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shadowkatIt's official have a full-fledged cold, probably got it last weekend at the retreat, although lack of sleep this week may have contributed, that and the up and down temperatures.
Brain: Let's do the jazz festival in Red Hook.
Body: ZZZ....no, feel crappy.
Brain: Let's go apartment hunting.
Body: hack, wheeze, no feel crappy.
Brain: Let's go do kayaking.
Body: Yeah, right. Look up the definition of "feel crappy" and "have a cold" and get back to me.
Brain: How about we go see a movie?
Body: How about we stay home and watch tv and wander about on the internet and maybe read a book, and
drink lots of water, tea, and oj?
Brain: Okay...but I pick the home entertainment options.
Body: As long as it doesn't require much physical activity, and we can eat a gluten-free snickerdoodle cookie during it, I don't care.
Brain: Shouldn't we have gluten-free chicken soup instead?
Body: It's 86 degrees outside, what do you think?
Sigh. Stupid body.
Finished the eighth episode of the Wire this morning, entitled Lessons. Where Omar says - "if you aim to hit the king, make sure you don't miss the king." It's a great scene actually. Ending with Omar whistling the Cheese Stands Alone, and delivering that line. I'm getting more and more hooked on this little series. Spoke to Dadster about it, apparently he knows a guy who was an ex-DEA agent, who worked the streets of DC and Baltimore, and with the cops on those beats and has seen The Wire - this guy told him that everything in the Wire, from the dialogue down to the set design, etc - is exactly what it is like in that world. Exactly. See? Heightened reality - or more real than reality tv shows. Or at the very least more entertaining.
After watching the man-pain vid circulating my flist, I felt this overwhelming need to point people in the direction of this: A Pervert's Guide to Cinema (a download is found here - but it is very long:http://qualitymovie814.over-blog.com/).
Brain: Let's do the jazz festival in Red Hook.
Body: ZZZ....no, feel crappy.
Brain: Let's go apartment hunting.
Body: hack, wheeze, no feel crappy.
Brain: Let's go do kayaking.
Body: Yeah, right. Look up the definition of "feel crappy" and "have a cold" and get back to me.
Brain: How about we go see a movie?
Body: How about we stay home and watch tv and wander about on the internet and maybe read a book, and
drink lots of water, tea, and oj?
Brain: Okay...but I pick the home entertainment options.
Body: As long as it doesn't require much physical activity, and we can eat a gluten-free snickerdoodle cookie during it, I don't care.
Brain: Shouldn't we have gluten-free chicken soup instead?
Body: It's 86 degrees outside, what do you think?
Sigh. Stupid body.
Finished the eighth episode of the Wire this morning, entitled Lessons. Where Omar says - "if you aim to hit the king, make sure you don't miss the king." It's a great scene actually. Ending with Omar whistling the Cheese Stands Alone, and delivering that line. I'm getting more and more hooked on this little series. Spoke to Dadster about it, apparently he knows a guy who was an ex-DEA agent, who worked the streets of DC and Baltimore, and with the cops on those beats and has seen The Wire - this guy told him that everything in the Wire, from the dialogue down to the set design, etc - is exactly what it is like in that world. Exactly. See? Heightened reality - or more real than reality tv shows. Or at the very least more entertaining.
After watching the man-pain vid circulating my flist, I felt this overwhelming need to point people in the direction of this: A Pervert's Guide to Cinema (a download is found here - but it is very long:http://qualitymovie814.over-blog.com/).
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Date: 2011-06-19 07:17 pm (UTC)I also loved how they put a filter between the spectator and the scene with the use of the surveillance camera when Omar discovers the body of his lover in the morgue. I love the distance it creates and how Omar's distress is treated in a non intrusive way. Pain and violence are not feeded as spectacles for the viewers.
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Date: 2011-06-21 11:05 pm (UTC)And I did rather love that scene on the street with Wee Bay. They clearly have some good directors and camera work on this show - not easy to get in television, tends to be rather expensive.