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shadowkat1. So, weirdly, I've engaged in a discussion with a rather self-righteous singer who thinks everyone should love to express themselves through song. Uhm, why? I don't enjoy singing in public or private. Seldom do it.
Out of curiousity, is there any one else out there who doesn't sing in the shower? Or read in the bathtub. And can't really sing?
Singers and musicians seem to think everyone can do it, because they can do it. Uh. No.
Also, I don't think in sounds or auditory...I have an sort of auditory dyslexia.
2. The Resident
I'm loving this show right now. The characters, the story, all of it. It's my new favorite show.
Anyone else watching?
Hits all my medical show kinks rather hard.
Although, will state that the lead, Matt Czurchy, is playing sort of the same character he did in Gilmore Girls and The Good Wife. A man who hates his rich, successful father, much to his own detriment and those around him.
But this a great show with complex characters and a diverse cast. My favorite character is Nina, the surgeon from Nigeria, who is treating patients out of her home. Also, Bruce Greenwood and Melinda Karadikas, play very complex villains.
Best medical show that I've seen since ER, realistic and gripping, without the insane frenetic pace of a Code Black or Chicago Med.
Also enjoying 9-1-1, mainly for the women characters, who are awesome. The male characters are rather weak and need tweaking. But it has some awesome female characters. Angela Bassett rocks in this series as a female cop who takes no prisoners. (I adore Angela Bassett.)
And the cases of the week are rather amusing, because Ryan Murphy and Tim Minear are the show-runners and have a wicked sense of humor. Minear has joined Murphy's writing group. This week the theme was "karma is a bitch", and well...one case was a woman who kept stealing packages off people's porches, until one package was so heavy she broke her hip. In another case, a man was shot by the tree that his wife shot trying to defend herself against him, by the same bullet. And in another, a guy got hit by a dump truck after robbing a convience store.
It's a much more positive series than Murphy's other series...which means the writer is becoming less cynical and more hopeful. It's the anti-thesis to Nip/Tuck.
This is US has it's season finale next week. I'm guessing it'll be replaced by Rise.
It was good this week, if a little cliche and manipulative in spots. I'm finding it a bit predictable in it's storylines lately and a little over the top in the sentimentality department. Scale back a bit please, writers.
That said, this week's episode was interesting in how the writer chose to parallel the experiences of the central character's family, an middle class white family, and upper middle class black family, with a poor, working class single black mom and her daughter -- struggling to not be evicted or end up lost in the foster care system. It was painful in places. So a good episode, but I felt a bit more nuance could have benefited it.
3. Ah, a friend on FB, who I knew from ATPO Board, and gets this sort of thing, finally saw The Black Panther -- and she picked up on all the things I did. (If anyone would, she would.)
*In any other movie Killmonger would’ve been the superhero: tragically loses parent as a child, complex search for identity, finds out about his hidden birthright, American entry point view from our world to mystical land, takes throne back from his murderous uncle. (And like many mainstream American movie heroes he forged his strength killing brown people in Iraq and Afghanistan in black ops operations for the US.) Also - hilarious that the diaspora character turns up and has opinions on how things should be modernised back home.
EXACTLY.
* Lots has been said about Black Panther’s aesthetics- and it was fab. But for me, it was stunning to hear non European, accented English presented as sexy, intelligent, authoritative and compelling. I loved it. Even when you resist the brainwashing, it’s hard to escape the constant message that our accents are jokes, are signifiers of low intelligence and poor vocab. That the ‘best accents’ (English speaking) rarely come with non white skin. As someone who has stubbornly held on to my accent for decades, I am reminded: yes, our voices are beautiful.
EXACTLY
This film changed things. It took a white male superhero/action trope and flipped it inside out.
Not only that, improved on it, and provided a wonderful message.
Black Churches Host Screenings of Black Panther
That pretty much says it all.
Mark my words, this film is changing things.
Out of curiousity, is there any one else out there who doesn't sing in the shower? Or read in the bathtub. And can't really sing?
Singers and musicians seem to think everyone can do it, because they can do it. Uh. No.
Also, I don't think in sounds or auditory...I have an sort of auditory dyslexia.
2. The Resident
I'm loving this show right now. The characters, the story, all of it. It's my new favorite show.
Anyone else watching?
Hits all my medical show kinks rather hard.
Although, will state that the lead, Matt Czurchy, is playing sort of the same character he did in Gilmore Girls and The Good Wife. A man who hates his rich, successful father, much to his own detriment and those around him.
