The small but bracing collision left me with just a few scrapes, barely noticeable. Two days later, however, the whole mess scabbed over, offering a tapestry of blacks, blues, and reds.
XOTVâs Franz Michael Ressel on building a social media platform around creators âand user privacy
In recent years, people have started ringing the alarm on social media in earnest. Fears are rising about platforms selling user data or creating dangerous content echo chambers that, at their worst, can lead to events like Januaryâs insurrection at the US Capitol.
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Just like another one of the lovers who fueled Taylor Swiftâs musical themes and schemes, I was seduced, sedated and stuck on Swift with on first listening of âFolklore.â
With an opening piano introduction straight out of a Bruce Hornsby playbook, seamstress Swift spins yarns that stitch her regrets, âWhat ifs?â and âWhat could have beensâ of lost loves into a warm narrative cardigan sweater that everyone would love to wear.
Composed and recorded in a year of quarantine, lockdown and postponed concerts, Swift writes and sings about previous lovers and affairs from high school home rooms to her current four-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn. He is Swiftâs songwriting partner listed as William Bowery on three songs on âFolklore,â from Republic Records.
Before we begin, we need to make the distinction between body-swap films and body-switch films. A body-swap film is a film in which two people trade bodies, to surprising and sometimes hilarious effect. A body-switch film, meanwhile, is a film where a humanâs soul is transported into a new vessel without reciprocation. This list primarily consists of body-swap films, but nevertheless I am including Kevin Spaceyâs 2016 cat-based body-switch movie Nine Lives because I want to remind people that it is in the top five worst films ever made.
19. A Saintly Switch (1999)
Again, I was in two minds whether or not to include this, on the basis that itâs a made-for-TV film that never received any form of theatrical opening. However, I will include it on the basis that it was directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Actual Peter Bogdanovich, responsible for Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show. Anyway, in this film a voodoo princess accidentally teaches some children how to swap their pa