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Yeah I mean the streaming apps kind of took over those.

 

For those channels, it isn't a content problem. New standup specials aren't on there because they wouldn't get a fraction of the audience that is available through streaming.

Subscription TV was a dominant part of culture for so long that it would have been really hard to convince these older corporate executives to pivot to these things they don't fully understand. The people on these boards still call their grandkids when the WiFi isn't working but they had TV when they were kids so it becomes inevitable.

 

There were goths girls on the bus tonight who were against "soft parenting".

Stay tuned the for the next addition of The Train Diaries.

 

What is soft parenting?

What is hard parenting?

(Narrator: All parenting is hard.)

 

The worst part of travelling is that while you are doing it everyone you meet asks about your trip and that's fine, then when you come home everyone wants to hear about your trip but you're already sick of talking about it and you're forced to persevere and tell them how great it was because any other response will produce an even more annoying conversation with them being needlessly sympathetic because they think you had a bad trip.

 

how was your trip?

 

dw Grim big trip post coming soon

 

next trip come to Pittsburgh I’ll buy you an IC light.

 

Ill drink it but im probably going to post poorly about in here after.

 

My next big trip will probably wont be to America, but we can meet up for a Chorus FM Eurotrip and Ill buy you rakia and take of you after.

 

I'm in vacation right now and I had the worst baked ziti of my life.

 

Forget if it was this thread or the other one where the discussion about movie theater etiquette was going on

 

To be fair, Wicked draws in adult theater kids, some of the worst types of people to spend time with.

 

At Gladiator this dude answered the phone next to me. He was dead quiet but still

 

One of the best things about going to the movies for me is that it’s an excuse not to talk to anyone and ignore my phone for 2+ hours.

 

Lady sitting next to me in Wicked was on her phone playing games half the movie. In my experience it's not even kids that don't know any better, it's always like an 60 year old adult. But yeah, it feels like we've lost the battle, especially now that most theaters have huge recliners, people feel more and more that it's their living room.

Anyway, my hot take is that this movie is actually a pretty damn good action thriller with some really fun set pieces, a great main cast, and a ton of awesome character actors supporting.

 

Yeah it’s fun

 

I basically punished my group chat about Costa Rica while I was in Costa Rica so when I got back home they didn’t really ask me anything they already knew the highlights.

 

Making my prediction now: Disney/20th Century are going to rebootquel The Sound Of Music

 

and also obviously Hamilton and The Book Of Mormon movies are basically guaranteed now

 

Do Fun Home, cowards

 

Jake Gyllenhaal got the rights and was gonna star and direct and that would have been worse than what he did to Taylor, I think they're still working on it hopefully some day

speaking of which saw Roberta in the Leslye Headland play yesterday and she is so magnetic

 

For Broadway musical adaptations currently on the slate:

• Next year we are getting an adaptation of Kiss Of The Spider Woman starring Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna directed by Bill Condon

• Girl From the North Country which is a musical based on the works of Bob Dylan has an adaptation in preproduction right now starring Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson

• Big River, which is a Tony Award winning musical based on the novels of Mark Twain has an adaptation in development

• Richard Linklater is working on a new big screen take of the classic Merrily We Roll Along for Blumhouse starring Paul Mescal, Beanie Feldstein, and Ben Platt. Although Linklater is taking the Boyhood approach so to filming this over the course of a decade +, so we are like not seeing this for many many years.

• A new adaptation of Guys and Dolls is in the works from TriStar. Into The Woods and Chicago director Rob Marshall attached to direct
• A new adaptation of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat is in the works at Amazon MGM directed by Wicked's Jon M Chu

• an adaptation On your Feet! which is a broadway musical based on the music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan is in development at Sony

• Paramount has adaptations of The King & I, Spamalot, and Sunset Boulevard in the pipeline

• An adaptation of Beautiful: A Carole King Musical is in the works at Sony

• An adaptation of the The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is in the slate at Disney
• Cyndi Lauper recently said a big screen version of Kinky Boots is in the works

 

Did not realize we were in the middle of a musical smorgasboard.

 

Hollywood loves musicals, always has