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shadowkatIt was bitterly cold today. In the teens (F) with windchills factoring in the single digits (F) this morning, and got up to the twenties by midday.
Tomorrow it may make it to 30 F degrees - which as I told Breaking Bad this morning is relatively balmy. If we make to the 40s, so New Yorkers may start wearing shorts.
My living room overhead (ceiling) light has gone out. So I'm using the lights in my window (the tree and the snowflake lights), along with the little planet light (my niece gave me for Xmas one year), and two small desk lamps. The Super's wife popped by just as I was departing the shower to attempt to change the light bulb in the living room - but alas she needs tools - so her husband (whose not feeling well or under the weather) may have to do it after all.
Knees hurt today - it's the commute. The steps, and the walking through the bitter cold. And work was a mixed bag. I ran into folks from Jamaica (aka the head honchos behind all my project managers) and the negative energy emanating from them - made me physically ill. It took me two hours to recover. Thank god, I'm in Manhattan now and not in Jamaica, Queens, and far away from them. The folks I'm sitting near including Breaking Bad don't have that type of energy.
***
I'm following the news but out of the corner of my eye? I'm kind of giving it the side-eye? Or through my fingers, like I'm watching a horror film? Told mother that I wanted to be in galaxy far far away, albeit not the Star Wars galaxy. I might be willing to tough it out in the Star Trek verse, but not the Star Wars one. Nor would I want to be in BSG, Farscape, or Doctor Who's verses. Definitely not Tolkien's. No, I think the only one I could survive in would be Star Trek's. (Which is ironic, considering I was afraid of Star Trek at the age of 9.)
Also conversations on Lord of the Rings popped up.
Would I go on an adventure with Gandalf? No way in hell. I would run in the opposite direction if I saw Gandalf coming my way, and possibly try to hide (assuming one can hide from a Wizard). Gandalf has a tendency to send you off on a journey, abandon you to your own devices half way through, and forget about you.
***
Buffy and Angel Rewatch.
I'm enjoying Buffy S7 at the moment more than Angel S4, although Angel S4 is a mixed bag? Everyone works but Cordelia and Connor - who clearly are miserable. Writing those two characters out at the end of S4, and replacing them with Spike was a stroke of genius. I know folks liked them? But I'm finding both to be annoying. (And apparently the actors weren't overly thrilled portraying them at that point either.)
Buffy S7 - I'm really enjoying. It's spending more time on the supporting characters. Also "Selfless" (Episode 5) - the Anya centric episode is fantastic and among the best of the series. It is a deconstruction of the romance tropes, and shows how Anya has been defining herself by men (whether through seeking vengeance against them or marrying them or having sex or being their girl friend or wife). As she puts it - her whole life - she clung to whatever came along. She jumps from Olaf, to D'Hoffryn's vengeance demons, to Xander. But has no clue who she is. In an attempt to commit suicide by vengeance demon - she kills her best friend instead, attempting to take back a horrible thing she did. It's a nice counter-point to Spike - who is doing the same thing - and the First is using that against him. He goes from one woman to the next, clinging to them, and changing who he is to please them. In Selfless - he is talking to the First, but he thinks it is Buffy, and when the real Buffy appears in black, while the First's Buffy is in white and nice, he's understandably confused. And screams at the real one as if she's not real, and says "can't hear you, can't hear you, scream Montessor all you like, pet, I'm not listening" - Montessor is from Edgar Allen Poe's the Cask of the Armadillo - or where he's walled up behind a wall to die in the basement. (It's a story about vengeance). Spike uses a lot of literary references. All in black Buffy - is all about business. She's slaying the demons. And it is notably Willow who finds the other way to help Anya, not Buffy, while Xander attempts to stall or stop Buffy long enough for Willow to do so.
This episode is important - in that it explains why Xander helps Buffy with Spike. As does Willow. But particularly Xander. Buffy thrusts in Xander's face his own hypocrisy, as he is thrusting it in Buffy's. Buffy is less sympathetic in the episode - because we aren't in her point of view - we're in Spike's (for the first time since the end of Lessons), Anya's, and Willow's. And from their perspective - Buffy is the slayer - all business.
Except of course Spike - who sees two Buffy's - the slayer, and the girl who forgives and helps. Spike has always seen both, and is somewhat confused by the duality.
Buffy is wrong when she tells Xander that she has to be cut off from people to her job. It's actually when she isn't - that she does it well. It's what Spike told her in Fool for Love - the reason she's survived is her connections to others. She's never won on her own. The statement at the end of S2 - in which from Buffy's perspective - she did it by herself - is inaccurate - she didn't. Spike took out Dru. Xander saved Giles. Willow gave Angel back his soul with Cordelia and OZ's help. They were working together, even if Buffy didn't see it. Often our perspective lies to us. We don't see what is going on around us - all the things others are doing behind the scenes.
