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shadowkat1. While musing about what might have beens, I got to go to a pre-negotiation meeting where I actually helped people and felt as if I'd accomplished something? We were discussing the construction of a bridge over tracks and a highway - which were connecting two separate tracks, and providing faster service for commuters.
2. The musing about what might have beens was triggered by boredom - and I had looked up an old college friend/acquaintance - we ran a folklore house together, taking turns writing up the request for it. I made out with him once, but it was akin to making out with a sibling. The physical attraction wasn't there. He was tall, lean, blond, and blue-eyed folk and country western singer along the lines of Johnny Cash, except not quite as damaged. Fellow English Lit major. But I've always been odd about physical attraction. But then, isn't everyone?
Interesting guy. He's been a cowboy, volunteer firefighter, landscape designer, construction worker, musician - touring and producing albums, and currently works as an elementary school teacher in Moab, Utah. Wrote a couple of semi-philosophical/religious books about the Eclipse and also one about getting away from the internet. One of the books was a children's book about how the sun and the moon are the same size in the sky, and why that is scientifically.
Someone on Amazon stated - that it was pretty intelligent not all that bad for a simple cowboy. (And I thought, this must be a joke, because he was a lot of things, but simple wasn't among them.)
It was also triggered by reading about a social media acquaintance taking a trip on the Queen Mary 2. I want to travel - but, I don't really want to go alone. Traveling alone can be exhausting, and stressful. And I don't have the energy at the moment. Also, I got to get a handle on my diet and physical condition first.
Breathing exercises, meditation, and well having something to work on - got me out of it. I also talked to a few folks.
3. My church is amusing me in regards to "The Listening Circles"
LP: A little clarification on the questions? You said three, but there appears to be four?
Name, where are you from, what brought you to this listening circle/
What have you been thinking since Oct. 7?
What is the hardest thing for you?
What is the most important thing for you to do moving forward and/or What do you need after today's listening circle?
And also, maybe we need to plan for a bit more time for the questions.
B: Oh, during the training we must have down the first question in the larger group, so it wasn't counted. The first is more of an introduction but I can see how it can become a lengthy question in of itself.
Maybe we can lengthen this to 45 minutes?
[Dear god. It was 50-55 minutes when we did it. So how long was it recently? 30 minutes? I'd suggested they extend from fifty minutes to maybe an hour to an hour and thirty minutes for the small groups, or make questions less vague. I read the questions to mother.
Mother: They expect people to answer all those questions in forty-five minutes?
ME: apparently less? And six-seven people. ]
Years ago, I took a legislative clinic course, where the prof described government in this manner : everyone throws in a problem in a hat, then they scrounge around and pick one, then everyone throws the solutions in a hat and scrounge about to pick one. Basically organized chaos.
Little did I realize at the time that this is true of every organization known to humans. When it comes to running organizations, human beings are ...well inept? And weirdly un-self-aware about their ineptitude. We need to stop giving awards for incompetent management practices.
4. I was bored at work and trying to avoid social media platforms which were either throwing politics at me (do not want) or annoying platitudes.
So, I searched new bands. Found a bunch of stuff by Rasputina, and K's Choice. Also listened to the Broadway Cast album of Stereophonic - not all that memorable or interesting, unfortunately.
Then started hunting horror television shows. I'm in a mood for thrillers and horror - I want something gripping. Where folks are struggling to solve a big problem or escape something or figure something out?
I can't find the one I found at work - which was on screen rant? But did find the following lists:
* Elle's List of Best Horror Television Shows
Thinking of trying The Outsider on Max.
* It may have been Den of Geek?
Best Horror Television Shows of the 21st Century
These look intriguing...
Folklore
Stream on: Max (U.S.)
One of the joys of the streaming era is Western audiences gaining increased access to international storytelling. Folklore is one such an example. Folklore isn’t just the name of a Taylor Swift album, it’s also a thrilling horror anthology on HBO Asia.
Through two seasons and 13 episodes, Folklore presents spooky stories based on Asian superstitions and myths. As curated by Singaporean director Eric Khoo each episode is directed by a filmmaker from a different Asian country
[Although it may be too much for me.]
And..
Dead Set
Stream on: Netflix (U.K.)
Black Mirror before Black Mirror existed, this five-part satirical horror series was Charlie Brooker’s first solo screenwriting credit. It combined the former TV critic’s fascination with reality show Big Brother with imagined scenarios so apocalyptically bleak that they become funny. The premise was simple: a zombie virus breaks out in the UK during a series of Big Brother, leaving the contestants in the dark about what’s happening until it’s too late.
