Capital Reviews

 The Lion House [book, audiobook, nonfiction] THIS IS A LOOSE BIOGRAPHY OF SULEIMAN, SULTAN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. IT'S REALLY WELL WRITTEN AND INTERESTING BUT I ALSO FEEL LIKE EVERY SINGLE FACT IN IT HAS SLID OFF MY PERFECTLY SMOOTH BRAIN. I FEEL LIKE I LACK ANY MENTAL CONTEXT FOR THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. I THINK IT'S THE BROADER ISSUE THAT ANY HISTORY THAT IS NON-EUROPEAN ISN'T REALLY TALKED ABOUT IN THE US BUT I DO FEEL LIKE THERE IS VERY SPECIFICALLY A POP HISTORY HOLE TALKING ABOUT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE SPECIFICALLY. LIKE THE FACT IT WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME THE AMERICAS GOT DISCOVERED MAKES US CONCEPTION OF HISTORY CLASS ALWAYS JUMP OFF EUROPE RIGHT THEN AND NOT GO BACK TO MENTIONING ANYTHING UNTIL ~1700 OR SO.  PS. I LIKE THIS WAS WRITTEN FROM QUOTES AND PRIMARY SOURCES SO SOME OF THE STORIES VERY CLEARLY DID NOT HAPPEN BUT THE BOOK GOES WITH IT. LIKE SOME BATTLE ENDING WHERE A SAINT SHOWS UP WITH A FLAMING SWORD AND DRIVES PEOPLE AWAY OR SEVERAL MENTIONS OF THE TRADE O...

 Black Adam [movie] THIS MOVIE WAS REALLY PRETTY GOOD AND FEELS LIKE IT COULD HAVE BEEN REALLY GOOD. I THINK THE BIG ISSUE WAS TOO MUCH COMIC BOOK NONSENSE. LIKE, AN EVIL SCIENTIST PUT NANOBOTS IN ME DIDN'T NEED TO BE IN *THIS* MOVIE BUT THERE ISN'T A CINEMATIC UNIVERSE TO INTRODUCE ANY OF THIS STUFF SO IT ALL HAD TO JUST BE HERE SO THERE CAN BE SOME BIG WEIRD CONFLICT BETWEEN HEROES AND ANTI-HEROES BUT WITH HAWK MAN BEING NOT EVEN REMOTELY AN ESTABLISHED CHARACTER SO YOU JUST HAVE TO TAKE HIS WORD ON IT.  PS. I WATCHED THIS WHOLE MOVIE IN VR. NOT EVEN ANY SORT OF VR EXPERIANCE, IT JUST WENT TO A VIRTUALLY MODELED VR THEATER AND WATCHED IT IN A VR ROOM WITH PEOPLE SILENTLY WATCHING IT IN VR. THE FUTURE!

 PAW Patrol: The Movie [movie] PAW PATROL SEEMS LIKE THE WORST THING THAT EXISTS. IT FEELS LIKE THE ONLY MODERN SHOW MORE OPENLY TOYETIC THAN 80S SHOW WAS AND IT FEELS LIKE EVEN IF IT WASN'T PEOPLE WOULD CLAIM IT'S COPOGANDA TO BE A HOT TAKE, BUT IT ALWAYS FEELS LIKE IT SO BLATENTLY IS.  PS. MOVIE DID CONTAIN AN AKIRA SLIDE ON A MOTERCYCLE AND A THING WHERE SOMETHING EXPLODED AND BLASTED THE SKY CLEAR SO THERE WAS THAT.

 Barbarian [movie] THIS MOVIE IS SHOCKINGLY GOOD. I WATCH SO MANY HORROR MOVIES AND NOT ONE IS EVERY SCARY BUT THIS ONE IS. THIS MOVIE ALSO AT NO POINT HAS ANYTHING HAPPEN THAT ANY HUMAN ALIVE ON EARTH COULD EVER GUESS CORRECTLY WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. IT JUST REALLY GOES SOME PLACES. PS. EVEN THE TITLE IS SO FRIGGIN GOOD, IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE AND THERE IS NOT A UNIVERSE WHERE GOING INTO IT YOU WOULD GUESS WHY THIS IS CALLED THAT. 

Cute lil Buggers [movie] EH, THIS JUST WASN'T GOOD. KILLER RABBITS ARE FUNNY BUT LIKE, THIS DID NOT NEED TO BE 1:48, IT DIDN'T EVEN NEED TO BE 48 MINUTES.  PS. THE ALIEN PARTS WERE OKAY. BARELY. 

 Fungicide [movie] THIS MOVIE KINDA RULES. IT'S A ZERO BUDGET 2002 MOVIE FILMED AT SOME GUY'S HOUSE ON HIS HOME VIDEO STUFF AND IT'S BIRDEMIC LEVEL BAD, BUT IT JUST SEEMED LIKE THEY HAD SO MUCH FUN MAKING IT. LIKE WE WATCHED ANOTHER MOVIE WITH THE 'GO ON WITHOUT ME' GUY AND EXPLODING A BOMB BUT IN THIS MOVIE THE WRESTLER JUST HAD TO TAKE PILLS TO NOT EXPLODE AND STOPPED TAKING THE PILLS THEN EXPLODED. AND LIKE, THE SCIENTISTS DREAM OF BEING THE STUPID MUSHROOMS DAD WAS GREAT. PS. I LOVE HOW CONFUSING IT WAS THAT THEY ONLY OWNED THE NICE CASE THE CAMERA CAME IN SO THAT WAS EVERY PROP 

 Electronics for Beginners [book,nonfiction] I'VE BEEN DOING A BUNCH OF HOBBY ELECTRONICS FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS AND KINDA LONGER THAN THAT. BUT IT'S ALL SELF TAUGHT SO I HAVE A LOT OF THE ISSUES OF THAT, WHERE THE STUFF I AM INTERESTED AND USE I KNOW TONS ABOUT BUT ANYTHING OUTSIDE THAT I KNOW BASICALLY ZERO AND HAVE TO STRUGGLE WITH GUESSING OR CARGO CULT ANSWERS. SO I RENTED A TEXT BOOK AND READ THROUGH THAT. I MEAN, I DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE WAS ANYTHING AMAZING IN THIS, BUT I DO THINK IT'S GOOD TO WORK ON THAT SORT OF BLIND SPOT. LIKE I MEAN, IF YOU SHOWED ME A DIAGRAM I'D KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER THAT A BUTTON CAN COME AFTER A COMPONANT AND WORK THE SAME, BUT JUST READING SOMETHING POINTING BASIC STUFF LIKE THAT IS GOOD TO MAKE ME REALIZE "OH RIGHT, I NEVER EVER DESIGN ANYTHING THAT WAY EVER". I DON'T KNOW, I THINK IT HELPS.  PS. READ THIS BECAUSE I THE LAST TWO BIG PROJECTS AND LAST 250 DOLLARS I'VE SPENT ON ELECTRONICS HOBBY STUFF HAVE FAILED AN...