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shadowkat1. Started watching Our Planet on Netflix -- this is the BBC produced program with Richard Attenborough narrating. It's beautiful, incredibly calming, so calming that it puts me to sleep. I watched it last night, it put me to sleep, so I went to bed early to read -- but my reading selection rev'ed me up and I was furious. So I had to go back and watch more of Our Planet and drink chamomille tea -- which resulted not going back to bed until midnight. Did however catch up again this morning when I watched a second episode -- and yep it put me to sleep again.
Had a very nice hour and half snooze in my armchair.
I need to find Blue Planet and the other BBC produced nature documentaries. This one focuses on how the polar ice-caps melting are changing life on the planet and how everything is connected. So I woke all empowered to scale back on the plastics, only to get thwarted by the grocery stores and food markets. It's impossible.
Look around your living and work spaces, really look, and tell me how many things you have that are made of plastic? I gave up counting.
That said, I did switch to Clean Choice Energy some time ago -- so 100% of my electricity is wind and solar generated.
It's actually the cleanest source in NY, from what I've seen.
And I don't drive -- I use electric trains for all travel, and walking. If I'm in a car there's someone else driving. So I don't pollute the world in that way either.
Eating? Reducing meat, and trying to eat more veggies, but sort of hard to do considering that I basically can't eat almost all grains, milk, cheese, soy, nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers). I got to get protein from somewhere. So moving more towards poultry and fish and away from red meat, which doesn't digest very well or so I've discovered.
There's nothing like watching a nature program to make one feel guilty about being a wasteful human on this planet.
That said, it is a beautiful program. I find nature programs comforting and compelling, they manage to show me why our world is such a beautiful place, and how beautiful, ruthless, cruel and powerful nature truly is.
2. No, not a fan of the horror genre. I was going to rent "US", but I can't get myself to do it. Have enough troubles with sleep, thank you. Had bizarre nightmares this weekend. One about having to create a musical, without any help -- and being told I had to sing all the parts and I can't sing. The other one was about Jetblue not letting me fly to a conference, and claiming they found an envelope of pot in my suitcase -- but I don't smoke pot and have never really smoked it, except once or twice in college over thirty years ago. Of course they didn't catch this in my home state but during the layover. So I was stuck in a foreign city with no real currency or way to get anywhere, and at some point I get mugged in an alley. I woke up very relieved -- as you can well imagine. And thinking, if I'm going to have this sort of nightmare reading a comic book -- I think I'll skip out on the horror flicks. Oh well, at least I could wake up from them -- when your dreams are worse than your reality, it makes reality quite comforting by comparison.
3. Walked to the grocery stores today -- they are about a thirty minute walk give or take a few in both directions. It's warm today but not unbearable. Although there is something in the air that was congesting my sinuses, and by the time I got home, I was thinking I needed to take a tyenol sinus + headache soon or we'd be in full-blown migraine territory.
4. Skipped out on church this morning -- they were doing a presentation on Pride, and I've gotten tired of the topic. (Don't misunderstand, I'm all for it...it's just that I'm burned out.) I live in NYC -- for a solid two months, its a parade just about every weekend (We've had the Brooklyn Pride parade, the Prospect Park Pride, the Mermaid Parade, the Manhattan Pride, the Queens Pride, some with fireworks -- because any reason at all to have fireworks or to light up a building or have a parade -- New Yorkers are THERE for it), parties every weekend, events, etc all associated with Pride. The first month is to gear up for it, the second month is all about it. And while I agree that awareness on and rights for LGBTQA are important -- there is such a thing as going overboard.
The problem with NYC is it goes WAY overboard or full-throtal on just about everything. I live in a city of hyperbole.
It's exhausting. Makes me miss the midwest at times...which was well the exact opposite. Be nice to find something in between, but apparently the concept of moderation is lost on most humans.
Did however find this comment on twitter somewhat amusing:
"So fucking rad how I get misgendered more on Pride weekend than the rest of the year put together."
Most of the time, people don't care. During Pride, it becomes a huge deal and a lot of people think you are stepping on their years of protesting, by adding your cause to the mix.
