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So started watching Peaky Blinders on Netflix. There's six seasons, six episodes per season, and apparently they are doing a movie to wrap it up. Netflix cancelled it after the sixth season aired last year. [Hey, look on the bright side - it survived six seasons - that's kind of rare on Netflix.]

It's rather good. There's a romance brewing between Cillian Murphy's Tommy Shelby (the head of the Peaky Blinders) and Grace (Annabelle Wallis) who plays an Irish Operative brought to London by Sam Neil's Inspector Campbell who is assigned to bring Tommy down. (Actually he's assigned to find guns marked for Libya which Tommy stole).

Murphy reminds me a little of a young Eric Roberts. Anyone seen Peaky Blinders? I didn't expect to like it - but I'm four episodes in and engrossed. Mother is watching it now.

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Also watched The Hunt for the Wilder People - directed by Takiki Wataki, (Our Flag Means Death, and the Thor films). I genuinely like the director - he's kind of adorable. And his humor is rather absurdist.
This is a film that was filmed and takes place in New Zealand, with the exception of Sam Neil, all New Zealand actors. Neil is Australian.

Sam Neil is one of those actors that I tend to follow around.

It's about a Maori boy who is thrust into foster care, and no one wants him, so he's taken to Belle and her hubby Hack, who live off the Bush. (They live in the Mountains of New Zealand). But something happens to Belle, and when social services comes to take Ricky (the boy) away, Ricky runs off, and Hack runs after him, and then accompanies him on his trek through the Bush - with social services and the police in hot pursuit.

Better than expected, and adapted from a book. It was one of the seemingly endless list movies recommended to watch on Netflix. (I honestly can't keep track of what is on television or out in theaters any longer.)

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Found on Twitter...

The number one song on the radio the year that you turned 23, will be how your life in 2023 will turn out for you. This requires a bit of math for well anyone who isn't twenty-three or didn't turn twenty-three a short time ago. I had to subtract 23 from my current age, and then that number from 2022 to figure it out.

The song is "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips, which is surprisingly fitting. Although I'm not sure to this day what this song lyric means exactly:

"Some day somebody's gonna make you want to turn around and say goodbye
Until then, baby, are you going to let 'em hold you down and make you cry?"

So does it mean someone's going to come along to make you say goodbye to all this crap and ride off into the sunset? Or is it death?

Songs and poems often have nonsensical lines that work poetically but make no sense.

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With lyrics, I guess I'll take nonsense over the ones where, now I finally listen carefully, I think, goodness, that's an awful attitude!

Some lyrics - if you listen closely - are not pretty. And kind of offensive.

Murphy reminds me a little of a young Eric Roberts.

I always thought so too. I think I tried an episode of Peaky once but either didn't care for it or just got distracted by too many other things.

Apparently my song would be Walk Like an Egyptian!

I didn't like the series the first time I tried it either. I've tried it a couple of times, and couldn't get into it. Now, apparently it's fitting a mood? Quite odd.

Walk Like Egyptian? Oh fun!

Sam Neill's a Kiwi. He was born in Nthrn Ireland but moved to NZ as a child and is now a citizen. We Australians like to claim him and Russel Crowe, but they're both New Zealanders.

Thanks, I wasn't entirely sure about Sam Neil and Crowe.

Some day, I need to visit New Zealand. I've made it to Australia, but have yet to see New Zealand.

Np. I didn't know they were Kiwis either until there was an interview with Russell Crowe years ago talking about it, and how funny he found that Australians would claim NZ artists as our own without a second thought, and how the Kiwis themselves would roll their eyes and sigh, "Australians," like we were the goofy big brother (which we sort of are). I honestly think that if we could claim the All Blacks, we'd do that, but we haven't tried. At least, not to my knowledge--probably bc the All Blacks consistently and always beat Australia in rugby!

I haven't been to NZ, but I'm told by dear friends there that it's very hilly and the climate is very humid. I'd love to visit, but humidity and me, in any season is a bad mix.

I'm told its beautiful, with diverse terrain. But it depends on when you visit, I guess. I'm not overly crazy about humidity. Not a fan of extreme weather. I grew up in humid and hot Kansas, where air conditioning was a necessity in the summer, and heat a necessity in the winter. Milder NYC is much better.