Nerd Notes 7/23/2026

On late July 4th, 2026 my mother passed away after a long illness caused via stroke of unknown cause. A blessing in disguise as she was miserable as much as I attempted to give her quality of life as rehab did not seem to be happening as much effort was made. I was up till early hours July 5th dealing with the hardcore buerocracy of what happens when you call 911 to assist with a home ending. It then took me a week or more to handle some of the aftermath and another week of the aftermath of the aftermath, and I am not done. There is so much in settling when someone passes and their life, affairs and finances were tied to yours.

This has meant while I keep my sanity daily by checking on pop-culture news, while also playing Dave the Diver in The Jungle, Desktop Explorer and other games, doing a binge of the TV show BONES from the begining, planning my future and more I haven’t documented it on this site. I also recently have gone to wrestling shows and filmed and edited special vlogs of those that are on Youtube. Anyways, the last Nerd Notes was over 22 days ago. I’m going to be select here in things, but with SDCC 2026 starting tonight and then going cray cray today I wanted to get this happening before I was overwhelmed in things to share.

Because of the time between Nerd Notes this time I won’t be breaking down by category. I’ll just share from my history as I see fit and quick comment in captions.

Still loving this KISS kids band.
A new adaptation, from France, of the classic French story.
Kristen Stewart, Alia Shawkat, directorial debut from proven writer/producer Dylan Meyer.
My buddy The Real Tightspot AKA New Music Inferno made me aware of his new band with members of Taking Back Sunday

BUDDY, a movie by Casper Kelly (with TV writer Jamie King) is one of my most anticipated of the year. Here’s a bunch of stuff from it.

Just looks good.
I love that Travolta is still going and making films like this.
Great music.
Craig pops in on Higher and Higher and I just smile.
Cruise, Goodman, Iñárritu
Cool adaptation of rearely known book in the US
I’m really not into the idea of moving the story itself into the 70s, this show could easily work as a prequel and still be a show taking place in 1959 as a series showing the murder of the counselors who let Jason die and then also showing Pamela’s descent before cracking again in the 70s, but I’ll still watch eventually out of curiosity.
Brett Easton Ellis meets Ryan Murphy.
This looks different.
This also looks different.
I live that MCMG/GRPPLNG have their own guitar thing.
Liam Neeson, the oldest action star.
The acting here looks fab.
This just feels fanstically weird.
Who let the Sharks out.
The hype begins again.
Horror with great actors makes better horror.
Holy eff this looks good.
Great cast, good trailer.
As i said, horror, especially psycholigical horror with a great cast is always great. Not always but usually.
Music!
Music!

And we we end with two Batman trailers!

This entry was posted in Music, Nerd Notes, TV and Movies. Bookmark the permalink.