Television and Movies...and stuff
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shadowkat1. TV Show Premiere Dates:
*Discovery of Witches starts on Sunday, April 7 at 9pm on BBCAmerica and AMC at the same time.
*Fosse/Verdon debutes on April 9 - not sure of time on F/X
* What We Do in the Shadows - the comedy spawned by the vampire mockmentary, stars on FX on March 27 at 10 PM -- it's about bloodsuckers getting into hijinks on...Staten Island (of all places). Some day, I need to visit Staten Island. It's the only borough that I've never been too. Places I've not been to in NY -- Airondacks, Lakes, Albany, North of the Catskills, Hamptons, Niagra Falls, Buffalo, and Staten Island.
2. Listening to X-Plain the X-men Panel Pod-Cast about Age of X-men, where they sit down live at Emerald City Comic Con with writers Vita Ayala, Seanan McGuire, and Leah Williams to talk Age of X-Man, the intergenerational legacy of X-Men, and telling stories in the pauses.
Basically these writers are LGBTQ, POC and Women -- for an X-men comic series.They've also been told to play. Age of X-men is pocket universe that was created by extremely powerful mutant and the X-men, along with all the Mutants fighting Nate Grey and Legion (two reality bending mutants) were sucked into it. The universe is basically fascist -- no intimate or familial loves are allowed. But of course there are secret relationships. They also discussing what writing for the books means to them and what the X-men means to them. One mentions that she sees the X-men as a musical overture. Also mentions the problems of setting up a canon. Another writer, not sure which one it is -- mentions what she relates to the most about X-men is the lonliness -- and that's what I identify with -- the lonliness. And how they reach for each other, desiring connection.
And several of the one's they are exploring are "taboo" relationships in our world from an ult-right or conservative perspective. The podcast discusses some interesting themes done in the comics. Like how one character shapeshifted into a perfect white woman from a roma gypsey, in order to pass and be accepted by Captain Britain (Britain's version of Captain America in the comics). In this book -- the relationship is sort of flipped, Megayn is in a relationship with Nightcrawler. (The writer of the Amazing Nightcrawler -- is a LGBTQ and Roma,)
Also, they wanted to put in German phrases -- but they don't work in the world. Like Mein Gott -- there's no God in this world. Or Fraulein -- means unmarried woman, and there's no marriage in the world.
And one of the writer's does a metaphorical story on "gay conversion" -- and "gay rage" with Bobby and Northstar. And the same writer decided to do a romance between Psycholock and Blob. She got a lot of push back from fans for putting Psycholock with a fat man, which she got belligerant back and is determined to pull off. Interesting.
What a lot of people don't know is comics and daytime soaps love to explore subversive topics, and the areas most things don't. Genre also explores it. And they do it in interesting ways.
3. Right now, most of my life seems to be metaphorically represented by the black plastic bag hanging from a tree that I can see out of my living room window but can't remove. Today the Universe mocked me by showing me various torn plastic bags stuck in the tops of trees that I cannot remove. (You have to understand -- I love trees. They talk to me, I feel them. I feel safest near trees. It's why I can't live in the Southwest or West, I need trees. I can't breath if I'm not near trees.) So seeing all these damn plastic bags caught in the tree branches is just painful. But I can't do anything about it.
4. Chidi (coworker who looks like Chidi and has some of the same mannerisms) -- saw US and told me while it is definitely horror, but it is not scary. Which surprised me. He said "the audience wasn't scared -- yes it's suspenseful and edge on your seat, but he wouldn't describe it as scary. Nor does it stick with you in a mean way -- like Heredity did." And you REALLY want to have a discussion afterwards about it -- in a coffee house with a bunch of people. It's the sort of movie that you want to intellectually talk about. And he felt it really pushs film and changes it.
He also said..that 69% of the audience rated it high on Rotten Tomatoes, and 90% of critics did. What interested me was he labeled it as a thinking movie not a microwave movie -- he sees all superhero flicks as microwave flicks. (You see it, you don't think about it afterwards, nothing to it.) Sigh. Movie Snob. Sigh.
[My problem with the culture snob is they don't understand that all art has something special in it. And non-mainstream art is often as subversive if not more so...at times. And sometimes the most critically lauded art is the most boring and least relatable, and least is the most. I also respect people who are more open-minded and see a wide variety of art, if you only watch a narrow field or see a narrow spectrum...or read a narrow group of books -- and nothing else, you are voluntarily putting a brace on your brain. Branch out. Experiment. Play. And leave the snob on the shelf.]
After talking to film lover, talked to superhero flick lover -- and we discussed the two Avengers flicks and how the movies improve over time. And how, no, despite what some may think -- not all superhero flicks are created equal. And they aren't microwave films. I've had long conversations about them afterwards.
