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Feb. 9th, 2013 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWoke up to a quiet city (if you ignore the sound of shoveling), and decided to sleep another hour or two. Then got up, and had a hot bowl of quinoa cereal.
So, the blizzard, aka Nemo (which keeps making me think of "Finding Nemo" for some reason, as opposed to Captain Nemo), wasn't all that bad in my neck of the woods or rather my neck of the city. We got around 8-10 inches. Rather pretty - there's a soft blanket of pristine white over everything. It won't stay that way of course. By Sunday it will be yellow and brown - thanks to the dog-walkers (although stray/city cats also have a hand in it I suppose), trucks, cabs, and various aged kids playing in it. And on Monday a slushy mess, due to temperature warm up and possibility of rain.
Getting snow in NYC isn't like getting snow out on Long Island or Upstate NY or the suburbs.
We're lucky if it stays pretty for five hours.
I stayed awake until 1 am reading, and well due in part to the rowdy snowfight that occurred on the street below my bedroom window at midnight. Could have done without that. Although I guess I can see the appeal - afterall, there was no traffic. The entire street was blanketed in pristine white snow, and the snow was largely untouched and fairly clean. Plus dead quiet. The city asleep. Except for the snow plows scratching away in the distance.
Watched Nashville and Grey's Anatomy last night. Nashville reminds me a little of Smash - has a similar format, but is done better. Actually Nashville pretty demonstrates how SMASH should have been done. As it moves forward the series gets progressively better, and the characters more layered and interesting. Unlike SMASH it seems to skirt the cliches a bit more. And focuses more on the music industry and how the music industry disrupts and affects personal and professional relationships. SMASH doesn't seem to know how to meld the two - personal relationships with Broadway theater.
At any rate, I'm enjoying Nashville more at the moment, even though I like the music better on SMASH mainly due to my own personal taste. (I'm as you know by now, a show-tunes fan. I like Broadway musical numbers. Country music...is okay, but I tend to be fairly ambivalent about it. And pop music after a while sounds all the same to me. )
The best thing about Nashville right now is Juliette Barns' storyline. And her by-play with Rayna, Deacon, and her managers. Rayna...story isn't quite working for me, but I have hopes that will change next week - they appear to shaking it up a bit.
Grey's Anatomy was a tad cliche last night - although dealing with a real life dilemma. That I unfortunately know more about than Shondra Rhimes appears to, so I kept thinking while watching Grey's - you've simplified a rather complex issue. In Grey's due to a sizable settlement pay-out of millions of dollars to a bunch of doctors in a plane crash, the hospital is in jeopardy. (Since the doctors who got the pay-out happen to still be working for the hospital and care about it - you know they'll probably end up saving the hospital with their cash - because otherwise the audience would hate the doctors, who happen to be the main stars of the series and there would be no series - you don't piss off audiences in this day and age, they have too many options. In the 70s and 80s you could get away with it. Not now.)
Right now, SUNY DOWNSTATE HOSPITAL in Brooklyn is bankrupt. Possibly due to the hefty salaries they are paying their top managers and administrators. Who are making more than the people running the MTA. At any rate, they want to close the LICH hospital which is near me, and is the hospital for my area. (It's a gross emergency room - I prefer NY Methodist in Park Slope, personally. It's also, technically speaking equal-distance to me.) And sell the property to someone who will build luxurary condos and apartments in its place. (Apparently that's the trend in the city right now - developing luxury apartment buildings - there's five that have been built or are being built in my area alone.) So, Grey's is handling a topical issue, but not quite in the right way.
Was planning on watching the Grammy's on Sunday, but..after downloading the nominated songs and listening to them all week - I find I don't care. The songs are not blowing me away and they sort of all sound a like, except for the extreemly grating "We'll Never Ever Get Back Together" by Taylor Swift. (Shame. I liked her Eyes Wide Open ballad on the Hunger Games Soundtrack far better - it's haunting. But maybe she didn't write it?) Also, fun's "We Are Young" reminds me too much of a Queen ballad, and I like Queen better. The only song that sticks with me and I liked was Florence and the Machine's "It's Darkest before the Dawn". Love that song. I think I need to buy another Florence and the Machine album.
At any rate - it's on opposite the return of Once Upon a Time/Revenge, Downtown Abbey's Two Hour Second to Last Episode, a highly praised stand-a-lone Girls episode, and The Walking Dead. (Apparently the network's don't worry that much about going up against the Grammy's...the Super Bowl yes, the Grammy's not so much.) At any rate there is far too much on Television on Sunday nights. I kept hoping Downtown would finish prior to Walking Dead coming back, or at least before Good Wife and Revenge went up against each other again. Not that this is that big of an issue - in this day and age, you needn't worry about missing a tv episode - you usually can catch it later on demand, on the internet, or via netflix/Amazon/itunes, with a few exceptions (the season finale of Covert Affairs for example, dang-it, although that will most likely be re-run prior to the next season's opener). I remember the days in which you missed an episode - you were unlikely to see it unless someone taped it for you and could send it to you. (Which ahem, didn't seem to be that long ago.)
