Stuff I'm V Into Right Now
Sex movies, books and Beyoncé
Dads Reviewing Movies
My friends and I have been crowdsourcing our dads’ reviews of movies, only because they’re so distilled or so…dad. Dads are not afraid to say anything no matter how unpopular their opinion is.
My Dad on Barbie
My Dad: I tried to watch Barbie, but I couldn’t get through it. Barbie is just so sexist for young girls.
Me: But, that’s the point of the movie?
My Dad: I know. I didn’t like the format.
The format?! Like, widescreen? Like the aspect ratio?
I know what he meant…kind of? Like he didn’t like how it was presented, and none of the stars are “his guys” which are Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Salma Hayek, and Clint Eastwood. Imagine Clint Eastwood in the Barbie movie tho.
Another Dad on Barbie
Anonymous Dad 1: I liked him. He did well.
Me: Oh, you liked Ryan Gosling.
Anonymous Dad 1: Yeah, he deserves that nomination. Other parts, it was just like, okay….life is hard. I get it.
Man says he gets life is hard for women. Problem solved.
Another Dad on Saltburn
Anonymous Dad 2: Movies make us think / Saltburn didn’t stink / It showed you can push certain scenes to the brink / I would have enjoyed it more after a few drinks
Love the candor. Love the ‘format’ here of a poem.
Send over any dad reviews if you have them!
MOVIES
How to Have Sex
Other than having a title that makes you seem like you’re trying to shock everyone you’re talking to, or you just found out what sex was (“I saw How to Have Sex the other night..”), this movie was great. It gets so many tiny details right about traveling with friends, pregaming, and yes, sex in your 20s. It’s also not an all-out downer like the trailer would make you believe. It’s fun, while still being devastatingly realistic at times.
BOOKS
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
I had been hearing about this novel for a bit and it’s juicy! Always darkly entertaining to read how a racist villain defends themselves. It’s also a meditation on jealousy in a creative field taken to the extreme.
TV
The Morning Show
Ever since The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ended its best season yet, I’ve needed something to take its place. Something where I can just turn my brain off and not be challenged. Something so outlandish and sensational that you can’t help but go “did that really happen?” RHOSLC has better writing, but this show takes itself so seriously, which is wild because one of its plotlines was literally “Reese Witherspoon goes to space last minute.” It doesn’t want to admit it, but it is a teenage soap opera for adults. I have been eating it up.
SONGS
TEXAS HOLD ‘EM
Beyoncé
I think I’m the only one who likes this? I don’t care that it’s watered down country and has shades of the Lumineers, I’m boot scootin’.
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Kat's mom here...just finished One Day on Netflix which casts an unusual female romantic lead. Loved it and I can't say what I didn't like bc it will ruin the experience for you. Since a lot of NF stuff is garbage these days, One Day has earned a weatch.
I love Texas hold em!!