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Because of the massive amounts of walking I did on Friday (after work - grocery shopping, etc) and yesterday to get to and from the fireworks, am taking today more or less off. Furtherest I went was to the farmer's market that is just four blocks from my apt. Picked up chocolat milk and spicy greens (dandelion, mustard, argula and chives), plus fresh zuccini. It's odd, I get more fresh and local vegetables in NYC than I ever got living in the suburbs of KC. It's easier somehow here and more accessible.
Am up to Bloodties now in my Buffy rewatch, having just completed Shadow, Listening to Fear, Into the Woods, the one with the Troll, and Checkpoint. And have come to the conclusion that as much as I appreciate and enjoy the prior seasons, this one remains my favorite up to this point. So far not an episode that I've wanted to fastforward or half-watch in the bunch, although came pretty close in Family - seriously Joss, can you be any more obvious? (well, actually you can, so I take that back.)
There is a HEAVY theme in Whedon's work about "dirty girls" or anti-misogyny and anti-sexism. His work isn't misogynistic, it is actually pointing out the misogyny in our society and critiquing it. Which actually is one of the things that draws me to Whedon - because Whedon and I have to a degree studied the same film canon - the violent 1940-1970s Western genre beginning with Howard Hawks and John Ford and ending with Sam Peckinpaugh and the guy who did The Good, the Bad and The Ugly. We've also both studied the same violent horror and psychological horror canons - Hitchcock, Kubrick, Hammer, Rami, the guy who did Halloween, the slasher flicks, Robert Wise, amongst others. You can't seriously study these films without picking up on an insisdious sexism and misogyny housed within them. And you can't study Freud and Christian/Judaic/Greek/Celtic/Western mythology without picking up on a similar theme. Once you do, religion becomes a bit indigestible in large doses.
( lengthy discussion/ramble about Whedon's show Buffy (as well as Dollhouse and Firefly) being a critique of the insisdious misogyny and sexism in our popular culture and society, and my own potentially controversial views on it, as well as my controversial views on the Star Trek film, and other popular sci-fi films. Cut for length. )
Am up to Bloodties now in my Buffy rewatch, having just completed Shadow, Listening to Fear, Into the Woods, the one with the Troll, and Checkpoint. And have come to the conclusion that as much as I appreciate and enjoy the prior seasons, this one remains my favorite up to this point. So far not an episode that I've wanted to fastforward or half-watch in the bunch, although came pretty close in Family - seriously Joss, can you be any more obvious? (well, actually you can, so I take that back.)
There is a HEAVY theme in Whedon's work about "dirty girls" or anti-misogyny and anti-sexism. His work isn't misogynistic, it is actually pointing out the misogyny in our society and critiquing it. Which actually is one of the things that draws me to Whedon - because Whedon and I have to a degree studied the same film canon - the violent 1940-1970s Western genre beginning with Howard Hawks and John Ford and ending with Sam Peckinpaugh and the guy who did The Good, the Bad and The Ugly. We've also both studied the same violent horror and psychological horror canons - Hitchcock, Kubrick, Hammer, Rami, the guy who did Halloween, the slasher flicks, Robert Wise, amongst others. You can't seriously study these films without picking up on an insisdious sexism and misogyny housed within them. And you can't study Freud and Christian/Judaic/Greek/Celtic/Western mythology without picking up on a similar theme. Once you do, religion becomes a bit indigestible in large doses.
( lengthy discussion/ramble about Whedon's show Buffy (as well as Dollhouse and Firefly) being a critique of the insisdious misogyny and sexism in our popular culture and society, and my own potentially controversial views on it, as well as my controversial views on the Star Trek film, and other popular sci-fi films. Cut for length. )