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Kevin Cage of @spotlightsaga reviews… Flaked (S02E01) Day 1 Airdate: June 2, 2017 @flakedmusic Ratings: @netflix original Score: 8.75/10

**********SPOILERS BELOW**********

A day in the life of Chip… Well, post Chip, anyway. This isn’t the Chip that was the 5-Star recovering addict socialite of Venice Beach. This is the liar, sell-out Chip that tried to make things right but fucked everything up even more because his motives were purely selfish, Chip. This is the Chip who is exposed, naked, vulnerable… He no longer gets warm welcomes, waves from all, and free coffee. There’s one thing Chip didn’t lie about… And that is that Chip is an addict, or at least extremely self-destructive… I believe his feelings for everyone were real too, but Chip can’t help but to sabotage everything good in his life, you see, because that’s what addicts do. It’s an ugly fucking road. As someone who’s been through the ongoing, never-fn’-ending struggle of addiction (both as a viewer and willing and extremely active participant), I can wholeheartedly tell you that the disease manifests in many different forms… And that there is no right or one way to treat addiction. You just figure shit out as you go along, and I’ve found that if I focus on all my missteps or even worse, completely deny what’s happening in front of my face, treat things like they aren’t really happening, things just fall to shit even faster.

It was obvious from the first few episodes of S1 that ‘Flaked’ wasn’t some glossy black comedy that Will Arnett was going to charm himself through. Essentially this scared a lot of viewers off, and even though I too was apprehensive of the show’s direction at first, I eventually found myself enthralled. Now only do I know Chip, I know many Chips, some playing extremely prominent roles in my life. 'Flaked’ doesn’t exist for the viewer to love or root for a protagonist or boo an antagonist. 'Flaked’ merely exists as almost a memoir or a dirty little love letter that Will Arnett has written to his demons. This is a character piece and that’s exactly why I now look forward to the show. I’m bummed that 8 episodes in S1 turned to 6 episodes in S2, but that’s always fitting tho, isn’t it? Of course that’s what would happen, because by all means 'Flaked’ is a string of disappointments that ends up making a fascinating character piece if, you’ll have it.

I noticed that each episode is labeled 'Day 1’ and so on until 'Day 6’… Obviously, this is our week with Chip… And I’m both ironically excited and horrifyingly sad that the week long journey will unfold starting……. NOW. Now, meaning a few months after the end of S1. Chip and London (Ruth Kearney) are living in Wren’s (Bella Popa) spare room. Nobody wants them there, especially when it comes to Chip. As a matter of fact, Chip is kicked out and forced to scour a community who literally hates him for someone who will take him in. The disdain is real. He begs Topher’s gopher for money in recognizance for Chip literally betraying his entire community just to help Topher convince them that developing a large upscale hotel would be good for them. Topher is dodging him and taking advantage of the fact that they had nothing in writing. I want to call Topher an asshole, mainly because he is, but essentially he’s a good business man… Cunning, sly, and manipulative. This whole ordeal has left a lot of people feeling the effects of gentrification, maybe not as extreme as others we’ve written about, but it’s the same outcome and one that we are fighting here in my small slice of asshole heaven in Miami Beach.

The new hotel has raised rent and forced people out of their homes and businesses. Stefan (Travis Mills) is now selling his coffee outside like a lemonade stand because he can’t afford the rent… You know what that means, no free coffee. Chip will have to work on Stefan later, he has bigger fish to fry. He heads over to see Cooler (George Basil, who since S1 of 'Flaked’ has made quite the name for himself on a personal favorite TBS Networks’ 'Wrecked’, NBC’s 'The Good Place’, FX’s 'You’re The Worst’, The CW’s 'No Tomorrow’ and another personal fave HBO’s 'Crashing’). I’m loving George Basil in everything he’s doing, but his unconventional, scatterbrained, zany energy stands out in a holistically prominent way in here in this Netflix Original. Basil seems to be just running with the character, and he’s simply fun to watch. Cooler just goes with the flow and even forgets why people are upset with Chip in the first place. Chip mentions that he feels ostracized in a town where he was once revered, 'because they are holding him to something that he did’. Cooler being Cooler, chalks it up to 'people being people… “Like, they do that.” Suddenly it dawns on him exactly why Chip was being held responsible for his actions. After Cooler kicks him out, Chip only has one place left to go.

