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Dec. 12th, 2012 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Work is making me crabby and whiny. I'm tired of it. And so are you, I'm certain. Oh, well, it is what it is. Today - the IT department was still playing with our printer connections...so once again I had to play musical chairs with the printers. And reboot the computer various times. Meanwhile, KM aka Ozzy Davis, gave me a lecture about not stressing out over work. He used to be a criminal defense/public defender litigation attorney in NY, I can see his point. That is worse. Everything is relative after all.
2. On the way home and on the way to work, I had to walk through a shoot for an episode of the television series Elementary. I know it was "elementary" because they had signs up and that was the name on the back of the crew chairs. Didn't stick around - was rushing to catch trains.
Also watching a tv or film shoot is a bit like watching paint dry. How something so entertaining on the screen can be so insanely boring to make, I've no idea. But it is.
3. Rather adore Roger Waters...may download 12-12-12's version of "Another Brick in the Wall". I need some more Pink Floyd. Also Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) is quite good with Waters...who knew?
Lovely medley of Pink Floyd Songs...Money to Comfortably Numb. (Oh god, Adam Sandler and Paul Schaffer are doing a really bad satire of Leonard Cohen's Broken Halleugh. And do we really need Kristen Stewart? Although here she reminds me more of Joan Jett than sulky Bella. And thank god, she didn't sing - just introduced Bon Jovi. These things are hard to organize and coordinate by the way - I know what goes into them. )
Oh...prior to the event, Mayor Bloomberg was furious with people who were scalping tickets to the concert for $60,000 or more to make a profit. Tickets sold for $800 - $1000, all proceeds to the relief effort. So the scalpers were making money off of a benefit? Sigh. People.
4. Still making my way through The Immortal Life of Henerietta Laks - the book is good, my inability to race through it has zip to do with the book and everything to do with my head-space. I can't focus enough when I get home to read lengthy entries on my flist. Only light stuff. Or quick things. Nor can write anything that is deeper than what you see here.
What did I read before Henerietta Laks? I can't remember. I'd do a year-end best books of 2012, except I can't remember 95% of them. It would have to be the most memorable of 2012. Wait, I think it was a novella written by Kim Harrison about a billionaire elf and a pixy stealing the elf's kid from his ex-fiance's fortress. Yeah, that was it.
In the queue is Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Cold Days by Jim Butcher, Dance of Dragons by George RR Martin, White Forest by Adam Macombre(?), The Crossing by Justin Cronin, The Book Theif, and State of Play by Anne Patchett. Also considering reading Dumas and maybe Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Never did read the book.
That is...if I can get my brain to focus on reading again. Went through a brief period in which that was possible...prior to September, dang, I miss those days. Also read a lot of books, I do not want to admit to reading.
5. Best TV Shows of 2012? Can I do this? Do I dare? Yes, yes, I know you can do this - but most of you aren't the insane tv slut that I am, and you also have access to cooler tv shows - like the ones on Showtime and on Europe and BBC channels that never make it over here. (For example? I did not see Homeland or Parade, or The Bletchy Sisters, or half a dozen others. Nor have I seen the last two seasons of Fringe...but that's my fault.)
Eh...see here's the thing about these best of lists? They aren't honest. They should read "Favorite" Lists. Entertainment isn't objective, it's subjective. It's personal. And it's emotional. If it weren't, we wouldn't pay so much for it, care so much, fight so much over it, or bother. Also, if you hate soap operas and love procedurals? Your Best of List will be full of one and have none of the other. Which is hardly fair to the soap opera, which is well being a soap opera. It's no different than doing a best list and excluding sci-fi/fantasy shows, because you hate sci-fi/fantasy shows. Might as well do a favorite list, right?
I was going to try to do it by genre, but that's hard when you don't watch everything in the genre.
And I still need to think about it some more before I commit. Here's a list of nominees for my top ten list: The Vampire Diaries, Smash, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, Elementary, Nashville, Covert Affairs, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Mad Men, Justified, Revolution, Big Bang Theory, Community, Louis, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Dexter, True Blood, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Grey's Anatomy, Glee, Doctor Who, Arrow, Parenthood, The Hour, Merlin, Call the Midwife, Copper, Bunheads, Suburgatory.
Will most likely be the most memorable list like the books or tv shows I cared most about.
I can't really do films, haven't seen enough of them. Only seen five in movie theaters: Hunger Games, Avengers, Cabin in the Woods, Life of Pi and Skyfall. And I'd rank those as follows:
1. Life of Pi
2. Skyfall
3. The Hunger Games
4. Cabin in the Woods
5. Avengers.
Sorry, Whedon, but there's a reason Ang Lee and Sam Mendes are A list directors. Oh well, the best movies are always released in the fall - we have several favorites coming The Hobbit, Les Miz, Zero Dark Thirty, The Impossible - also still need to see Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and
Argo.
