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1. Downstairs neighbor was quite cross with me, yesterday, for traversing the steps to answer the doorbell. Goal this weekend is not to go down the steps at all. I think I can manage it, no deliveries expected and I don't require anything.

I'm clearly an introvert. While I'm sick of being stuck in my apartment, not being with or hanging with people in my apt. (which is quite small and hardly conducive for gatherings anyhow) conversing/watching movies/etc doesn't bother me in the least. I take after my granny in this manner, as well as my mother to an extent, both went long periods without people popping up when their husbands traveled. All I need is a few books, a story in my heart, or a piece of paper and I'm happy. Now I have even more than that - tv, internet, cell phones, ipads...

Besides, I see people. But it did involve going up and down steps, which I'd like to avoid for at least two days.

2. Just finished reading Eloisa James' Once Upon a Tower. ( Read more... )

3. All caught up now on Mad Men - it got better in the last five to six episodes. I'm glad I stuck with it. Picked up the pace and had a few interesting twists.

Don't have much to say about it though. Except that after checking out a site regarding Mad Men style, I began to notice the color scheme in every episode. There's definitely something going on with yellows and blues. I mentioned this to my mother, who told me that my father used to tell her back in the 1960s and 1970s - that yellow and blue were power colors. Yellow, blue and red. A yellow tie stated confidence. Interesting. The best things about Mad Men are the style and framing/cinematography. There's some great framing shots. It really does say some nasty things about the advertising business and our society's dependence upon it. A society that puts that much emphasis on advertising...is a bit soulless and miserable.

In Mad Men, everyone is miserable. Their happiness a facade. All it is is image or smoke and mirrors, nothing is real. Don Draper who is beautiful on the surface and whose image is seemingly charming and desirable, is an empty shell beneath it. A narcissist, he defines himself by what he sees in the mirrors around him. And constantly seeks reflections that show how great he is. Projecting his self-loathing onto anyone who feels anything remotely close to love for him.

It's a great critique of the advertising and marketing world - where it is just smoke and mirrors, nothing is real. It's plastic. I spoke with my landlord about it the other day, he's an art director for television commercials - and he said yes, it's all quite fake, you see how fake everything truly is.

4. Have The Tudors (via MD's recommendation) and Scandel S1 - via netflix on TV stand. May watch them next or will watch Defiance, which I find a bit slow and silly in places.

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Didn't sleep last night, so fell asleep while watching first episode of The Tudors, and conked out for more than 3 1/2 hours. Now am groggy and attempting, with not much success, to convince myself to make dinner. There's a reason I don't take naps.

In other news, in the 21st Century, someone finally convinced Nabisco to try out Watermelon Oreo Cookies, of course this shouldn't come as too great a surprise, they did try candy corn a few years back.

For the Paula Deen fans out there, are there any left? The Food Network Cancelled Her Series and she's apparently attempted with little success to air an apology on youtube which keeps getting pulled.

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Desperate to lose weight - and not wanting to spend money again, I discovered via my flist, MyFitnessPal.com. It's a free dietary/calorie counter, without the expenditure and marketing annoyances of weight watchers.

Granted it is sort of hard to do - with a broken foot.

Watching Tim Burton's Dark Shadows at the moment, and I can't help but wonder if all the people in the cast watched the Twilight films and decided for some reason or other to copy the acting style? They all seem deeply stoned. With placid expressions. And no reactions. I understand being restrained...but my attention is wandering, obviously.

I love this line: "Maybe we are getting too worked up about this Angie..."
Yeah, except, you all seem sort of bored, Angie's the only one who is really showing any emotion what-so-ever. I blame the director, not the actors. Tim Burton should stick to animation - his stick figures are more animated.

This is all style and no substance. Lots of shout-outs to old 1970s pop songs, 1970s sytle,
and clothing. But, it's telling, that the television versions of "Dark Shadows" were far more entertaining, both the 1990s version and the 1960s/1970s version.