What made Dead Set special was the level of detail in both the reality spoof and the horror strand. The involvement of real show presenter Davina McCall, Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy and a huge number of former contestants willing to zombie-up and eat some internal organs made it totally convincing. The zombies were also hardcore and responsible for some surprisingly tense and extremely gross moments. Airing over consecutive nights in the run-up to Halloween 2008, it delivered proper zombie gore, cultural comment, and the memorable sight of Andy Nyman as a TV producer screaming obscenities at the dupes he’d exploited while they chewed on his guts and ripped out his spine. Unforgettable. – Louisa Mellor
This one looks interesting..
The Secret of Crickley Hall
Stream on: Prime Video (U.S.), Hulu (U.S.)
This neat three-part adaptation just about has it all: a top cast, genuine chills, and an involving mystery story. If you’re after a haunted house thriller with a bit of emotional heft to it, you can’t go too wrong here. Written and directed by Ultraviolet and Doctor Who’s Joe Ahearne, The Secret of Crickley Hall is told in two different time periods – the modern day (well, 2012, when it aired on BBC One) and the 1940s – in the same location: the ominous-sounding village of Devil’s Cleave.
Devil’s Cleave is where the Caleigh family move a year after suffering a terrible loss, and it’s where Suranne Jones’ Eve Caleigh confronts her grief while immersed in spooky goings-on that go back much further than a year. Tom Ellis plays Eve’s husband Gabe, with Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams as their daughter Loren, while the rest of the cast include House of the Dragon’s Olivia Cooke, The Winter King’s Iain de Caestecker and screen veteran David Warner.Adapted from James Herbert’s 2006 novel of the same name, this is a condensed hit of mystery and good old-fashioned ghostly thrills.
30 Coins
Stream on: Max (U.S.)
30 Coins (or 30 Monedas in its native Spanish) is a Spanish horror series from Álex de la Iglesia for HBO Europe. The show follows the Catholic exorcist Padre Manuel Vergara (Eduard Fernández) as he attempts to move on from his troubled past in the small town of Pedraza. While that sounds like the setup for a demonic possession story, 30 Coins goes off in a much more interesting direction.
The series doesn’t shy away from paranormal phenomena, but it all has to do with a mysterious coin that may be one of the “thirty pieces of silver” paid to Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus Christ. That’s right, friends: we’ve got a Catholic mystery horror story on our hands! 30 Coins made enough waves in its well-received first season for none other than Paul Giamatti to join the series in season 2.
The Enfield Haunting
Stream on: Prime Video (U.S.), NOW (U.K.)
Sky Living was a short-lived British TV channel that specialised in celeb-fronted reality shows, glossy US imports and ropey paranormal investigations. That last interest explains the commissioning of three-part 2015 drama The Enfield Haunting, which turned out to be an outlier among its channel-mates as a quality drama with an acclaimed cast including Timothy Spall and Matthew Macfadyen, and a buzzy director in The Killing’s Krystoffer Nyholm.
The story will be familiar to paranormal fans as one of the most widely reported “real-life” poltergeist hauntings around. It’s since been told in The Conjuring 2 and in Apple TV+ series The Enfield Poltergeist, as well as in countless podcasts, articles and books. In the 1970s, the Hodgson family in Enfield became briefly notorious in the tabloid press for claiming to be haunted by a malevolent spirit who targeted young Janet Hodgson. Their claims were investigated by psychic investigators Playfair and Grosse (Macfadyen and Spall), whose scepticism was dashed by the encounter. What makes The Enfield Haunting special is that it works equally well for believers and non-believers, as either a spooky document or a portrait of a damaged family and a traumatised man.
There's also...
The Fades
Stream on: Prime Video (U.S.), Hulu (U.S.), BBC iPlayer (U.K.), ITVX (U.K.)
Another British horror series cut unforgivably short by BBC budget restraints (see also: In the Flesh), The Fades had scale, scares, and scope, not to mention a cast so well-chosen they became some of the biggest names in screen fantasy (Lucifer’s Tom Ellis, Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer and Joe Dempsie, Agents of SHIELD’s Iain de Caestecker and Oscar-winning Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya).
It’s the story of Paul, a teenager with the power to see spirits of the dead trapped on Earth. Paul learns that his apocalyptic visions aren’t simply the work of his imagination; he’s an “Angelic” – one of a group locked in celestial battle with the malevolent titular “Fades”. Created by Jack Thorne (Skins, This is England, His Dark Materials), this six-episode series boasts proper horror, compelling and convincing characters, plus a script packed with geeky pop culture references. It should have had six seasons and a movie.