Enter Dennis (David Sullivan), Chip’s ex-bestie… But once a besties always a bestie (and if reconciliation doesn’t peak it’s friendly head around the corner today, there’s always tomorrow). You can’t escape the ones you love the most. It’s true that they will probably hurt you in a much larger degree than someone you care much less about, but that’s because we love them and we layer them in expectations… It’s another one of those 'people being people’ situations Cooler had mentioned before. Chip merely doesn’t run into Dennis. Co-Creators Will Arnett & Mark Chappell begin to set up a whole S2 arc for Dennis to work through. Clearly he won’t be playing second fiddle character-wise. Director Michael Patrick Jann does a great job of weaving Arnett’s writing and pushing the narrative forward at the right times and that right spots. Dennis is opening up a wine shop, not exactly a great idea for a recovering addict, and is developing a weird pseudo-relationship with his upstairs business neighbor and dance instructor, Rosa (Lenora Crichlow). By the time Chip gets to Dennis, the show has already set Dennis up as more than just a supporting character. Not that he wasn’t a prominent figure in S1, but he instantly feels more important to the story now. This isn’t just about Chip and a dark secret anymore.

Chip let’s it all out, tells Dennis everything that happened around the car crash. Chip took the fall to protect someone he loved deeply, to protect her career. Dennis won’t let him off the hook, he says that 'you didn’t just tell that lie once, you told it over and over’, to him, to everybody. Sure, Chip eventually got perks for this awful secret, this terrible accident he took credit for… Ironically… But Dennis is wrong on this one, he has to be. Chip may have lied and benefited from its ugliness in some way, but he was still Chip. He still gave Venice a part of himself, and I seriously don’t think that Dennis is some sort of saint in a position to judge someone so harshly. Sometimes life is just as much about moving on as it is letting go. Let go of this one, Dennis. Chip fucked up… But does anyone really deserve to be tossed to the curb like this? I’ve ran similar circumstances with people I know in my head over and over, and while Dennis has a right to be angry… I think he only gets that right for so long… As a friend, a person who was hurt, he’s entitled to some emotions. But as shitty and ego-centric as Chip can be, underneath all of that, there is a good man who just doesn’t know how to win.

Notable Music: Grandaddy - That’s What You Get for Gettin Outta Bed Tom Caulfield - The Blanket of Ideology Bill Moss - Sock It to 'Em Soul Brother S. Carey - Brassy Sun Ruby The Rabbitfoot - Do Me Right

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Reading de Nacht Reading 2019

my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

martin hägglund "this life why mortality makes us free" (2019)

postcyberpunkstompf:

01 ken liu (ed) "broken stars: contemporary chinese sf in translation" (2019)

02 cory doctorow "radicalized" (2019) 03 dave hutchinson "the return of the incredible exploding man" (2019) + dave hutchinson "nomads" (2019) + dave hutchinson "thumbprints" (1978) + dave hutchinson "torn air" (1980) + dave hutchinson "the push" (2009) + dave hutchinson "the villages" (2002) ... damn that elusive "paradise equation" (1981) ... 04 tade thompson "rosewater" (2016) + tade thompson "rosewater insurrection" (2019) + tade thompson "rosewater redemption" (2019) 05 desirina boskovich (ed) "lost transmissions: the secret history of sf & f" (2019)

06 hannu rajaniemi & jacob weisman (eds) "the new voices of science fiction" (2019) 07 gardner dozois (ed) "the very best of the best: 35 years of the year's best science fiction" (2019) 08 jonathan strahan (ed) "the best science fiction & fantasy of the year, volume thirteen" (2019) 09 robert markeley "kim stanley robinson modern masters of sf" (2019) 10 allan kaster (ed) "the year's top hard sf stories 3" (2019)

11 olivier girard (ed) "bifrost 96 la revue des mondes imaginaires: william gibson" (2019) 12 mario guglielminetti "web is over. parabola ed esplosione di ubuweb, l'antiprofilo" (2019) 13 bryan thomas schmidt (ed) "infinite stars: dark frontiers" (2019) 14 baoshu "the redemption of time" [2011] (2019) 15 cixin liu "the supernova era" [2003] (2019)

