Day #6 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

Day #6 of The 30 Day Film Challenge.

Okay, now it is getting into "favorites" and honestly? I can't pick one favorite - it's like saying what's your favorite fruit or book. Not happening for me.

So, I'm changing it from "your favorite animated film" to "A favorite animated film". You can pick one or the other - up to you. I'm going with "a favorite".

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The film director did many others, but this is my favorite of his films.

Day 174 of Self-Isolation

Lazy day for the most part. I finished watching Lucifer S5 Part 1 and eh...review will be in separate post. Also spoke to mother, and a member of the Caring Ministry of my church reached out to me - as a direct result of the FB plea for prayers and good thoughts to be sent to my ailing father.

And, I took a short walk around Greenwood Cemetery - about an hour and a half, as opposed to three and half hours, like yesterday. It's more of a park to be honest. Built on the Victorian model of a Cemetery.



The walk did me good. Still battling the mosquito bites from yesterday. Also I apparently have a tan from all the walking I've been doing around the cemetery.

Trying not to think about work-related stresses. Or my frustrations regarding them. The biggest problem about the horror comedy that is 2020 is the lack of control. I feel as if my life is in the hands of others, many of whom...I would like to punch in the nose.

It's made me a little snappish at times, I'm afraid. If I have snapped at you online, I do apologize.

There were less maskless wonders out and about this evening. And the postal guy was wearing a mask tonight.

It made me feel a bit safer, and less gaslit.




I bought more masks. I have a growing collection of utilitarian masks. Not fashion masks. I'm not into fashion. Comfort yes. Fashion, no.

But it is amusing to see how the fashion industry has embraced mask-making. All the big guys are doing it now - from Levi to Vida to The Gap.

The cemetery is the only place I can walk outside of my apartment without one. When I go back to the office - my mother wants me to wear a mask the whole time, even in the cubicle. We've been told that the office has a new air filitration system. I'm still praying that they will come to an agreement and let go of this stupid seniority thing.




Hold over picture from yesterday - of an angel looking out over a lake.
Today was even more beautiful and cooler. But there were more people in the Cemetery - even at 5PM. So I didn't spend as much time there. I managed to avoid the people, by wandering along cobblestone paths. Lots of couples.
I wish the couples would go somewhere else, but I understand why they are there - for the same reasons I am.

My Bible Study Group was amusing me this week.
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Little less stressed. A little less scared. A little less ...lonely.

One day at a time. That's all I can do is one day at a time.

It's all any of us can do.

Television & Books

1. Finished watching Lucifer S5 - Part 1 - it wasn't as good as the last season, and suffers from the same problems as the series as a whole.
The procedural isn't that interesting, and the characters haven't evolved that much.

There's some good character moments, but the police procedural bits continue to drag the story down. The last episode is possibly the best. For a series that only has ten episodes - it drags. And the writers are still writing it as if it were on broadcast television just with more nude scenes, suggestive language, and sexual content. It has the awkward breaks, and the slow filler episodes that don't really go anywhere.

I was kind of bored with it. It's gotten a sixth season, but I'm not quite sure that's a good thing. It may have been better if it had ended with S4.

2. Started Legend of Korra the sequel to Last Airbender, and it's pretty good. I like the animation better in this one, but it is admittedly more violent than the first one and more action oriented. Also we're dealing with teenagers or post adolescent as opposed to pre-adolescent/pre-teen.
It's older, a bit darker, and grittier.

There's also a female central character - which is nice change of pace. And she's a nice counter point to what Ange was in Last Airbender. Unlike Ange, she's a fighter and tough as nails - more like Tuff and Katara.

The series is currently missing comic relief, which may be Bolin, not certain.

I know it's going to change, and move in a different direction in later seasons.

3. Halt Catch Fire was by far the best thing I've seen this year.
Although I disagree with the critics, I disliked the female characters, and loved the male characters. While the critics were the opposite - making me wonder about the critics. My mother and brother agree with me, the female characters are assholes.

Female empowering? It's not. Actually that was the major weakness I saw in it - was it's portrayal of women. But this is true of most series. I did however like how the women were portrayed in this series more than any of the other AMC series I've seen to date. So there's that. And it is an accurate depiction of women in that industry.

4. Reading - I'm reading this odd fantasy novel entitled A Touch of Snow and Stone (A Gathering of Dragons Book #2) by Milla Vane - it came highly recommended by the SmartBitches - which doesn't necessarily mean anything. They've odd taste, and it's often hit and miss for me, to be honest.

I'm admittedly hard to please and recommend things to - since I'm moody, and
my tastes vary.

It's a romance, but not at the same time. The story is split between two perspectives - Lizzan, a warrior who was denounced and banished from her land, and her ex-lover, the Prince, Aerax, who denounced and banished her.
He apparently still loves her and is half tracking her movements with his giant sabertooth cat, while enlisting the help of another kingdom's warriors in fighting a war.

It starts after the banishment. We're not quite sure why it happened. And get bits and pieces of their past from both perspectives. He's still in love with her - and possibly did it to save her, but it's unclear as to why.

Meanwhile there's a Destroyer that is encroaching upon their land and leaving corpses in his wake.

It takes place in another world, where warrior women worship the goddess Yela and go on quests for her favor.

Rather interesting. Apparently you don't have to read the other books in the series to know what is going on. And the focus appears to be on the star-crossed romance.

It's light. And right now that's all I can read.

I'm also listening to audio books of all of Illona Andrews Kate Daniels urban fantasy series. The books aren't for everyone. If you aren't into metaphor, don't like urban fantasy, and can't deal with violent characters, I'd look elsewhere. The lead is swordswoman, who weilds strong magic, and her love interest is a Lion shapeshifter who calls himself the Beast Lord.
(The writers have a sense of humor. They make fun of themselves, and are rather sardonic, with a biting wit.)

This works for me - my sense of humor tends to be rather sardonic and dry.
Also, I like the person who is doing the audio, she's good. Never heard of her before, but she's quite good. Almost as good if not better than Marsters. Actually the books are better written than the Dresden series, on pretty much all levels. So there's that.

6. Also on TV - I'm flirting with Hilary Swank's new series Away.