Good Sunday Stack October 5

Any typos are big Guinness' fault

Hi there, happy Sunday!

Greetings from The Victoria, my local pub where I am currently after enjoying a hard-earned meal with some new and some old friends. Truth is, the only one of us who really earned the meal was Leah, who played 90 minutes in a fought hard 1-0 loss. The rest of us didn’t do much besides trek up to Walthamstow to watch.

I do not yet have wifi in my flat, that should be up and running later this week. So, for now rather than paying whichever provider I choose I am paying The Victoria. They even bothered to throw in a Guinness, how kind.

I live in London now, a sentence I have been repeating to myself over and over these two weeks as I don’t yet believe it myself. This week, I hope, is the one I start to feel settled. God willing, no more trips to Ikea. I’ve had enough of that place for a while.

So far, I’ve already made it through three nights without power and five without a bed (I have both now, don’t worry). As of yesterday, I even have a chair. All goes well this week I’ll have a projector and wifi—all the fixings to watch my movies.

Funny story about the bed, turns out if you put the wrong address for delivery, they will deliver to said wrong address. You will have no choice but to leave your neighbors a note asking if they’d message you when they’re home to come and pick up your bed. You will then need to carry the bed two-tenths of a mile. Easy right? Yeah, of course, I wasn’t sweating at all (I had to lie on the floor for twenty minutes to catch my breath, and that was with a few breaks along the way).

What I’m Watching

One Battle After Another

So so good. Delivered me a level of in-theater enjoyment on par with Dune Part Two, which I saw three times. Currently on two viewings of OBAA - one standard and one in Vistavision – and contemplating round three in Imax. In Col. Steven J Lockjaw and Sensei Sergio St. Carlos, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro respectively deliver two outrageously funny performances. The former is unbridled evil while the latter is pure good. In between them at the story’s center is the father-daughter duo Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Willa Ferguson (Chase Infiniti).

Come for the big names, stay for side characters who steal scenes with cutting dialogue like “I think they’re vegetarian” (trust me).

Next up: Midnight Run

What I’m Listening To

After seeing Geese open for Vampire Weekend at the Met in Philly and thinking “hey these guys are pretty good”, I’ve finally gotten around to doing a deep dive on them since I’ve been across the pond. Tried to snag tickets to their show at the Troxy next September but they sold out instantaneously. Check out their new album Getting Killed as well as lead singer’s Cameron Winter solo album Heavy Metal.

That’s it for me today. Good to be writing just to write again.