Weeknote 29, 2023

§1 Life's unexpected turns

If a fortune teller had told awkward and unpopular high school student Janis Joplin that someday a famous French fashion firm would use songs she would sing to advertise their wares, what would she have thought?

§2 Lyric

“You might not like it now but you will / You might not like it now but you will / The future will not stand still...” Adam & The Ants deliver the quintessential New Wave lyric in “Don't Be Square (Be There).”

§3 Walking away from Hollywood

HBO's decision to cancel the fifth and final season of Westworld killed my interest in ever again following a multi-season narrative series from Hollywood, and Steve Shives asks why studio executives don't understand that sort of reaction.

(Hat tip to MetaFilter for the link.)