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Day #88 of Self-Isolation
Jun. 13th, 2020 06:13 pmI swear if I get COVID-19 it will be from doing laundry. Highly stressful thing doing laundry. ( Read more... )
While I was doing laundry, courtesy of DW correspondence list - I managed to watch Staged on Daily Motion. I can't give you the link - since I got it from someone else, and I'm not certain they want me giving it out to everyone else. Just finished all six episodes - it's not very long. It's basically about a bunch of people trying to rehearse and conceptualize staging of the Pirandella Play Six Characters in Search of an Author during a pandemic or via Zoom. And as the Guardian Review kind of points out is very meta on the whole acting, staging, planning process. Stars include Tennant, his wife, Sheen, his wife, Simon, his sister, Adrian Lister, Samuel L Jackson, Dame Judi Dench and someone else.
I found it hilarious in places - partly because I know a lot about theater and the process. And I knew all the references - Ulysses, Six Characters in Search of an Author, the Inner Voice, and the Shakespeare bits. And I hate Zoom - so the jokes targeting Zoom - I felt to be spot on. Video chatting doesn't work for me. My immediate family doesn't engage in it - we text, and talk to each other on the phone. My church, on the other hand, is addicted to it. Work does Microsoft Teams - which is kind of Zoom with a business application.
For example? Judie Dench Zoom Bombs a conversation between Tennant and Sheen. (Zoom Bombing, means popping in unannounced into someone else's Zoom meeting.) Both are agog.
Anyhow it made me laugh, so thank you to those who made it possible for me to watch it today. It's not great, but it is entertaining and funny in places, and an good representation of how crazy and surreal this experience has been for everyone. Also, it does a decent job of depicting the problematic nature of ego and vanity.
I was feeling sorry for myself and it kind of helped to watch these poor bored British actors (by way of Scotland and Wales, and other areas in Britain) attempting to rehearse a play on Zoom and failing miserably at it.
Other things I've managed to do? ( Read more... )
I'm tired of the stress and worrying about stuff or pushing it to one side to worry over later. (Such as the red spot in the middle of my tub that I can't get rid of.) I just want a break from it. Sometimes I wish I could hop into a car and drive into the mountains, and stay there.
So, I'm leaving you with a picture of mountains taken two years ago, around the beginning of September in Seattle Washington's Mount Rainer National Park. Kind of wish I was there now.
While I was doing laundry, courtesy of DW correspondence list - I managed to watch Staged on Daily Motion. I can't give you the link - since I got it from someone else, and I'm not certain they want me giving it out to everyone else. Just finished all six episodes - it's not very long. It's basically about a bunch of people trying to rehearse and conceptualize staging of the Pirandella Play Six Characters in Search of an Author during a pandemic or via Zoom. And as the Guardian Review kind of points out is very meta on the whole acting, staging, planning process. Stars include Tennant, his wife, Sheen, his wife, Simon, his sister, Adrian Lister, Samuel L Jackson, Dame Judi Dench and someone else.
I found it hilarious in places - partly because I know a lot about theater and the process. And I knew all the references - Ulysses, Six Characters in Search of an Author, the Inner Voice, and the Shakespeare bits. And I hate Zoom - so the jokes targeting Zoom - I felt to be spot on. Video chatting doesn't work for me. My immediate family doesn't engage in it - we text, and talk to each other on the phone. My church, on the other hand, is addicted to it. Work does Microsoft Teams - which is kind of Zoom with a business application.
For example? Judie Dench Zoom Bombs a conversation between Tennant and Sheen. (Zoom Bombing, means popping in unannounced into someone else's Zoom meeting.) Both are agog.
Anyhow it made me laugh, so thank you to those who made it possible for me to watch it today. It's not great, but it is entertaining and funny in places, and an good representation of how crazy and surreal this experience has been for everyone. Also, it does a decent job of depicting the problematic nature of ego and vanity.
I was feeling sorry for myself and it kind of helped to watch these poor bored British actors (by way of Scotland and Wales, and other areas in Britain) attempting to rehearse a play on Zoom and failing miserably at it.
Other things I've managed to do? ( Read more... )
I'm tired of the stress and worrying about stuff or pushing it to one side to worry over later. (Such as the red spot in the middle of my tub that I can't get rid of.) I just want a break from it. Sometimes I wish I could hop into a car and drive into the mountains, and stay there.
So, I'm leaving you with a picture of mountains taken two years ago, around the beginning of September in Seattle Washington's Mount Rainer National Park. Kind of wish I was there now.