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Finally caved and decided to get a shiatsu back massage from Area Spa tomorrow morning. My lower back has been bothering me for five days now. I think I strained it doing...well, uhm, I'm not going to tell you, so there.
Reading very interesting responses to RTD's Torchwood:Miracle Day. Which make me happy that I picked HBO over STarz or Showtime. I'm admittedly not a fan of RTD's writing - he's a bit like Joss Whedon - a, how to put this?, I want to say soap opera writer. But that's not quite it. It's almost as if he's more interested in a theme than character, more interested in emotion, than logical plot. He wants to go for the big emotional moments - not quite realizing that that can end in melodrama. In some respects Whedon is a heck of a lot better - because Whedon has a sense of humor, or whether a sense of humor that is similar to my own rather demented one. I rather despised the first two seasons of Doctor Who. And I can't say I was all that crazy about certain episodes of Torchwood. Where RTD gets on his soap box, I sort of want to kick him. OTOH - I loved Children of the Earth - but I'm admittedly not an Ianto shipper - was completely ambivalent about the character and about the Ianto/Jack relationship. The only ship I had in Torchwood - was Tosh/Owen and we all know what happened to them. So my two favorite characters and my favorite ship was dead in the water prior to Children of Earth. Also, I am admittedly a fan of Gwen and Rhys. But Miracle Day - from the reviews I've read, sounds a bit too much like 24 meets CSI for comfort. Two shows that I found unwatchable after a bit. CSI bores me. And 24 made me cringe - with its incessant torture scenes and pro-torture stance, also I never quite bought 24's gimmick - you can not get across LA in five minutes, I'm sorry, no. If you want to do a show like that - it should not have been in LA. As I told a co-worker - I'm like my brother, a die-hard serial fan. Blame Momster for this. Kid bro and I prefer shows like Friday Night Lights, BSG, The Wire, Buffy, Angel, Lost...to the CSI stuff. Always were that way. At any rate - it's clear to me at any rate - that Game of Thrones and True Blood are more my thing than the oh so serious and somewhat messagey 24 clone Miracle Day. But I haven't seen it myself - so could be completely wrong about this.
Good day. Spent the morning in a meeting discussing the re-visioning of a major train station in NYC.
Sort of cool in a way. The nice thing about jumping industries - is you learn a lot about various things. I've become versatile - very necessary in this day and age.
Next book? Most like George RR Martin's Feast of Crows - which I sort of have to read before I try Dance of Dragons. Annoying that. I want to read Dance of Dragons more. Feast of Crows is frigging slow. But interesting. Martin is a good writer - he just feels a need to go into a lot, and I mean, a lot of gritty detail. More than Stephan King, which is saying something. Sort of happy he's made the best-seller list finally, he's like a little kid about it. At the ripe old age of 62 no less. Gives me hope. I admire people who make the best-seller list in the fifties and sixties more than the youngsters who do it in the teens, twenties and thirties. It's harder and more rewarding later in life, you take less for granted, and appreciate it more - I think. They are right - youth is wasted on the young. We take so much for granted when we are young, and as we reach mid-life, we begin to realize it...and have this odd somewhat mellow attitude...It's odd being in one's forties, you brain changes as do your tastes. In practically everything. From talking to Momster - I'm guessing this is true of your fifties and sixities as well.
Reading very interesting responses to RTD's Torchwood:Miracle Day. Which make me happy that I picked HBO over STarz or Showtime. I'm admittedly not a fan of RTD's writing - he's a bit like Joss Whedon - a, how to put this?, I want to say soap opera writer. But that's not quite it. It's almost as if he's more interested in a theme than character, more interested in emotion, than logical plot. He wants to go for the big emotional moments - not quite realizing that that can end in melodrama. In some respects Whedon is a heck of a lot better - because Whedon has a sense of humor, or whether a sense of humor that is similar to my own rather demented one. I rather despised the first two seasons of Doctor Who. And I can't say I was all that crazy about certain episodes of Torchwood. Where RTD gets on his soap box, I sort of want to kick him. OTOH - I loved Children of the Earth - but I'm admittedly not an Ianto shipper - was completely ambivalent about the character and about the Ianto/Jack relationship. The only ship I had in Torchwood - was Tosh/Owen and we all know what happened to them. So my two favorite characters and my favorite ship was dead in the water prior to Children of Earth. Also, I am admittedly a fan of Gwen and Rhys. But Miracle Day - from the reviews I've read, sounds a bit too much like 24 meets CSI for comfort. Two shows that I found unwatchable after a bit. CSI bores me. And 24 made me cringe - with its incessant torture scenes and pro-torture stance, also I never quite bought 24's gimmick - you can not get across LA in five minutes, I'm sorry, no. If you want to do a show like that - it should not have been in LA. As I told a co-worker - I'm like my brother, a die-hard serial fan. Blame Momster for this. Kid bro and I prefer shows like Friday Night Lights, BSG, The Wire, Buffy, Angel, Lost...to the CSI stuff. Always were that way. At any rate - it's clear to me at any rate - that Game of Thrones and True Blood are more my thing than the oh so serious and somewhat messagey 24 clone Miracle Day. But I haven't seen it myself - so could be completely wrong about this.
Good day. Spent the morning in a meeting discussing the re-visioning of a major train station in NYC.
Sort of cool in a way. The nice thing about jumping industries - is you learn a lot about various things. I've become versatile - very necessary in this day and age.
Next book? Most like George RR Martin's Feast of Crows - which I sort of have to read before I try Dance of Dragons. Annoying that. I want to read Dance of Dragons more. Feast of Crows is frigging slow. But interesting. Martin is a good writer - he just feels a need to go into a lot, and I mean, a lot of gritty detail. More than Stephan King, which is saying something. Sort of happy he's made the best-seller list finally, he's like a little kid about it. At the ripe old age of 62 no less. Gives me hope. I admire people who make the best-seller list in the fifties and sixties more than the youngsters who do it in the teens, twenties and thirties. It's harder and more rewarding later in life, you take less for granted, and appreciate it more - I think. They are right - youth is wasted on the young. We take so much for granted when we are young, and as we reach mid-life, we begin to realize it...and have this odd somewhat mellow attitude...It's odd being in one's forties, you brain changes as do your tastes. In practically everything. From talking to Momster - I'm guessing this is true of your fifties and sixities as well.