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Today's plans went awry. I got up at 7:45 with my alarm, after sleeping horribly last night. Body ached, restless legs, took tynenol, finally fell asleep only to wake up at 6:46 am, go back to sleep, up again at 7:45 am. I'd gone to bed around 10:45 pm/11.
It was raining, hence the aching last night. And I thought, okay what do I do? Get up and get ready, in the hopes it will clear off by 8 am? Or go back to bed, and text Wales that the trip is off?
I got breakfast. Wales called. We cancelled due to rain and inclement weather - even though it was sunny and clearing. Wales didn't want to go if it was muddy and nasty. The whole point was to go wander about outdoors on an island with woods, trees and grass.
At least the ferry tickets were free - so no money was wasted. I'd not have gotten them otherwise. I know Wales. If it had been anyone else? I'd probably have gone. Although it was muggy at 10 am, and it was overcast from 1-3pm, clearing and sunny by 6pm. We'd have gone from 11-2pm.
Also, I was "all bad moody" - on account of not sleeping well, and soaking up bad mojo most of the week.
The discussion with Wales kind of left me in a bad mood, second guessing myself.
Me: Would you be interested in looking at my watercolors and letting me know which ones could go in a book or a show -
Wales: Have you done any more? I've not seen any posted -
ME: Well, I hit a wall. After doing about 50 of them -
Wales: Fifty?
Me: I ran out of space in my portfoilo and on my dresser - so decided to stop. I don't know what to do with all of them or which to push -
Wales: I can understand that - you could do both a book and a show.
Me: I thought about asking my Aunt Lynn about it. Aunt Lynn studied art and technique via Dali...mother doesn't like Dali.
Wales: I don't either. I despise him. I used to - like him in my 20s, but I got over it.
ME: So did mother. You could commiserate. She apparently knows too much about him.
Wales: Same. He is juvenile and kind of, not sure how to put it?
ME: Mother thinks his full of himself, self-indulgent and silly.
Wales: Yeah, I'd agree.
I am personally ambivalent about Dali. Some of his stuff I like, some I don't get, and some I don't. But I'm admittedly a fan of the French Impressionists not the Abstract Post-Modernists.
Me: Also was wondering if you'd read the book I'm revising - assuming of course I can print it off for you to read.
Wales: I could do that - and yes, printing it off would be good. I don't like to read things on screens.
Me: I don't like reading books on computers either - so I understand. But...it needs to be chopped down considerably first. Since I don't have a working printer, and the days I could use my work printer may be gone.
Wales: Well how long is it - would it be expensive to print off?
ME: It's currently 750 some pages, it was 820, but I need to get it done to at least 400.
Wales: That sounds like a lot of work. What's it about?
I tell her.
Wales: That sounds dark.
Me: And half the characters are gay, the male lead is bi, and the female lead is a POC war veteran, and auto mechanic. The male lead's son is gay, and his ex-wife is a lesbian - and he's a sex therapist specializing in BDSM.
Wales: So basically it will be banned by everyone?
Me: I don't know if it's possible to get it published or even get it out there. And I've no clue why I keep working on it...
Wales: I'm willing to look at it, but..
I don't think she gets it either.
My week has felt like others have been sucking energy and hope away from me. I tell Wales I feel like Charlie Brown with the proverbial football.
Actually at the moment, I feel like my life is basically Charlie Brown running to kick the football, just before Lucy rips it out from under him.
Oh well, maybe we can go next weekend. I didn't work on my writing today.
Nor did I read. Instead:
1. I played Redecor on my phone. I'm at the A-List level now. I find it relaxing.
It isn't really free - you have to pay every once awhile to get materials and keep going. No video game is truly free. I like matching games, puzzle games, and pattern games. I do not like violent video games or anything with fighting in them.
