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1. ( personal or the complete suckage of 2022 continued )

Right now, I feel numb. I used the Headspace app to calm down and it eventually worked. Mind is clear finally. Just in time to head back into the workplace tomorrow.

2. I didn't really get obsessed with Elvis, so much as the Baz Lurham film entitled Elvis. I went hunting for something about the actual historic figure that explained my reaction to the film. I got mixed results.

Although I did figure out why the film haunted and moved me. The scene that really got to me...was the Trouble Clip from the Film. I couldn't find it anywhere else. I don't know if Elvis ever truly did that performance on stage - allegedly he did at various touring appearances from 1954-1956 prior to being drafted, which weren't filmed.

What haunts me - is this was a person who pushed against the wall of public opinion and mockery, with mixed, and for the most part, tragic results.

I'm not sure the world is kind to artists, or those who are sensitive, creative, and a bit off-beat or walking off the beaten track. It tends to mock them, and ruthlessly judge them for not measuring up to its hypocritical standards. The closer one looks at Elvis, the harder it is not to see how toxic our society truly is - to all of us.
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3. I watched Echoes on Netflix yesterday. It's about seven episodes long. And ...okay. ( Read more... )

4. Speaking of breezy shows...I've also watched part of the new Partner Track series on Netflix, which is based on a best-selling chick-lit book. It's not really a contemporary romance, nor would I call it women's contemporary lit either. More indie chick-lit, similar to Crazy Rich Asians.

I read the book, it's okay. (Actually read isn't quite the right term, listened to it on audible. I am finding it difficult to really read books at the moment. Although I am currently making my way through the YA Fantasy Romance Novel "Spin the Dawn" - which utilizes Asian mythology, a nice change of pace that. I don't know much about Asian mythology. ) The Partner Track is about a twenty-something/thirty-something Asian Female Law Associate struggling to become a partner in a huge top tier mergers and acquisitions law firm, struggling to juggle family, romance, and ambition along the way.

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Picked up four new audio books (free) with my credits. I have two credits remaining, with another coming in a month. I got an email from audible that if I didn't use them soon - they'd expire on me.

The four books?

* Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Stories from a South African Childhood (Narrated by Trevor Noah)

* Killers of the Flower Moon - The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann, narrated by Will Patton, Anne Marie Lee, and Danny Campbell

* Finding Me - a Memoir by Viola Davis, narrated by Viola Davis

* The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Mary Shelley, and More - narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Malk Williams, Karen Cass.

I can't read for pleasure that well at the moment, so have resorted to audio books. Which is ironic since prior to 2020, I couldn't imagine myself ever being able to make it through an audio book. I am picky about them though - plotty books with a narrator doing multiple voices yet sounding the same are hard for me to follow.

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Finished watching Lightyear - which is okay. It had a decent twist regarding who Zurg was and why. Also it handled the time travel dilemma better than most. But it was long, and slow in spots, and for a kids animated film too long, too slow, and deep for its own good. Also repetitive. I got bored and started doing something else during it.

Anyhow, I can see why it didn't do well and ended up on streaming rather quickly.

The best thing about it was the plot twist. That was darkly humorous.
I'd tell you, but it would ruin the entire movie - and its really the only thing the movie had going for it.

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Tried House of the Dragon E1, S1, on HBO Max. And...it's okay. I gave up. I couldn't get into it. I don't care about anyone. The film is dark and hard to see. Everyone has white wigs on. (Or just about everyone).
And it's violent. And I ...have better things to do.

I'm not in the right headspace for it.

This is the third or fourth television thing my co-workers were into that I just can't get into right now.( Read more... )

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