Twenty More Songs, Hulu Recommendations, Tubs in the Kitchen, Etc.
In which you are "The Bear" and I remember you.
🎟 A final reminder that tickets are on sale for The Dinner Parting for this Saturday, September 23rd at 6:30pm as part of Festival Au Cinema. Tickets are for the day (or weekend), but it’s only $14.25 so please consider. And if you are coming, please reach out!
🎧 Last month I made a Spotify playlist of 20 tracks from an online prompt asking for favorites songs with no repeat artists. Talked to enough people about it that I was inspired to do it again: 20 more songs I’ve been listening to quite a bit lately, no artists repeated on this list or from the previous.
📺 Hulu launched a "Top 15” section which I didn’t particularly care much for, so I made my own.
🐻 For realiously though, you should be watching The Bear.
🛁 A bathtub in the kitchen? Not a problem for New Yorkers.
🎾 A heartwarming profile of tennis rivals-turned-friends Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, who faced their biggest challenge 50 years in. “You want to meet an opponent who draws you nearer in mutual understanding? Try having cancer at the same time.”
👩⚖️ Google’s historic antitrust trial began this week. Their defense, more or less: they are not a monopoly, their competitors simply aren’t good at their jobs.
💸 Just two years ago, investors spent billions buying old music catalogs. It’s starting to look like they may have overpaid.
📲 Adjusted for inflation, the new iPhone will be its most affordable since 2007.
🐓 We eat 74 billion chickens a year. “We eat so much chicken that some archaeologists believe their bones will define our modern age.”
🧂 On the mysterious taste of salt. “We’ve all heard of the five tastes our tongues can detect — sweet, sour, bitter, savory-umami and salty. But the real number is actually six, because we have two separate salt-taste systems. One of them detects the attractive, relatively low levels of salt that make potato chips taste delicious. The other one registers high levels of salt — enough to make overly salted food offensive and deter overconsumption.”
👩🦯 Braille is not dead. In fact, it is ever-evolving, and some argue that it should continue.
💉 A new vaccine can apparently reverse autoimmune diseases like MS, Type 1 Diabetes and Crohn’s Disease. “A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an enemy that should be attacked. The new ‘inverse vaccine’ does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule.”
🎼 Amid the horrors of the Holocaust, Jewish musicians composed songs of survival. “At the Terezin concentration camp, some of Europe’s top artists found solace in creating new work. Today one musician is determined to give them an encore.”
🚏The intersection of Ludlow and Rivington on the Lower East Side of NYC has been renamed Beastie Boys Square, a reminder to never stop fighting for your right to party.
❤️ Gotta go. Happy Sunday, and remember to keep the Hoping Machine running.
Love,
Luke
