A New Approach to Rage...

Discovered a really cool way to deal with "rage" or "anger" - write a rage letter. This is what you do:

* Hand write a letter to the person you are really angry at - as if you were a child, using whatever words you want.
* Hide the letter.
* The next day, find the letter, revise it. Then hide it again, but in a different spot.
* The next day, find it, revise it a second time...until it meets with your approval.
* Tear it up and either bury it in the earth or burn it outside - while doing so...say these words, I offer this letter and all the anger in it to the universe to transmute it.

This way, you don't retain it. Because if you just rant in a private journal, it's kept. If you rant online - you spread it to others, infecting them, and if you send it to the person you are angry at - it makes it far worse.

Writing this down, so I can remember it.

Sleepy Hollow Season Finale

It's cold, mainly because I have a drafty apartment that I haven't winterized completely, because it occasionally is too warm. Outside, it's relatively balmy - we've risen to 31 degrees today and then dipped back down again to 20 and finally 18. Also, it snowed, again.
It's going to be long winter.

Finished watching the Sleepy Hollow season finale finally - yes I'm behind just about everyone. So far behind in fact, I'm not even sure it makes sense to cut for spoilers.

Nice twist, didn't see that coming. Although I did suspect that something about the whole getting Katrina out of purgatory wasn't quite right. Also it wrapped up all the loose threads, while at the same time leaving us hanging. (They literally put all four lead characters in peril, including the supporting characters.) Nifty, considering this was originally supposed to be the finale - even if the series didn't get renewed. (Ouch. Can you imagine?)

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Now, since this show is wildly popular and a whole new season starts this fall - about 7 months away - we know everyone is going to survive. The only two, I might have questioned, are sort of the safest at the moment. But I do wonder if the audience will remember what happened or care come fall? Oh who am I kidding - there is going to be fanfic, and lots of re-watchings of the show between now and then. They'll care. The question is - will the writers remember? I've noticed writers have a shorter attention span and flakier memory than their fans.

I know why the season finale happened now. I read about it way back in September. They had only ordered 13 episodes - with the idea of copying the British model. It's cheaper, and if it doesn't do well - no problemo. Also, they'd discovered that cable channels that adopt this model (HBO's Game of Thrones, AMC's Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and Walking Dead - to name a few), tend to do better ratings wise. And you don't have to deal with jarring seasonal breaks in the action. If a series is highly serialized - breaking for two or three months to continue the thread, can be disruptive and lose the audience. (ie. Having Sleepy Hollow for Sept - Dec, then only two episodes in Jan, skip most of Feb, two episodes in March, skip to the end of April and have the rest in April and May. It's jarring, plus you have to film on a tight schedule. Much easier to do six months straight, then reappear 6-8 months later.)

I'm a Jenny:Abby shipper. I adore those two characters. Also adore Frank, Macy and his wife.
I love Icabod...and find his relationship with Abby fascinating. And am weirdly disappointed about Henry...who was growing on me.

Katrina? I'm ambivalent about.

The Illusionist - film review

1) A friend of mine doesn't like reviews. Films, books, tv shows...she fears being spoiled. And she doesn't want to know the small details of why people liked or disliked them. She feels that reviewer is either doing it to be important, or to rant, or ...and she wants to make up her own mind.

I, however, adore reviews. ( Read more... )

2. Film Review of The Illusionist

Finished watching The Illusionist - a French animated film, that was nominated for an Oscar but got beat out by one of the Pixars...shame, because it is a unique piece of film. Sort of bittersweet. There's no dialogue, just a soft lilting soundtrack, like a silent film. And the animation is old style...1920s, or so it appears, while the time period is 1950s.

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