midnight ramble
Apr. 7th, 2007 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI've spent far too much time today playing on my lj. When I felt guilty over it - Wales and my father both said the same thing - it is your day off. You get to do whatever you damn well please on your day off. Guilt - it's a funky thing. Why do we feel guilty about things that are more or less harmless and make us happy?
Watched Lost, Friday Night Lights and The Tudors today. My attention kept drifting during the Tudors for some reason. Could be that I was busy trying to figure out how to knit on the circular needles Wales gave me - which by the way are wicked cool once you get the hang of them. Really hard to put the first three rows on, but after that? A breeze. And great for knitting things in circles. Like socks and hats and gloves, and possible sweaters. I need to get some larger needles though. The 8 are too small. Need a 10 or 15 at the very least. Will look in two weeks when I go back and pick up my order of yarn for the sweater I'm working on. Have three projects going at the same time - a blanket, a sweater, and whatever the circular needle thing produces. I jump projects whenever I get bored. Regarding stitchs? I have no clue what they are called and don't care. I do knit 1, purl 1, one row, the next purl 1, knit one. I've also done knit 2, purl 2, and knit, purl 2, and basically every combo I can think of to entertain myself. Knitting is a lot of fun, very relaxing. And easier to do than pottery for a whole host of reasons not to mention more productive. Highly recommend it. And if you pick it up? Get "Stich n'Bitch Knitters Handbook" - it's better than having a person teach you - for numerous reasons, the main one's being you don't have to deal with them doing it for you, getting impatient, and telling you what to do. Much prefer being taught by a book. Having had both. ;-) (Wales and I wondered to the yarn store to pick up yarn and lust after yarn. If you don't knit, you don't get yarn lust.) Blanket is coming along at any rate - it's a throw blanket - for sitting in front of the telly or in a car or curled on a couch. Made of alpaca/acrylic blend - soft and in blue, aquarmarine turquoise, lavender, and maroon purple. Very pretty. Comes up to my waist and covers my feet at the moment. Should be done in another week or so.
The Tudors is okay. I don't care about the historical accuracy for numerous reasons - 1) its a tv series/soap opera not a documentary - heck do you really think Shakespeare was that accurate? Give me a break. Writers sacrifice accuracy for story all the time. If you really believe the history in historical novels, I got some real estate thats real cheap to sell you in Florida. It's cheap. Want it? 2) Historical accuracy is in the eye of the beholder. 3)I'm anal about a lot of things, just not this. All I care about when watching a tv show, reading a book, or seeing a movie is - is the story interesting? the characters cool? am I entertained?
As an aside: I think the third bit is possibly why I've never gotten along very well with nerds and geeks. And will never be a member of the sci-fantasy club. Have zero patience for arguments over whether or not a vampire can be drowned or what Klingons eat. I mean please, why do you care? Neither exists. Be creative, play around a bit, won't kill you. It's also why I gave up on trying to write sci-fi or fantasy or historical novels - the readers are far too anal for my taste and care about weird things - making the books feel a tad cookie cutter after a while.. And I find catering to them a tad suffocating.
I work in a field with lots of rules and procedures and processes - highly detail-oriented, perfectionist, and precise. In my personal life? I have no patience for unnecessary rules, procedures or processes. Heck I don't use patterns when I knit, I make up my own. I don't follow recipes when I cook - I make them up. I do it instinctively. And I do not outline my writing. In short, I'm one person in the work place and someone else at home and someone else online.
That said? I couldn't tell you if The Tudors was historically accurate or not, having forgotten most of my history on the topic. (The last time I studied it was, after all, in the fifth and sixth grades....that was, ahem, more than twenty years ago. And I've crammed a heck of lot of info in the old brain since. The jury is out on whether remembering what I was taught about Henry the 8th (anyone else feel a need to sing King Henry the 8th I am, I am?)
or the details of all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the most important. Something tells me it's the history bit, but honestly, I can't think why.) This may also explain why I don't care that much about that issue. You don't remember the actual history - you aren't likely to notice the inaccuracies, now are you?
Did I like it? Mixed feelings. Rhys Meyers is sexy as all get out. I like Rhys Meyers - he was great in Gormaghest and Matchpoint. Also a huge fan of Sam Neil and Jeremy Northam - two actors that I religiously follow about. Some people follow Julian Sands (I feel sorry for you, the man has made some of the worste films and tv shows on record. Although Marsters is coming in a close second.), I follow Neil and Northam. But, it is slow and convoluted. My attention kept drifting. So may or may not continue. Can only DVR two shows at a time it turns out on Sundays - although the Tudors is repeated daily, so may not be a huge problem.
Right now Sunday line up is: Dresden Files (I watch live, because impatient - but also tape to re-watch later), Desperate Housewives, Dexter (if they are still repeating episodes, still need to watch the one in the queue - haven't gotten to it yet), Dresden Files, Brothers and Sisters, and maybe The Tudors. I'm thinking the Tudors may get fun once Anne Boylen shows up and rocks Henry's world. Sort of glad BSG is over, I'd have to give something up.
It's late and I need to sleep. So may or may not come back and review Lost and FNL at a later point. Enjoyed both. Was somewhat surprised by my enjoyment of Lost. Oh, the guest-star in the flashback? That's the same woman we saw in Sawyer's flashback episode earlier in the season. The fun thing about Lost is guess where you saw that actor in the Lost series before?
