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1. Rumor has it that they are moving Revenge to Sunday nights next year. My response?
Noooo!!! Frigging hell, how many tv shows that I love do you have to put on Sunday? I can't watch all of them! It's hard enough as it is!
Currently we have : OUAT, Good Wife, Mad Men, Masterpiece, Game of Thrones, Girls, and Walking Dead. I do NOT need another favorite show on this night. Wed was perfect for Revenge, I don't like any of the other shows on Wed's - it is a sitcom/reality show/procedural grave yard.
Spread the wealth!!! Have a bit of compassion to those of us who prefer serials. Don't put them all on the same night! Stupid HBO, AMC and PBS put all their best and original series on Sunday nights. But at least HBO and AMC rerun. PBS not so much. Dammit. The reason I'm not watch The Killing - is I can't watch EVERYTHING!
2. Big Bang Theory is entertaining me.
Sheldon: Is this what male belly-aching about girlfriends is about? I complain, you complain, but no one offers any real solutions?
Leonard: Pretty much.
Sheldon: No wonder the women are winning.
LOL! Except unfortunately this is not gender specific, we do the same thing. I love Big Bang because it really depicts how difficult human relationships are. And the characters feel so real - very few sitcoms depict real characters, which is my problem with sitcoms.
I don't believe them. Friends and HIMYM have pretty people in posh apartments, I'm sorry no. Or okay, yes, but ugh, I hate these people in my neighborhood, I don't want to watch them on tv. Go AWAY! Admittedly I liked Friends in the 1990s and 2000, but this was before my neighborhood got gentrified and when I was the same age as the characters. Or slightly younger. (Yes, I'm the same age as Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, etc...)
3. Mad Men - I don't like the episodes that focus on Betty Draper/whatever her new last name is. I can't stand that character - she is so whiny. Whiny characters grate on my nerves. I know, I'm probably in the minority on this. But the episode before that which focused on Meghan and Pete Campbell, was interesting. I particularly identified with this conversation between Roger and Don:
( spoilers for Mad MEn )
Virgina Woolfe: In order to be a writer, one most need money and a room of one's own.
People see this as a feminist statement. I see it as a classist one. It is hard to write if you have to work really hard for a living. 5 days a week. 8 hours a day. Exhausted when you come home. Stealing time to write. After doing nothing but writing business emails and memos and letters all day long.
And then online, I saw a post that made me realize something...our luck is so much more than skin color, ethnicity or gender related...it's deeper and more complicated than that.
It's who our parents are, what our education was, who our friends are, our connections,
our lovers, our ability to have children, the opportunities and choices placed in our path.
I think sometimes everyone is dealt a hand of cards, with good and bad cards, we can't choose the hand - that's dealer's choice, but like any good poker player we can choose how to play that hand.
I struggle with my own choices. Hampered by the cards I've been dealt and aided, that too.
I do not know what I want. In that way, I'm more like Betty Draper than Meghan, which may explain why I can't stand the character. I want to be a writer - but I don't at the same time. I don't want the fame, fortune, the tinkering with my work, I don't want the criticism or the constant changing and altering of every sentence to fit what may or may not be in some editor's head. I want to be a writer and an artist on my terms not the world's. I look at all the jobs in the world and I see clearly the ups and downs of all of them...and I feel a bit like Buffy on Career Day. I've fallen into my own career, I did not choose it exactly and half the time I wish I could change it, but to what?
I do not know really what I want so much as what I do not want. I can't figure out the goals to get what I think I want...because that seems to change. I wish life was as easy and clear-cut as it is in all those self-help books.
4. I just finished a very disturbing contemporary romance novel (that I'm half convinced although I cannot prove it was once upon a time a Spuffy fanfic). ( Read more... )
Noooo!!! Frigging hell, how many tv shows that I love do you have to put on Sunday? I can't watch all of them! It's hard enough as it is!
Currently we have : OUAT, Good Wife, Mad Men, Masterpiece, Game of Thrones, Girls, and Walking Dead. I do NOT need another favorite show on this night. Wed was perfect for Revenge, I don't like any of the other shows on Wed's - it is a sitcom/reality show/procedural grave yard.
Spread the wealth!!! Have a bit of compassion to those of us who prefer serials. Don't put them all on the same night! Stupid HBO, AMC and PBS put all their best and original series on Sunday nights. But at least HBO and AMC rerun. PBS not so much. Dammit. The reason I'm not watch The Killing - is I can't watch EVERYTHING!
2. Big Bang Theory is entertaining me.
Sheldon: Is this what male belly-aching about girlfriends is about? I complain, you complain, but no one offers any real solutions?
Leonard: Pretty much.
Sheldon: No wonder the women are winning.
LOL! Except unfortunately this is not gender specific, we do the same thing. I love Big Bang because it really depicts how difficult human relationships are. And the characters feel so real - very few sitcoms depict real characters, which is my problem with sitcoms.
I don't believe them. Friends and HIMYM have pretty people in posh apartments, I'm sorry no. Or okay, yes, but ugh, I hate these people in my neighborhood, I don't want to watch them on tv. Go AWAY! Admittedly I liked Friends in the 1990s and 2000, but this was before my neighborhood got gentrified and when I was the same age as the characters. Or slightly younger. (Yes, I'm the same age as Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, etc...)
3. Mad Men - I don't like the episodes that focus on Betty Draper/whatever her new last name is. I can't stand that character - she is so whiny. Whiny characters grate on my nerves. I know, I'm probably in the minority on this. But the episode before that which focused on Meghan and Pete Campbell, was interesting. I particularly identified with this conversation between Roger and Don:
( spoilers for Mad MEn )
Virgina Woolfe: In order to be a writer, one most need money and a room of one's own.
People see this as a feminist statement. I see it as a classist one. It is hard to write if you have to work really hard for a living. 5 days a week. 8 hours a day. Exhausted when you come home. Stealing time to write. After doing nothing but writing business emails and memos and letters all day long.
And then online, I saw a post that made me realize something...our luck is so much more than skin color, ethnicity or gender related...it's deeper and more complicated than that.
It's who our parents are, what our education was, who our friends are, our connections,
our lovers, our ability to have children, the opportunities and choices placed in our path.
I think sometimes everyone is dealt a hand of cards, with good and bad cards, we can't choose the hand - that's dealer's choice, but like any good poker player we can choose how to play that hand.
I struggle with my own choices. Hampered by the cards I've been dealt and aided, that too.
I do not know what I want. In that way, I'm more like Betty Draper than Meghan, which may explain why I can't stand the character. I want to be a writer - but I don't at the same time. I don't want the fame, fortune, the tinkering with my work, I don't want the criticism or the constant changing and altering of every sentence to fit what may or may not be in some editor's head. I want to be a writer and an artist on my terms not the world's. I look at all the jobs in the world and I see clearly the ups and downs of all of them...and I feel a bit like Buffy on Career Day. I've fallen into my own career, I did not choose it exactly and half the time I wish I could change it, but to what?
I do not know really what I want so much as what I do not want. I can't figure out the goals to get what I think I want...because that seems to change. I wish life was as easy and clear-cut as it is in all those self-help books.
4. I just finished a very disturbing contemporary romance novel (that I'm half convinced although I cannot prove it was once upon a time a Spuffy fanfic). ( Read more... )