God, I love this show. It is by far my favorite television series.
Tomorrow it may make it to 30 F degrees - which as I told Breaking Bad this morning is relatively balmy. If we make to the 40s, so New Yorkers may start wearing shorts.
My living room overhead (ceiling) light has gone out. So I'm using the lights in my window (the tree and the snowflake lights), along with the little planet light (my niece gave me for Xmas one year), and two small desk lamps. The Super's wife popped by just as I was departing the shower to attempt to change the light bulb in the living room - but alas she needs tools - so her husband (whose not feeling well or under the weather) may have to do it after all.
Knees hurt today - it's the commute. The steps, and the walking through the bitter cold. And work was a mixed bag. I ran into folks from Jamaica (aka the head honchos behind all my project managers) and the negative energy emanating from them - made me physically ill. It took me two hours to recover. Thank god, I'm in Manhattan now and not in Jamaica, Queens, and far away from them. The folks I'm sitting near including Breaking Bad don't have that type of energy.
***
I'm following the news but out of the corner of my eye? I'm kind of giving it the side-eye? Or through my fingers, like I'm watching a horror film? Told mother that I wanted to be in galaxy far far away, albeit not the Star Wars galaxy. I might be willing to tough it out in the Star Trek verse, but not the Star Wars one. Nor would I want to be in BSG, Farscape, or Doctor Who's verses. Definitely not Tolkien's. No, I think the only one I could survive in would be Star Trek's. (Which is ironic, considering I was afraid of Star Trek at the age of 9.)
Also conversations on Lord of the Rings popped up.
Would I go on an adventure with Gandalf? No way in hell. I would run in the opposite direction if I saw Gandalf coming my way, and possibly try to hide (assuming one can hide from a Wizard). Gandalf has a tendency to send you off on a journey, abandon you to your own devices half way through, and forget about you.
***
Buffy and Angel Rewatch.
I'm enjoying Buffy S7 at the moment more than Angel S4, although Angel S4 is a mixed bag? Everyone works but Cordelia and Connor - who clearly are miserable. Writing those two characters out at the end of S4, and replacing them with Spike was a stroke of genius. I know folks liked them? But I'm finding both to be annoying. (And apparently the actors weren't overly thrilled portraying them at that point either.)
Buffy S7 - I'm really enjoying. It's spending more time on the supporting characters. Also "Selfless" (Episode 5) - the Anya centric episode is fantastic and among the best of the series. It is a deconstruction of the romance tropes, and shows how Anya has been defining herself by men (whether through seeking vengeance against them or marrying them or having sex or being their girl friend or wife). As she puts it - her whole life - she clung to whatever came along. She jumps from Olaf, to D'Hoffryn's vengeance demons, to Xander. But has no clue who she is. In an attempt to commit suicide by vengeance demon - she kills her best friend instead, attempting to take back a horrible thing she did. It's a nice counter-point to Spike - who is doing the same thing - and the First is using that against him. He goes from one woman to the next, clinging to them, and changing who he is to please them. In Selfless - he is talking to the First, but he thinks it is Buffy, and when the real Buffy appears in black, while the First's Buffy is in white and nice, he's understandably confused. And screams at the real one as if she's not real, and says "can't hear you, can't hear you, scream Montessor all you like, pet, I'm not listening" - Montessor is from Edgar Allen Poe's the Cask of the Armadillo - or where he's walled up behind a wall to die in the basement. (It's a story about vengeance). Spike uses a lot of literary references. All in black Buffy - is all about business. She's slaying the demons. And it is notably Willow who finds the other way to help Anya, not Buffy, while Xander attempts to stall or stop Buffy long enough for Willow to do so.
This episode is important - in that it explains why Xander helps Buffy with Spike. As does Willow. But particularly Xander. Buffy thrusts in Xander's face his own hypocrisy, as he is thrusting it in Buffy's. Buffy is less sympathetic in the episode - because we aren't in her point of view - we're in Spike's (for the first time since the end of Lessons), Anya's, and Willow's. And from their perspective - Buffy is the slayer - all business.
Except of course Spike - who sees two Buffy's - the slayer, and the girl who forgives and helps. Spike has always seen both, and is somewhat confused by the duality.
Buffy is wrong when she tells Xander that she has to be cut off from people to her job. It's actually when she isn't - that she does it well. It's what Spike told her in Fool for Love - the reason she's survived is her connections to others. She's never won on her own. The statement at the end of S2 - in which from Buffy's perspective - she did it by herself - is inaccurate - she didn't. Spike took out Dru. Xander saved Giles. Willow gave Angel back his soul with Cordelia and OZ's help. They were working together, even if Buffy didn't see it. Often our perspective lies to us. We don't see what is going on around us - all the things others are doing behind the scenes.
God, I love this show. It is by far my favorite television series.
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