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Quick Lunch postings..
Jun. 7th, 2011 12:40 pm[At work - so the stuffed frog that I'm looking at as I type this.]
1. Was it just me or did anyone else come online this morning only to discover their journal style background/theme had completely changed? [Can't tell, but people appear to have different styles than before.] I had to go in at lunch and find a style similar to the one I had before and preferred. The one LJ decided to default me to - was too jarring to try and read.
2. My goal to get more sleep by not going on the internet after 9pm, didn't quite work. Note - this should probably be extended to not watching television after 10pm. I got embroiled in the flick Tangled - which I stupidly decided to watch at 9:45pm - and it lasted until 11:22pm. This was all my fault - since it is netflix and I could legitimately watch whenever. Not as short a flick as expected. But completely adorable. Also surprisingly amusing. I laughed quite a bit during it. Oddly, I enjoyed this more than Girl with the Dragon, both dialogue wise and action wise. Methinks I've burnt myself out on the victimized girl trope finally.
3. True Blood reminds me a bit of Dark Shadows. Wave if you've ever watched Dark Shadows or remember watching the old Dark Shadows...I used to watch it in reruns around midnight at slumber parties, followed by Rod Sterling's Night Gallery and sometimes The Outer Limits or Twilight Zone or Lost in Space - we didn't have as many horror options back then, so we grabbed what we could find. Night Gallery scared the bejeezus out of me - there was one episode where a guy flushed a spider down a bathroom sink, and it came back bigger, he flushed it again, and it became a monster spider. Which gave me a complex about flushing spiders down sinks for about five years or finding them in bathrooms. True Blood is not as cheesy as Dark Shadows, few things are - it was a 1960s soap opera after all, and has more interesting characters and is better written (again 1950s-1960s soap opera)- but it has that Supernatural/Horror/Soap Opera feel to it - not really scary-scary (like Night Gallery), so much as funny/fun-scary (like Buffy with more sex and graphic violence - HBO, hello, (and a much dumber blond heroine).). At times, it almost feels as if Alan Ball is satirizing both the gothic horror genre and the soap opera genre.
4. Metro Newspaper this morning was doing a contest - which is the best city NY or LA (the reason? Simple - lot's of people live in both or jump between the two - because they are both the hot picks of Hollywood, Rich artists, and Evil Marketing People). Personally, having been to both, and choosing to live in one, I think it comes down to three things: 1) Do you love change of seasons and lots and lots of greenery or do you prefer dryer weather, sparser greenery, and not much change in seasons? 2) Do you like to drive or hate to drive? Are you into "trains" or primarily buses/cars? 3) Do like surburbian sprawl or a more urban environment with lots of cool skyscrapers? (I don't think you can say one is faster paced or more stressed than the other - although that's what the media and paper believes. BAH. It depends on what industry you are in.)4)Do you prefer the European City Model or the American City Model? (NYC is designed closely on the European City Model and has more in common with London, Paris...etc, than with most American Cities.) [Three guesses as to which one I prefer?]
1. Was it just me or did anyone else come online this morning only to discover their journal style background/theme had completely changed? [Can't tell, but people appear to have different styles than before.] I had to go in at lunch and find a style similar to the one I had before and preferred. The one LJ decided to default me to - was too jarring to try and read.
2. My goal to get more sleep by not going on the internet after 9pm, didn't quite work. Note - this should probably be extended to not watching television after 10pm. I got embroiled in the flick Tangled - which I stupidly decided to watch at 9:45pm - and it lasted until 11:22pm. This was all my fault - since it is netflix and I could legitimately watch whenever. Not as short a flick as expected. But completely adorable. Also surprisingly amusing. I laughed quite a bit during it. Oddly, I enjoyed this more than Girl with the Dragon, both dialogue wise and action wise. Methinks I've burnt myself out on the victimized girl trope finally.
3. True Blood reminds me a bit of Dark Shadows. Wave if you've ever watched Dark Shadows or remember watching the old Dark Shadows...I used to watch it in reruns around midnight at slumber parties, followed by Rod Sterling's Night Gallery and sometimes The Outer Limits or Twilight Zone or Lost in Space - we didn't have as many horror options back then, so we grabbed what we could find. Night Gallery scared the bejeezus out of me - there was one episode where a guy flushed a spider down a bathroom sink, and it came back bigger, he flushed it again, and it became a monster spider. Which gave me a complex about flushing spiders down sinks for about five years or finding them in bathrooms. True Blood is not as cheesy as Dark Shadows, few things are - it was a 1960s soap opera after all, and has more interesting characters and is better written (again 1950s-1960s soap opera)- but it has that Supernatural/Horror/Soap Opera feel to it - not really scary-scary (like Night Gallery), so much as funny/fun-scary (like Buffy with more sex and graphic violence - HBO, hello, (and a much dumber blond heroine).). At times, it almost feels as if Alan Ball is satirizing both the gothic horror genre and the soap opera genre.
4. Metro Newspaper this morning was doing a contest - which is the best city NY or LA (the reason? Simple - lot's of people live in both or jump between the two - because they are both the hot picks of Hollywood, Rich artists, and Evil Marketing People). Personally, having been to both, and choosing to live in one, I think it comes down to three things: 1) Do you love change of seasons and lots and lots of greenery or do you prefer dryer weather, sparser greenery, and not much change in seasons? 2) Do you like to drive or hate to drive? Are you into "trains" or primarily buses/cars? 3) Do like surburbian sprawl or a more urban environment with lots of cool skyscrapers? (I don't think you can say one is faster paced or more stressed than the other - although that's what the media and paper believes. BAH. It depends on what industry you are in.)4)Do you prefer the European City Model or the American City Model? (NYC is designed closely on the European City Model and has more in common with London, Paris...etc, than with most American Cities.) [Three guesses as to which one I prefer?]
