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shadowkatFor the most part, been relaxing this weekend. It's too hot to be ambling about outdoors. I'm a wimp when it comes to hot weather - I don't like anything that is above 85 degrees and feels it is in the 90s with humidity.
I'm also blocking the news for my mental health. I'm ignoring it. Staying off social media for the most part, etc. That said, I'm unfortunately not completely immune to it. I checked Twitter for soap opera fandom news and ran smack into it. And used FB for church and there it was. And well, mother.
UK Twitter: Is it just me or is the US is on the verge of a Civil War?
Me: Nah, we're fine on the ground here. It's just the media - they like to exaggerate things and make stuff up - because they are bored. Ignore them.
During my FB church service - which was lovely and made me cry. It was on how we don't just fall from a coconut tree but are entangled in each other's lives, but feel increasingly isolated due to technology, social media platforms, systematic structures, rules, organizational guidelines, work codes, and the need to work and make more money. Not wrong. Had a lovely song.. One by Indiara.Aire...the main lyric?
"We are a human kind of Seven Billion, so many different races and religions and all comes down to one"
It made me cry. The sermon started out with the singer (it was a singer who was giving today's sermon) quoting Kamala Harris's statement that "you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree" and about how she and her friends had planted a grove of trees which grew with interconnected root systems in memory of her friend. And it ended with this song, which I'd never heard before.
Anyhow, during this service - I had to press mute briefly, because the people on audio were discussing the recent political moment in the news during the meet and greet section.
There's no escaping the news, is there?
Me: Apparently someone tried to shoot the Doofus in PA?
Mother: Yes, it was three shooters, the main one was killed, people were injured including an innocent by stander. And (Republican Candidate aka The Doofus) was hit by a stray bullet in the ear.
Me: Apparently the shooter was Registered Republican. (Found this out on FB and Twitter by accident.)
Mother: They were trying to blame the Opposition.
Me: Yeah, well that went up in smoke. They either have to hire better assassins, or do away with guns, one or the other. Or, I know? Get a different candidate?
Sorry, not sorry? What he was doing in PA, I don't know. For some reason I thought the convention was in Georgia?
I'm thinking that it would be a heck of a lot easier to stay away from political news, if everyone else did too? Or maybe I should just stay away from social media?
The church service was about the loneliness epidemic. And how impossible it is for people to connect in this insane society of gadgetry. Don't I know it. I appear to be among the causalities. Raise your hand if you identify, or forever hold your piece.
It did make the point that we're more interconnected then we want to believe, and that inter-dependency and connectedness is necessary to our survival. In short we need to love each other, and not let people fall through the cracks.
***
In other news? Still not sleeping well. And still struggling with health issues.
And, still have my writers/artist's block - which I personally blame on social media and crazy work place. But mainly social media. I'm too self-conscious. I don't think my writing/art is good enough. Also there's so much content out there - why should I continue to add to it. In short, I feel overwhelmed with it all, and lost inside of it.
Binged a few television serials:
1. Fool Me Once - appears to be an Australian limited series by Harlan Coben via Netflix. Has 8 episodes. It's about a former Iraq Combat Helicopter Pilot who loses her sister, husband, and her job. And is having PTSD about Iraq, and is overwhelmed with guilt over what she did overseas.
Whether this is linked to her sister and husband's murder, or that has to do with events outside of her, is not clear yet. It's kind of a convoluted plot - almost as if the writer got bored of his plot and decided to keep adding to it?
But it fits my mood, which is to watch a mystery/thriller.
2. Scavengers Reign - HBO Max original - but streaming on Netflix? (Making me think I can and should cancel the MAX subscription and just keep Netflix?) This has been touted as among the best science fiction series out there by the critical masses. It's an animation (which is a good thing - because honestly? I don't think I could watch a live action version nor do I think they could pull it off.) The animation is kind of pseudo-realistic along the vibe of some adult American soft cell animation - such as Art Linklater's animated films. It's not cartoon animation - the people look and for the most part move like adult people. There's a stiffness to it that you don't see in most of the Disney, Anime, and Pixar stuff. Also it's 2D not 3D, so not computer animation. Compelling though. I actually like it better than computer animation. Also not quite as busy as anime, nor are the people as idealized or pretty.
It's about 12 episodes? I'm four in. The story is about a space-ship that has swung off course, and resulted in various people having to evacuate in escape pods to the increasingly hostile surface planet below. And how they survive, or if they survive and get off the planet.
The alien creatures are innovative. I've not seen them before - although they are to some degree reminiscent of things I've seen in Japanese Anime.
3. Supacel - it's also on Netflix and got a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I was bored in the first episode and had troubles following it and gave up. It's a UK series that reminds me a little of the UK series Misfits, but with a lot more characters. I'm not positive, but I think an alleged cure for sickle cell anemia gives the recipients super powers. And the government is kidnapping them and testing them. And a man gathers folks with super powers together - to save his kidnapped girlfriend? But I don't know for certain, that's my best guess? (I'm admittedly a bit burned out on the superhero trope in television and cinema. I blame the MCU for that.
