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Sunday got lazy and watched television
Mar. 30th, 2025 08:07 pmIt's been an unproductive weekend. Too much time spent arguing with annoying Optimum customer reps. ( methinks it may be time to switch to Verizon? )
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Talked to Wales today, who informed me that her sister is now a prison guard. I'm guessing at Leavenworth, Penitentiary - since to my knowledge that's the only prison in Kansas.
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Been watching:
1. A Complete Unknown - the bio-pic about Bob Dylan. It's by no means the first or last one. Bob Dylan is like Elvis, the subject of multiple bio-pics and documentaries. For a bio-pic, this one is actually pretty good. It made me want to watch the Joan Baez documentary, I am the Noise to get her side of things. ( Read more... )
2. I Am the Noise - the Joan Baez documentary clarifies the Dylan/Baez romance. ( Read more... )
Baez had mental health issues that prexisted Dylan - and had nothing to do with him. ( Read more... )
The end of the film has Baez closing her farewell tour, and dancing in the sunshine of the California valley with her dog.
While slow in places - it is an inspiring documentary, and can be found on Hulu and I think Disney Plus.
3. Somebody Somewhere S3 - this is the final season of the series on HBO MAX, it's a lovely hyper-realistic series about a middle-aged woman who had left school to care for her sister (who died of cancer), and is now trying to find her way in Manhattan, Kansas. She does it via her friendships with various people, a gay man, a transgender man, her sister, and others. It's a heartwarming story with a cast of folks who don't look alike and look like most of us. Not like they jumped off the cover of Vogue magazine.
4. Daredevil Born Again - it's an uneven season? One episode has Matt defeating a bank heist, the next he's going after and defeating a serial killer. I could have done without the serial killer. (Honestly, why does Hollywood feel the need to insert serial killers into all noir detective stories? Isn't Fisk enough.) Weirdly the folks in the fandom preferred the episode about the serial killer. Makes me wonder about folks mental health.
5. The Pitt - this is this seasons' The Bear. The critics can't stop talking about it. It's by far the best medical drama that I've seen, and Noah Wylie (of ER and Falling Skies fame) blows the roof off, with a powerful performance as Doctor Robby, who is running an ER during a difficult and somewhat traumatizing fifteen hour shift. Each episode is another hour of the shift. There are fifteen episodes in all. The first thirteen are intense moments of drama. It takes hyper-realism to the next level. The drama never leaves the ER. It's focused in the ER. We don't go elsewhere in the hospital or follow the doctor's home. All we see of their lives is in the ER.
Outside of Wyle, the cast is rounded out with Dr. King (portrayed by Bryan Cranston's daughter), and Doctor McKay (portrayed by Brad Douriff's daughter, and Dourif is scheduled to appear as the character's father).
If you like medical drama's and hyper-realism? I highly recommend.
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I can't seem to read a book at the moment. I try and give up halfway through. I can do audio books and graphic novels. Mother thinks it is because I'm reading dry material at work, and editing, and analyzing and keeping track of a lot of information, so my brain is tired. Possible.
I gave up on Station Eternity. It kept jumping around, and I didn't care about anyone. I need a good action/romance/thriller. That doesn't require a lot of thought and has good banter. I don't know if I can find it.
Having more success with audio books. Currently listening to Leah Bardoch's Six of Crows. Heavy with Russian mythology, and language. I'm enjoying it.
It's part of the source material for the Netflix series Shadow and Bone, which I wish had continued. I'd have preferred a Six of Crows series to Wheel of Time or Rings of Power or additional seasons of the Witcher, but alas that's just me.
The audiobook has five different narrators, and is kind of fun.
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RIP Richard Chamberlain, the King of the 1970s-1990s television miniseries. Chamberlain was in: Centennial, Shogun, The Thorn Birds, Bourne Identity...
RIP Richard Chamberlain who dies at 90
He was known for his range and an excellent actor, with a large body of work behind him. I actually preferred him as Jason Bourne to Matt Damon.
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I'm taking a break from the insane political tug of war in the US and the world at the moment. Death to Fascists! Sigh, don't worry, they won't die, they are like cockroaches...but hope springs eternal that a killer meteor strike will wipe them out.
