one at the same time that I mentioned this one, because this is a book that everybody should read. It’s about the importance of community. And I’m talking about not online community. I’m talking about the community that you live in, in reality. People talk so much about the metaverse, so much about social media.
When are we gonna start talking about where we live and what we need to do to make where we live livable. And when I say where we live, not, I mean, not only our community, but our planet in general. This is part of what will make the planet livable. Paying attention to what’s going on right in your own backyard. And I don’t nearly, I don’t like politics. That’s my problem. So getting politically involved is something that I hesitate to do, but I would recommend that you read this book by Eric Kleinenberg, I believe. “How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life.” Civic Life. So, and can probably promote more civil life. Maybe.
Anyway, those are the books that were supposed to be done for May. If I’m lucky, I may get to June’s books by the end of July, <laugh> take care and thanks. Thanks for watching. And that’s all folks for now. Anyway, talk to you later.
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