THIS WEEK!
Added 2024-12-23 04:51:13 +0000 UTCHappy holidays folks! Starting a new show this week: The Haunting of Hill House. Hopefully next week I'll add a second show to the roster🙏🏾
This WEEK 🎞️
Monday 23
The Haunting of Hill House 1 x 1+2
Tuesday 24
Hannibal 2 x 2+3
Wednesday 25
Merry Christmas
Thursday 26
The Good Place 1 x 6-5
Friday 27
The Wire 3 x 4+5
Saturday 28
Pan's Labyrinth
Videos are mostly posted in the evening. Videos may appear on the following day in your timezone. This schedule, while not likely, is subject to change.
Weekly question: What is your favorite childhood memory?
- Christmas time with my family for sure. In Nigeria, Christmas is kind of a mixture of America's 4th of July and Thanksgiving. No snow, lots of fireworks, and lots of food. We had a big house so sometimes you wake up to the smell of food downstairs. Come downstairs to see all your aunties + mom whipping up the best meals in the kitchen and outside. Family friends and Neighbors coming to visit throughout the whole day. It was Bliss⭐
Many thanks my friends. Enjoy the rest of your week🌸
Franklin
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I'm not sure if you just take random recommendations or if I should wait until you ask for them, but here are some recs: TV SERIES 1. Season 5 of "Fargo" (other seasons are good, but this is my personal fav) 2. "River" - a six-episode limited series with Stellan Skarsgard (my DM offer on this one still stands) 3. Various episodes of "Black Mirror" -- I'm thinking top rated ones or you could have us nominate and vote on the episodes and watch the top 3, 4, or 5. 4. "Devs" - sci-fi genre starring Nick Offerman MOVIES 1. "Her" starring Joaquin Phoenix - sci fi 2. "V for Vendetta" - dystopian genre 3. "Donnie Darko" - sci fi (mild horror? I can't remember)
Melissa
2024-12-27 12:46:07 +0000 UTCOoh, that sounds delicious! I have never been able to try real jollof rice, but I have heard of its fame, and now I definitely need to try it! I am fascinated by how people in warm climates adapt the Winter holidays; it always highlights what the important parts are, and it's not trees or decorations or even presents, but food and loved ones whether related to us or not, that's where the joy is. (I have family in Australia, and for them Christmas is in the height of Summer! My brain has trouble computing it. I wish I could go experience it someday.)
Lola Lirola
2024-12-27 12:41:21 +0000 UTCOmg I’m such a dingus… forgot to mention MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Cat Charbonneau
2024-12-26 02:11:54 +0000 UTCIt’s probably too late and not the right place BUT IF you’re looking for New Years themed movies I recommend 200 Cigarettes… jammed packed cast and set in New York!
Cat Charbonneau
2024-12-26 02:10:32 +0000 UTCYes indeed. Those memories have a way of sticking with you forever 💛
Franklin
2024-12-25 05:19:28 +0000 UTCWhen I was little, we would go to church on the Night Before Christmas. We would have a candle Mass. Everybody lights a candle, says a prayer. As I mentioned above, a lot of fireworks for celebration. I guess the closest thing we have to a tradition is cooking lots of meals and having different people visit the house throughout the whole day. also involves sending food to all our neighbors. The menu is usually jollof rice, salads, lots of barbecue and pepper soup. Most of those meals are cooked outside on the big Fire. So everything will have this delicious smoky taste. My God I'm salivating just thinking about it. Similar to you, present and gift-given is not a thing back home. I still struggle with giving and accepting gifts since I've been living in the US.
Franklin
2024-12-25 05:18:40 +0000 UTCOh my goodness Lola. I had a big smile on my face while reading all this. Culture and traditions are so beautiful. What a coincidence, The family I stayed with during my vacation in Florida, the wife is from Argentina. And she was telling me about the three wise men thing, and I was so fascinated by it. Thank you for elaborating so much more on it. I'm happy your big family has all these Traditions that you all honor and have fun with
Franklin
2024-12-25 05:10:51 +0000 UTCRight back at you Melissa. Love🌸
Franklin
2024-12-25 05:04:36 +0000 UTCNo matter IF you celebrate or WHAT you celebrate, I extend this wish to you and yours: May all of you be granted all the best things in the coming days: friendship, family, love, and joy. 💚
Melissa
2024-12-24 15:46:28 +0000 UTCWhat's the usual Christmas menu in Nigeria? Do you have any special traditions like we do here? I am curious what everyone's different holidays look like!
Lola Lirola
2024-12-24 12:01:24 +0000 UTCThose memories sound so lovely!! My family is also very big, my grandma was 99 when we lost her last year, but my grandaunt is 100 years old and still a force to be reckoned with, there's 8 uncles and aunties, 15 cousins, and two babies coming next year! Here in Spain we do things a bit different: The big day is the 24th, and it's for dinner, not in the morning (so it's today! I am writing this as I wait for the veggies to roast in the oven to be ready for tonight). Menu is usually bone broth, roast lamb and purple cabbage. Then we do the 12 grapes on New Year's Eve, one for each chime of the clock at midnight. Vendors even sell 12-grape bunches already counted and prepared for that day! And there's no presents at Christmas! 😱 Although that is changing now, because of the American influence, the tradition here is to do presents on January 6th, on the feast of the Three Wise Men. That day is my favorite of the holidays! When I was a kid, I found out about Santa/Three Wise Men quite early, I must have been 6-7, but rather than be disappointed, I *loved* the idea that it was my parents giving me presents. So much better than strangers breaking into your home! In my child mind, the adults had all the fun: they could stay late watching movies after midnight, and I genuinely believed they dressed up as the Three Wise Men and put on a show, even though we were asleep, just for fun and theatrics. I wanted so badly to be part of that fun! Just like Americans leave cookies for Santa, here we leave three sips of punch for the Wise Men, and three little plates of rice or carrots for the camels they ride. My dad used to point out in the morning that the camels had definitely been to the house, because the rice was half-eaten, half-spilled, and the punch glasses were empty! I absolutely loved that part. I was convinced my had had a secret camel costume that he wore to leave the paw prints. As an adult, I have actually made that childhood idea true, kinda! I get together with my sister on January 5th, and we spend all day cooking homemade presents like jams and spreads for the year, and we put on a theme party (we spend all November planning it!): we did a Grinch one, a Narnia one, we did Little Women, we did a Jingle Bells one... We decorate her living room on theme, and we do wear costumes! This year, I'll be the Bethlehem star 😄 It's my favorite holiday. When neither of us had kids, we did it for my parents and my auntie, and now we do it for the kids too. And I am now almost 50 years old, and my dad is now in his 70s, but when we go to my parents' on Wise Men morning, he still has three little plates of rice half-strewn like the camels have been there, and it makes my heart full. I wish very Happy Holidays to all of you and yours here!!
Lola Lirola
2024-12-24 11:59:59 +0000 UTCThat is the next show I'm starting in a week or so
Franklin
2024-12-23 19:24:10 +0000 UTC😭😭 I had hopes for Derry Girls!!
Francisca Bastos
2024-12-23 17:30:12 +0000 UTCBest childhood memory gotta just be the prime days of being with my family for the holidays. Nothing beats home cooking, whole fam together laughing and playing games, just beautiful 🙏🏾
Roronoa Denpaii
2024-12-23 13:36:36 +0000 UTC
