Music is great, Starbucks is great...

Last entry I listed some very good Christmas music I had been listening to. Now I'm going to list some very, VERY bad music I listened to on a lark:

•  En Vogue - you'd THINK it'd be good! En Vogue was a very good R&B group with amazing vocalists. But check this shit out. Especially the terrible Transsiberian Orchestra production on the "rock" numbers
• Hanson - pee-yew... shoulda known when they covered The Beach Boys
• Wilson Phillips - more mawkish than I anticipated! And that's saying something!
• Bryan. Adams. - REGGAE CHRISTMAS, truly a hate crime

Because the talk about Poor Things is so "best movie of the year," I finally got on the stick and watched The Lobster. It was both weird and thought-provoking, often at the same time. I felt like that worked good cinema-watching muscles, so I rewarded myself by watching the George C. Scott A Christmas Carol and Charlie Brown Christmas, as well as the Hannah Waddingham Christmas Variety Spectacular. Oh, last week I watched Relax, I'm From the Future, and that was a lark. Oh, and my dad and I watched Greyhound, a very dadcore movie. My dad, as it turns out, had not seen a clip from Greyhound. He'd seen a clip from Captain Phillips. So I'll probably be watching Captain Phillips in the near future.

In TV news, I finished the first season of Ghosts UK. I care a great deal for Ghosts US, but I'd call my engagement genial and sometimes-on-phone-y. Ghosts UK packed more LOLs in per episode and is not making me feel ambivalent about my disinterest in romantical ghost pairings. So it's winning. The 'Mount is not winning because they ONLY have seasons 1 and 2. So after I finish 2, I may go back to buy and finish People of Earth.

I still miss Our Flag Means Death. They still have not renewed it. HBO HAS renewed The Gilded Age, an enormously expensive show that most of my friends who watch it say is either boring or dumb or both. Casey Bloys can eat shit. I hate knowing his name, and I hate knowing that one of the reasons he had someone create a fake Twitter account was to DEFEND THE IDOL.