2. I watched Fisk on Netflix. Apparently it was also on ABC, and is an Australian series, which takes place in Melbourne suburbs. It's about a recently divorced attorney, who out of desperation, takes a job at a family run probate firm in the suburbs of Melbourne. It's kind of comical. I didn't find it funny, so much as grating? I wouldn't to kill the airbnb folks by the end of the third episode. Asian characters are not well portrayed here - and that was also an issue.
Co-worker highly rec'd it. He also wants me to watch "Lincoln Lawyer" and "Almost Australian."
It's okay. I may go back to it.
3. Watched Cillian Murphy films. Weren't that long.
* The Party - which I saw for free on "Local Access" with annoying commercial interruptions at the most inopportune moments (such as at the point of main twist or climax). They should just have them before and after. And they have ten in a row. I played my video game during them or I fell asleep during them and during the show.
What's it about? It's kind of like a play, I think it was a play actually.
It stars Timothy Spall, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Bernard Goetz, and someone else...and has a few witty lines. Clarkson has the best lines.
Cillian Murphy plays Tom - a banker/fiancier, who is addicted to cocaine, and just found out his wife is having an affair with Timothy Spall - he's come to kill him. Except, he doesn't really want to - and doesn't because Spall's character has a terminal illness that is revealed prior...and it just goes off the rails from there. There's a nice twist at the end. But I honestly wish that wasn't the end, because - the movie ends right when it got interesting.
* Sunshine - directed by Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, Rose Byrn, Mark Strong...
Considering the cast and director - it wasn't that good. Needed a better editor. I had issues following it, and got confused at one point. Also very tropy or predictable plot. I honestly think it would have been better if it stuck to it's course and didn't throw in the stereotypical bordering on cliche conflict that seems to be in all space mission/horror/thriller films.
The set-up? The Sun is dying, and needs to be jump started. Earth is in a frozen solar winter. Seven years ago - a ship went to throw a nuclear bomb into the sun - but got swept off course and never came back. Icarus 1.
Now Icarus 2 is off to put a bomb into the sun, and hopefully return.
But alas - they run into a signal from Icarus 1 and since their trajectory takes them with 1000-5000 miles of it, they feel they need to check it out instead of sticking to their course. It will provide them with two bombs, they may save the crew, etc.
What do you think happens? Yes, we've been here before. Many times. So many times - that I agreed with Mace - let's not do this, it's stupid. Let's stay on course. No good can come of this. If they survived out there - they are either nuts by now, or there's a monster. One or the other.
It would have been a better movie - if it had stuck to the science and figuring out how to complete the mission, survive, and deal with the craziness on board the ship - without going and doing that.
It was unnecessary plot point/distraction. Also they didn't do a good job of building up the characters - I didn't really know them or care about them. I just cared about the actors that I liked.
I have a crush on Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, and Cillian Murphy.
Anyhow, the cast is good. The visuals are good. The movie isn't. I expect better from Boyle.
***
This brings me to...actors I have a crush on at the moment:
* Cillian Murphy
* Emily Blunt
* Michelle Yeoh
* Robert Downy Jr
* Benedict Wong
* Hugh Jackman
* Helen Mirren
* Lee Pace
* Ana Taylor-Joy
* Charlize Theron
* Benedict Cumberbatch
* David Tennant
* Karen Gillian
* Christian Bale
* Florence Pugh
* Jodi Comer
* Sandra Oh
* Samuel L Jackson
* James Patrick Stuart (Valentine GH)
* Claudia Black
* Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone, and other things)
* Angela Basset
* Viola Davis
I used to have a crush on James Marsters - but he's gotten old and I gave up. Also briefly had one on Ben Bowder - but he's also gotten old and I gave up. Same with Anthony Stewart Head. I'm not that masochistic.
Finally, tonight's dinner consisted of shrimp (wild caught and hand peeled) Zucchini, shiitake mushrooms, green onion or chives, broccoli rabe, and asparagus, seasoned with sea salt, garlic, parsley, red pepper, lime, (liguid amnions - ie soy substitute), and cooked in olive oil.
