Watching TV and over things...
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shadowkat1. So, my soap opera - which I record daily - was interrupted by the New Jersey Governor. The problem with living in NYC, is you can get television programming preempted by NJ, Conneticut, and NY. The news covers the tri-state area.
Apparently New Jersey is in the same boat as NY, albeit with fewer deaths and cases, yet still struggling, and following the same play book.
Anyhow, thanks to the nifty Hulu subscription - I got to watch the entire episode at 8PM as opposed to watching it on my computer screen. Also got to watch most of this weekend's Saturday Night Live - the At Home Edition - for a bit the innovative style kept my interest, then I just got bored. The best sketch by far was the satirical parody of a sales force meeting on Zoom. (And that's kind of saying something.) Also, when did Tom Hanks get old?
My gratitude to the friend who lent me this subscription is unfathomable at the moment.
2. While other people are watching old movies, I'm watching Cartoons on Disney + and Hulu.
Last night after Jesus Christ Superstar Live - I watched Disney's Aristocrats - which I don't think I've seen in thirty years, possibly longer. It's dated, by the way. Hilarious in places, but as it warns the viewer prior to the showing, there are two definite "Asian" racist slurs - typical of the time - it was released in 1970. There's a couple of Asian slurs in it that most likely will offend viewers. They aren't prominent, but they are definitely there. Although I did kind of look for them because of the warning.
Tonight, after watching the soap and part of SNL, I decided to try The Steven Universe - which at least two of my friends adore. Hulu has the complete season from 2013 on-wards. The episodes are not long - particularly when there are no commercials. So about fifteen minutes each? Also, they look better on a big 55 inch screen television than a tiny 12 inch computer screen via Youtube. For one thing the resolution is better. Yes, resolution and picture do matter in regards to cartoons and apparently soap operas. (We had a lengthy debate over the color of a character's necklace - until I finally figured out that it depended on the light and which resolution you had on your television screen. Not all television screens are created equal. My resolution is actually really spectacular - but grays and blacks don't always come out well - you need an OLED screen for that. And I can't afford an OLED Screen. I've had not one but two television set experts explain this to me in minute detail. Since I'm detail oriented myself - I tend to remember stuff like that.)
Anyhow the first two episodes were rather charming. The first one was admittedly a bit weak. It seemed to just jump into the action with no explanation. I was thinking, okay this is the first episode? It felt like the tenth. But, the second episode was hilarious in places - with it's absurdist sense of physical comedy, reminiscent of the old Disney animated films that I've been watching. And the animation style kind of grows on me after a bit.
Right now, I want cartoons, soap operas, old kid's movies from the 70s and 60s, nothing too deep or dark. I want giggles and cotton candy.
My mind really can't focus on anything else. I don't know how people are watching things like The Ozarks, Cheer, Tiger King, The Sopranos, or The English Game (which my family just watched.)
I want fun. So yes, I've graduated from Trevor Noah and SNL to Robin Hood, the Aristocrats and Steven Universe.
What's everyone else watching during their self-imposed isolations aka stay-at-home orders?
3. Oh, my good deed of the day was hunting down and finding "Daddy and Them" on Showtime for my cousin - at no more than $11. He couldn't find it anywhere for less than $72 on Amazon. This is the film that co-starred Billy Bob Thornton and John Prine. (I have five or six grieving John Prine fanatics on FB. Personally the appeal is kind of lost on me. He's okay, but I like other singers better and think Bill Withers was a bigger loss.)
4. Food
I keep compulsively buying weird food items from Amazon. Today it was cheese, popcorn and crackers.
I kid you not.
Yesterday, chocolate. To date? I've bought dishwashing soap, two packages of kind energy bars, lots of chocolate, face masks, toilet paper, paper towels, cheese, gourmet ravioli, tomato sauce, parmesene cheese, popcorn, almond/coconut creamer, sugar free kombuchi (which I thought would be a six pack - it wasn't. I was more like a 16 pack. I have all these little bottles of kombucha in my fridge. And I don't love it. It's okay - but it has that bitter after taste of stevia. (I really should have paid attention to the reviews - I thought I was getting one brand and got another. Buying stuff on Amazon can get tricky.) I also misread how many little milk cartons of almond coconut milk creamer that I was getting - I thought it was four, it was eight. And it's a monthly subscription? I may cancel that. The eight should last me at least four weeks. (To be fair this creamer lasts a long long time - such as until December 2020.)
