JCC Tell us about the rabbit holes you’ve been down.

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I wanted to put on some garbage music to listen while I'm playing. Nothing fancy, nothing difficult.
There was a Sopranos video on You Tube among the recommended. I checked it out. Then other two. It made me desire being more systematic. So I went on Netflix, but no Sopranos there.
I googled "where can I watch the Sopranos on streaming?". Googled told me Hulu.
I went on Hulu. Opened a free trial account. Watched most of the first season.
Still watching... Now I just noticed to my amusement that Christopher shoots at a random guy's foot, and this is a homage to Goodfellas, where the actor playing Christopher was just a kid, and gets shot on the foot by a delirious Joe Pesci.

 

Good rabbit hole, Esmir!

 

I once decided to search the internet for websites about Attack of the Clones.

Hello.

 

And that ^ to our great chagrin is a bad rabbit hole.

 

You're the one that made me a feature interview. What does that say?

 

I’ll do a second feature if YCTMTT.

Speaking of, here’s the pertinent rabbit hole

 

For a while I had an unhealthy obsession of watching police body cam/dashboard footage of other police getting pulled over for DWI’s and arrested. The combination of defiance, arrogance, and bargaining that they entail was just so damn entertaining. Most refuse to believe it is happening to them, and totally expect to get treated differently than if they were just a citizen. Then you get these arresting cops who, once they find out it’s another cop they pulled over, essentially apologize for “having to do this.” And it’s clear that if it wasn’t for the body cam these cops would have just been allowed to drive home. I should not have gotten so much glee out of these, but there is something about people who truly believe they are above the law get served their fair share of justice that is so satisfying.

Eventually I reached the videos that were more pathetic and sad than anything else, my zeal has since left me.

 

Bob, are you ok? Glad to see you are back on your feet.

 

Would you like to hear about the great MK Ultra rabbit hole of 2013?

 

I've been hooked on Solo Travels Japan. A guy, if it is a guy, we never see his face, books a 12-24 hour ferry trip from one part of Japan to another. We see his cabin and the assortment of green tea that comes with the cabin, plus whether or not he gets a free toothbrush, then he eats food out of a vending machine and reviews it. We don't know anything about what happens at the end of the ferry trip, or how he gets back. It's just sleeping on a ferry and eating ferry food. And walking around the ferry. But I've learned a lot about japanese cuisine that comes out of vending machines.

The coolest thing is that s/he films it in such a way as if s/he is the only person on the ship. It's like a Sartre novel where the main characters are dead. The living and the dead are invisible to each other as the dead spend the afterlife on an endless ferry loop between Tokyo and Shinmoji.

 

Yes, Bob, I would.

Spoiler: Did someone say

 

BTS did a Tiny Desk concert and it was glorious.

... Incidentally this is my rabbit hole that I keep falling further down. And loving it.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll get back to studying Korean. Which I've now been doing wow, almost for a year. About 5-10 hours each week depending on classes and homework.

 

I remember hovering over the rabbit hole of my choice, looking down, weighing decisions, then making the jump into the hole.

 

Looking back, I'm kind of impressed that you did a whole Frost/Nixon thing about the state of Michigan.

 

I have no idea what you are talking about. This is the only nurse movie I know. Spoilers for gore.

Spoiler

 

I lost like a day and a half there. I was sick and only semi-coherent but I went there to check something and didn’t realise how long I was browsing…

 

That not only do flat eathers think the earth is flat but some think there are other land masses and continents beyond the Antartica ice wall...

There are many variations of this kind of thing.

 

Just this week. I watched this podcast on YouTube:
How Washington’s Football Team Went from Racial Slur to the “Commanders” | The Daily Show - YouTube

They mentioned there are two current TV programs that actually feature or include Indigenous people. One of them is on Peacock called Rutherford Falls. I have Peacock I don't even remember this being advertised. I had to go to the search bar to find it. I wouldn't say I was on the edge of my seat, but I watched all 10 episodes, the entire first season.

 

I have seen some of these, I think because of the link to another bizarre YouTube subgenre I stumbled upon, people walking around cities. Just wandering around a neighborhood recording the view from street level. I found it fairly interesting just as a sort of virtual tourism. I can’t sit and watch a full-length video, but it’s interesting to sample.