Agent Palmer

Music documentaries have gotten better recently. I can’t say exactly why, but I’m excited for it. One such example is the recently released Becoming Led Zeppelin.

Including interviews with surviving members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones, as well as a rare John Bonham audio interview, this rock documentary is all about how they got to the mountaintop as rock stars.

I can’t recall if I’ve discussed them here before, but I’m the proud owner of a few animation cels in my personal art collection. They’re pieces of a whole and reflections of the things I loved as a kid. Their existence on my walls grows even more special with each year as cels are part of a dying art.

Cel is short for celluloid, which is the transparent sheet on which the “animated” drawings were once painted or drawn on.

Whether you have played the game or just know of it, GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64 is as much a cultural phenomenon as its namesake James Bond franchise. GoldenEra is a 2022 documentary about the creation and legacy of the game. Before we get into this great documentary, I have to admit that I didn’t play much of GoldenEye 007. I only ever had access to it at friends’ houses who had a Nintendo 64. Genuinely, when it comes to…

For those unaware, A Complete Unknown is a 2024 film based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald. They both focus on the events leading up to the evening of July 25, 1965, when Bob Dylan took the stage at the Newport Folk Festival backed by an electric band. If you don’t know why that seems worthy of an entire movie or book, then it’s likely you are under the age of 50. The good news is…

Merriam-Webster defines wisdom as the “ability to discern inner qualities and relationships;” “good sense;” “generally accepted belief;” “accumulated philosophical or scientific learning” which could be summarized as insight, judgment and knowledge.

It continues on to define it as “a wise attitude, belief, or course of action” and “the teachings of the ancient wise men.”