16 l. x. beckett "gamechanger" (2019) 17 gareth l powell "fleet of knives" (2019) 18 chen qiufan "waste tide" [2013] (2019) 19 derek künsken "the quantum garden" (2019) 20 gregory benford "rewrite: loops in the timescape" (2019)

21 james s.a. corey "tiamat's wrath" (2019) + james s.a. corey "auberon" (2019) 22 jim al-khalili "sunfall" (2019) 23 peter f hamilton "salvation lost" (2019) 24 neal asher "the warship" (2019) 25 jonathan strahan (ed) "mission critical" (2019)

26 jack mcdevitt "octavia gone" (2019) 27 elizabeth bear "ancestral night" (2019) 28 ian mcdonald "moon rising" (2019) 29 carmen maria machado (ed) "the best american sf & f 2019" (2019) 30 valerie valdes "chilling effect" (2019) 31 simon morden "bright morning star" (2019) + s. j. morden "no way" (2019) 32 neil stephenson "fall or, dodge in hell" (2019) 33 graham edwards "string city" (2019)

klassikstompf:

01 arno schmidt "bottom's dream" [1970] (2016) ... & still reading ...

02 jorge luis borgès "borgès restored (the author's preferred translations)" (2016) 03 julie orringer "the flight portfolio" (2019) + julie orringer "the invisible bridge" (2010) 04 pola oloixarac "savage theories" (2017) + pola oloixarac "dark constellations" (2019) 05 simon critchley "memory theatre" (2014)

06 gabriel josipovici "hotel andromeda" (2014) 07 david keenan "for the good times" (2019) 08 wg sebald "vertigo" [1990] (1999) + wg sebald "the emmigrants" [1992] (1996) + wg sebald "the rings of saturn" [1995] (1998) + wg sebald "austerlitz" (2001) 09 luis chitarroni "the no variations "diary of an unfinished novel" [2007] (2013) 10 julián ríos "larva: a midsummer night's babel" [1983] (1991)

11 césar aira "birthday" [2001] (2019) + césar aira "three novels" [1990-2000-1997] (2018) 12 tom mole "the secret life of books" (2019) 13 lucy ives "loudermilk or the real poet or the origin of the world" (2019) 14 lászló krasznahorkai "baron wenckheim's homecoming" [2016] (2019) 15 lucy ellmann "ducks, newburyport" (2019)

16 lars iyer "nietzsche & the burbs" (2019) 17 d harlan wilson "the psychotic dr. schreber" (2019) 18 andrew gallix (ed) "we'll never have paris" (2019) 19 chris kelso (ed) "i transgress" (2019) 20 john crowley "the solitudes" [1987] (2007) + john crowley "love & sleep" (1994) + john crowley "daemonomania" (2000) + john crowley "endless things" (2007) ... (the aegypt cycle)

polarstompf:

01 carlos ruiz zafón "the labyrinth of the spirits" [2017] (2018)

02 volker kutscher "the fatherland files" [2012] (2019) 03 andrea camilleri "the overnight kidnapper" [2015] (2019) + andrea camilleri "the other end of the line" [2016] (2019) 04 mick herron "joe country" (2019) + mick herron "this is what happened" (2018) + mick herron "nobody walks" (2015) 05 john le carré "agent running the field" (2019)

06 guillaume musso "la vie secrète des écrivains" (2019) 07 luke mccallin "the man from berlin" (2013) + luke mccallin "the pale house" (2014) + luke mccallin "the divided city" (2016) 09 henry porter "brandenburg" [2005] (2019) + henry porter "firefly" (2018) + henry porter "white hot silence" (2019) 10 mitch silver "the bookworm" (2018) + mitch silver "in secret service" (2007)

11 alan judd "the accidental agent" (2019) 12 philip kerr "metropolis" (2019) 13 ian rankin "westwind" (2019) 14 jo nesbø "the knife" (2019) 15 david hewson "devil's fjord" (2019)