Off to bed. Hopefully to sleep.
It was raining, hence the aching last night. And I thought, okay what do I do? Get up and get ready, in the hopes it will clear off by 8 am? Or go back to bed, and text Wales that the trip is off?
I got breakfast. Wales called. We cancelled due to rain and inclement weather - even though it was sunny and clearing. Wales didn't want to go if it was muddy and nasty. The whole point was to go wander about outdoors on an island with woods, trees and grass.
At least the ferry tickets were free - so no money was wasted. I'd not have gotten them otherwise. I know Wales. If it had been anyone else? I'd probably have gone. Although it was muggy at 10 am, and it was overcast from 1-3pm, clearing and sunny by 6pm. We'd have gone from 11-2pm.
Also, I was "all bad moody" - on account of not sleeping well, and soaking up bad mojo most of the week.
The discussion with Wales kind of left me in a bad mood, second guessing myself.
Me: Would you be interested in looking at my watercolors and letting me know which ones could go in a book or a show -
Wales: Have you done any more? I've not seen any posted -
ME: Well, I hit a wall. After doing about 50 of them -
Wales: Fifty?
Me: I ran out of space in my portfoilo and on my dresser - so decided to stop. I don't know what to do with all of them or which to push -
Wales: I can understand that - you could do both a book and a show.
Me: I thought about asking my Aunt Lynn about it. Aunt Lynn studied art and technique via Dali...mother doesn't like Dali.
Wales: I don't either. I despise him. I used to - like him in my 20s, but I got over it.
ME: So did mother. You could commiserate. She apparently knows too much about him.
Wales: Same. He is juvenile and kind of, not sure how to put it?
ME: Mother thinks his full of himself, self-indulgent and silly.
Wales: Yeah, I'd agree.
I am personally ambivalent about Dali. Some of his stuff I like, some I don't get, and some I don't. But I'm admittedly a fan of the French Impressionists not the Abstract Post-Modernists.
Me: Also was wondering if you'd read the book I'm revising - assuming of course I can print it off for you to read.
Wales: I could do that - and yes, printing it off would be good. I don't like to read things on screens.
Me: I don't like reading books on computers either - so I understand. But...it needs to be chopped down considerably first. Since I don't have a working printer, and the days I could use my work printer may be gone.
Wales: Well how long is it - would it be expensive to print off?
ME: It's currently 750 some pages, it was 820, but I need to get it done to at least 400.
Wales: That sounds like a lot of work. What's it about?
I tell her.
Wales: That sounds dark.
Me: And half the characters are gay, the male lead is bi, and the female lead is a POC war veteran, and auto mechanic. The male lead's son is gay, and his ex-wife is a lesbian - and he's a sex therapist specializing in BDSM.
Wales: So basically it will be banned by everyone?
Me: I don't know if it's possible to get it published or even get it out there. And I've no clue why I keep working on it...
Wales: I'm willing to look at it, but..
I don't think she gets it either.
My week has felt like others have been sucking energy and hope away from me. I tell Wales I feel like Charlie Brown with the proverbial football.
Actually at the moment, I feel like my life is basically Charlie Brown running to kick the football, just before Lucy rips it out from under him.
Oh well, maybe we can go next weekend. I didn't work on my writing today.
Nor did I read. Instead:
1. I played Redecor on my phone. I'm at the A-List level now. I find it relaxing.
It isn't really free - you have to pay every once awhile to get materials and keep going. No video game is truly free. I like matching games, puzzle games, and pattern games. I do not like violent video games or anything with fighting in them.
2. I watched Fisk on Netflix. Apparently it was also on ABC, and is an Australian series, which takes place in Melbourne suburbs. It's about a recently divorced attorney, who out of desperation, takes a job at a family run probate firm in the suburbs of Melbourne. It's kind of comical. I didn't find it funny, so much as grating? I wouldn't to kill the airbnb folks by the end of the third episode. Asian characters are not well portrayed here - and that was also an issue.
