One Am and I should be in bed
Sep. 11th, 2003 01:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatBut I'm not, because I took a nap and dozed for three hours earlier this evening. Let's face it - I like the night. From 10-1 am? I'm at my best. Hate mornings. Why? It's quiet. Phone doesn't ring. Sun doesn't hit the computer screen. The lights of the city outside the window mixed with the moon have a somewhat calming effect. Less hot.
The computer dial-up is faster. Writing flows better from the brain.
Also I'm an insominac - takes forever for me to fall asleep.
Took the quiz I found on Masq's journal entry. I appear to have come from the sea. My soul belongs with the fish and mermaids. Interesting.
Makes sense. Love water. Very calming.
Decided to watch West Wing tonight instead of Jake 2.0, sacrilege I know. But - West Wing looked more interesting - the daughter of the President getting kidnapped and Donna admitting she loved Josh...also it's the last of the Aaron Sorkin episodes and Sorkin is a dialogue genius. Besides the plot of Jake 2.0 just doesn't interest me. Teen nerd gets infected by nanonites, becomes super-powered and helps save the world. (sigh) I miss Now and Again, at least it was innovative. Probably too innovative for it's own good. Yep, nerdy kid gets super powers just has no appeal. So I flipped back and forth between West Wing and the Orpheus re-run on Angel. I wanted to see the Angel promo, I did...just a touch different than the last one. Had to get my, well you know who fix. ;-) Feeling in withdrawl. (Don't know why I have almost everything on tape - I could have my own tape-a-thon.)
Caught a couple of really good scenes from Orpheus tonight.
My favorite: Angel to Faith - "I'm always there Faithy, soul or no soul, deep down I'm there inside all the time."
(A close second - Willow beating EVilCordy's ass. Been waiting to see that for five years!) What I love about that line - is it is so true, not just about Angel but everyone. That darkness that lies inside of us all the frigging time. We might edit ourselves, like I'm doing at the moment, but it's always there. Baser instincts. Rage. The desire to beat someone over the head with a bat or in Angel's case giving in to the raw desire to suck the blood of the freshly killed clerk and not lifting a finger to help him. Rising above those baser instincts is a constant struggle. Some days or weeks are easier than others. But if we ever give in to them, really give in, then like Angel, we're lost..to the monster inside. And when we resurface? We have to face the consequences. I think ME does a really good job of showing that struggle through their metaphors of vampirism and souls on Angel and to a smaller degree in Buffy through the character of Spike. It's that struggle that fascinates me, particularly what happens after we've given into those baser instincts and have to deal with the consequences. Can we redeem ourselves? Can we resurface? Or are we doomed, stuck in the muck as it were? Hmmm...maybe that's just a bit too deep for one in the morning.
That's all for tonight. Nothing too profound. Just various musings.
The computer dial-up is faster. Writing flows better from the brain.
Also I'm an insominac - takes forever for me to fall asleep.
Took the quiz I found on Masq's journal entry. I appear to have come from the sea. My soul belongs with the fish and mermaids. Interesting.
Makes sense. Love water. Very calming.
Decided to watch West Wing tonight instead of Jake 2.0, sacrilege I know. But - West Wing looked more interesting - the daughter of the President getting kidnapped and Donna admitting she loved Josh...also it's the last of the Aaron Sorkin episodes and Sorkin is a dialogue genius. Besides the plot of Jake 2.0 just doesn't interest me. Teen nerd gets infected by nanonites, becomes super-powered and helps save the world. (sigh) I miss Now and Again, at least it was innovative. Probably too innovative for it's own good. Yep, nerdy kid gets super powers just has no appeal. So I flipped back and forth between West Wing and the Orpheus re-run on Angel. I wanted to see the Angel promo, I did...just a touch different than the last one. Had to get my, well you know who fix. ;-) Feeling in withdrawl. (Don't know why I have almost everything on tape - I could have my own tape-a-thon.)
Caught a couple of really good scenes from Orpheus tonight.
My favorite: Angel to Faith - "I'm always there Faithy, soul or no soul, deep down I'm there inside all the time."
(A close second - Willow beating EVilCordy's ass. Been waiting to see that for five years!) What I love about that line - is it is so true, not just about Angel but everyone. That darkness that lies inside of us all the frigging time. We might edit ourselves, like I'm doing at the moment, but it's always there. Baser instincts. Rage. The desire to beat someone over the head with a bat or in Angel's case giving in to the raw desire to suck the blood of the freshly killed clerk and not lifting a finger to help him. Rising above those baser instincts is a constant struggle. Some days or weeks are easier than others. But if we ever give in to them, really give in, then like Angel, we're lost..to the monster inside. And when we resurface? We have to face the consequences. I think ME does a really good job of showing that struggle through their metaphors of vampirism and souls on Angel and to a smaller degree in Buffy through the character of Spike. It's that struggle that fascinates me, particularly what happens after we've given into those baser instincts and have to deal with the consequences. Can we redeem ourselves? Can we resurface? Or are we doomed, stuck in the muck as it were? Hmmm...maybe that's just a bit too deep for one in the morning.
That's all for tonight. Nothing too profound. Just various musings.