One thing the heterosexual and homosexual groups have in common is they have no understanding of bisexuality or transgender. That's sort of beyond their capacity. Binary concepts they get, but anything past that? Not so much. (Also, people regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, race, etc -- aren't always kind towards those who aren't like them. I know I've discovered this the hard way. Being gay, lesbian, trans, black, muslim, jewish, etc doesn't automatically make you a nice, tolerant, non-racist, kind person. Just as being white male and fundamentalist Christian doesn't automatically make you racist, nasty, sleazebag. We can't generalize about folks. Every time I attempt it I get smacked upside the head and think, oh damn.)
My heart goes out to the transgender. But the person who made this quote is happily married and doing what they love, so...hey they are doing better than I am. ;-) They also unfortunately want to change the world through social media - not happening. And how we speak -- also not happening. My church is attempting the same thing -- change how we talk, and I'm thinking, people are overwhelmed, if you want them to care about the trans, the last thing you should be doing is tell them they have to change how they use pronouns. Build up to that gently.
5. Hamil talks about doing the Chucky Voice and voice acting Hamil has become one of the best voice actors out there.
In the above link and in the youtube vid below: he talks about The Joker, Avatar - Last Airbender, Chucky...and how he creates his voices.
He said Dubbing is harder than pre-recording it. I find Hamil's career fascinating.
Far more interesting than Ford, who went the traditional superstar route, or Fisher who crashed and burned. Hem
6. Also found a quote on twitter in reference to something else..
Solicitation email: "Write 2500 words, quick, and we won't charge you..to publish and share...you've a unlimited time to complete this task."
Romance novelist: Please explain to me what I'd write and not get paid for it nor be charged for?
Me: Fanfic? Or Meta?
Had a very nice hour and half snooze in my armchair.
I need to find Blue Planet and the other BBC produced nature documentaries. This one focuses on how the polar ice-caps melting are changing life on the planet and how everything is connected. So I woke all empowered to scale back on the plastics, only to get thwarted by the grocery stores and food markets. It's impossible.
Look around your living and work spaces, really look, and tell me how many things you have that are made of plastic? I gave up counting.
That said, I did switch to Clean Choice Energy some time ago -- so 100% of my electricity is wind and solar generated.
It's actually the cleanest source in NY, from what I've seen.
And I don't drive -- I use electric trains for all travel, and walking. If I'm in a car there's someone else driving. So I don't pollute the world in that way either.
Eating? Reducing meat, and trying to eat more veggies, but sort of hard to do considering that I basically can't eat almost all grains, milk, cheese, soy, nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers). I got to get protein from somewhere. So moving more towards poultry and fish and away from red meat, which doesn't digest very well or so I've discovered.
There's nothing like watching a nature program to make one feel guilty about being a wasteful human on this planet.
That said, it is a beautiful program. I find nature programs comforting and compelling, they manage to show me why our world is such a beautiful place, and how beautiful, ruthless, cruel and powerful nature truly is.
2. No, not a fan of the horror genre. I was going to rent "US", but I can't get myself to do it. Have enough troubles with sleep, thank you. Had bizarre nightmares this weekend. One about having to create a musical, without any help -- and being told I had to sing all the parts and I can't sing. The other one was about Jetblue not letting me fly to a conference, and claiming they found an envelope of pot in my suitcase -- but I don't smoke pot and have never really smoked it, except once or twice in college over thirty years ago. Of course they didn't catch this in my home state but during the layover. So I was stuck in a foreign city with no real currency or way to get anywhere, and at some point I get mugged in an alley. I woke up very relieved -- as you can well imagine. And thinking, if I'm going to have this sort of nightmare reading a comic book -- I think I'll skip out on the horror flicks. Oh well, at least I could wake up from them -- when your dreams are worse than your reality, it makes reality quite comforting by comparison.
3. Walked to the grocery stores today -- they are about a thirty minute walk give or take a few in both directions. It's warm today but not unbearable. Although there is something in the air that was congesting my sinuses, and by the time I got home, I was thinking I needed to take a tyenol sinus + headache soon or we'd be in full-blown migraine territory.
