Jeff Holmes: evaluation

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…Charles Lloyd had an incredible renaissance. Not that he really ever stopped at quite an old age. You would think playing the saxophone is hard to do when you’re very old, but his last few albums were some of his best. Some of the best jazz, period. So, I like my picks for that year. Much better than my picks from the year before. It’s like I learned something between 2012 and 2013. Favorite movies. At the end of the year, in resonance, maybe, with 2023, the movie Her came out, and you were a big fan of it. It came out after you released your best-of, but that movie, I think, has held up really well, and people are returning to it now because it feels like it got some things right. One is just the natural feel of how it’s already possible now to chat with an AI and for it to feel very seamless. There’s now Humane which has made an AI pin, but the primary interface with it is voice. The other thing it got right, by the way, is if you look at the costume design in the movie Her, it very much imagines that the future will look like an updated version of the ’50s and ’60s. So the trousers will be higher-waisted, the cuts will be looser, things like that, and that is totally coming to pass. So great job, whoever did the costume design on Her. I think you got that one right. It will go down as one of the great movies of its time, like Frankenstein or City Lights or Gone with the Wind. Total clear winner.…

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