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Jul. 16th, 2023 09:06 pm1. Thank you for the responses to the post about my Dad, mucho appreciated.
2. Television
The emmy's kind of bewilder me. But so does most people's taste in television. After watching four episodes of White Lotus (during which I either fell asleep or my attention wandered), and seven episodes of Daisy Jones (ditto), I've decided that neither is to my liking, and I'm moving on. Whiny dramas about rich twenty-somethings visiting beautiful locals whinging about not having a purpose, don't do a lot for me. I'd rather watch a cartoon about elves, magicians, and dragons (which is what I did) or a show about people trying to survive in the Canadian wilderness.
Wales loves those types of shows. I fall asleep during them. I fell asleep during Lost in Translation. Didn't like it at all. All of Sofia Coppola's films - I fall asleep during. She has an ethereal quality to her work that Wales loves and I despise.
* Night Agent - I think I've figured it out. Not positive. But the bad guys aren't as clear cut as I thought - if I'm right. It's suspenseful. I liked The Diplomat and The Bear, better.
* Dragon Prince - The Mystery of Arvasos (Netflix) - this is a four season cartoon with 9 episodes in each season. I'm still in S1, with about three or four episodes to go.
It's interesting. It's animated. About two human youngsters, and an elf, who are attempting to return a dragon's egg to a Dragon - in order to stop a war. Lots of people are trying to stop them. But the villains are not quite as clear cut as I thought, and rather interesting. Also, one of the characters is death, female, and a military commander, the villain (male) was the lover of the King (who he may have had a hand in killing - not clear), and the King is POC. So it's a diverse cartoon. I like diversity in my television series. I'm finally getting it. It only took forty-fifty years of my lifetime.
* Alone S9 - actually enjoying this season - it's humbled some incredibly arrogant outdoorsmen. ( Read more... )
*Daisy Jones and the Six - the only characters I like in this series are the supporting Black characters, Bernie and Simone (who reminds me of a young Donna Summer). I don't like Daisy or the Six. ( Read more... )
3. Books
Almost down with Dying Politely by Geena Davis - it's an interesting book. Davis went out of her way to change how gender is portrayed in Hollywood. ( Read more... )
Decided to dump the Cat Sebastian for now, and start reading Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a “tough girl”—a young woman who confronts danger without apology—she slowly developed the strength and resilience the landscape demanded of her.
By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube brilliantly recounts Braverman’s adventures in Norway and Alaska. Settling into her new surroundings, Braverman was often terrified that she would lose control of her dog team and crash her sled, or be attacked by a polar bear, or get lost on the tundra. Above all, she worried that, unlike the other, gutsier people alongside her, she wasn’t cut out for life on the frontier. But no matter how out of place she felt, one thing was clear: she was hooked on the North. On the brink of adulthood, Braverman was determined to prove that her fears did not define her—and so she resolved to embrace the wilderness and make it her own.
Goodreads gave it 3.8 stars, but Good reads also adores...Colleen Hoover and Jo Jo Moyes, so we'll ignore that rating. (For reasons that escape me, a lot of people on Good Reads love abusive contemporary romance novels, which Joyce Carol Oats calls wishfulfillment escapism. JCO's idea of wish fulfillment and mine are not the same. I'd rather go to Alaska and run a dog sled than be in an abusive romance. ) Good Reads reviews are not the most reliable on the planet, and very subjective. So unreliable in fact - I've stopped bothering to read them. We'll see if I stick with the book or not. It's a memoir - which is my least favorite genre. But I like the topic.
Still in reading slump.
Also, reading Sins of Sinister Series with the X-men. And it's not very good. Makes no real sense, and clearly the writers are in love with the character of Sinister - and feel the need to write satire? The Satire, weirdly is better than most American Satire, and has some wit to it. But, overall - I'm waiting for it to actually go somewhere - because I'm kind of lost and trying to figure out if this is just another Marvel AU experiment.
Reading Marvel comics feels at times like reading illustrated fanfiction, except people are getting paid for it. It's about as experimental as fanfiction and as creative - which is why I like it, I guess? Some is better than others.
As you can see? I'm fairly eclectic in my reading tastes. I used to hide my love of X-men comics, but I've decided to stop doing that now. Maybe I'll met other interesting folks who like them?