4. Skipped out on church this morning -- they were doing a presentation on Pride, and I've gotten tired of the topic. (Don't misunderstand, I'm all for it...it's just that I'm burned out.) I live in NYC -- for a solid two months, its a parade just about every weekend (We've had the Brooklyn Pride parade, the Prospect Park Pride, the Mermaid Parade, the Manhattan Pride, the Queens Pride, some with fireworks -- because any reason at all to have fireworks or to light up a building or have a parade -- New Yorkers are THERE for it), parties every weekend, events, etc all associated with Pride. The first month is to gear up for it, the second month is all about it. And while I agree that awareness on and rights for LGBTQA are important -- there is such a thing as going overboard.
The problem with NYC is it goes WAY overboard or full-throtal on just about everything. I live in a city of hyperbole.
It's exhausting. Makes me miss the midwest at times...which was well the exact opposite. Be nice to find something in between, but apparently the concept of moderation is lost on most humans.
Did however find this comment on twitter somewhat amusing:
"So fucking rad how I get misgendered more on Pride weekend than the rest of the year put together."
Most of the time, people don't care. During Pride, it becomes a huge deal and a lot of people think you are stepping on their years of protesting, by adding your cause to the mix.
One thing the heterosexual and homosexual groups have in common is they have no understanding of bisexuality or transgender. That's sort of beyond their capacity. Binary concepts they get, but anything past that? Not so much. (Also, people regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, race, etc -- aren't always kind towards those who aren't like them. I know I've discovered this the hard way. Being gay, lesbian, trans, black, muslim, jewish, etc doesn't automatically make you a nice, tolerant, non-racist, kind person. Just as being white male and fundamentalist Christian doesn't automatically make you racist, nasty, sleazebag. We can't generalize about folks. Every time I attempt it I get smacked upside the head and think, oh damn.)
My heart goes out to the transgender. But the person who made this quote is happily married and doing what they love, so...hey they are doing better than I am. ;-) They also unfortunately want to change the world through social media - not happening. And how we speak -- also not happening. My church is attempting the same thing -- change how we talk, and I'm thinking, people are overwhelmed, if you want them to care about the trans, the last thing you should be doing is tell them they have to change how they use pronouns. Build up to that gently.
5. Hamil talks about doing the Chucky Voice and voice acting Hamil has become one of the best voice actors out there.
In the above link and in the youtube vid below: he talks about The Joker, Avatar - Last Airbender, Chucky...and how he creates his voices.
He said Dubbing is harder than pre-recording it. I find Hamil's career fascinating.
Far more interesting than Ford, who went the traditional superstar route, or Fisher who crashed and burned. Hem
6. Also found a quote on twitter in reference to something else..
Solicitation email: "Write 2500 words, quick, and we won't charge you..to publish and share...you've a unlimited time to complete this task."
Romance novelist: Please explain to me what I'd write and not get paid for it nor be charged for?
Me: Fanfic? Or Meta?
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Date: 2019-07-02 12:29 pm (UTC)How much of that though can be attribute to vocal work, and how much to writing and art? I'm not sure it's fair to compare the performances -- since different writers and directors, plus the other three are live action not voice actor, which is a whole different process? And in film -- 90% of it is the direction and editing. The actor is important but often at the mercy of their director, writer and editing room.
I saw an interesting interview with Marsters recently --- where he said that he was horrible in PS I Love You because there was nothing on the page for the character and the direction wasn't there, so the character was whatever he brought to it, and some of that got edited out. While with Buffy -- everything was on the page, and the direction precise -- to the point that they'd reshoot the scene if you left out a word like "the". I even saw footage -- and Whedon goes up to him and corrects two words of what he said.
Nolan was a hands on director, while Tim Burton let the actors do whatever they wanted, and in the animated series -- Hamill states he was given some freedom but not a lot, and a lot of his performance was based on Kevin Conroy as Batman, and he wouldn't do it without Conroy. And how he was given direction on what they were looking for.
It's not like the stage -- where the performances are actors -- those are more comparable. But performances in film, and film vs. animated? No. I don't think they can be fairly compared, too many other factors in play.
That said, I will state that I agree and like the animated version of the Joker the best. The only other joker that worked for me was Ledger's. But also the only Batman film that worked for me was the Dark Knight. And I don't think that the Killing Joke would have worked as a live action film...not that I've seen the animated version, but I have read the Moore comic and remember it vividly.