(Not where you saw them period.) Much fun.
Watched Lost, Friday Night Lights and The Tudors today. My attention kept drifting during the Tudors for some reason. Could be that I was busy trying to figure out how to knit on the circular needles Wales gave me - which by the way are wicked cool once you get the hang of them. Really hard to put the first three rows on, but after that? A breeze. And great for knitting things in circles. Like socks and hats and gloves, and possible sweaters. I need to get some larger needles though. The 8 are too small. Need a 10 or 15 at the very least. Will look in two weeks when I go back and pick up my order of yarn for the sweater I'm working on. Have three projects going at the same time - a blanket, a sweater, and whatever the circular needle thing produces. I jump projects whenever I get bored. Regarding stitchs? I have no clue what they are called and don't care. I do knit 1, purl 1, one row, the next purl 1, knit one. I've also done knit 2, purl 2, and knit, purl 2, and basically every combo I can think of to entertain myself. Knitting is a lot of fun, very relaxing. And easier to do than pottery for a whole host of reasons not to mention more productive. Highly recommend it. And if you pick it up? Get "Stich n'Bitch Knitters Handbook" - it's better than having a person teach you - for numerous reasons, the main one's being you don't have to deal with them doing it for you, getting impatient, and telling you what to do. Much prefer being taught by a book. Having had both. ;-) (Wales and I wondered to the yarn store to pick up yarn and lust after yarn. If you don't knit, you don't get yarn lust.) Blanket is coming along at any rate - it's a throw blanket - for sitting in front of the telly or in a car or curled on a couch. Made of alpaca/acrylic blend - soft and in blue, aquarmarine turquoise, lavender, and maroon purple. Very pretty. Comes up to my waist and covers my feet at the moment. Should be done in another week or so.
The Tudors is okay. I don't care about the historical accuracy for numerous reasons - 1) its a tv series/soap opera not a documentary - heck do you really think Shakespeare was that accurate? Give me a break. Writers sacrifice accuracy for story all the time. If you really believe the history in historical novels, I got some real estate thats real cheap to sell you in Florida. It's cheap. Want it? 2) Historical accuracy is in the eye of the beholder. 3)I'm anal about a lot of things, just not this. All I care about when watching a tv show, reading a book, or seeing a movie is - is the story interesting? the characters cool? am I entertained?
As an aside: I think the third bit is possibly why I've never gotten along very well with nerds and geeks. And will never be a member of the sci-fantasy club. Have zero patience for arguments over whether or not a vampire can be drowned or what Klingons eat. I mean please, why do you care? Neither exists. Be creative, play around a bit, won't kill you. It's also why I gave up on trying to write sci-fi or fantasy or historical novels - the readers are far too anal for my taste and care about weird things - making the books feel a tad cookie cutter after a while.. And I find catering to them a tad suffocating.
I work in a field with lots of rules and procedures and processes - highly detail-oriented, perfectionist, and precise. In my personal life? I have no patience for unnecessary rules, procedures or processes. Heck I don't use patterns when I knit, I make up my own. I don't follow recipes when I cook - I make them up. I do it instinctively. And I do not outline my writing. In short, I'm one person in the work place and someone else at home and someone else online.
That said? I couldn't tell you if The Tudors was historically accurate or not, having forgotten most of my history on the topic. (The last time I studied it was, after all, in the fifth and sixth grades....that was, ahem, more than twenty years ago. And I've crammed a heck of lot of info in the old brain since. The jury is out on whether remembering what I was taught about Henry the 8th (anyone else feel a need to sing King Henry the 8th I am, I am?)
or the details of all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the most important. Something tells me it's the history bit, but honestly, I can't think why.) This may also explain why I don't care that much about that issue. You don't remember the actual history - you aren't likely to notice the inaccuracies, now are you?
Did I like it? Mixed feelings. Rhys Meyers is sexy as all get out. I like Rhys Meyers - he was great in Gormaghest and Matchpoint. Also a huge fan of Sam Neil and Jeremy Northam - two actors that I religiously follow about. Some people follow Julian Sands (I feel sorry for you, the man has made some of the worste films and tv shows on record. Although Marsters is coming in a close second.), I follow Neil and Northam. But, it is slow and convoluted. My attention kept drifting. So may or may not continue. Can only DVR two shows at a time it turns out on Sundays - although the Tudors is repeated daily, so may not be a huge problem.
Right now Sunday line up is: Dresden Files (I watch live, because impatient - but also tape to re-watch later), Desperate Housewives, Dexter (if they are still repeating episodes, still need to watch the one in the queue - haven't gotten to it yet), Dresden Files, Brothers and Sisters, and maybe The Tudors. I'm thinking the Tudors may get fun once Anne Boylen shows up and rocks Henry's world. Sort of glad BSG is over, I'd have to give something up.
It's late and I need to sleep. So may or may not come back and review Lost and FNL at a later point. Enjoyed both. Was somewhat surprised by my enjoyment of Lost. Oh, the guest-star in the flashback? That's the same woman we saw in Sawyer's flashback episode earlier in the season. The fun thing about Lost is guess where you saw that actor in the Lost series before?
(Not where you saw them period.) Much fun.
