Hey I had a second kid!
Having a second kid is good
In mid May my wife and I had our second kid -- a healthy baby boy! He was ~1 week ahead of his due date, just like his older brother.
He had a bit of jaundice at first, so he had to wear this dope "blue-light blanket" that made him look like a pre-cog from Minority Report.
Post-jaundice the new baby has been great! Happy, healthy, and [in newborn adjusted terms] very easy!
I get to enjoy a few weeks off work which is a nice bonus~
Rowing with Tom Cruise
The rowing machine I have to exercise at home has a little attachment to stick your phone for movies, shows, videos, maybe workout routines I guess.
Finding good content for rowing isn't hard per-se, but you do have to put some thought into it:
- Devs? Too slow.
- Godzillas? Subtitles are hard to read.
- Missions: Impossible? Perfect.
It needs to be exciting, there needs to be be lots of it, and the excitement should re-up every ~5 minutes to keep you PUMPED -- but not too pumped or you'll gass out.
Some TV would be ideal, but the 7 8 Mission: Impossible flicks out are good for ~24 workout sessions (30-minutes a piece) which should last me a few weeks.
Godzillas (part 2 of 8)
This month we kept the Godzilla train going with 5 Godzilla flicks!
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
The visual effects for the two ummm... fairies? -- you know what I'm talking about -- were on point. Not to say it holds up but the VFX department did great with what they had and it totally works.
The Mothra theme song is... haunting.
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
This is really a kaiju team-up film which is fun. Everybody hates Ghidorah which makes sense, he's flashey and think's he's better than everybody because he has three heads. What a tool.
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Ok this is just another Ghidorah film, with a dash of "How to Serve Man".
Also the dubbing on the one white guy, whose name I could not be bothered to remember, did not hold up. I think his name was Glenn?
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
Ebirah has been the weakest movie so far. The main baddy felt disconnected from the rest of the film and didn't really do anything special-effects-wise that blew me away.
Also my subtitles were borked for this film which... may have made me feel a bit less connected to the movie. That's a skill isuse on my part.
Son of Godzilla (1967)
Son of Godzilla is both the best an worst Godzilla flick so far.
Worst because Son of Godzilla looks, and is musically accompanied by, the worst shit ever. Seriously every second he's on screen I want to punch this little dragon. He's not cute or vulnerable, he's just awful.
Best becuase all that said... I do feel like I got to learn more about Godzilla's personality which is neat. Godzilla isn't just a flat destruction machine, he's a flat desturction machine that also hits his kid.
The people story in this one, while scientifically dubious, was enjoyable.