2. Television
The emmy's kind of bewilder me. But so does most people's taste in television. After watching four episodes of White Lotus (during which I either fell asleep or my attention wandered), and seven episodes of Daisy Jones (ditto), I've decided that neither is to my liking, and I'm moving on. Whiny dramas about rich twenty-somethings visiting beautiful locals whinging about not having a purpose, don't do a lot for me. I'd rather watch a cartoon about elves, magicians, and dragons (which is what I did) or a show about people trying to survive in the Canadian wilderness.
Wales loves those types of shows. I fall asleep during them. I fell asleep during Lost in Translation. Didn't like it at all. All of Sofia Coppola's films - I fall asleep during. She has an ethereal quality to her work that Wales loves and I despise.
* Night Agent - I think I've figured it out. Not positive. But the bad guys aren't as clear cut as I thought - if I'm right. It's suspenseful. I liked The Diplomat and The Bear, better.
* Dragon Prince - The Mystery of Arvasos (Netflix) - this is a four season cartoon with 9 episodes in each season. I'm still in S1, with about three or four episodes to go.
It's interesting. It's animated. About two human youngsters, and an elf, who are attempting to return a dragon's egg to a Dragon - in order to stop a war. Lots of people are trying to stop them. But the villains are not quite as clear cut as I thought, and rather interesting. Also, one of the characters is death, female, and a military commander, the villain (male) was the lover of the King (who he may have had a hand in killing - not clear), and the King is POC. So it's a diverse cartoon. I like diversity in my television series. I'm finally getting it. It only took forty-fifty years of my lifetime.
* Alone S9 - actually enjoying this season - it's humbled some incredibly arrogant outdoorsmen. ( Read more... )
*Daisy Jones and the Six - the only characters I like in this series are the supporting Black characters, Bernie and Simone (who reminds me of a young Donna Summer). I don't like Daisy or the Six. ( Read more... )
3. Books
Almost down with Dying Politely by Geena Davis - it's an interesting book. Davis went out of her way to change how gender is portrayed in Hollywood. ( Read more... )
Decided to dump the Cat Sebastian for now, and start reading Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a “tough girl”—a young woman who confronts danger without apology—she slowly developed the strength and resilience the landscape demanded of her.
By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube brilliantly recounts Braverman’s adventures in Norway and Alaska. Settling into her new surroundings, Braverman was often terrified that she would lose control of her dog team and crash her sled, or be attacked by a polar bear, or get lost on the tundra. Above all, she worried that, unlike the other, gutsier people alongside her, she wasn’t cut out for life on the frontier. But no matter how out of place she felt, one thing was clear: she was hooked on the North. On the brink of adulthood, Braverman was determined to prove that her fears did not define her—and so she resolved to embrace the wilderness and make it her own.
Goodreads gave it 3.8 stars, but Good reads also adores...Colleen Hoover and Jo Jo Moyes, so we'll ignore that rating. (For reasons that escape me, a lot of people on Good Reads love abusive contemporary romance novels, which Joyce Carol Oats calls wishfulfillment escapism. JCO's idea of wish fulfillment and mine are not the same. I'd rather go to Alaska and run a dog sled than be in an abusive romance. ) Good Reads reviews are not the most reliable on the planet, and very subjective. So unreliable in fact - I've stopped bothering to read them. We'll see if I stick with the book or not. It's a memoir - which is my least favorite genre. But I like the topic.
Still in reading slump.
Also, reading Sins of Sinister Series with the X-men. And it's not very good. Makes no real sense, and clearly the writers are in love with the character of Sinister - and feel the need to write satire? The Satire, weirdly is better than most American Satire, and has some wit to it. But, overall - I'm waiting for it to actually go somewhere - because I'm kind of lost and trying to figure out if this is just another Marvel AU experiment.
Reading Marvel comics feels at times like reading illustrated fanfiction, except people are getting paid for it. It's about as experimental as fanfiction and as creative - which is why I like it, I guess? Some is better than others.
As you can see? I'm fairly eclectic in my reading tastes. I used to hide my love of X-men comics, but I've decided to stop doing that now. Maybe I'll met other interesting folks who like them?