🎧 Currently listening to: Duran Duran – Rio
🎧 Currently listening to: Duran Duran – Rio
🔈 Now playing: R.E.M. – Document
🎧 Listened to: Episode 12: Indianapolis and Love at First Sight | The Anthropocene Reviewed | WNYC Studios
🎧 Listened to: H.I. #114: Stunt Peanut — Hello Internet
🎧 Listened to: The Incomparable | Ultimate Frisbee (Episode 417)
🎧 Listened to: The Incomparable | Stark Differences (Episode 299)
I love that Lisa’s Guns N Roses reference at the end seems to go completely over Jason’s head. :)
🎧 Listened to: H.I. #113: Thelma & Louise — Hello Internet
I like the fact that Grey accidentally put a car with automatic transmission into manual, because that was exactly what I did the first time I drove in the USA. I tried to get on the freeway out of Las Vegas and was accelerating to try to get to 60 (or 75 or whatever speed the rest of traffic was in) and the engine just screamed in pain. I had the take the first exist, park at a fast food restaurant and try to figure out what the hell was going on. Wasn’t this supposed to be a car that I didn’t have to shift gears in?
In my defence it was the first time that I drove an automatic, because Sweden – that likes to claim itself being one of the worlds most modern countries – have somehow failed to realise how driving a stick is like using a non-graphical user interface on your computer.
🎧 Listened to: The Incomparable | Panspermia, but for Clothes (Episode 328)
I really, really liked the movie Arrival. (I’ll write more about it, soon.) Therefore I had high hopes for this Incomparable episode, but I was kind of disappointed. They never got down to discussing the interesting issues that the movie brings up, or at least brought up in me.
🎧 Listened to: Cortex #77: The Effective Executive – Relay FM
Replies and comments
jemostrom
7 december, 2018 10:03@MrHenko I’ve had similar experiences. Although I very much prefer manual.
MrHenko
7 december, 2018 11:34@jemostrom Well, I’d argue that that’s because you are also a Swede, so it’s some kind of Stockholm Syndrome for the manual transmission. :)
jemostrom
7 december, 2018 11:35@MrHenko 😂