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Mar. 23rd, 2014 11:57 amI don't know why this is - but I've been feeling horrible on Sunday mornings lately. Skipping worship this morning, as I have for most of the year, and going to a memorial service this afternoon, instead. I didn't know the woman well - but I did know her. I had gone to her house. I spoke with her. So, I feel I should go. It's ironic, I can go to her memorial service but I couldn't go to embers_log's, in part because I didn't know about it, and in part because it was far away. And I was so much closer to embers_log. I have little reminders of her scattered around my apartment. Pieces of artwork that she created, books that she sent me for my birthday. I think human relationships are fragile things. They come and go. And are ultimately temporary.
Saw the flick Mud last night which starred Matthew McConhaughy, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson and Reese Witherspoon. It's about two boys on the Missippi River who befriend a drifter who charms them into helping him fix up a boat and escape from authorities. Not a bad film, and McConhaughy is quite good in it. As are the two young actors playing the boys.
It's told through the boys point of view, and tends to be more a male view on the world.
There are some rather touching moments in it. And it felt like a slice of life coming of age tale - about a boy dealing with his parents divorce and the temporariness of romance.
Overall not a bad film. Sort of a quiet little one.
Enjoying Jason Katim's Parenthood. Katim's was behind Friday Night Lights. Parenthood reminds me a lot of Friday Night Lights in how it is structured and written. This season is actually much better than the last two. It's a drama about a family - but mainly about parenting, and various situations that parents deal with. It's possibly amongst the few, well-written, television series that contains no violence - either physical or psychological, or if it has violence - it's mainly psychological and rather subdued, the sort we deal with in our everyday lives. And much of it happens off-screen. And watched the last three episodes of How I Met Your Mother...and wait, is the big twist going to be that Mother is dead? If so, that's quite deep and somewhat depressing for a situation comedy.
There is so much great television on right now, or even good tv with innovative ideas, that is impossible to choose. I DVR more than I can watch. There's 10 episodes of the Originals sitting on my DVR that haven't been seen, 4 of Elementary, and almost 10 of Arrow. Plus 3 episodes of Great Performances "The Hollow Crown". I'd stopped watching The Walking Dead, not because it's poorly written or filmed, but because the violence began to get to me.
The majority of the great tv shows are also exorbitantly violent. Why is that? No one seems to have an answer.
Saw the flick Mud last night which starred Matthew McConhaughy, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson and Reese Witherspoon. It's about two boys on the Missippi River who befriend a drifter who charms them into helping him fix up a boat and escape from authorities. Not a bad film, and McConhaughy is quite good in it. As are the two young actors playing the boys.
It's told through the boys point of view, and tends to be more a male view on the world.
There are some rather touching moments in it. And it felt like a slice of life coming of age tale - about a boy dealing with his parents divorce and the temporariness of romance.
Overall not a bad film. Sort of a quiet little one.
Enjoying Jason Katim's Parenthood. Katim's was behind Friday Night Lights. Parenthood reminds me a lot of Friday Night Lights in how it is structured and written. This season is actually much better than the last two. It's a drama about a family - but mainly about parenting, and various situations that parents deal with. It's possibly amongst the few, well-written, television series that contains no violence - either physical or psychological, or if it has violence - it's mainly psychological and rather subdued, the sort we deal with in our everyday lives. And much of it happens off-screen. And watched the last three episodes of How I Met Your Mother...and wait, is the big twist going to be that Mother is dead? If so, that's quite deep and somewhat depressing for a situation comedy.
There is so much great television on right now, or even good tv with innovative ideas, that is impossible to choose. I DVR more than I can watch. There's 10 episodes of the Originals sitting on my DVR that haven't been seen, 4 of Elementary, and almost 10 of Arrow. Plus 3 episodes of Great Performances "The Hollow Crown". I'd stopped watching The Walking Dead, not because it's poorly written or filmed, but because the violence began to get to me.
The majority of the great tv shows are also exorbitantly violent. Why is that? No one seems to have an answer.