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Tom Kristensen


Big fan of NBC Sports solving a problem, the fact that both of their star color commentators in Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe were on track at the same time, by bringing in the legendary Tom Kristensen to pull about an hour in the booth. Fascinating hearing the insight of a king of the artform and of course he's an old friend to IMSA broadcasts with him often doing an annual Zoom interview during the 12 Hours of Sebring where he was wildly successful.

Tom never managed to get a win at Daytona, but with 9 wins at Le Mans it is safe to say dude knows what he's talking about when it comes to longform endurance racing and it was something a little bit different than the norm which is always welcome even if it was mostly them being cheap not wanting to hire another full color commentator for the race.



Soap Operas and Me


When I was a kid we first got digital cable or satellite around 2000ish, and one of my favorite things to watch in those first years was all the reruns of old soap operas on SoapNet. I didn't understand what was going on like half the time, but I really enjoyed the drama nonetheless. So I guess I shouldn't be shocked that suddenly in my 30s as I am the weakest I've ever been to pure nostalgia in my life that I've suddenly developed an interest in soap operas again.

I've been watching Dark Shadows and looking for high enough quality versions of the Passions series that don't hurt my eyes as I loved the work by its creator as a kid and watching Dallas and deciding that next week there are a 1-3 daily soaps that I plan to start watching starting on Monday through a couple streaming services I have access to. When I do, I'm going to start doing a post about them once a week, minireviews I guess or documenting my path trying to catch up completely blind to what's happening initially anyway.

in reply to Benny Boo

I think I may have gotten roped into a few storylines on soaps because my older sister would be watching them when I got home from school. The one I revisit often on YouTube is the hilariously camp storyline of Marlena being possessed by Satan in a mid to late 1990s Days of Our Lives storyline. You might enjoy that one!
in reply to Benny Boo

Oh yes I remember that one! That was during James E. Reilly's first stint as the head writer of Days of Our Lives, who'd go on to create Passions. He was the guy who first really brought in supernatural elements and other spooky stuff into the "normal" daytime soaps.


What David Lynch Meant To Me


in reply to Benny Boo

I had been a casual fan of Twin Peaks back when I was a kid. I definitely loved the style and his mix of the unusual, dramatic and humorous. I have a hard time staying interested in series, however, even Lynch's.

When Mulholland Drive came out on DVD back in 2002(?), I became obsessed with it, obsessively re-watching and trying to piece its puzzle together. I re-watched it again for the first time in years and I'm in love again. It's a masterwork on the level of Tarkovsky, IMO. I might even wonder how it would play out if it had been a series as was originally planned. But overall, I'm happy that he was able to make it a feature film.

in reply to Benny Boo

Mulholland Drive is so unbelievably good. My favorite Lynch film is Blue Velvet and Lost Highway has some of my favorite individual Lynch moments, but Mullholland is his greatest mystery and his most moving, beautiful, saddest film to watch while also containing some of his funniest (hapless hitman schtick) and scariest (Winky's) moments of his entire career.

I think the TV version would have been something special, you can tell from what they shot that there were a lot of similar elements to what made Twin Peaks good and he even has a couple blink and you miss it Twin Peaks cameos in the Club Silencio scene so maybe he had an idea they tie together somehow.

However, I am absolutely okay with the fact that it became a top 10 all time film for me instead and made genuine movie stars out of a couple of its cast-for-TV actors.