I'm also blocking the news for my mental health. I'm ignoring it. Staying off social media for the most part, etc. That said, I'm unfortunately not completely immune to it. I checked Twitter for soap opera fandom news and ran smack into it. And used FB for church and there it was. And well, mother.
UK Twitter: Is it just me or is the US is on the verge of a Civil War?
Me: Nah, we're fine on the ground here. It's just the media - they like to exaggerate things and make stuff up - because they are bored. Ignore them.
During my FB church service - which was lovely and made me cry. It was on how we don't just fall from a coconut tree but are entangled in each other's lives, but feel increasingly isolated due to technology, social media platforms, systematic structures, rules, organizational guidelines, work codes, and the need to work and make more money. Not wrong. Had a lovely song.. One by Indiara.Aire...the main lyric?
"We are a human kind of Seven Billion, so many different races and religions and all comes down to one"
It made me cry. The sermon started out with the singer (it was a singer who was giving today's sermon) quoting Kamala Harris's statement that "you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree" and about how she and her friends had planted a grove of trees which grew with interconnected root systems in memory of her friend. And it ended with this song, which I'd never heard before.
Anyhow, during this service - I had to press mute briefly, because the people on audio were discussing the recent political moment in the news during the meet and greet section.
There's no escaping the news, is there?
Me: Apparently someone tried to shoot the Doofus in PA?
Mother: Yes, it was three shooters, the main one was killed, people were injured including an innocent by stander. And (Republican Candidate aka The Doofus) was hit by a stray bullet in the ear.
Me: Apparently the shooter was Registered Republican. (Found this out on FB and Twitter by accident.)
Mother: They were trying to blame the Opposition.
Me: Yeah, well that went up in smoke. They either have to hire better assassins, or do away with guns, one or the other. Or, I know? Get a different candidate?
Sorry, not sorry? What he was doing in PA, I don't know. For some reason I thought the convention was in Georgia?
I'm thinking that it would be a heck of a lot easier to stay away from political news, if everyone else did too? Or maybe I should just stay away from social media?
The church service was about the loneliness epidemic. And how impossible it is for people to connect in this insane society of gadgetry. Don't I know it. I appear to be among the causalities. Raise your hand if you identify, or forever hold your piece.
It did make the point that we're more interconnected then we want to believe, and that inter-dependency and connectedness is necessary to our survival. In short we need to love each other, and not let people fall through the cracks.
***
In other news? Still not sleeping well. And still struggling with health issues.
And, still have my writers/artist's block - which I personally blame on social media and crazy work place. But mainly social media. I'm too self-conscious. I don't think my writing/art is good enough. Also there's so much content out there - why should I continue to add to it. In short, I feel overwhelmed with it all, and lost inside of it.
Binged a few television serials:
1. Fool Me Once - appears to be an Australian limited series by Harlan Coben via Netflix. Has 8 episodes. It's about a former Iraq Combat Helicopter Pilot who loses her sister, husband, and her job. And is having PTSD about Iraq, and is overwhelmed with guilt over what she did overseas.
Whether this is linked to her sister and husband's murder, or that has to do with events outside of her, is not clear yet. It's kind of a convoluted plot - almost as if the writer got bored of his plot and decided to keep adding to it?
But it fits my mood, which is to watch a mystery/thriller.
2. Scavengers Reign - HBO Max original - but streaming on Netflix? (Making me think I can and should cancel the MAX subscription and just keep Netflix?) This has been touted as among the best science fiction series out there by the critical masses. It's an animation (which is a good thing - because honestly? I don't think I could watch a live action version nor do I think they could pull it off.) The animation is kind of pseudo-realistic along the vibe of some adult American soft cell animation - such as Art Linklater's animated films. It's not cartoon animation - the people look and for the most part move like adult people. There's a stiffness to it that you don't see in most of the Disney, Anime, and Pixar stuff. Also it's 2D not 3D, so not computer animation. Compelling though. I actually like it better than computer animation. Also not quite as busy as anime, nor are the people as idealized or pretty.
It's about 12 episodes? I'm four in. The story is about a space-ship that has swung off course, and resulted in various people having to evacuate in escape pods to the increasingly hostile surface planet below. And how they survive, or if they survive and get off the planet.
The alien creatures are innovative. I've not seen them before - although they are to some degree reminiscent of things I've seen in Japanese Anime.
3. Supacel - it's also on Netflix and got a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I was bored in the first episode and had troubles following it and gave up. It's a UK series that reminds me a little of the UK series Misfits, but with a lot more characters. I'm not positive, but I think an alleged cure for sickle cell anemia gives the recipients super powers. And the government is kidnapping them and testing them. And a man gathers folks with super powers together - to save his kidnapped girlfriend? But I don't know for certain, that's my best guess? (I'm admittedly a bit burned out on the superhero trope in television and cinema. I blame the MCU for that.