📺 The media guide S6E18

Well, I spent the last couple of days spending way too much time teaching myself how to sew by hand and then mending and patching up over twenty different things around the house. It's become a bit of an obsession looking for holes or cuts in anything fabric-related, so I can keep practicing. I've even considered tearing things in perfect condition just to have something to fix...

As you'll see in this issue, things are really starting to slow down, so the media guide will be wrapping up for the year. We'll only pop up if there's something really worth talking about. Otherwise, we'll keep publishing new stories and columns and let you know what's happening every weekend. But for now, let's get into it.

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🏡 Enema of the Garden State by Madi Diaz

Not much music or TV to touch on this week, so I wanted to highlight a few special things with this space. First is this cover album from Madi Diaz, covering the entirety of blink-182’s Enema of the State.

Not only is it a terrific cover album of one of my favorite albums of all time, but all the revenue goes to charity, helping immigrant families in need as the government uses every means necessary—legal or otherwise—to torment these folks.

Every penny it generates will go to Defending Our Neighbors Fund. This will help give immigrant families, adults, young children, and so many of those in need of advocates, access to resources through this support system. 

🕹️ Final Boss #1

A new action-adventure book from Tyler Kirkham and David Miller. It looks like something with a video game vibe, maybe even some over-the-top Mortal Kombat-style fighting. It might have potential, but I'm not even sure if I'm gonna pick this one up. It's just a pretty light week overall—to say the least.

🎥 Rental Family

Brendan Fraser is back in his first significant starring role since his critically acclaimed performance in The Whale. In Rental Family, he plays an American actor living in Tokyo, struggling to get by until he lands a gig as a family member. I had read about this a few years ago, but people will play stand-in roles for strangers in Japan, I guess. Anyway, Fraser immerses himself in their world, blending performance and reality.

🍁 Gowillog by billy woods & August Fanon

And to wrap up this section, billy woods released Golliwog earlier this year, and for this version that came out a couple weeks ago, August Fanon reproduced and reimagined the album in its entirety with new remixes, new songs, and more. It's a fun experiment to see how different an album can be in someone else's hands.