Sandman, movie meme, and way to go..Kansas
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shadowkat1. Mother: Have you heard about Kansas?
[We used to live in Kansas for a very long time.]
ME: Uhm no, what about Kansas? [I'm thinking oh, shit, now what? And do I want to know?]
Mother: We'll Kansas has the Woman's right to choose to have an abortion written into it's constitution. So they put it to a referendum to overturn that clause.
Me: And (oh frigging hell, don't tell me they overturned it.)
Mother: They voted no.
ME: Wait, what? (Go Kansas?)
Mother: They voted NO on the referendum, they shot it down. On Instagram your brother's high school friend and her daughter have shirts on saying we voted No and we won - so if you're wondering what that's about...that's it.
I saw it and it took me forever to figure it out.
Me: Well, that actually makes sense. Kansas is an odd state. It's Libertarian.
Mother: True.
Me: Say what you will about it - but at least it's not hypocritical. It was abolitionist state. Also it did get rid of the Death Penalty a while back because it was bankrupting it. Now, Missouri on the other hand is backwards as they come...
While Kansas has a woman's right to choose written into its constitution, idiotic Missouri still has laws on its books that women are property of their husbands. Or it did in the 1990s. I know this because I was volunteering with Legal Aid of Western Missouri in the 1990s getting orders of protection - we had to call them orders of protection or restraining orders, because of that annoyingly ugly law.
Note to self - stay out of Missouri. Actually, I try to stay out of much of the Southern US - it's nutty. I think its the heat - that much heat can't be good for anyone.
2. Movie Meme..
Day 1: a movie that reminds you of your childhood
The Disney Cartoon Robin Hood
Day 2: a movie with a great opening scene
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Day 3: a good movie made before 1970
Casablanca
Day 4: first movie you saw at a movie theater
Dumbo - Disney cartoon, I was probably four or five
Day 5: a movie you wished you'd seen on opening night
2001: A Space Odyssey
Day 6: a movie you've seen the most times
Star Wars
Day 7: a movie you know by heart
See Day 6
Day 8: favorite sports movie
Moneyball
Day 9: great car chase scene in a movie
The French Connection - although the Bourn Identity may top it.
Day 10: favorite horror movie
Jaws or The Haunting by Robert Wise
Day 11: movie with a great soundtrack
Pretty in Pink (I love that sountrack, I like it better than the movie.)
Day 12: best movie to watch on a plane flight
Airplane -- sorry I couldn't resist.
Day 13: a movie that's better than the book it was based on
The Godfather
Day 14: a movie you love that everyone else hates
Ladyhawk, also Pretty Woman [ people really hate those movies]
Day 15: a movie you hate that everyone else loves
Lost in Translation and Titantic (which people love for some reason or other, but I went to sleep in and despise)
Day 16: a great movie from a franchise
Empire Strikes Back
Day 17: a movie with a great villain
See 16?
Day 18: a movie with a great ending
Raider's of the Lost Arc
Day 19: your favorite character from a movie
Princess Leia
Day 20: a great movie you'll never watch again
Dark Knight Returns - too frigging dark
Day 21: a movie that makes you cry
Terms of Endearment
Day 22: a movie by your favorite director
(I don't have a favorite director at the moment so drawing a blank.)
I know Nomadland
Day 23: a movie with your favorite actor/actress
The Prestige - had Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Hugh Jackman
Fury Road - Charlize Theron
Day 24: favorite animated movie
Spirited Away
Day 25: a movie you would recommend to anyone
Drawing a blank - it's ridiculously difficult to recommend films to folks.
Day 26: a movie with a great plot twist
The Prestige
Day 27: a great line from a movie
Here's looking at you, kid. Or "“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”"
Day 28: a movie you love from a genre you usually don't like
Is there a genre I don't usually like? Ponders.
Day 29: a movie you haven't seen yet but really want to
Thor - Love and Thunder
Day 30: your go to for a movie pick me up
Usually a Marvel Film. Also Noises Off or Gross Pointe Blank. (I have an odd sense of humor but you already know that.)
3. A daytime soap opera has fled broadcast networks for streaming.
Me: Days of Our Lives is leaving NBC for the streaming Peacock Network
Mother: You've got to be kidding me.
Me: Nope.
Mother: But what about the viewers who don't have streaming?
ME: Eh..it's kind of the wave of the future. Let's face it Broadcast is dying.
Mother: It certainly is. The Primetime is dead. There's nothing but wall to wall game shows and procedurals.
I'm going to cut the cable cord soon and switch to full on streaming I think. Mother's already half-way there. My brother already did it years ago, as did most of my co-workers. And Wales recently did it.