But this a great show with complex characters and a diverse cast. My favorite character is Nina, the surgeon from Nigeria, who is treating patients out of her home. Also, Bruce Greenwood and Melinda Karadikas, play very complex villains.
Best medical show that I've seen since ER, realistic and gripping, without the insane frenetic pace of a Code Black or Chicago Med.
Also enjoying 9-1-1, mainly for the women characters, who are awesome. The male characters are rather weak and need tweaking. But it has some awesome female characters. Angela Bassett rocks in this series as a female cop who takes no prisoners. (I adore Angela Bassett.)
And the cases of the week are rather amusing, because Ryan Murphy and Tim Minear are the show-runners and have a wicked sense of humor. Minear has joined Murphy's writing group. This week the theme was "karma is a bitch", and well...one case was a woman who kept stealing packages off people's porches, until one package was so heavy she broke her hip. In another case, a man was shot by the tree that his wife shot trying to defend herself against him, by the same bullet. And in another, a guy got hit by a dump truck after robbing a convience store.
It's a much more positive series than Murphy's other series...which means the writer is becoming less cynical and more hopeful. It's the anti-thesis to Nip/Tuck.
This is US has it's season finale next week. I'm guessing it'll be replaced by Rise.
It was good this week, if a little cliche and manipulative in spots. I'm finding it a bit predictable in it's storylines lately and a little over the top in the sentimentality department. Scale back a bit please, writers.
That said, this week's episode was interesting in how the writer chose to parallel the experiences of the central character's family, an middle class white family, and upper middle class black family, with a poor, working class single black mom and her daughter -- struggling to not be evicted or end up lost in the foster care system. It was painful in places. So a good episode, but I felt a bit more nuance could have benefited it.
3. Ah, a friend on FB, who I knew from ATPO Board, and gets this sort of thing, finally saw The Black Panther -- and she picked up on all the things I did. (If anyone would, she would.)
*In any other movie Killmonger would’ve been the superhero: tragically loses parent as a child, complex search for identity, finds out about his hidden birthright, American entry point view from our world to mystical land, takes throne back from his murderous uncle. (And like many mainstream American movie heroes he forged his strength killing brown people in Iraq and Afghanistan in black ops operations for the US.) Also - hilarious that the diaspora character turns up and has opinions on how things should be modernised back home.
EXACTLY.
* Lots has been said about Black Panther’s aesthetics- and it was fab. But for me, it was stunning to hear non European, accented English presented as sexy, intelligent, authoritative and compelling. I loved it. Even when you resist the brainwashing, it’s hard to escape the constant message that our accents are jokes, are signifiers of low intelligence and poor vocab. That the ‘best accents’ (English speaking) rarely come with non white skin. As someone who has stubbornly held on to my accent for decades, I am reminded: yes, our voices are beautiful.
EXACTLY
This film changed things. It took a white male superhero/action trope and flipped it inside out.
Not only that, improved on it, and provided a wonderful message.
Black Churches Host Screenings of Black Panther
That pretty much says it all.
Mark my words, this film is changing things.
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Date: 2018-03-11 01:14 am (UTC)I have a poor voice and poor pitch and I rarely sing, especially in public. Also, I've never been fond of baths so I've hardly ever had one since childhood and thus don't read in it.
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Date: 2018-03-11 01:20 am (UTC)I think a lot of singers think singing is based on breath control and body, but it is also how you think or how your mind processes information. If you don't think auditory or process sounds a certain way -- it's very hard to reproduce pitch or learn how to sing.
I've learned over time that a big flaw in how human's think is a tendency to assume everyone thinks the same way they do and perceives sound, vibrations, images, etc in the same manner. We don't. No one sees anything in the same way. We focus on different things. And we are weirdly judgemental of those who don't think like we do.
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Date: 2018-03-11 01:17 am (UTC)Rah?
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Date: 2018-03-11 01:23 am (UTC)Rah?
Yes.
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Date: 2018-03-11 01:29 am (UTC)Interestingly, lots of good mathematicians are good at music too. There's some relationship there.
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Date: 2018-03-11 02:33 am (UTC)Yeah, most of the people I've met that are good at math are musicians. There's a guy at work who is a mathematical genius and he's also an amazing jazz musician, samba player, and has a great voice. The two are definitely linked.
Math is something I've always struggled with, it's not how I think.
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Date: 2018-03-11 03:56 am (UTC)I'm good at math, but only analytical stuff like algebra or calculus. I'm lousy at geometry. I suspect my lack of musical ability is somehow related to that, but who knows.
