Leisure recs

Hi! It's a three-day weekend so you have time on your hands, yes? You would perhaps like some recommendations of enjoyable movies to gaze at? Maybe a couple of books that aren't too heavy? And someone to stop grilling you with questions? Fine, I'll get right to it.

🎥 Marty, Life is Short (Netflix)
I'll be honest, my tank is running low on patience for celebrity documentaries. I'm going to watch the upcoming Lorne because I am a Saturday Night Live freak, but might need a hiatus after that. Martin Short is a sweet, genuinely funny guy and his Jiminy Glick character is one of the GOATs. You want to watch this for one reason, though, and that is the home movie of him and Tom Hanks recreating a scene from Butch Cassidy. They need to make an entire movie out of it.

🎥 Thelma (Criterion, streaming rental)
Lesbian supernatural religious trauma daddy revenge is my new favorite genre. I don't know how else to describe this so you'll just have to watch it.

🎥 Kill Your Darlings (Hulu)
When I saw this was about the beat poets I almost didn't watch, assuming whomever played Allen Ginsberg was going to be insufferable as fuck. I was wrong! Daniel Radcliffe plays him and the boy wizard has turned out to be one heck of an actor. This is also an entirely true story about a murder among the group, and it's fascinating.

📖 Lost Lambs
If you're in the mood for extra-rich character development and want to laugh out loud, read this now. It also has the delightful surprise of evolving a dysfunctional family so much that you want to be a member of it by the end.

📖 The Secret Life of Groceries
I know, I know, I promised not too heavy but holy cats is this book interesting. I learned SO many things that I'm still thinking about. Like that the shrimping industry runs on indentured servitude, trapping people on boats for months at a time. Or that the majority of truck drivers you pass on the highway are caught in insurmountable webs of debt. It's an eye-opening read.

There you go, a few things to tide you over till next time. Hang in there, friends. One morning we'll wake up to his obituary.

xoxo,
Carla