Random Mixola

Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot

Fanfare for the Common Man - Michael Tilson Thomas

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band

Up, Up and Away - Johnny Mathis 

Living a Boy's Adventure Tale - a-ha

Safe - Gabriel-Kane feat Pixie Lott

Loving Loving - Vera Sola

BLUE - Troye Sivan

Where Am I Going? - Barbra Streisand

Les Indes Galantes - Le Concert d'Astrée

Rain On Me - Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande

Locked Out of Heaven - Bruno Mars

The Shady Dame From Seville - Julie Andrews

- late Summer 2021

Last Seen

Friday night I caught the first two eps of this Apple TV series from Australia, starring the incredible Patrick Brammall, who I knew previously in Colin from Accounts. I hate that streaming networks are going back to releasing episodes weekly rather than a full drop so that we can binge. I resent it and it makes me not want to watch at all. Imagine my rage at 2AM when I was waiting for episode three to begin and realised I had to wait four whole days. I was livid! Anyway, ranting aside, the series hooked me right away and I am so looking forward to the next four episodes. 

My People!

27 May 2022

The Old Heart Beet Kitchen

Pre-COVID I used to love to visit Heart Beet Kitchen in Westmont. It was vegan and gluten free and beyond delicious. Once lockdown was lifted, they changed hands as well as renaming the place Goodbeet (how dumb is that?!) and I've never returned. The menu is still very similar but it appears that all the dishes went up five dollars in price. Insanity. In going through my photos, I found screenshots of the original menu. Maybe one day I'll try to make my own Coconut BLT - the yummiest sandwich of all time!

Apps & Salads

Brunch:

Entrees:

Smoothies:

Boatlift

It's so hard to believe that it's been two and a half decades. Today I rewatched a brilliant short film entitled Boatlift, narrated by Tom Hanks. It told of the ferries and boats that descended on Manhattan island and spirited people away from the fallen towers and the dust filled sky and transported them to safety. To see the images of boats, owned and operated individually, flock toward danger in order to help was so powerfully moving. It's impossible not to cry throughout the entire eleven plus minute film. The part that always makes me bawl is when Hanks says "...larger than the evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II, where 339,000 British and French soldiers were rescued over the course of nine days. On 9/11, nearly 500,000 civilians were rescued from Manhattan by boat. It took less than nine hours." It reminded me of how in the months following the attacks that people kept out their American flags all year round. They had bumper-stickers that read "These colors don't run." It felt like how the country is supposed to be - united. 

See You Later

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Statue of Liberty

Country of Desire

Night Flight

(kidnapped from Mel Odom's Instagram account: a13mel.odom)