Good Friday...
Apr. 15th, 2022 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatGot the day off today. Too tired from the work week to do much with it - outside of vegging. I did go grocery shopping and took out the trash. Also made it through about six or seven days back on the dw correspondence list.
I've a few posters who post about twenty times a day. Including Smart Bitches - which wrote an amusing (spoiler filled) review of the horror flick Fresh. (I've no interest in seeing the horror movie - I won't watch certain films. Basically anything regarding torture, graphic depictions of cannibalism or gore, or sexual violence are out. I will watch horror films - I'm just highly selective for my own mental health.)
Quote from review..
Amazing that we made it 46 minutes in without someone telling her to smile.
Maya: Better than a lot of workplaces I’ve been in!!!
Yep. There used to be men in my workplace who would plague me daily - by telling me to smile. It doesn't happen now. The next generation is a bit more "woke" in that regard. My generation and the one above me, was woefully not - and kind of abusive about it.
It was always an order. And I'd comply with a look of death attached. My look of death can stop people in their tracks. If looks could kill ...and all that.
Don't do that. Never tell someone to smile. If they aren't smiling it's for a reason. And it's self-centered to ask. People who ask folks to smile, deserve to smacked or squirted with a water gun. (I kind of wish I could walk around with a water gun and just squirt people who annoy me. The only draw back? I'd probably get squirted too.)
Good news? It doesn't happen any longer. We got rid of all of the assholes who did that - finally. Or it got beaten out of them by the #MeToo Movement, and if so? Hallelujah.
Another quote that I found funny, because we've already established the fact that I've an odd sense of humor...
See? I love reading reviews of horror flicks for this reason - I often find them hilarious. Mainly because whoever makes horror flicks either has a really odd sense of humor, or is really bad at making movies. The bar is set very low - at any rate. Oh, history lesson? Apparently the early slasher flicks in the 1970s were made by the Porn film studios. They did both. Actually they started with porn and slowly gravitated to horror, discovering it was cheaper and more lucrative. Plus not that hard to do. Apparently the leap from porn to well Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn't that big? Both objectify the human body for exploitative purposes. And are ever so slightly sadistic...and appealing to the puerile and slightly sadistic side of the human brain, which likes to spend money and sit in dank movie houses.
**
My apartment complex got noisy all of sudden, with lots of opening doors, chattering, and climbing of stairs and stomping about. Now quieting down again. And it's quiet - all I hear are police and ambulance sirens howling in the distance, which to be honest are kind of like the sound of foghorns at the beach, one gets used to them.
***
Soap opera also amused me today...at the tail end of it, I was waiting for Harmony to kill Brendan who was blackmailing her - with a giant syringe in a park, next to a baseball field at night. Instead, she accidentally pushed him off a cliff. (which popped out of nowhere).
I burst out laughing.
Why?
It was just so absurd. I mean, what was a cliff doing in the middle of a park where kids play baseball. Also there's a lot of conveniently placed cliffs in this small town that characters keep falling off of. (I guess they got tired of using the same footbridge?) And why were they meeting at a cliff anyhow?
Plus that syringe was huge.
The look on Harmony's face was priceless. She was shocked and horrified - apparently she was as surprised by the sudden appearance of the cliff as the audience was.
I admittedly (partly) watch soap operas for these things. Well that and bad fashion choices.
**
Mother reports that her knee is healing quickly. (Note - knee replacements heal faster than hips, mother is living proof of this.) They told her that her knee's healing was faster than most people's. (So it may just be my mother.) As a result, she was able to see father today. Who apparently didn't ask how she was doing, or relate to it at all. He did know she was there. And informed her that his vocabulary was getting better and he had access to more words now. (She confirmed that he did). Then he told her that he had to get back to writing his book - so apparently that's all that is getting better. (He's not "really" writing a book.)
None of us have gotten the fourth shot yet. I'm procrastinating. I don't really want to get it from Wallgreens. Also not so sure I need it yet.
**
Finished New Amsterdam finally - or rather I'm all caught up. Made it through all 18 episodes saved to my DVR. Not today, I've done it incrementally over the course of three months.
New Amsterdam is a medical drama. It's not a medical procedural, nor a soap opera, nor an emotional drama like This is Us. It tends to not lean too heavily into melodrama. And for the most part swings towards realism.
I wouldn't say it's quite as good as ER or St Elsewhere, but it's close.
My top medical dramas/procedurals are:
ER (the first five seasons - it went on too long)
St. Elsewhere
Kingdom Hospital (the Lars Von Stiers version or the Swedish version)
New Amsterdam
Everything else either falls into soap territory, melodrama, or paint by numbers procedural.
This season is kind of wonky, but it works for the most part. And I rather liked the last episode or 15th episode of the season - Two Doors. Where the situation isn't quite as black and white as we'd like - but more gray, with both perspectives far more clearly drawn. Fuentes realistic and somewhat cynical approach, and Max Goodwin's hopeful and somewhat fantastical one.
We want Max's, but is it the best approach? Will it work long term, or will it just result in a complete collapse of the system?
There's a lot of gray in there.
**
I'm hoping to do laundry this weekend, clean out a closet, and possibly switch out the spring clothes with the winter ones. But I don't know. I'm tired and I've upped my metroformin now. So we'll see.
I've a few posters who post about twenty times a day. Including Smart Bitches - which wrote an amusing (spoiler filled) review of the horror flick Fresh. (I've no interest in seeing the horror movie - I won't watch certain films. Basically anything regarding torture, graphic depictions of cannibalism or gore, or sexual violence are out. I will watch horror films - I'm just highly selective for my own mental health.)