16 barry forshaw "crime fiction: a reader's guide" (2019) 17 a.a. dhand "one way out" (2019) 18 martin holmén "clinch: the stockholm trilogy 01" (2016) + martin holmén "down for te count: the stockholm trilogy 02" (2017) + martin holmén "slugger: the stockholm trilogy 03" (2019) 19 michael kestemont "de zwarte koning" (2019) 20 soren sveistrup "the chestnut man" [2018] (2019)

21 tim mason "the darwin affair" (2019) 22 patrick conrad "good night, charlie" (2019) 23 chris pavone "the paris diversion" (2019) 24 dov aflon "a long night in paris" (2019) 25 arne dahl "hunted" [2017] (2019)

RIP ANDREA CAMILLERI !

gedächtnisstompf:

01 martin hägglund "this life: why mortality makes us free" (2019) / "this life: secular faith & spiritual freedom" (2019)

02 derrida "la vie la mort: séminaire (1975-1976)" (2019) 03 jean-luc nancy "derrida, suppléments” (2019) 04 jean-françois bouthors et jean-luc nancy "démocratie! hic et nunc" (2019) 05 hannah arendt "de vrijheid om vrij te zijn" (2019) + hannah arendt "nous autres réfugiés" (2019)

06 mckenzie wark "capital is dead": is this something worse?" (2019) 07 johan schokker & tim schokker "extimiteit: jacques lacan's terugkeer naar freud" (2000) 08 gerhard richter & ann schmock (eds) "give the word: responses to werner hamacher's 95 theses on philology" (2019) 09 ranja n gosh "philosophy & poetry: continental perspectives" (2019) 10 shoshana zuboff "the age of surveillance capitalism" (2019)

11 kate zambrano "screen tests: stories & other writing" (2019) 12 daniele carluccio "roland barthes lecteur" (2019) 13 jean-clet martin "la philosophie de gilles deleuze" (2019) 14 mitchell dean & daniel zamora "le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution: foucault après mai 68" (2019) 15 arnon grunberg "vriend & vijand: decadentie, ondergang & verlossing" (2019)

16 kwami anthony appiah "de leugens die ons verbinden: een nieuwe kijk op identiteit" [2018] (2019) 17 quentin meillassoux "science fiction & extro-science fiction" (2015) 18 roberto calasso "het onbenoembare verleden" [2017] (2019) 19 lydia davis "essays" (2019) 20 denise riley "time lived, without its flow" (2019)

poesisstompf:

zoë skoulding "footnotes to water" (2019)

platterstompf:

01 rick moody "on celestial music, and other adventures in listening" (2012)

02 yann courtiau "frictions: ce que la littérature a fait à la musique et ce que la musique a en a fait" (2019) 03 vivien goldman "revenge of the she-punks: a feminist music history from poly styrene to pussy riot" (2019) 04 garrígos, triana & guerra "god save the queens: pioneras del punk" (2019) 05 jon savage "this searing light, the sun & everything else: joy division the oral history" (2019)

06 richard beck "trains, jesus, and murder: the gospel according to johnny cash" 07 mark lanegan "sleevenotes" (2019) 08 jason williamson "jason williamson's house party: sleaford mods 2014-2019" (2019) 09 gallix, hill, & rose (eds) "love bites: fiction inspired by pete shelley" (2019) 10 greg laurie "johnny cash the redemption of an american icon" (2019)

11 marc vos & toon loenders "siglo xx: opdat de dood ons levend vindt & het leven ons niet doodt" (2019) 12 david sandilands & david keenan "go ahead & drop the bomb (memorial device pamflet)" (2019) 13 guillaume belhomme "pop fin de siècle" (2019) 14 chris bohn (ed) "the wire" (magazine) (2019) 15 sylvain sylvain "there's no bones in ice cream: sylvain sylvain's story of the new york dolls" (2018)

16 debbie harry "face it" (2019) 17 jaime gonzalo "poder freak: una crónica de la contracultura vol III" (2014) 18 matthew bower & samantha davies "talisman angelical" (2017) 19 darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: an arcade of audio atrocity vol I" (2013) + darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: another arcade of audio atrocity vol II" (2015) 20 steve zisson (ed) "a punk rock future" (2019) / ivar muñoz-rojas "underground babilonia" (2019)

bilderstompf:

01 didier ottinger "bacon en toutes lettres" (2019)