2. The musing about what might have beens was triggered by boredom - and I had looked up an old college friend/acquaintance - we ran a folklore house together, taking turns writing up the request for it. I made out with him once, but it was akin to making out with a sibling. The physical attraction wasn't there. He was tall, lean, blond, and blue-eyed folk and country western singer along the lines of Johnny Cash, except not quite as damaged. Fellow English Lit major. But I've always been odd about physical attraction. But then, isn't everyone?
Interesting guy. He's been a cowboy, volunteer firefighter, landscape designer, construction worker, musician - touring and producing albums, and currently works as an elementary school teacher in Moab, Utah. Wrote a couple of semi-philosophical/religious books about the Eclipse and also one about getting away from the internet. One of the books was a children's book about how the sun and the moon are the same size in the sky, and why that is scientifically.
Someone on Amazon stated - that it was pretty intelligent not all that bad for a simple cowboy. (And I thought, this must be a joke, because he was a lot of things, but simple wasn't among them.)
It was also triggered by reading about a social media acquaintance taking a trip on the Queen Mary 2. I want to travel - but, I don't really want to go alone. Traveling alone can be exhausting, and stressful. And I don't have the energy at the moment. Also, I got to get a handle on my diet and physical condition first.
Breathing exercises, meditation, and well having something to work on - got me out of it. I also talked to a few folks.
3. My church is amusing me in regards to "The Listening Circles"
LP: A little clarification on the questions? You said three, but there appears to be four?
Name, where are you from, what brought you to this listening circle/
What have you been thinking since Oct. 7?
What is the hardest thing for you?
What is the most important thing for you to do moving forward and/or What do you need after today's listening circle?
And also, maybe we need to plan for a bit more time for the questions.
B: Oh, during the training we must have down the first question in the larger group, so it wasn't counted. The first is more of an introduction but I can see how it can become a lengthy question in of itself.
Maybe we can lengthen this to 45 minutes?
[Dear god. It was 50-55 minutes when we did it. So how long was it recently? 30 minutes? I'd suggested they extend from fifty minutes to maybe an hour to an hour and thirty minutes for the small groups, or make questions less vague. I read the questions to mother.
Mother: They expect people to answer all those questions in forty-five minutes?
ME: apparently less? And six-seven people. ]
Years ago, I took a legislative clinic course, where the prof described government in this manner : everyone throws in a problem in a hat, then they scrounge around and pick one, then everyone throws the solutions in a hat and scrounge about to pick one. Basically organized chaos.
Little did I realize at the time that this is true of every organization known to humans. When it comes to running organizations, human beings are ...well inept? And weirdly un-self-aware about their ineptitude. We need to stop giving awards for incompetent management practices.
4. I was bored at work and trying to avoid social media platforms which were either throwing politics at me (do not want) or annoying platitudes.
So, I searched new bands. Found a bunch of stuff by Rasputina, and K's Choice. Also listened to the Broadway Cast album of Stereophonic - not all that memorable or interesting, unfortunately.
Then started hunting horror television shows. I'm in a mood for thrillers and horror - I want something gripping. Where folks are struggling to solve a big problem or escape something or figure something out?
I can't find the one I found at work - which was on screen rant? But did find the following lists:
* Elle's List of Best Horror Television Shows
Thinking of trying The Outsider on Max.
* It may have been Den of Geek?
Best Horror Television Shows of the 21st Century
These look intriguing...
Folklore
Stream on: Max (U.S.)
One of the joys of the streaming era is Western audiences gaining increased access to international storytelling. Folklore is one such an example. Folklore isn’t just the name of a Taylor Swift album, it’s also a thrilling horror anthology on HBO Asia.
Through two seasons and 13 episodes, Folklore presents spooky stories based on Asian superstitions and myths. As curated by Singaporean director Eric Khoo each episode is directed by a filmmaker from a different Asian country
[Although it may be too much for me.]
And..
Dead Set
Stream on: Netflix (U.K.)
Black Mirror before Black Mirror existed, this five-part satirical horror series was Charlie Brooker’s first solo screenwriting credit. It combined the former TV critic’s fascination with reality show Big Brother with imagined scenarios so apocalyptically bleak that they become funny. The premise was simple: a zombie virus breaks out in the UK during a series of Big Brother, leaving the contestants in the dark about what’s happening until it’s too late.
