Peter and Eden cover a whirlwind couple of weeks—family milestones, stressful schedules, and the search for meaning outside of work—before diving into media updates like Escaflone, In Mourning’s crushing new album, and the delightfully cursed Ice Cube–starring War of the Worlds (2025). From there, things spiral into chaos with a marathon of “Would You Rather?” questions that range from the silly to the philosophical, including fart announcements, glitter burps, pinky-finger super strength, and whether you’d rather have a South Park wedding or a Family Guy funeral. It’s the most chaotic fun you’ll have all week.

Episode Notes

Life updates:

• Peter’s son Alex returns from his mission and prepares for a wedding.
• The challenge of balancing work, family, and downtime.
• Reflections on identity outside of your career.

Media check-ins:

• Peter on Tiny Experiments and the joy of learning Final Cut Pro.
• New music: The Immortal by In Mourning, and “End of You” with Amy Lee, Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante.
• Eden’s anime binge: Azumanga Daioh (finished), Escaflone (technical mishaps + stationary bike viewing).
• Bad Movie Bros watch: War of the Worlds (2025) starring Ice Cube—possibly the worst movie ever made.
• Manga spotlight: Yoritama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta (romantic chaos).

Main Event: Would You Rather?

• Pajamas vs. tuxedos, freakishly big mouths vs. tiny noses.
• Public fart announcements vs. peeing your pants.
• Superpowers you don’t want: invisibility only when sneezing, pinky-only super strength, screaming flight.
• Food fiascos: pizza hands vs. donut feet, glitter burps vs. bubble hiccups.
• Social nightmares: every text to mom vs. marching band of lies.
• Philosophical turns: 20 years with no regrets vs. 100 with many.
• The ultimate cursed choice: South Park wedding or Family Guy funeral.

This week Eden and Peter dive into William Friedkin’s gritty 1977 thriller Sorcerer, a tense and sweat-soaked remake of The Wages of Fear. They talk through the film’s nihilistic worldview, Friedkin’s unrelenting direction, and Tangerine Dream’s eerie score that pushes the movie into fever-dream territory. Along the way, they share personal stories of how the film lingered in memory for decades, debate whether Sorcerer deserved its original flop status, and marvel at the sheer intensity of the bridge sequence. They also connect the film to broader cultural legacies—from the shadow of Star Wars to the way cult classics find redemption years later.

Show Notes
Opening catch-up

• Summer weather updates and life events.
• Peter finishes Donkey Kong Bonanza and shares thoughts on Taskmaster series 7 vs 8.
• Music chat: new Deftones (Private Music), Testament’s upcoming Parabellum, and the death of Mastodon’s Brett Hinds.

Work & reading tangents

• Eden’s deep dive into accessibility struggles with LaTeX, Pandoc, and PDFs (“the world’s worst file format”).
• Reading The Apothecary Diaries and Azumanga Daioh; comparisons with Nichijo and City.
• Listening to Tangerine Dream’s catalog and soundtrack prep for the film.

Imperfect Practice launch

• Peter introduces his new blog and YouTube channel, “Imperfect Practice,” focused on experiments with productivity, journaling, and workflows.

Main Event: Sorcerer

• Eden’s blind pick, Peter’s buried childhood memory of the Tangerine Dream LP, and initial impressions.
• Full plot breakdown with detailed discussion of:
  • The four opening vignettes.
  • Building the trucks and loading unstable dynamite.
  • The infamous 12-minute bridge sequence.
  • The brutal downer ending and themes of fate and nihilism.
• Discussion of the title Sorcerer (why it’s terrible, Friedkin’s explanation).
• Behind-the-scenes misery, budget overruns, and authenticity (actors did most of their own stunts).
• The soundtrack’s role in creating alienation and tension.
• Release woes: arriving weeks after Star Wars and being critically panned before decades-later reevaluation into cult-classic canon.

Wrap-up

• Reflections on its heavy but unforgettable impact.

Links
Imperfect Practice
Imperfect Practice on YouTube

What starts as a simple dive into media tracking apps quickly spirals into tangents about puzzles from hell, glamping with bison and mustangs, fistfights with Satan in Pittsburgh, and the glory days of scrobbling music. Along the way, Peter and Eden hash out their very different relationships with games, books, music, and movies—and why, at the end of the day, “the juice is not worth the squeeze” when it comes to tracking everything we consume.

Opening catch-up:

• Eden returns from travel and vents about the oppressive Midwestern humidity.
• Eden recounts a cursed puzzle vacation and a surreal HipCamp adventure that included glamping in a bus, staying at a mustang ranch, and hearing a wild coma story involving battling Satan.
• A detour into mobile gaming: Eden introduces the absurd yet addictive horse girl racing game Uma Musume.
• Peter shares his ongoing love for Taskmaster, Donkey Kong Bonanza on the Switch 2, and recent reading progress (Wind and Truth, Tiny Experiments).
• Music talk:
  • New releases from Carbomb, Abigail Williams, and Blackbraid.
  • Remembering Eric Wunder of Cobalt, with Peter realizing Slow Forever might be his true desert island album.

Main Topic: Media tracking apps and services.

• Video games: Eden dabbled with Backloggd but finds it too much work; Peter doesn’t see the appeal beyond Steam’s built-in history.
• Books: Eden logs reads in a notebook; Peter wrestles with StoryGraph, Hardcover, and Goodreads but finds the friction too high. Notion experiments fail; AI-summarized notes for nonfiction survive.
• Music: Nostalgia for scrobbling and Last.fm; frustrations with Spotify, Apple Music, and Plex setups. Peter praises Plexamp and Rune; Eden experiments with Cloud Beats and dreams of a NAS.
• Movies/TV: Eden dislikes fragmented platforms; Peter mentions using Sequel lightly but relies most on Call Sheet, an IMDb alternative. Eden uses League of Comic Geeks only to track physical comics in his collection.

Closing thoughts: both agree that while tracking can be tempting, talking to people and communities is a far more rewarding way to discover new media.