Some people buy clothes, I buy books and food when I get anxious.
5. Finally, there's a meme going around on FB about what albums or books influenced you.
Some people posts the books, some are posting the albums.
Ex-college boyfriend who is also a country folk singer - who recently recorded himself singing a John Prine song on FB, which another old college buddy - that I've lost touch with - taught him - posted a Bob Dylan Album - Highway 61. One of the reasons we didn't survive as a couple in college - was he felt this overwhelming need to dictate my music taste. Not appreciating the fact that my taste in music is well eclectic at best and extremely broad. I basically would tape EVERYONE's albums in college. (They are long gone now - went the way of my cassette player. CD collection and DVD collection is soon to follow for pretty much the same reason - nothing to play them on. Although I did wisely download all my CD's to my computer and the cloud prior to this occurrence.)
I didn't have the heart to tell the boy - that he ruined me in regards to Dylan and the Grateful Dead for about ten years. I couldn't listen to either for ten years. I could listen to other people singing their songs, just not them.
Anyhow...if I were to tell you the albums that influenced me, in no particular order and off the top of my head.
1. The Best of Peter Paul and Mary
2. Simon and Garfunkle - The Graduate Album
3. Jesus Christ Superstar Album
4. U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday and Joshua Tree
5. The Carpenters
6. ABBA
7. Prince - Purple Rain
8. David Bowie - Soundtrack to CATS, and Let's Dance
9. Pink Floyd - The Wall and Albatross
10. Peter Gabriel Solo Album
11. The Beatles - The White Album and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
12. The Rolling Stones - Fade to Black
13. Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad
14. The Best of Judy Collins
15. Joni Mitchell - Blue
16. The Pretty in Pink Soundtrack
17. Tracy Chapman
18. Rush
19. Nine Inch Nails - God Is Dead
20. The soundtrack to the Mission
21. The Best of Johnny Cash
22. Celtic Music and Folksongs
I do have a lot of Bob Dylan, and I love him, but he didn't influence me that much.
Apparently New Jersey is in the same boat as NY, albeit with fewer deaths and cases, yet still struggling, and following the same play book.
Anyhow, thanks to the nifty Hulu subscription - I got to watch the entire episode at 8PM as opposed to watching it on my computer screen. Also got to watch most of this weekend's Saturday Night Live - the At Home Edition - for a bit the innovative style kept my interest, then I just got bored. The best sketch by far was the satirical parody of a sales force meeting on Zoom. (And that's kind of saying something.) Also, when did Tom Hanks get old?
My gratitude to the friend who lent me this subscription is unfathomable at the moment.
2. While other people are watching old movies, I'm watching Cartoons on Disney + and Hulu.
Last night after Jesus Christ Superstar Live - I watched Disney's Aristocrats - which I don't think I've seen in thirty years, possibly longer. It's dated, by the way. Hilarious in places, but as it warns the viewer prior to the showing, there are two definite "Asian" racist slurs - typical of the time - it was released in 1970. There's a couple of Asian slurs in it that most likely will offend viewers. They aren't prominent, but they are definitely there. Although I did kind of look for them because of the warning.
Tonight, after watching the soap and part of SNL, I decided to try The Steven Universe - which at least two of my friends adore. Hulu has the complete season from 2013 on-wards. The episodes are not long - particularly when there are no commercials. So about fifteen minutes each? Also, they look better on a big 55 inch screen television than a tiny 12 inch computer screen via Youtube. For one thing the resolution is better. Yes, resolution and picture do matter in regards to cartoons and apparently soap operas. (We had a lengthy debate over the color of a character's necklace - until I finally figured out that it depended on the light and which resolution you had on your television screen. Not all television screens are created equal. My resolution is actually really spectacular - but grays and blacks don't always come out well - you need an OLED screen for that. And I can't afford an OLED Screen. I've had not one but two television set experts explain this to me in minute detail. Since I'm detail oriented myself - I tend to remember stuff like that.)
