{"id":12697,"date":"2018-12-09T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T19:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12697"},"modified":"2018-12-10T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:29:20","slug":"films-tv-stuff-to-watch-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12697","title":{"rendered":"Films, TV. Stuff to watch (or not)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I want to watch &#8216;Lucy&#8217; again but it&#8217;s 18.30 on Sunday and there will be an influx of small children soon. And &#8216;Lucy&#8217; isn&#8217;t a family film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So instead, we&#8217;re watching &#8216;Oblivion&#8217;. Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a good film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Cruise does what Tom Cruise does, and Andrea Riseborough shows talent by the yard (just watch her in &#8216;Welcome to the Punch&#8217;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, back to &#8216;Lucy&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s about time Luc Beson wrote and produced something else that good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope &#8216;Lucy 2&#8217; (currently in writing production) will be that thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, to the reason for this meander&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was mucking out Prem this evening when a snippet of a song popped into my head. Just a refrain, not even a full melodic phrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A half-remembered portion of a tune, but it was hypnotic. Three bars of hypnotism. And no idea of the name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew I knew it. But I couldn&#8217;t recall it. And not the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gah! So frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back home from the world of smelly pony and hay and straw and rugs and grooming and picking out wet hooves, I set myself a-googling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember what the successful search terms were, I only remember that Google didn&#8217;t give me the result, YouTube did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a French track from the closing credits of &#8216;Lucy&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-embed-aspect-4-3\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ZAZ - Eblouie Par La Nuit\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJk7VolCul8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway (again).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We watched Ep1 of S1 of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a kind of approximate reimagining of the whole Sabrina The Teenage Witch, except it isn&#8217;t. 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