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I found one more track to add to my "Dolly Duets" playlist. Now it's rounded out at 18 tracks, instead of the annoyingly odd numbered 17 tracks. And now instead of 57 minutes, the full playlist clocks in at 62 minutes. What a relief! I know you were all very worried about this on my behalf.
With this one exception, the entire playlist is tracks where other people are the primary singer and Dolly Parton is the "featured artist." And even though I knew it would mean looking through pretty much exclusively country music—which I otherwise generally avoid, unless it's rock or pop music that happens to have a bit of "country flavor" to it—I finally thought to look through Dolly Parton's own singles discography and see if any compelling artists were "featured artists" on
her tracks. And I found one she sang with
Sia, of all people! It's called "
Here I am" and it's from the soundtrack to a 2018 movie—which I never saw—called
Dumplin'. I quite like the song actually.
Indeed, I quite like this playlist overall.
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My evening otherwise was kind of a disappointment, thanks to the overlong Chines movie I watched streaming from SIFF Cinema being boring as shit. It was called
Stiding Into the Wind. The run time was 134 minutes but I probably took another 10-15 minutes to finish it because once again the fucking SIFF.net online player froze, forcing me to refresh the browser, which triggers a replay of all the ads and trailers before the movie actually picks up where I left off. It drives me batshit crazy when that happens. What a waste of time.
Anyway, other critics generally praised this movie, and I suppose I can understand their arguments for liking it. It just did not speak to me, mostly because it had almost no plot to speak of. It might have been easier to take its wildly lackadaisical approach if I actually understood the language, but watching a movie like this with subtitles only created further distance and I absolutely could not get into it.
That was the fifth movie in a row that I have reviewed watching online at home. That hasn't happened since the very beginning of the year, but in January it was because I was actively avoiding public spaces (and thus movie theaters) for the month to ride out the Omicron wave. Right now I am not actively avoiding movie theaters; theaters just aren't offering me anything worth the trouble of going there to see, at least not that I have not already seen.
Thankfully I have a movie to see in a theater again on Sunday. Of course, there's new chatter now about an expected uptick in Covid cases, again and already, due to the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron, combined with masking and vaccine requirement restrictions being loosened. I don't think anyone expects it to be nearly as severe as the Omicron wave was. But, like, even a wave a third as severe as Omicron would still be worse than any other wave prior to it. So, I guess we'll just see.
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[posted 12:20 pm]
