300 Or So Words About British Actors
There are currently a half dozen points of turmoil bubbling under the surface of this newsletter — death stuff, teen stuff, family stuff, the general malaise of understanding how the upcoming presidential election still seems way closer than it should be … stuff — and I really do want to go off on some things that would make for great newsletter content, but instead I just need to get this one small thing off my chest.
- “For Tomorrow” — Blur
- “Before the World Was Big” — Girlpool
- “Cops and robbers” — underscores
- ”You Drink a Lot of Coffee For a Teenager” — Don Caballero
- “balloons” — Noname (w/ Jay Electronica and Eryn Allen Kane)
- “FEE FI FO FUM” — Mato Wayuhi & Black Belt Eagle Scout
- “Not About Love” — Fiona Apple
- “I Would Die 4 U” — Lauren Auder & Wendy and Lisa
- “LIGHTWORKS” — MF DOOM & J Dilla
- “Everything is Fine” — Gift of Gab (w/ George Clinton & Latyrx)
- “Anything, Anything” — Dramarama
- “Guilt Trip” — PUP
- “Maceo’s Groove” — Maceo Parker
- “Scar Tissue” — Ghostface Killah & Nas
- “Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)” — Bob Dylan
- “Coat of Many Colors” — Dolly Parton
- “Breaking the Law” — Doro
Over the past few months, I’ve watched both The Wire and Succession. They’re both great! One is a powerful look at how the people on both sides of the drug trade — both dealers and law enforcement — are made of actual people with complex lives, while the other one is a laundry list of funny insults that somehow attempt to make me feel bad for another laundry list of billionaires.
But, like … all the actors are, like, British?
I don’t watch a lot of television, so I’m always surprised — especially when I see a clip of Matthew Macfadyen talking about his character in (SURPRISE) a very posh fancy British accent, or when I see Idris Elba, a guy I only really knew from his part in The Office, on a commercial where (SURPRISE) he’s both selling and AI and, apparently, mispronouncing “macaron” while being very British?. AND YOU CAN’T FOOL ME, DOMINIC WEST — I know that Baltimore accent is actually just YOU PRETENDING because you’re really actually Prince Charles.
Anyway, here’s some music for you to listen to as the world acts like fall is still a season and not just an extended summer (add that to the “points of turmoil,” I guess). I’ll have something more meaningful next month, as long as something crazy doesn’t happen, like me finding out that Christian Bale is actually British.