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Reynolds Woodcock

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  1. Yes, currently sitting by a pool in Aix a bottle deep, but that isn’t going to stop me from stalking Surly in my down time!
  2. That looks really fucking good. I haven’t been, and looks like I need to change that
  3. I’m currently in Aix En Provence having just come from the Riviera. Assuming you are going before the end of September, as others have said, given the amount of time probably best to just bounce around between Antibes and Menton. A great train connects each of the beach towns. You would need a rent car to really explore deeper than the immediate surrounding areas, but I’ll say that parking in the actual beach town areas really sucks. A few thoughts: From the Eze Sur Mer train station, you can hike up the Nietzche path to the old preserved village of Eze. It’s touristy to be sure, but still pretty cool and the views of the Riviera from the very top of the garden are great. The hike requires shoes and water and you to be in decent shape; it’s not a leisurely stroll but tourists do it every day. Menton is much lower key with an Italian vibe. Cool town. St Jean Cap Ferrat is beautiful and has the Rothschild grounds. The Four Seasons on the tip the peninsula is stunning, but hits the wallet fucking hard. Villa French Sur Mer is right there and also cool. Le Sentier du Littoral is a nice little walk along the coast of Antibes. Need a car for access. A bit further inland, but St Paul de Vence is a cool preserved village to walk around. Cannes is a dump.
  4. I finally went to Laser Wolf last week. It continues to blow me away that a place with that vibe exists in Williamsburg, but it was awesome and the view is incredible.
  5. Watched Memoria last night in 35mm. I was honestly a little bored for the first hour or so, but the last 25 minutes were pretty mesmerizing. If this kind of deliberate, unique film is your cup of tea, worth seeing the next time it is showing in your hometown.
  6. I spent a lot of late nights at the Mirage, Elsewhere and Nowadays in my younger days (i.e., 3 years ago). Great venues to let loose. A terrific afternoon.
  7. Bodies Bodies Bodies. Outside of a few really bad dialogue scenes, I thought it was pretty fucking fun. C+ movie that I had an A- time watching.
  8. Guys, have not read the last few pages, but just wanted to post the latest from IT. These guys are dialed in so time to light the cigarettes.
  9. Based on his writing I assume an Ian Boyd practice summary video is the length of Shoah?
  10. This movie is awesome. Would have loved to see it in a theater
  11. KD is obviously a different guy, but there is no chance in hell that is true. He won’t miss a game absent injury even if it’s for Brooklyn. He just isn’t wired liked that. For all of his perceived shortcomings, it’s clear to anyone paying attention to him that he just fucking loves the game of basketball more than anything else.
  12. I am a man of very little discernible talent. But I can make a mean mother fucking BLT during tomato season
  13. Car for that route unless you are pinching pennies.
  14. Did you end up staying at l’Abbaye? I’m trying to find a hotel in either Staint-Germaine or Marais and struggling with finding the right one. Thinking of doing the Terrace Apartment at Abbaye, or Cour des Vosges.
  15. Resurrection. That was unsettling.
  16. Re-watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. What an awesome movie. As an aside, how incredible was 2007 for new films? There Will Be Blood, No Country, Assassination, Zodiac, Michael Clayton, I’m Not There, Death Proof, Superbad, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, Gone Baby Gone, Bourne Ultimatum, Knocked Up, 28 Weeks Later, The Darjeeling Limited, Ratatoullie, and the list goes on. Incredible.
  17. Emmett’s is awesome. They opened one on Grove near my apartment and I order from there all the time.
  18. Roberta's is really fun but I assume you don't want to go all the way out to Bushwick. I don't think worth eating in the Manhattan outposts. John's is great. The best in New York is Scarr's IMO.
  19. Definitely not a horror movie. More Spielbergian SciFi. I enjoyed the action of the back half of the movie, the acting was good (although a bit of a waste of Daniel K's talents), and some of JP's shots and suspense are great. I'm glad I saw it in theaters and hope others do as well given the lack of big box office original stories. All of that said, the story was really, really all over the place and doesn't really hold up even by SciFi standards.
  20. Lol. D’Angelo Russell is a losing player and always has been. Once they saw Russell up close and personal and found a team dumb enough to attach an actual asset (the draft pick), he was always going to be gone. And they would have done the exact same thing with Wiggins before his excellent playoff run.
  21. The Empty Man was my favorite movie of 2020. Awesome stuff.
  22. I stayed at the GT last October after 10 days in Monforte. Pretty tough to beat the balcony views. Highly recommend renting a boat to spend your day driving up and down Lake Como. If you don’t have dinner plans, the Rabbit and Polenta at Fagurida are excellent.
  23. Caught this last night. It was all over the place in terms of tone and a lot of it just really did not mesh together. It kind of wanted to be a teenager saves the day kid genre similar to Stranger Things, but then also had some real violence and horror elements. There were also some really, really stupid and/or cringy parts of the movie. The entire plot line with Daniel from LOST was horrendous. Hawke was great as always, but also seemed like he was in a different movie from the other actors. All of that said, I didn’t think about work for 2 hours on a Friday night, and for that I give it 5 stars.
  24. Just to be clear, the provision you highlighted does not apply in this context. Twitter is suing (or has said it will sue) to specifically enforce buyer's obligations under the merger agreement and equity commitment letter (including closing once all of the other conditions are satisfied). They are not suing buyer to pay the reverse break fee. The reverse break fee is only payable if Twitter terminates for certain actions taken by the buyer (certain material breaches or failing to close when otherwise required). If Twitter gets specific performance for a closing it doesn't also get damages. Musk is just forced to buy a company that has significantly less cash because it just paid millions of dollars in litigation expenses. If they settle and go their separate ways, maybe litigation expenses are rolled up in the settlement. The risk to Twitter is incurring a shit ton of legal fees and then losing the suit. Now you have an impaired asset, you are out the litigation fees, and your directors are being sued by every shareholder plaintiffs' lawyer under the sun. What Twitter theoretically could do in the alternative is something like send him a notice that he invalidly terminated, but that he is in material breach of his covenants and thus Twitter terminates and is owed the reverse break fee. At that point, the interest and fees and expenses provisions would kick in if they won in court. But so far they haven't signaled an intent to go this route.
  25. I’m not sure I agree a center like Gobert will age very well. If you trade as much as the T Wolves did, you better be getting an All NBA level player, and outside of the truly all-time greats, there aren’t a ton of over 30 All NBA Centers.
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