She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes, Daniel Radcliffe

And here's one going for a clear All Stars win.

For the love of God, Steve Vai

Bullets, Tunng (live performance)

Shtisel (2013)

TVBUU, Can you hear me

Something Good, Alt-J

Easy Come, Easy Go, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal

MIA, Bad Bunny and Jimmy Fallon

This is going to be us by April, or Christmas, or Christmas 2022.

The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood

"Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing." 

"What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, of close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be."

Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood

"When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else."

"Then something came clear to me which I used to wonder about. There is a quilt pattern called Lady of the Lake, which I thought was named for the poem; but I could never find any lady in the pattern, nor any lake. But now I saw that the boat was named for the poem, and the quilt was named for the boat; because it was a pinwheel design, which must have stood for the paddle going around. And I thought that things did make sense, and have a design to them, if only you pondered them long enough. And so perhaps it might be with recent events, which at the moment seemed to me entirely senseless; and finding out the reason for the quilt pattern was a lesson to me, to have faith."

El Faro, Willie and Lobo

Coco (2017)

When he was wicked, Julia Quinn

".. rather ridiculous writing to you, but I suppose after so many months in the East, my perspective on death and the afterlife has slid into something that would have sent Vicar MacLeish screaming for the hills. So far from England, it is almost possible to pretend that you are still alive and able to receive this note, just like the many I sent from France. But then someone calls out to me, and I am reminded that I am Kilmartin and you are in a place unreachable by the Royal Mail. 

– from the Earl of Kilmartin to his deceased cousin, the previous earl, one year and two months after his departure for India, written to completion and then burned slowly over a candle"

Passenger, Deftones

Interview with Adjoa Andoh from Bridgerton

 

Happy to report I began the new year by indulging in the extravagant, high-estrogen confection that is Bridgerton and have become obsessed with one of the members of the cast. Not you Regé, you may sit down this time.