***
Talked to Wales today, who informed me that her sister is now a prison guard. I'm guessing at Leavenworth, Penitentiary - since to my knowledge that's the only prison in Kansas.
***
Been watching:
1. A Complete Unknown - the bio-pic about Bob Dylan. It's by no means the first or last one. Bob Dylan is like Elvis, the subject of multiple bio-pics and documentaries. For a bio-pic, this one is actually pretty good. It made me want to watch the Joan Baez documentary, I am the Noise to get her side of things. ( Read more... )
2. I Am the Noise - the Joan Baez documentary clarifies the Dylan/Baez romance. ( Read more... )
Baez had mental health issues that prexisted Dylan - and had nothing to do with him. ( Read more... )
The end of the film has Baez closing her farewell tour, and dancing in the sunshine of the California valley with her dog.
While slow in places - it is an inspiring documentary, and can be found on Hulu and I think Disney Plus.
3. Somebody Somewhere S3 - this is the final season of the series on HBO MAX, it's a lovely hyper-realistic series about a middle-aged woman who had left school to care for her sister (who died of cancer), and is now trying to find her way in Manhattan, Kansas. She does it via her friendships with various people, a gay man, a transgender man, her sister, and others. It's a heartwarming story with a cast of folks who don't look alike and look like most of us. Not like they jumped off the cover of Vogue magazine.
4. Daredevil Born Again - it's an uneven season? One episode has Matt defeating a bank heist, the next he's going after and defeating a serial killer. I could have done without the serial killer. (Honestly, why does Hollywood feel the need to insert serial killers into all noir detective stories? Isn't Fisk enough.) Weirdly the folks in the fandom preferred the episode about the serial killer. Makes me wonder about folks mental health.
5. The Pitt - this is this seasons' The Bear. The critics can't stop talking about it. It's by far the best medical drama that I've seen, and Noah Wylie (of ER and Falling Skies fame) blows the roof off, with a powerful performance as Doctor Robby, who is running an ER during a difficult and somewhat traumatizing fifteen hour shift. Each episode is another hour of the shift. There are fifteen episodes in all. The first thirteen are intense moments of drama. It takes hyper-realism to the next level. The drama never leaves the ER. It's focused in the ER. We don't go elsewhere in the hospital or follow the doctor's home. All we see of their lives is in the ER.
Outside of Wyle, the cast is rounded out with Dr. King (portrayed by Bryan Cranston's daughter), and Doctor McKay (portrayed by Brad Douriff's daughter, and Dourif is scheduled to appear as the character's father).
If you like medical drama's and hyper-realism? I highly recommend.
***
I can't seem to read a book at the moment. I try and give up halfway through. I can do audio books and graphic novels. Mother thinks it is because I'm reading dry material at work, and editing, and analyzing and keeping track of a lot of information, so my brain is tired. Possible.
I gave up on Station Eternity. It kept jumping around, and I didn't care about anyone. I need a good action/romance/thriller. That doesn't require a lot of thought and has good banter. I don't know if I can find it.
Having more success with audio books. Currently listening to Leah Bardoch's Six of Crows. Heavy with Russian mythology, and language. I'm enjoying it.
It's part of the source material for the Netflix series Shadow and Bone, which I wish had continued. I'd have preferred a Six of Crows series to Wheel of Time or Rings of Power or additional seasons of the Witcher, but alas that's just me.
The audiobook has five different narrators, and is kind of fun.
***
RIP Richard Chamberlain, the King of the 1970s-1990s television miniseries. Chamberlain was in: Centennial, Shogun, The Thorn Birds, Bourne Identity...
RIP Richard Chamberlain who dies at 90
He was known for his range and an excellent actor, with a large body of work behind him. I actually preferred him as Jason Bourne to Matt Damon.
***
I'm taking a break from the insane political tug of war in the US and the world at the moment. Death to Fascists! Sigh, don't worry, they won't die, they are like cockroaches...but hope springs eternal that a killer meteor strike will wipe them out.