So, the blizzard, aka Nemo (which keeps making me think of "Finding Nemo" for some reason, as opposed to Captain Nemo), wasn't all that bad in my neck of the woods or rather my neck of the city. We got around 8-10 inches. Rather pretty - there's a soft blanket of pristine white over everything. It won't stay that way of course. By Sunday it will be yellow and brown - thanks to the dog-walkers (although stray/city cats also have a hand in it I suppose), trucks, cabs, and various aged kids playing in it. And on Monday a slushy mess, due to temperature warm up and possibility of rain.
Getting snow in NYC isn't like getting snow out on Long Island or Upstate NY or the suburbs.
We're lucky if it stays pretty for five hours.
I stayed awake until 1 am reading, and well due in part to the rowdy snowfight that occurred on the street below my bedroom window at midnight. Could have done without that. Although I guess I can see the appeal - afterall, there was no traffic. The entire street was blanketed in pristine white snow, and the snow was largely untouched and fairly clean. Plus dead quiet. The city asleep. Except for the snow plows scratching away in the distance.
Watched Nashville and Grey's Anatomy last night. Nashville reminds me a little of Smash - has a similar format, but is done better. Actually Nashville pretty demonstrates how SMASH should have been done. As it moves forward the series gets progressively better, and the characters more layered and interesting. Unlike SMASH it seems to skirt the cliches a bit more. And focuses more on the music industry and how the music industry disrupts and affects personal and professional relationships. SMASH doesn't seem to know how to meld the two - personal relationships with Broadway theater.
At any rate, I'm enjoying Nashville more at the moment, even though I like the music better on SMASH mainly due to my own personal taste. (I'm as you know by now, a show-tunes fan. I like Broadway musical numbers. Country music...is okay, but I tend to be fairly ambivalent about it. And pop music after a while sounds all the same to me. )
The best thing about Nashville right now is Juliette Barns' storyline. And her by-play with Rayna, Deacon, and her managers. Rayna...story isn't quite working for me, but I have hopes that will change next week - they appear to shaking it up a bit.
Grey's Anatomy was a tad cliche last night - although dealing with a real life dilemma. That I unfortunately know more about than Shondra Rhimes appears to, so I kept thinking while watching Grey's - you've simplified a rather complex issue. In Grey's due to a sizable settlement pay-out of millions of dollars to a bunch of doctors in a plane crash, the hospital is in jeopardy. (Since the doctors who got the pay-out happen to still be working for the hospital and care about it - you know they'll probably end up saving the hospital with their cash - because otherwise the audience would hate the doctors, who happen to be the main stars of the series and there would be no series - you don't piss off audiences in this day and age, they have too many options. In the 70s and 80s you could get away with it. Not now.)
Right now, SUNY DOWNSTATE HOSPITAL in Brooklyn is bankrupt. Possibly due to the hefty salaries they are paying their top managers and administrators. Who are making more than the people running the MTA. At any rate, they want to close the LICH hospital which is near me, and is the hospital for my area. (It's a gross emergency room - I prefer NY Methodist in Park Slope, personally. It's also, technically speaking equal-distance to me.) And sell the property to someone who will build luxurary condos and apartments in its place. (Apparently that's the trend in the city right now - developing luxury apartment buildings - there's five that have been built or are being built in my area alone.) So, Grey's is handling a topical issue, but not quite in the right way.
Was planning on watching the Grammy's on Sunday, but..after downloading the nominated songs and listening to them all week - I find I don't care. The songs are not blowing me away and they sort of all sound a like, except for the extreemly grating "We'll Never Ever Get Back Together" by Taylor Swift. (Shame. I liked her Eyes Wide Open ballad on the Hunger Games Soundtrack far better - it's haunting. But maybe she didn't write it?) Also, fun's "We Are Young" reminds me too much of a Queen ballad, and I like Queen better. The only song that sticks with me and I liked was Florence and the Machine's "It's Darkest before the Dawn". Love that song. I think I need to buy another Florence and the Machine album.
At any rate - it's on opposite the return of Once Upon a Time/Revenge, Downtown Abbey's Two Hour Second to Last Episode, a highly praised stand-a-lone Girls episode, and The Walking Dead. (Apparently the network's don't worry that much about going up against the Grammy's...the Super Bowl yes, the Grammy's not so much.) At any rate there is far too much on Television on Sunday nights. I kept hoping Downtown would finish prior to Walking Dead coming back, or at least before Good Wife and Revenge went up against each other again. Not that this is that big of an issue - in this day and age, you needn't worry about missing a tv episode - you usually can catch it later on demand, on the internet, or via netflix/Amazon/itunes, with a few exceptions (the season finale of Covert Affairs for example, dang-it, although that will most likely be re-run prior to the next season's opener). I remember the days in which you missed an episode - you were unlikely to see it unless someone taped it for you and could send it to you. (Which ahem, didn't seem to be that long ago.)