What made Dead Set special was the level of detail in both the reality spoof and the horror strand. The involvement of real show presenter Davina McCall, Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy and a huge number of former contestants willing to zombie-up and eat some internal organs made it totally convincing. The zombies were also hardcore and responsible for some surprisingly tense and extremely gross moments. Airing over consecutive nights in the run-up to Halloween 2008, it delivered proper zombie gore, cultural comment, and the memorable sight of Andy Nyman as a TV producer screaming obscenities at the dupes he’d exploited while they chewed on his guts and ripped out his spine. Unforgettable. – Louisa Mellor
This one looks interesting..
The Secret of Crickley Hall
Stream on: Prime Video (U.S.), Hulu (U.S.)
This neat three-part adaptation just about has it all: a top cast, genuine chills, and an involving mystery story. If you’re after a haunted house thriller with a bit of emotional heft to it, you can’t go too wrong here. Written and directed by Ultraviolet and Doctor Who’s Joe Ahearne, The Secret of Crickley Hall is told in two different time periods – the modern day (well, 2012, when it aired on BBC One) and the 1940s – in the same location: the ominous-sounding village of Devil’s Cleave.
Devil’s Cleave is where the Caleigh family move a year after suffering a terrible loss, and it’s where Suranne Jones’ Eve Caleigh confronts her grief while immersed in spooky goings-on that go back much further than a year. Tom Ellis plays Eve’s husband Gabe, with Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams as their daughter Loren, while the rest of the cast include House of the Dragon’s Olivia Cooke, The Winter King’s Iain de Caestecker and screen veteran David Warner.Adapted from James Herbert’s 2006 novel of the same name, this is a condensed hit of mystery and good old-fashioned ghostly thrills.
30 Coins
Stream on: Max (U.S.)
30 Coins (or 30 Monedas in its native Spanish) is a Spanish horror series from Álex de la Iglesia for HBO Europe. The show follows the Catholic exorcist Padre Manuel Vergara (Eduard Fernández) as he attempts to move on from his troubled past in the small town of Pedraza. While that sounds like the setup for a demonic possession story, 30 Coins goes off in a much more interesting direction.
The series doesn’t shy away from paranormal phenomena, but it all has to do with a mysterious coin that may be one of the “thirty pieces of silver” paid to Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus Christ. That’s right, friends: we’ve got a Catholic mystery horror story on our hands! 30 Coins made enough waves in its well-received first season for none other than Paul Giamatti to join the series in season 2.
The Enfield Haunting
Stream on: Prime Video (U.S.), NOW (U.K.)
Sky Living was a short-lived British TV channel that specialised in celeb-fronted reality shows, glossy US imports and ropey paranormal investigations. That last interest explains the commissioning of three-part 2015 drama The Enfield Haunting, which turned out to be an outlier among its channel-mates as a quality drama with an acclaimed cast including Timothy Spall and Matthew Macfadyen, and a buzzy director in The Killing’s Krystoffer Nyholm.
The story will be familiar to paranormal fans as one of the most widely reported “real-life” poltergeist hauntings around. It’s since been told in The Conjuring 2 and in Apple TV+ series The Enfield Poltergeist, as well as in countless podcasts, articles and books. In the 1970s, the Hodgson family in Enfield became briefly notorious in the tabloid press for claiming to be haunted by a malevolent spirit who targeted young Janet Hodgson. Their claims were investigated by psychic investigators Playfair and Grosse (Macfadyen and Spall), whose scepticism was dashed by the encounter. What makes The Enfield Haunting special is that it works equally well for believers and non-believers, as either a spooky document or a portrait of a damaged family and a traumatised man.
There's also...
The Fades
Stream on: Prime Video (U.S.), Hulu (U.S.), BBC iPlayer (U.K.), ITVX (U.K.)
Another British horror series cut unforgivably short by BBC budget restraints (see also: In the Flesh), The Fades had scale, scares, and scope, not to mention a cast so well-chosen they became some of the biggest names in screen fantasy (Lucifer’s Tom Ellis, Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer and Joe Dempsie, Agents of SHIELD’s Iain de Caestecker and Oscar-winning Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya).
It’s the story of Paul, a teenager with the power to see spirits of the dead trapped on Earth. Paul learns that his apocalyptic visions aren’t simply the work of his imagination; he’s an “Angelic” – one of a group locked in celestial battle with the malevolent titular “Fades”. Created by Jack Thorne (Skins, This is England, His Dark Materials), this six-episode series boasts proper horror, compelling and convincing characters, plus a script packed with geeky pop culture references. It should have had six seasons and a movie.
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Date: 2024-07-18 04:41 pm (UTC)