We Love the Internet 2021/49: The Movable feast edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Inside the Extremely Unfunny War Between Comedians and Spotify
• Yellowjackets Reminds Us How Much Fun It Is to Wait
• Netflix Makes the Most Movies in Hollywood. It Wants to Make the Best.
• YouTube’s Crypto Influencers Try Shouting Over the Scammers

Reference points:

• The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of the Past 50 Years

Longer reads:

• The Movable Feast
• The inside story of backstabbing, feuds and intrigue at the Daily Mail

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The draw for the third round of the FA Cup, but with just David Seaman chuckling
• Granny didn’t much care for good beer

Things to look at/read:

• Kodi Smit-McPhee Is Here Now
• From snubbing Mick Jagger to explaining the cosmos: the secret life of MC Escher and his impossible worlds
• Anyone Can(’t) Cook

Animal corner:

• This goddamn cat
• Sextou!
• Squirrel
• Rent free
• Being dramatic because mums stroking the cat
• Original sound

Tweets of the week:

• People sitting in the front row in movie theatres
• great to see diversity
• me reading any recipe
• Why bother coming up with new horror creatures when “a guy who is too long” will always be scarier
• This is how NFTs work
• The famous south east London Cum Stairs, a beautiful piece of classical architecture.
• I missed my connecting flight so I have to stay overnight at O’Hare and let me tell you guys being practically alone in an airport is fucking AMMAAAZZZIIIIINNNNGGG.
• just saw this on reddit and i don’t think i will be able to stop thinking about it until I’ve made one. somehow it looks better than a regular banana sandwich even though it’s fundamentally the same

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker
• Rice, Fat, Meat, Streets

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