Finally finding the time to watch this film. I like it so far, although is is hard to follow with the fast paced subtitles it uses. The story reminds me a bit of Lés Mis. But it is also clearly visible a propaganda piece.

The YouTube video thumbnail features a black-and-white image of a woman with long hair, looking upwards with an expression of surprise or fear. At the top, the text reads “CHINESE FILM CLASSICS.” Below the woman is the title “The White-Haired Girl” in red, followed by the Chinese characters “白毛女.” In the bottom left corner, there’s a circular emblem with a stylized design.

ABOUT THE FILM: The White-Haired Girl 白毛女 (1950) is a seminal work of New China cinema. A musical film adapted from a stage production, which in turn was claimed to have been adapted from a popular folk legend, The White-Haired Girl is an ideologically-freighted story of liberation and rejuvenation. A fresh young country girl is subjected to inhuman suffering by a despicable landlord, before being rescued when the communist Eighth-Route Army liberates her village and sees justice done. Xi’er’s new lease on life became symbolic of the rebirth of China, whose modern history was divided into two distinct periods by the slogan: “The old society forced humans to become ghosts / The new society turns ghosts into humans.”

The White-Haired Girl 白毛女 (1950) with English subtitles.

I will so copy this! Such a good idea.

At the top of my daily note, there are five little checkboxes. Shop. Bonsai. Exercise. Reading. Meditation. They aren’t on the calendar. They have no time blocks assigned.
For a while, I thought of them as “non-negotiables”.
The shift happened gradually. I started thinking of them less as obligations and more as escape valves. When I finish a hard chunk of writing, or a run of support emails, or a meeting that took more out of me than it should have, I look at the boxes. I pick one. I go.
Shop time means out in my garage-turned-maker space, planing a board or cutting a joint.

The Escape-Valve System.

A person with light hair is standing and playing a keyboard in a dimly lit room. They are wearing a colorful sweater over a striped shirt, with their hair in a bun. The timecode “10:07:41:01” is visible in the upper left corner.

Almost Regular Slime Tutorial.

I love this show, but I’m not sure I should have watched it yesterday evening while being home alone. It was triggering. I don’t recommend it if you have issues are triggered by mental health topics. But oh is this show done well. I suspect I need to watch it a second time at some point.