Yes, I'm belligerant and opinionated about crap. But you'll be happy to know that I do keep my opinions to myself, well for the most part, at the work place. I do want to survive after all.
[I still think I may wait to watch on TV. Mainly because the trailer bugs me.]
5. For Veronica Mars and Good Place fans, the actress who portrayed Chidi's love interest Simone (the Australian neurology professor) is joining Veronica Mars opposite Kristen Bell. (YAY!) But it's on Hulu, which I cancelled. Dang it.
*Discovery of Witches starts on Sunday, April 7 at 9pm on BBCAmerica and AMC at the same time.
*Fosse/Verdon debutes on April 9 - not sure of time on F/X
* What We Do in the Shadows - the comedy spawned by the vampire mockmentary, stars on FX on March 27 at 10 PM -- it's about bloodsuckers getting into hijinks on...Staten Island (of all places). Some day, I need to visit Staten Island. It's the only borough that I've never been too. Places I've not been to in NY -- Airondacks, Lakes, Albany, North of the Catskills, Hamptons, Niagra Falls, Buffalo, and Staten Island.
2. Listening to X-Plain the X-men Panel Pod-Cast about Age of X-men, where they sit down live at Emerald City Comic Con with writers Vita Ayala, Seanan McGuire, and Leah Williams to talk Age of X-Man, the intergenerational legacy of X-Men, and telling stories in the pauses.
Basically these writers are LGBTQ, POC and Women -- for an X-men comic series.They've also been told to play. Age of X-men is pocket universe that was created by extremely powerful mutant and the X-men, along with all the Mutants fighting Nate Grey and Legion (two reality bending mutants) were sucked into it. The universe is basically fascist -- no intimate or familial loves are allowed. But of course there are secret relationships. They also discussing what writing for the books means to them and what the X-men means to them. One mentions that she sees the X-men as a musical overture. Also mentions the problems of setting up a canon. Another writer, not sure which one it is -- mentions what she relates to the most about X-men is the lonliness -- and that's what I identify with -- the lonliness. And how they reach for each other, desiring connection.
And several of the one's they are exploring are "taboo" relationships in our world from an ult-right or conservative perspective. The podcast discusses some interesting themes done in the comics. Like how one character shapeshifted into a perfect white woman from a roma gypsey, in order to pass and be accepted by Captain Britain (Britain's version of Captain America in the comics). In this book -- the relationship is sort of flipped, Megayn is in a relationship with Nightcrawler. (The writer of the Amazing Nightcrawler -- is a LGBTQ and Roma,)
Also, they wanted to put in German phrases -- but they don't work in the world. Like Mein Gott -- there's no God in this world. Or Fraulein -- means unmarried woman, and there's no marriage in the world.
And one of the writer's does a metaphorical story on "gay conversion" -- and "gay rage" with Bobby and Northstar. And the same writer decided to do a romance between Psycholock and Blob. She got a lot of push back from fans for putting Psycholock with a fat man, which she got belligerant back and is determined to pull off. Interesting.
What a lot of people don't know is comics and daytime soaps love to explore subversive topics, and the areas most things don't. Genre also explores it. And they do it in interesting ways.
3. Right now, most of my life seems to be metaphorically represented by the black plastic bag hanging from a tree that I can see out of my living room window but can't remove. Today the Universe mocked me by showing me various torn plastic bags stuck in the tops of trees that I cannot remove. (You have to understand -- I love trees. They talk to me, I feel them. I feel safest near trees. It's why I can't live in the Southwest or West, I need trees. I can't breath if I'm not near trees.) So seeing all these damn plastic bags caught in the tree branches is just painful. But I can't do anything about it.
4. Chidi (coworker who looks like Chidi and has some of the same mannerisms) -- saw US and told me while it is definitely horror, but it is not scary. Which surprised me. He said "the audience wasn't scared -- yes it's suspenseful and edge on your seat, but he wouldn't describe it as scary. Nor does it stick with you in a mean way -- like Heredity did." And you REALLY want to have a discussion afterwards about it -- in a coffee house with a bunch of people. It's the sort of movie that you want to intellectually talk about. And he felt it really pushs film and changes it.
He also said..that 69% of the audience rated it high on Rotten Tomatoes, and 90% of critics did. What interested me was he labeled it as a thinking movie not a microwave movie -- he sees all superhero flicks as microwave flicks. (You see it, you don't think about it afterwards, nothing to it.) Sigh. Movie Snob. Sigh.
[My problem with the culture snob is they don't understand that all art has something special in it. And non-mainstream art is often as subversive if not more so...at times. And sometimes the most critically lauded art is the most boring and least relatable, and least is the most. I also respect people who are more open-minded and see a wide variety of art, if you only watch a narrow field or see a narrow spectrum...or read a narrow group of books -- and nothing else, you are voluntarily putting a brace on your brain. Branch out. Experiment. Play. And leave the snob on the shelf.]