Anyhow the first two episodes were rather charming. The first one was admittedly a bit weak. It seemed to just jump into the action with no explanation. I was thinking, okay this is the first episode? It felt like the tenth. But, the second episode was hilarious in places - with it's absurdist sense of physical comedy, reminiscent of the old Disney animated films that I've been watching. And the animation style kind of grows on me after a bit.
Right now, I want cartoons, soap operas, old kid's movies from the 70s and 60s, nothing too deep or dark. I want giggles and cotton candy.
My mind really can't focus on anything else. I don't know how people are watching things like The Ozarks, Cheer, Tiger King, The Sopranos, or The English Game (which my family just watched.)
I want fun. So yes, I've graduated from Trevor Noah and SNL to Robin Hood, the Aristocrats and Steven Universe.
What's everyone else watching during their self-imposed isolations aka stay-at-home orders?
3. Oh, my good deed of the day was hunting down and finding "Daddy and Them" on Showtime for my cousin - at no more than $11. He couldn't find it anywhere for less than $72 on Amazon. This is the film that co-starred Billy Bob Thornton and John Prine. (I have five or six grieving John Prine fanatics on FB. Personally the appeal is kind of lost on me. He's okay, but I like other singers better and think Bill Withers was a bigger loss.)
4. Food
I keep compulsively buying weird food items from Amazon. Today it was cheese, popcorn and crackers.
I kid you not.
Yesterday, chocolate. To date? I've bought dishwashing soap, two packages of kind energy bars, lots of chocolate, face masks, toilet paper, paper towels, cheese, gourmet ravioli, tomato sauce, parmesene cheese, popcorn, almond/coconut creamer, sugar free kombuchi (which I thought would be a six pack - it wasn't. I was more like a 16 pack. I have all these little bottles of kombucha in my fridge. And I don't love it. It's okay - but it has that bitter after taste of stevia. (I really should have paid attention to the reviews - I thought I was getting one brand and got another. Buying stuff on Amazon can get tricky.) I also misread how many little milk cartons of almond coconut milk creamer that I was getting - I thought it was four, it was eight. And it's a monthly subscription? I may cancel that. The eight should last me at least four weeks. (To be fair this creamer lasts a long long time - such as until December 2020.)
Some people buy clothes, I buy books and food when I get anxious.
5. Finally, there's a meme going around on FB about what albums or books influenced you.
Some people posts the books, some are posting the albums.
Ex-college boyfriend who is also a country folk singer - who recently recorded himself singing a John Prine song on FB, which another old college buddy - that I've lost touch with - taught him - posted a Bob Dylan Album - Highway 61. One of the reasons we didn't survive as a couple in college - was he felt this overwhelming need to dictate my music taste. Not appreciating the fact that my taste in music is well eclectic at best and extremely broad. I basically would tape EVERYONE's albums in college. (They are long gone now - went the way of my cassette player. CD collection and DVD collection is soon to follow for pretty much the same reason - nothing to play them on. Although I did wisely download all my CD's to my computer and the cloud prior to this occurrence.)
I didn't have the heart to tell the boy - that he ruined me in regards to Dylan and the Grateful Dead for about ten years. I couldn't listen to either for ten years. I could listen to other people singing their songs, just not them.
Anyhow...if I were to tell you the albums that influenced me, in no particular order and off the top of my head.
1. The Best of Peter Paul and Mary
2. Simon and Garfunkle - The Graduate Album
3. Jesus Christ Superstar Album
4. U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday and Joshua Tree
5. The Carpenters
6. ABBA
7. Prince - Purple Rain
8. David Bowie - Soundtrack to CATS, and Let's Dance
9. Pink Floyd - The Wall and Albatross
10. Peter Gabriel Solo Album
11. The Beatles - The White Album and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
12. The Rolling Stones - Fade to Black
13. Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad
14. The Best of Judy Collins
15. Joni Mitchell - Blue
16. The Pretty in Pink Soundtrack
17. Tracy Chapman
18. Rush
19. Nine Inch Nails - God Is Dead
20. The soundtrack to the Mission
21. The Best of Johnny Cash
22. Celtic Music and Folksongs
I do have a lot of Bob Dylan, and I love him, but he didn't influence me that much.