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Y2/D250...Sunday Scaries...
Nov. 21st, 2021 05:28 pmI'd sleep a lot better if my body would maintain an even body temp throughout the night, and not feel the need to plague me with hot flashes. Just saying.
I thought they were over - but they came back with a vengeance. I used cooling pads last night. Also took CBD and melatonin.
Woke up at 7 this morning, which isn't bad, considering I have to wake up at 5:45 am tomorrow - and have a case of the Sunday Scaries happening. (I've inherited ex-cubical buddy's work, along with new work which would have been assigned to him, along with my own work - which had been on hold and now is being thrown at me all in one rush. Because my idiotic Project Managers want to get stuff done before the end of the fiscal year. Sorry, babies, it may not happen.)
I wish I was working remotely - I get more done remotely. I can work longer hours, have less distractions, and I don't have to waste time printing stuff off and building files no one ever looks at and take up room in my office. Only people who shouldn't work remotely - are folks who physically can't.
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On Soap Twitter...
#GH Twitter beefs are so…pointless. You mad at people you never met for liking or not liking a fictional character…grow up.
ME: This seems to be the case on any social media platform regarding fandom? I mean the Spike Wars in the Buffy fandom pre-Twitter, on Voy & Yahoo forums & LJ were epic.
Shippers, folks. Boredom and frustration bring out the worst in people, I think.
**
I've been binging Superman & Lois all weekend long, with intermittent breaks. I paused to watch the last Spiderman flick (no not the one that is scheduled to hit theaters soon, the one before that - since it's Sony, I've my hopes it will pop up on HBO Max eventually). Also paused to watch The Outsiders: The Complete Novel. I'm on the fence, I remember the original as being better - but it's possible that's my nostalgia talking. Also the original cut out a lot of scenes from the book and focused the movie on Ponyboy's relationships with Dallas and Johnny, putting his brothers firmly in the background. The Complete Novel version reinserts the scenes with Ponyboy's brothers towards the end, and resolves their conflict - it also, reaffirms their love for each other - switching the focus of the film onto Ponyboy, who is the pure innocent of the picture. He's fourteen, everyone else is 16 or older, so he's still innocent and gold. The other's try to protect that innocence to varying degrees.
It's an uneven movie, but so was the book. And Hinton was right - it could have been improved - she wrote it at sixteen. It was published in the late 1960s. And takes place in 1965, while never stated in the novel - the terminology, slang, and descriptions date it as 1960s. And the film version is clearly in the 1960s.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 (4/24/1967) by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel; however, she did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "greasers" and the upper-class "Socs" (pronounced /ˈsoʊʃɪz/—short for Socials). The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.
The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965,but this is never explicitly stated in the book.
The movie came out in 1983. There was a television series apparently in the 1990s (I never saw it) and a stage adaptation.
I first saw the movie when it was originally released around the age 15 or thereabouts. Saw it as an awkward teen in a raunchy old movie house in Johnson County, Kansas - the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. The movie house is long since gone. It was one of those strip mall movie theaters. I went in the afternoon, by myself, on a Saturday, saw it for may $3 or $5, if that. Today? It would have cost me $15-20. I saw it on HBO Max - so didn't cost much at all.
Coppola changed the music, the original score was a bit sugary, his father went to town on it - and made it very "Gone with the Wind". So now that his Dad is dead, he revised it - threw in Elvis tunes. He also shot it with similar vistas to Gone with the Wind - because the boys were into reading the book. Coppola against Hinton's advice stuck with the book, mainly because he directed the movie to please fans of the book, not the author.
Author's don't care about their books being adapted perfectly to the screen as much as fans do. Mainly because an author often forgets what is in it, or dislikes the book after it is published and wants to fix it.
Do I recommend the movie? Hard to say. I enjoyed it. And it's kind of fun to see the early performances of folks like C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillion, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and Ralph Macchiao. Tom Waits and SE Hinton also make cameos.
Plus, Stevie Wonder's title song is kind of beautiful - words by Wonder, composition by Carmen Coppola. Stay Gold by Stevie Wonder & Carmen Coppola
***
Random photo of the night...[thanksgiving decor outside apartment complex, they went nuts this year, yet weirdly sedated on the Halloween decorations.]
