Renfeild and...

Have come to the conclusion - that I need to see RENFEILD. It's the perfect humorous antidote to working in a hostile work environment that you can't get out of.

The set up? Renfeild who has found himself in an increasingly abusive and hostile work situation with his boss, although it has certain necessary perks, joins group therapy to find a way of handling it or escaping.


Refeild: Sorry to interrupt,
Group Therapist: Are you okay?
Renfeild: I need to get out of a toxic relationship
Therapist: Why don't you start by telling us what brought you here?
Renfeild: My boss, he's different
Group member: You can't get him out of your head.
Renfeild: No
Another Group Member: Oh you feel like he can destroy you with a snap of his fingers..
Renfeild: Wouldn't even need to snap
Therapist: Okay
Group Member: Uh huh, that sounds familiar.
Renfeild: Uh What?
Group Therapist: If you were to stop focusing on your boss's needs what would happen?
Renfeild: He won't grow to full power...
Therapist:Exactly, he won't grow to full power - WHAT?? That's so weird. Why would you phrase it like that? But yess!

Group Therapist: Hi, Are you here for the meeting? Well come on Down.
Renfeild: Noooo! NOOOO!
Boss: Some call me the dark one, others the lord of death, to most I am Dracula (he levitates halfway in the air and bares his fans.)
Therapist: Okay, obviously we're dealing with a little more than just narcissism here.
Dracula: Now, Let's Eat.

Dracula is played by Nicolas Cage.

Renfeild by Nicholas Holt.

Renfeild's girl friend? Awakfina.

Now that's a horror satirical comedy - I can get behind. It's tailor made for me. It satirizes group therapy and hostile work environments.

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And I decided to check out the best movies on netflix to watch...so far so good...until I began to realize there's seemingly no end to this list.

I got tired and kind of overwhelmed. There's no way anyone could watch all those films in one life time (well, not without doing other things).

I don't know about anyone else? But I tend to shut down when too much information or choices are thrown at me? I just don't bother with it at all. I'm not good at making decisions. Particularly decisions among over 100 choices. The most I can handle is roughly ten, if that.

Whomever came up with list - clearly is someone who saw way too many movies, has way too much time on their hands or is a movie critic that can't make up their mind.

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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.