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Dec. 17th, 2019 09:21 pm1. Still enjoying the heck out of the Korean television series Boys Over Flowers - it's really funny in places, and part of the fun - is playing Mystery Science Theater with it.
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2. Now watching Kennedy Center Honors on tape. I watch for the performances, and bios....don't really agree with honoring people for past accomplishments, feels very....
But, they did Linda Ronstandt first, and I loved Linda Ronstandt as a kid. I had a lot of her music on eight track tapes -- way back in the 1970s and 80s. Also cassetts. She had some amazing songs.
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3. Oh, and according to the ads, West Side Story is coming back to Broadway. I may try to see that. I've never seen it performed on stage and have always wanted to. It's one of my favorite musicals. Also it appears to be featuring African Americans in key roles. Inter-racial casting.
And the amazing song -- "Somewhere There is a Place for Us" -- which is among the best songs ever written. Audra McDonald just sang it at the Kennedy Center Awards.
For me, a musical has to have the following things in order to work:
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4. Finished the book I was slugging my way through finally. "Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase" -- it was okay. The pacing could have been better. I skimmed a lot. It's one of Chase's earlier books so misses the mark with the humor and banter seen in the later novels.
5. I've seen people stating how this is the "Darkest Time Line" and I'm wondering, uhm how old are you? And have you studied any history at all? I saw a German historian, who reads historicals and non-fiction histories for a living -- do it. And I thought...really? So this is worse than say the 1930s-1940s? The Holocaust? The dropping of not one but two atomic bombs? The Bolshevic Revolution? Stalin? The Cold War and Lynchings in the 1950s-1960s? Vietnam and Watergate? The Crusades? Slavery? The Civil War? The Revolutionary War? The Middle Ages? The Spainish Inquistion? WWI?
It's enough to make me wish I could whisk people back in time via the Tardis and show them -- "you think this era is bad, let's see how you deal with a year in the antebellum South or Dickens Victorian Era, or how about WWII during the Blitz?"
Human beings, or so I've noticed, have a tendency towards hyperbole. Myself included. We like to embellish and exaggerate. And jump to extremes. I mean telling someone that it's a difficult time is rather dull when you can say -- it's the darkest time line EVER.
I keep wanting to say: "People stop romanticizing the past -- it wasn't better. Just different."( Read more... )
( Read more... )
2. Now watching Kennedy Center Honors on tape. I watch for the performances, and bios....don't really agree with honoring people for past accomplishments, feels very....
But, they did Linda Ronstandt first, and I loved Linda Ronstandt as a kid. I had a lot of her music on eight track tapes -- way back in the 1970s and 80s. Also cassetts. She had some amazing songs.
( Read more... )
3. Oh, and according to the ads, West Side Story is coming back to Broadway. I may try to see that. I've never seen it performed on stage and have always wanted to. It's one of my favorite musicals. Also it appears to be featuring African Americans in key roles. Inter-racial casting.
And the amazing song -- "Somewhere There is a Place for Us" -- which is among the best songs ever written. Audra McDonald just sang it at the Kennedy Center Awards.
For me, a musical has to have the following things in order to work:
( Read more... )
4. Finished the book I was slugging my way through finally. "Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase" -- it was okay. The pacing could have been better. I skimmed a lot. It's one of Chase's earlier books so misses the mark with the humor and banter seen in the later novels.
5. I've seen people stating how this is the "Darkest Time Line" and I'm wondering, uhm how old are you? And have you studied any history at all? I saw a German historian, who reads historicals and non-fiction histories for a living -- do it. And I thought...really? So this is worse than say the 1930s-1940s? The Holocaust? The dropping of not one but two atomic bombs? The Bolshevic Revolution? Stalin? The Cold War and Lynchings in the 1950s-1960s? Vietnam and Watergate? The Crusades? Slavery? The Civil War? The Revolutionary War? The Middle Ages? The Spainish Inquistion? WWI?
It's enough to make me wish I could whisk people back in time via the Tardis and show them -- "you think this era is bad, let's see how you deal with a year in the antebellum South or Dickens Victorian Era, or how about WWII during the Blitz?"
Human beings, or so I've noticed, have a tendency towards hyperbole. Myself included. We like to embellish and exaggerate. And jump to extremes. I mean telling someone that it's a difficult time is rather dull when you can say -- it's the darkest time line EVER.
I keep wanting to say: "People stop romanticizing the past -- it wasn't better. Just different."( Read more... )