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weeknotes movies music museum

This Week:

I’m late to the party on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, but man….what a movie. Alanna and I watched it (in two sleepy pieces) and it was beautiful and funny and strange and inventive.
In polar opposition, I finished watching “The Northman”, a brutal and gorgeous film about evil men in an evil world.
We welcomed 4th graders from Greater Plains and Valleyview to the Museum. We love having them, showing them the Museum, and showing them the campus.
We are lucky to be hosting a graduate intern from Binghamton’s Masters of Public Archaeology Program. Nerissa is doing a great job and I’m looking forward to working with her over the next two months.
I mourned the death of Brian Wilson. The Beach Boys were the first band I loved as a band, after a cousin played me a whole tape of their music. “Help me Rhonda” is maybe a perfect pop song, full of beautiful melodies and very unusual harmonic changes that surprise and delight me every time I listen to it. I saw Wilson premier the completed version of Smile with the wondermints at Royal Albert Hall in 2004 and it was mindblowing, a delirious and joyful suite of songs about being American, being in love, and the wonder and confusion of both. Rest in Peace.