I'm hanging in there for a soap opera (that I can kind of watch at 8pm on Hulu) and Spectrum News.
4. So, I finished Act I of The Sandman on audiobooks. And I highly recommend it. I listened for free or with a credit, so there is that caveat. But I'd have paid for it. It's the best audiobook that I've listened to - hands down. The voices were astonishingly good. It held my interest throughout. Gaiman makes an excellent narrator - so good in fact, I might hunt down more books read by Neil Gaiman. The man is charm personified.
If you like dark fantasy (not everyone does - I don't know anyone off line who does...sigh), and if you like Judeo-Christian mythos with a twist, and with a kind of whimsical horror twist to it - then you'll like this.
Gaiman is kind of whimsical. He doesn't take himself all that seriously.
(It's British whimsy...so there's that.) He is into world-building, and likes to saunter off into sub-tangents. Gaiman is into meandering. But his characters, for the most part, are rich and tasty, and unlike his other books - Morpheus has depth and is chewy - less of a cipher, mainly because he has more time to play around with him - since it's a lengthy comic serial.
The voice talents are stellar. James McAvoy's Morpheus is delicious. As are all the other voices. It's well-cast, well-directed, and well-performed.
I highly recommend.
I'm also re-reading the comics via comixcology digital (which is a godsend for graphic novel/comic book readers - I have the Fire HD for comics alone). I borrowed them.
I've pretty much figured out what will and what won't be in the series by looking at the cast. They are leaving out the stand-a-lone subplots, also the whole romance between Nadia and Dream appears not to have made it into the television adaptation - possibly because it doesn't really matter until later volumes. They only adapted Preludes & Nocturns and Dollhouse in Season 1. Nadia doesn't come up until the next set of comics. (Or in Act II of Sandman). They also left out the "Dream of a Thousand Cats", and apparently, the whole Will Shakespeare bit. I'm thinking they may leave out Elemental Girl, and some of the subtangents near the end of Dollhouse.
The focus will most likely be on Burgess capturing Dream, Dream's escape and hunting down and acquiring his missing items, also getting the escaped nightmares back, reclaiming his mission, and handling the dream vortex. That seems to make up the principle cast.
Starting Act II The Sandman - on audio, which is the volumes after Dollhouse. This section most likely won't make it in the television series (unfortunately). Although Desire and Despair appear to be in the Sandman television show cast - so who knows what they are doing.
[We used to live in Kansas for a very long time.]
ME: Uhm no, what about Kansas? [I'm thinking oh, shit, now what? And do I want to know?]
Mother: We'll Kansas has the Woman's right to choose to have an abortion written into it's constitution. So they put it to a referendum to overturn that clause.
Me: And (oh frigging hell, don't tell me they overturned it.)
Mother: They voted no.
ME: Wait, what? (Go Kansas?)
Mother: They voted NO on the referendum, they shot it down. On Instagram your brother's high school friend and her daughter have shirts on saying we voted No and we won - so if you're wondering what that's about...that's it.
I saw it and it took me forever to figure it out.
Me: Well, that actually makes sense. Kansas is an odd state. It's Libertarian.
Mother: True.
Me: Say what you will about it - but at least it's not hypocritical. It was abolitionist state. Also it did get rid of the Death Penalty a while back because it was bankrupting it. Now, Missouri on the other hand is backwards as they come...
While Kansas has a woman's right to choose written into its constitution, idiotic Missouri still has laws on its books that women are property of their husbands. Or it did in the 1990s. I know this because I was volunteering with Legal Aid of Western Missouri in the 1990s getting orders of protection - we had to call them orders of protection or restraining orders, because of that annoyingly ugly law.
Note to self - stay out of Missouri. Actually, I try to stay out of much of the Southern US - it's nutty. I think its the heat - that much heat can't be good for anyone.
2. Movie Meme..
Day 1: a movie that reminds you of your childhood
The Disney Cartoon Robin Hood
Day 2: a movie with a great opening scene
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Day 3: a good movie made before 1970
Casablanca
Day 4: first movie you saw at a movie theater
Dumbo - Disney cartoon, I was probably four or five
Day 5: a movie you wished you'd seen on opening night
2001: A Space Odyssey
Day 6: a movie you've seen the most times
Star Wars
Day 7: a movie you know by heart
See Day 6
Day 8: favorite sports movie
Moneyball
Day 9: great car chase scene in a movie
The French Connection - although the Bourn Identity may top it.
Day 10: favorite horror movie
Jaws or The Haunting by Robert Wise
Day 11: movie with a great soundtrack
Pretty in Pink (I love that sountrack, I like it better than the movie.)
Day 12: best movie to watch on a plane flight
Airplane -- sorry I couldn't resist.