Quote from review..
Amazing that we made it 46 minutes in without someone telling her to smile.
Maya: Better than a lot of workplaces I’ve been in!!!
Yep. There used to be men in my workplace who would plague me daily - by telling me to smile. It doesn't happen now. The next generation is a bit more "woke" in that regard. My generation and the one above me, was woefully not - and kind of abusive about it.
It was always an order. And I'd comply with a look of death attached. My look of death can stop people in their tracks. If looks could kill ...and all that.
Don't do that. Never tell someone to smile. If they aren't smiling it's for a reason. And it's self-centered to ask. People who ask folks to smile, deserve to smacked or squirted with a water gun. (I kind of wish I could walk around with a water gun and just squirt people who annoy me. The only draw back? I'd probably get squirted too.)
Good news? It doesn't happen any longer. We got rid of all of the assholes who did that - finally. Or it got beaten out of them by the #MeToo Movement, and if so? Hallelujah.
Another quote that I found funny, because we've already established the fact that I've an odd sense of humor...
Maya: Does it make me weird that my favorite thing was the shadowy system that existed to distribute human hamburgers? I have so many questions about logistics!
1.Were they shipping the meat across state lines?
2. How do they handle complaints about quality?
3. Do they also have special customer service people that are also cannibals working a customer service line?
4. OMG what if this was a franchise?????
Was the horned goat skull on the packaging an attempt to tie cannibalism to satanism? How do satanists feel about possibly being tied to cannibalism in a direct-to-streaming movie on Hulu? My favorite satanists mostly seem to like to troll the legal system in delightful ways, but also seem to have a great sense of humor, so maybe they wouldn’t take offense so much.
I think the success of this movie for the viewer will vary based on how charismatic you think Sebastian Stan is. Either you, as a general rule, love to watch anything he does, or you, like me, can’t really sink your teeth into (LOL) his work here and will instead spend the movie wondering how big the delivery area is for a cannibal meal kit.
See? I love reading reviews of horror flicks for this reason - I often find them hilarious. Mainly because whoever makes horror flicks either has a really odd sense of humor, or is really bad at making movies. The bar is set very low - at any rate. Oh, history lesson? Apparently the early slasher flicks in the 1970s were made by the Porn film studios. They did both. Actually they started with porn and slowly gravitated to horror, discovering it was cheaper and more lucrative. Plus not that hard to do. Apparently the leap from porn to well Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn't that big? Both objectify the human body for exploitative purposes. And are ever so slightly sadistic...and appealing to the puerile and slightly sadistic side of the human brain, which likes to spend money and sit in dank movie houses.
**
My apartment complex got noisy all of sudden, with lots of opening doors, chattering, and climbing of stairs and stomping about. Now quieting down again. And it's quiet - all I hear are police and ambulance sirens howling in the distance, which to be honest are kind of like the sound of foghorns at the beach, one gets used to them.
***
Soap opera also amused me today...at the tail end of it, I was waiting for Harmony to kill Brendan who was blackmailing her - with a giant syringe in a park, next to a baseball field at night. Instead, she accidentally pushed him off a cliff. (which popped out of nowhere).
I burst out laughing.
Why?
It was just so absurd. I mean, what was a cliff doing in the middle of a park where kids play baseball. Also there's a lot of conveniently placed cliffs in this small town that characters keep falling off of. (I guess they got tired of using the same footbridge?) And why were they meeting at a cliff anyhow?
Plus that syringe was huge.
The look on Harmony's face was priceless. She was shocked and horrified - apparently she was as surprised by the sudden appearance of the cliff as the audience was.
I admittedly (partly) watch soap operas for these things. Well that and bad fashion choices.
**
Mother reports that her knee is healing quickly. (Note - knee replacements heal faster than hips, mother is living proof of this.) They told her that her knee's healing was faster than most people's. (So it may just be my mother.) As a result, she was able to see father today. Who apparently didn't ask how she was doing, or relate to it at all. He did know she was there. And informed her that his vocabulary was getting better and he had access to more words now. (She confirmed that he did). Then he told her that he had to get back to writing his book - so apparently that's all that is getting better. (He's not "really" writing a book.)
None of us have gotten the fourth shot yet. I'm procrastinating. I don't really want to get it from Wallgreens. Also not so sure I need it yet.
**
Finished New Amsterdam finally - or rather I'm all caught up. Made it through all 18 episodes saved to my DVR. Not today, I've done it incrementally over the course of three months.
New Amsterdam is a medical drama. It's not a medical procedural, nor a soap opera, nor an emotional drama like This is Us. It tends to not lean too heavily into melodrama. And for the most part swings towards realism.
I wouldn't say it's quite as good as ER or St Elsewhere, but it's close.
My top medical dramas/procedurals are:
ER (the first five seasons - it went on too long)
St. Elsewhere
Kingdom Hospital (the Lars Von Stiers version or the Swedish version)
New Amsterdam
Everything else either falls into soap territory, melodrama, or paint by numbers procedural.
This season is kind of wonky, but it works for the most part. And I rather liked the last episode or 15th episode of the season - Two Doors. Where the situation isn't quite as black and white as we'd like - but more gray, with both perspectives far more clearly drawn. Fuentes realistic and somewhat cynical approach, and Max Goodwin's hopeful and somewhat fantastical one.
We want Max's, but is it the best approach? Will it work long term, or will it just result in a complete collapse of the system?
There's a lot of gray in there.
**
I'm hoping to do laundry this weekend, clean out a closet, and possibly switch out the spring clothes with the winter ones. But I don't know. I'm tired and I've upped my metroformin now. So we'll see.