If you talk to Rah, tell her I said hello and would love to hear from her.
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Date: 2018-03-11 01:49 pm (UTC)It's not really talking, it's FB interaction. I'm in contact with a bunch of ATPO people who left LJ and DW and are just on FB and Twitter now.
Dochawk, Rah, Masq, Ponygirl, Rufus, Mammaculuna, Midnight Jane, Superplin, but the interaction is both more personal and more superficial. (In other words, you have to be more careful about what you say on it, because the individual's family, co-workers, etc are watching as well. I don't say certain things on FB that I will here, because of all of the frigging family members.)
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Date: 2018-03-11 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-11 02:29 am (UTC)I often interpret art through music. A great character study could be a sturdy 12 bar blues; an action movie is a 4/4 rock and roll beat; and an abstract painting could be Coltrane or King Crimson.
I sing in the shower all the time. Most of the time, it's joyous--but not always. When David Bowie died, I was singing "Space Oddity" in the shower and I started crying:
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
(Even then, though, I saw my reaction as symbolic of a powerful connection to an artist's music.)
If you would be willing, I'd love to take you on a karaoke night with friends. I would be hammier than an Arkansas pig farm. (But I would never do that to you.)
D. sings himself to sleep most nights. I am very proud.
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Date: 2018-03-11 02:44 am (UTC)I did karaoke in law school -- and they made fun of me. I did it once really drunk, we always went drinking when we did it -- and I remember someone telling me how courageous I was since I clearly could not sing a note.
Wouldn't mind going on a karaoke night with your friends -- it's a good way to break the ice. (In the book I'm currently writing, an ex-vet and her comrades do "drunken karaoke" -- where they butcher the songs, and sing their anthems. It's how they deal with their pain.)
But singing, sigh. I've been told to stop most of my life. College boyfriend imitated my voice once -- saying it sounded like machinery. I just can't hear my voice -- to me it sounds fine, to others horrific. I've been told it's tone deaf, or just how I process sounds.
It's worth noting that I was diagonsed with auditory coordination issues in the 1990s, where I just mis-process certain sounds. You've heard me do it -- I'll say the wrong word. From my perspective, I said "nine percent" but the person I spoke to heard "ten percent". Or I'll have troubles saying a word...it just will not come out. I'll have to find a substitute. Certain names? I can't pronounce. Because I have to go by visual clues, the auditory ones are lost on me.
Radio? Never been much of a fan of talk radio. Music yes, because the words can blue together in music without it mattering as much. I mishear words and consonants all the time.
But, give me a photograph or ask me to draw a bird or a person? I can give a rather life-like rendering or a cartoon of it.
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Date: 2018-03-12 04:31 pm (UTC)It's so good. It is absolutely the best medical show on TV. Minus the characters being The Center of the Universe (which is necessary for an interesting show, anyway), it's realistic and gritty and the people are people. Like, Conrad doesn't just let Nic in when he's pissed, he walks off. On most TV, it would be, "Oh, but you are my true love, I'll sigh, be sad, and we can have a bonding moment." Or they would show the character wishing they'd done that. Conrad obviously doesn't have that moment. He's pissed, it's his business, obviously you don't care so much, so this is mine.
It's just so effing good. For something I initially watched just for Matt Czuchry, I legitimately love this show.
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Date: 2018-03-12 04:49 pm (UTC)Yeah, I changed my mind about the show two-three episodes in. The pilot had problems, but all pilots do, and those that don't often tend to go bad later. Shows even start out sketchy and get better, or start out great and get sketchy...apparently?
This one did pick up the pace pretty quickly though after the first two episodes. And it's doing a rather good job of exploring each of it's cast members. Anyhow, I'm really enjoying it at the moment. More than pretty much everything else that is on, which surprised me.
Agreed --- having Conrad not cave to Nick, and walk off pissed, fits the character better. He caught her dating the other guy, she pushed twice on his father, he told her to back off...she didn't...worked. Also, what his father offered him is well, very hard not to give in to, and sharing it with his friends would just increase that pressure. It's more character driven than most of the medical shows...and less obnoxiously over-the-top in its medical cases. Also, I really like how chaotic the hospital ER room is. Feels more real somehow.
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Date: 2018-03-13 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-13 04:50 pm (UTC)The ER is not a calm, collected space. At least, not a level one trauma ER. Smaller ones can definitely be pretty quiet
Exactly. In the suburbs, yes, but those tend to be smaller. In the city, no. They are a frightening mess.