I thought they were over - but they came back with a vengeance. I used cooling pads last night. Also took CBD and melatonin.
Woke up at 7 this morning, which isn't bad, considering I have to wake up at 5:45 am tomorrow - and have a case of the Sunday Scaries happening. (I've inherited ex-cubical buddy's work, along with new work which would have been assigned to him, along with my own work - which had been on hold and now is being thrown at me all in one rush. Because my idiotic Project Managers want to get stuff done before the end of the fiscal year. Sorry, babies, it may not happen.)
I wish I was working remotely - I get more done remotely. I can work longer hours, have less distractions, and I don't have to waste time printing stuff off and building files no one ever looks at and take up room in my office. Only people who shouldn't work remotely - are folks who physically can't.
**
On Soap Twitter...
#GH Twitter beefs are so…pointless. You mad at people you never met for liking or not liking a fictional character…grow up.
ME: This seems to be the case on any social media platform regarding fandom? I mean the Spike Wars in the Buffy fandom pre-Twitter, on Voy & Yahoo forums & LJ were epic.
Shippers, folks. Boredom and frustration bring out the worst in people, I think.
**
I've been binging Superman & Lois all weekend long, with intermittent breaks. I paused to watch the last Spiderman flick (no not the one that is scheduled to hit theaters soon, the one before that - since it's Sony, I've my hopes it will pop up on HBO Max eventually). Also paused to watch The Outsiders: The Complete Novel. I'm on the fence, I remember the original as being better - but it's possible that's my nostalgia talking. Also the original cut out a lot of scenes from the book and focused the movie on Ponyboy's relationships with Dallas and Johnny, putting his brothers firmly in the background. The Complete Novel version reinserts the scenes with Ponyboy's brothers towards the end, and resolves their conflict - it also, reaffirms their love for each other - switching the focus of the film onto Ponyboy, who is the pure innocent of the picture. He's fourteen, everyone else is 16 or older, so he's still innocent and gold. The other's try to protect that innocence to varying degrees.
It's an uneven movie, but so was the book. And Hinton was right - it could have been improved - she wrote it at sixteen. It was published in the late 1960s. And takes place in 1965, while never stated in the novel - the terminology, slang, and descriptions date it as 1960s. And the film version is clearly in the 1960s.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 (4/24/1967) by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel; however, she did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "greasers" and the upper-class "Socs" (pronounced /ˈsoʊʃɪz/—short for Socials). The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.
The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965,but this is never explicitly stated in the book.
The movie came out in 1983. There was a television series apparently in the 1990s (I never saw it) and a stage adaptation.
I first saw the movie when it was originally released around the age 15 or thereabouts. Saw it as an awkward teen in a raunchy old movie house in Johnson County, Kansas - the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. The movie house is long since gone. It was one of those strip mall movie theaters. I went in the afternoon, by myself, on a Saturday, saw it for may $3 or $5, if that. Today? It would have cost me $15-20. I saw it on HBO Max - so didn't cost much at all.
Coppola changed the music, the original score was a bit sugary, his father went to town on it - and made it very "Gone with the Wind". So now that his Dad is dead, he revised it - threw in Elvis tunes. He also shot it with similar vistas to Gone with the Wind - because the boys were into reading the book. Coppola against Hinton's advice stuck with the book, mainly because he directed the movie to please fans of the book, not the author.
Author's don't care about their books being adapted perfectly to the screen as much as fans do. Mainly because an author often forgets what is in it, or dislikes the book after it is published and wants to fix it.
Do I recommend the movie? Hard to say. I enjoyed it. And it's kind of fun to see the early performances of folks like C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillion, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and Ralph Macchiao. Tom Waits and SE Hinton also make cameos.
Plus, Stevie Wonder's title song is kind of beautiful - words by Wonder, composition by Carmen Coppola. Stay Gold by Stevie Wonder & Carmen Coppola
***
Random photo of the night...[thanksgiving decor outside apartment complex, they went nuts this year, yet weirdly sedated on the Halloween decorations.]