Emchap's Shit from the Internet 8/2/17
Last night I went to go see Dunkirk, in IMAX, with a crew primarily made of Australians and a woman who shares my name. We got cart food at a specific cart that someone found on Foursquare because that is the sort of review-driven person my company employs. Later there were donuts covered in glitter. It was great fun.
Dunkirk, as you might imagine, is basically two hours of well-executed tooth-grinding tension that is periodically ratcheted up by people shooting bullets at humans or boats or the water.
I realized, as I settled into my comfortable seat in front of the largest movie screen that I have ever seen, that perhaps it was not the right film for me to see as someone who gets easily motion sick, doesn't like loud noises, and is very afraid of drowning.
But I did not die, and most of my hearing remains, and I am probably the same amount of afraid of drowning now as I was going in (spoiler alert: quite). I would recommend it, but not, perhaps, with one's coworkers on a giant-ass screen.
Shit to read
I am obsessed with these money diaries because I am in my heart a striver who is also incurably nosy.
I finally read Priestdaddy this weekend on a train ride upstate (because I'm a fancy bitch) and it was so completely wonderful and I recommend it entirely.
Someone once described Lana Del Rey as being popular because she makes heterosexuality look glamorous instead of just shitty and depressing. I have been to LA once, and I liked it tremendously, and I think it sort of has a similar Thing going on, which of course ties to Lana's vibe, and anyway I just liked this piece about her music and suicide and pervasive melancholy. (Also, a plug for my Lana Ipsum text generator.)
What the FUCK is wrong with Sweden's food scene.
Blue Apron is having a tough time like the rest of us. "You’ll know when they’re done because they won’t be liquid anymore — what else do you want us to say? It’s eggs. We were going to research the best technique but we decided to spend the afternoon calling our senators and asking them not to support a ban on Muslims" made me HOWL.
Shit to eat
This recipe comes from my sister, who said (quite possibly jokingly) that she made it "so [she could] get into [my] blog", so.
Discover a deli that will give you a dozen stale bagels if you purchase $15 of deli meat after 2pm on a weekday (like one does)
Eat as many of them as you can, and eventually hit a #bagelwall
With the three remaining bagels, make yourself some bread pudding (may require scraping off everything seasoning)
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
Find the decentest knife you own and chop up the bagels
Toss 'em into a buttered baking dish
Mix up 2 Tbsp melted butter, 1/2 cup dried fruit of your choice, 1/8 cup sliced almonds, 4 eggs, 3/4 cup sugar, 2 cups milk, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 tsp almond extract, and 1 tsp cinnamon
Pour that over the bagel bits
Toss that ish in the oven for 45 minutes
Blammo
Adapted from this thing.
Shit to listen to
Hell Among the Yearlings is a good album title and "Caleb Meyer" is a great song.
Shit to buy
Goat cheese. It will make things better.
That's it. Goat cheese.