02 antoni tàpies "cap braços cames cos" (2012) + antoni tàpies "mahlerei und graphik" (2011) 03 laura oldfield ford "savage messiah" (2019) 04 fred vermorel "dead fashion girl: a situationist detective story" (2019) 05 françois schuiten & jaco van dormael "le dernier pharaon" (2019)

06 ken krimstein "the three escapes of hannah arendt: the tyranny of truth" (2018) 07 erik bindervoet & saskia pfaeltzer "aldus sprach nietzsche's zuster" (2019) 08 anthony n fragola & roch c smith "the erotic dream machine: interviews with alain robbe-grillet on his films" (2006)

cyclostompf:

01 bernard chambaz "petite philosophie du vélo" (2019)

02 filip osselaer "de man die doodging (vervolgens mosselen bestelde, de rekening vroeg en verdween): el tarangu, josé manuel fuente" (2019) 03 peter schmink "de cultus van het lijden: een vrije oefening" (2006) 04 laurent willame "les lieux sacrés du cyclisme: 15 pélérinages à faire avant de crever" (2019) 05 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes: uit liefde voor de stiel" [magazine] (2019)

06 johnny vansevenant "1969, het jaar van eddy merckx" (2019) 07 edwin winkels "la vuelta: heroïsche verhalen uit de ronde van spanje" (2019) 08 frederik baeckelandt "fausto coppi (les héros 04)" (2019) 09 harry pearson "the beast, the emperor & the milkman: a bone-shaking tour through cycling’s flemish heartlands" (2019) 10 peter cossins "the yellow jersey / le maillot jaune" (2019)

11 thijs zonneveld "het panini album" (2019) 12 thijs zonneveld "de fiets, de fiets & nog veel meer sportverhalen" (2019) 13 willy vangenechten "hoe word je een wielerfan (en blijf je er een)?" (2019)

some wissenschaftstompf & autres divertissements ...:

01 robert macfarlane "underland: a deep time journey" (2019)

02 george van hal & ans hekkenberg "het kosmisch rariteitenkabinet" (2019) 03 josey waley-cohen "only connect: the difficult second quiz book" (2019)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

... the annual out of control TBR pile ...

postcyberpunkstompf

ada hoffmann "the outside" (2019) adrian tchaikovsky "children of ruin" (2019) alastair reynolds "shadow captain" (2019) + alastair reynolds "permafrost" (2019) annalee newitz "the future of another timeline" (2019) charlie jane anders "the city in the middle of the night" (2019) farah mendlesohn "the pleasant profession of robert a heinlein" (2019)gareth l powell "ragged alice" (2019) greg egan "perihelion summer" (2019) ian creasey "the shapes of strangers" (2019) jo walton "lent" (2019)

kameron hurley "the light brigade" (2019) karl schroeder "stealing words" (2019) megan o'keefe "velocity weapon" (2019) neil clarke (ed) "the eagle has landed: 50 years of lunar sf" (2019) nina allan "the silverwind" (2019) paul di filippo "aeota" (2019) peter swirski "stanislaw lem: philosopher of the future" (2019) + peter swirski & waclaw m osadnik (eds) "lemography: stanislaw lem in the eyes of the world" (2019) richard kadrey "the grand dark" (2019) rudy rucker "million mile road trip" (2019) simon ings "the smoke" (2019)

klassikstompf

alex landragin "crossings" (2019) enrique vila-matas "mac's problem" [2017] (2019) joseph scapellato "the made-up man" (2019) kevin breatnach "tunnelvision" (2019) michel houellebecq "serotonin" (2019) nell zink "doxology" (2019) roberto bolaño "the spirit of science fiction: a novel" (2019) samanta schweblin "mouthful of birds" (2019) sergio pitol "mephisto's waltz: selected short stories" (2019) will eaves "murmur" (2019)

polarstompf

johan op de beek "het complot van laken" (2019) jon steinhagen "the hanging artist" (2019) juli zeh "empty hearts" (2019) max hertzberg "operation oskar" (2019) + max hertzberg "berlin centre" (2019) peter robinson "many rivers to cross" (2019) tony belloto "bellini & the sphinx" [1995] (2019)

#2019 #rewind #reading #lecture #librarything

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