In the Name of Love
Feb. 26th, 2019 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7Black Panther won three Oscars, the first for Marvel Studios. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse deservedly won Best Animated Feature. Green Book won Best Picture, and the comparisons to Crash's win a few years ago came on in a hurry.
Bumblebee was - damning with faint praise here - the best live-action Transformers movie yet. Never insulted the audience, Hailee Steinfeld is amazing, and there are quite a few really excellent moments. Thoroughly enjoyable movie.
SpaceX is taking another big step this weekend. The first flight of a Crew Dragon capsule is scheduled for late Friday night. It's an unmanned shot to the ISS, the first test of the crewed version of the Falcon/Dragon system. If this and next month's launch abort system test are successful, a crewed mission is scheduled to go up in July, and for the first time since Atlantis made her final flight in 2011, Americans will go up in an American craft instead of hitching a ride on a Russian ship.
Listening to The Midnight tonight, synthwave band outta LA. They're playing at Headliners on April 6, and I'm starting to think that maybe I should go see 'em. It's been forever since I've seen live music (a Waterfront Wednesday last summer?) and Headliners is a darn good venue.
I'm glad to see this synthwave trend rise up in the last few years. Lots of good music, quite often exactly what I need or want to hear. Gunship is my current fave - their "Dark All Day" video is just a thing of beauty.
Bumblebee was - damning with faint praise here - the best live-action Transformers movie yet. Never insulted the audience, Hailee Steinfeld is amazing, and there are quite a few really excellent moments. Thoroughly enjoyable movie.
SpaceX is taking another big step this weekend. The first flight of a Crew Dragon capsule is scheduled for late Friday night. It's an unmanned shot to the ISS, the first test of the crewed version of the Falcon/Dragon system. If this and next month's launch abort system test are successful, a crewed mission is scheduled to go up in July, and for the first time since Atlantis made her final flight in 2011, Americans will go up in an American craft instead of hitching a ride on a Russian ship.
Listening to The Midnight tonight, synthwave band outta LA. They're playing at Headliners on April 6, and I'm starting to think that maybe I should go see 'em. It's been forever since I've seen live music (a Waterfront Wednesday last summer?) and Headliners is a darn good venue.
I'm glad to see this synthwave trend rise up in the last few years. Lots of good music, quite often exactly what I need or want to hear. Gunship is my current fave - their "Dark All Day" video is just a thing of beauty.