Day 13: a movie that's better than the book it was based on
The Godfather
Day 14: a movie you love that everyone else hates
Ladyhawk, also Pretty Woman [ people really hate those movies]
Day 15: a movie you hate that everyone else loves
Lost in Translation and Titantic (which people love for some reason or other, but I went to sleep in and despise)
Day 16: a great movie from a franchise
Empire Strikes Back
Day 17: a movie with a great villain
See 16?
Day 18: a movie with a great ending
Raider's of the Lost Arc
Day 19: your favorite character from a movie
Princess Leia
Day 20: a great movie you'll never watch again
Dark Knight Returns - too frigging dark
Day 21: a movie that makes you cry
Terms of Endearment
Day 22: a movie by your favorite director
(I don't have a favorite director at the moment so drawing a blank.)
I know Nomadland
Day 23: a movie with your favorite actor/actress
The Prestige - had Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Hugh Jackman
Fury Road - Charlize Theron
Day 24: favorite animated movie
Spirited Away
Day 25: a movie you would recommend to anyone
Drawing a blank - it's ridiculously difficult to recommend films to folks.
Day 26: a movie with a great plot twist
The Prestige
Day 27: a great line from a movie
Here's looking at you, kid. Or "“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”"
Day 28: a movie you love from a genre you usually don't like
Is there a genre I don't usually like? Ponders.
Day 29: a movie you haven't seen yet but really want to
Thor - Love and Thunder
Day 30: your go to for a movie pick me up
Usually a Marvel Film. Also Noises Off or Gross Pointe Blank. (I have an odd sense of humor but you already know that.)
3. A daytime soap opera has fled broadcast networks for streaming.
Me: Days of Our Lives is leaving NBC for the streaming Peacock Network
Mother: You've got to be kidding me.
Me: Nope.
Mother: But what about the viewers who don't have streaming?
ME: Eh..it's kind of the wave of the future. Let's face it Broadcast is dying.
Mother: It certainly is. The Primetime is dead. There's nothing but wall to wall game shows and procedurals.
I'm going to cut the cable cord soon and switch to full on streaming I think. Mother's already half-way there. My brother already did it years ago, as did most of my co-workers. And Wales recently did it.
I'm hanging in there for a soap opera (that I can kind of watch at 8pm on Hulu) and Spectrum News.
4. So, I finished Act I of The Sandman on audiobooks. And I highly recommend it. I listened for free or with a credit, so there is that caveat. But I'd have paid for it. It's the best audiobook that I've listened to - hands down. The voices were astonishingly good. It held my interest throughout. Gaiman makes an excellent narrator - so good in fact, I might hunt down more books read by Neil Gaiman. The man is charm personified.
If you like dark fantasy (not everyone does - I don't know anyone off line who does...sigh), and if you like Judeo-Christian mythos with a twist, and with a kind of whimsical horror twist to it - then you'll like this.
Gaiman is kind of whimsical. He doesn't take himself all that seriously.
(It's British whimsy...so there's that.) He is into world-building, and likes to saunter off into sub-tangents. Gaiman is into meandering. But his characters, for the most part, are rich and tasty, and unlike his other books - Morpheus has depth and is chewy - less of a cipher, mainly because he has more time to play around with him - since it's a lengthy comic serial.
The voice talents are stellar. James McAvoy's Morpheus is delicious. As are all the other voices. It's well-cast, well-directed, and well-performed.
I highly recommend.
I'm also re-reading the comics via comixcology digital (which is a godsend for graphic novel/comic book readers - I have the Fire HD for comics alone). I borrowed them.
I've pretty much figured out what will and what won't be in the series by looking at the cast. They are leaving out the stand-a-lone subplots, also the whole romance between Nadia and Dream appears not to have made it into the television adaptation - possibly because it doesn't really matter until later volumes. They only adapted Preludes & Nocturns and Dollhouse in Season 1. Nadia doesn't come up until the next set of comics. (Or in Act II of Sandman). They also left out the "Dream of a Thousand Cats", and apparently, the whole Will Shakespeare bit. I'm thinking they may leave out Elemental Girl, and some of the subtangents near the end of Dollhouse.
The focus will most likely be on Burgess capturing Dream, Dream's escape and hunting down and acquiring his missing items, also getting the escaped nightmares back, reclaiming his mission, and handling the dream vortex. That seems to make up the principle cast.
Starting Act II The Sandman - on audio, which is the volumes after Dollhouse. This section most likely won't make it in the television series (unfortunately). Although Desire and Despair appear to be in the Sandman television show cast - so who knows what they are doing.
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Date: 2022-08-04 11:06 pm (UTC)