Co-worker highly rec'd it. He also wants me to watch "Lincoln Lawyer" and "Almost Australian."
It's okay. I may go back to it.
3. Watched Cillian Murphy films. Weren't that long.
* The Party - which I saw for free on "Local Access" with annoying commercial interruptions at the most inopportune moments (such as at the point of main twist or climax). They should just have them before and after. And they have ten in a row. I played my video game during them or I fell asleep during them and during the show.
What's it about? It's kind of like a play, I think it was a play actually.
It stars Timothy Spall, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Bernard Goetz, and someone else...and has a few witty lines. Clarkson has the best lines.
Cillian Murphy plays Tom - a banker/fiancier, who is addicted to cocaine, and just found out his wife is having an affair with Timothy Spall - he's come to kill him. Except, he doesn't really want to - and doesn't because Spall's character has a terminal illness that is revealed prior...and it just goes off the rails from there. There's a nice twist at the end. But I honestly wish that wasn't the end, because - the movie ends right when it got interesting.
* Sunshine - directed by Danny Boyle, starring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, Rose Byrn, Mark Strong...
Considering the cast and director - it wasn't that good. Needed a better editor. I had issues following it, and got confused at one point. Also very tropy or predictable plot. I honestly think it would have been better if it stuck to it's course and didn't throw in the stereotypical bordering on cliche conflict that seems to be in all space mission/horror/thriller films.
The set-up? The Sun is dying, and needs to be jump started. Earth is in a frozen solar winter. Seven years ago - a ship went to throw a nuclear bomb into the sun - but got swept off course and never came back. Icarus 1.
Now Icarus 2 is off to put a bomb into the sun, and hopefully return.
But alas - they run into a signal from Icarus 1 and since their trajectory takes them with 1000-5000 miles of it, they feel they need to check it out instead of sticking to their course. It will provide them with two bombs, they may save the crew, etc.
What do you think happens? Yes, we've been here before. Many times. So many times - that I agreed with Mace - let's not do this, it's stupid. Let's stay on course. No good can come of this. If they survived out there - they are either nuts by now, or there's a monster. One or the other.
It would have been a better movie - if it had stuck to the science and figuring out how to complete the mission, survive, and deal with the craziness on board the ship - without going and doing that.
It was unnecessary plot point/distraction. Also they didn't do a good job of building up the characters - I didn't really know them or care about them. I just cared about the actors that I liked.
I have a crush on Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, and Cillian Murphy.
Anyhow, the cast is good. The visuals are good. The movie isn't. I expect better from Boyle.
***
This brings me to...actors I have a crush on at the moment:
* Cillian Murphy
* Emily Blunt
* Michelle Yeoh
* Robert Downy Jr
* Benedict Wong
* Hugh Jackman
* Helen Mirren
* Lee Pace
* Ana Taylor-Joy
* Charlize Theron
* Benedict Cumberbatch
* David Tennant
* Karen Gillian
* Christian Bale
* Florence Pugh
* Jodi Comer
* Sandra Oh
* Samuel L Jackson
* James Patrick Stuart (Valentine GH)
* Claudia Black
* Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone, and other things)
* Angela Basset
* Viola Davis
I used to have a crush on James Marsters - but he's gotten old and I gave up. Also briefly had one on Ben Bowder - but he's also gotten old and I gave up. Same with Anthony Stewart Head. I'm not that masochistic.
Finally, tonight's dinner consisted of shrimp (wild caught and hand peeled) Zucchini, shiitake mushrooms, green onion or chives, broccoli rabe, and asparagus, seasoned with sea salt, garlic, parsley, red pepper, lime, (liguid amnions - ie soy substitute), and cooked in olive oil.
Off to bed. Hopefully to sleep.