After talking to film lover, talked to superhero flick lover -- and we discussed the two Avengers flicks and how the movies improve over time. And how, no, despite what some may think -- not all superhero flicks are created equal. And they aren't microwave films. I've had long conversations about them afterwards.
Yes, I'm belligerant and opinionated about crap. But you'll be happy to know that I do keep my opinions to myself, well for the most part, at the work place. I do want to survive after all.
[I still think I may wait to watch on TV. Mainly because the trailer bugs me.]
5. For Veronica Mars and Good Place fans, the actress who portrayed Chidi's love interest Simone (the Australian neurology professor) is joining Veronica Mars opposite Kristen Bell. (YAY!) But it's on Hulu, which I cancelled. Dang it.
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Date: 2019-03-26 04:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-27 12:48 am (UTC)My area is mainly Bangledash, Pakistani, Carribbean, Mid-Western Yuppie, and Eastern Eurpean.
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Date: 2019-03-27 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-27 12:32 pm (UTC)Didn't know that - for some reason I thought the community was in Queens (via another online friend who is from Sri Lanka and visited NYC from England)...when did you all move to Staten Island?
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Date: 2019-03-27 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-27 07:51 pm (UTC)DAR = Daughter of American Revolution? But didn't Belgium/Russian come over later? I'm DAR, I think, was able to trace ancestery to the Virginia in 1600s. (But that's the Irish/Scottish side, the Belgium/German side jumped over in the 1800s.)
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Date: 2019-03-27 08:02 pm (UTC)With that said, the first Europeans in NY were not, as you've been told, the Dutch. They were the Walloons. The Dutch came a short time later. Peter Minuit, in fact, was also Walloon.
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Date: 2019-03-28 02:03 am (UTC)I'm part Belgium or Belgian? Father's side. French-Belgium. My ancestors never did the paperwork for the DAR, but, I have found evidence that I my ancestory goes back to 1695 Virigina and 1700s NY, so there you go. Anglo/Scottish came over then.
My paternal great grandmother who was French-Beligum came over in the 1900s and was a dressmaker, with a degree from a French University in Belgium. My Welsh great great great grandfather came over in the 1800s. But the Scottish/Anglo came over to NY and Virigina in the 1600s, then moved to the mid-west in the 1800s. They were on my mother's side.
Got all this from ancestry.com. Rather disappointing. I wanted something other than Irish/Scottish/Beligum/German/Welsh/Anglo...the best I got with a touch of Finnish. I already knew about the others.
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Date: 2019-03-28 02:13 am (UTC)There really are a lot of us Belgian Americans, aren't there? I tell people it's like a secret social group that lots of people are part of but nobody ever talks about. Not like being, as you say, Russian or Irish or German. (Of course, in the end I see we're both good ol' American mutts, but that's not the point.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4cjOXu4AV8
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Date: 2019-03-28 02:53 am (UTC)Anywho Walloon reminds me a little of Welsh, although it's one of the few ancient languages that has survived...sort of. I wonder if Walloon is connected in anyway to the other ancient Celtic languages that existed prior to Roman times and pre-Norman/Saxon. Before the Romans changed half the languages.
There's also French-Belgium and Flemish-Belgium, my ancestery -- is apparently French-Belgium. My great grandmother spoke French as her first language. Or so I'm told, I'm wondering if she also spoke Walloon.
And yes, we're mutts...most Americans are.
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Date: 2019-03-28 03:13 am (UTC)My great grandmother spoke French as her first language. Or so I'm told, I'm wondering if she also spoke Walloon.
She probably did. Most Walloons did until midway through the 20th century when it became obvious that French was the way to get ahead. My grandmother (born 1923) was encouraged never to speak Walloon and so she only obtained a passive fluency, but her nieces and nephews spoke a little more than she did. (She was supposed to go to university and all, but with the war that never happened.)
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Date: 2019-03-26 09:23 pm (UTC)That is sad about the plastic bags. We have similar problems here because it's a very open and very windy area, and those single use bags tend to go everywhere even without that. I really wish they'd get banned locally.
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Date: 2019-03-27 12:44 am (UTC)those single use bags tend to go everywhere even without that. I really wish they'd get banned locally.
Yeah, I hate them too. Although I end up with them -- because I'll forget to brain a canvas bag with me to work. I've a huge collection of canvas bags -- because I keep buying them to avoid the single use plastic bags which I despise.
I despise them more than plastic bottles -- plastic bottles are useful and can be recycled. Single use plastic bags can't.
Sigh -- it's a metaphor for my frustration with the state of the world at the moment.
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