Seen more on netflix, honestly. But I can never remember them...except for whatever was most recent.
2. On the way home and on the way to work, I had to walk through a shoot for an episode of the television series Elementary. I know it was "elementary" because they had signs up and that was the name on the back of the crew chairs. Didn't stick around - was rushing to catch trains.
Also watching a tv or film shoot is a bit like watching paint dry. How something so entertaining on the screen can be so insanely boring to make, I've no idea. But it is.
3. Rather adore Roger Waters...may download 12-12-12's version of "Another Brick in the Wall". I need some more Pink Floyd. Also Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) is quite good with Waters...who knew?
Lovely medley of Pink Floyd Songs...Money to Comfortably Numb. (Oh god, Adam Sandler and Paul Schaffer are doing a really bad satire of Leonard Cohen's Broken Halleugh. And do we really need Kristen Stewart? Although here she reminds me more of Joan Jett than sulky Bella. And thank god, she didn't sing - just introduced Bon Jovi. These things are hard to organize and coordinate by the way - I know what goes into them. )
Oh...prior to the event, Mayor Bloomberg was furious with people who were scalping tickets to the concert for $60,000 or more to make a profit. Tickets sold for $800 - $1000, all proceeds to the relief effort. So the scalpers were making money off of a benefit? Sigh. People.
4. Still making my way through The Immortal Life of Henerietta Laks - the book is good, my inability to race through it has zip to do with the book and everything to do with my head-space. I can't focus enough when I get home to read lengthy entries on my flist. Only light stuff. Or quick things. Nor can write anything that is deeper than what you see here.
What did I read before Henerietta Laks? I can't remember. I'd do a year-end best books of 2012, except I can't remember 95% of them. It would have to be the most memorable of 2012. Wait, I think it was a novella written by Kim Harrison about a billionaire elf and a pixy stealing the elf's kid from his ex-fiance's fortress. Yeah, that was it.
In the queue is Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Cold Days by Jim Butcher, Dance of Dragons by George RR Martin, White Forest by Adam Macombre(?), The Crossing by Justin Cronin, The Book Theif, and State of Play by Anne Patchett. Also considering reading Dumas and maybe Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Never did read the book.
That is...if I can get my brain to focus on reading again. Went through a brief period in which that was possible...prior to September, dang, I miss those days. Also read a lot of books, I do not want to admit to reading.
5. Best TV Shows of 2012? Can I do this? Do I dare? Yes, yes, I know you can do this - but most of you aren't the insane tv slut that I am, and you also have access to cooler tv shows - like the ones on Showtime and on Europe and BBC channels that never make it over here. (For example? I did not see Homeland or Parade, or The Bletchy Sisters, or half a dozen others. Nor have I seen the last two seasons of Fringe...but that's my fault.)
Eh...see here's the thing about these best of lists? They aren't honest. They should read "Favorite" Lists. Entertainment isn't objective, it's subjective. It's personal. And it's emotional. If it weren't, we wouldn't pay so much for it, care so much, fight so much over it, or bother. Also, if you hate soap operas and love procedurals? Your Best of List will be full of one and have none of the other. Which is hardly fair to the soap opera, which is well being a soap opera. It's no different than doing a best list and excluding sci-fi/fantasy shows, because you hate sci-fi/fantasy shows. Might as well do a favorite list, right?
I was going to try to do it by genre, but that's hard when you don't watch everything in the genre.
And I still need to think about it some more before I commit. Here's a list of nominees for my top ten list: The Vampire Diaries, Smash, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, Elementary, Nashville, Covert Affairs, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Mad Men, Justified, Revolution, Big Bang Theory, Community, Louis, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Dexter, True Blood, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Grey's Anatomy, Glee, Doctor Who, Arrow, Parenthood, The Hour, Merlin, Call the Midwife, Copper, Bunheads, Suburgatory.
Will most likely be the most memorable list like the books or tv shows I cared most about.
I can't really do films, haven't seen enough of them. Only seen five in movie theaters: Hunger Games, Avengers, Cabin in the Woods, Life of Pi and Skyfall. And I'd rank those as follows:
1. Life of Pi
2. Skyfall
3. The Hunger Games
4. Cabin in the Woods
5. Avengers.
Sorry, Whedon, but there's a reason Ang Lee and Sam Mendes are A list directors. Oh well, the best movies are always released in the fall - we have several favorites coming The Hobbit, Les Miz, Zero Dark Thirty, The Impossible - also still need to see Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and
Argo.
Seen more on netflix, honestly. But I can never remember them...except for whatever was most recent.