Spontaneous Musings

Sigh, I acquire more books...now that reading slump is gone

2026-03-27T02:01:53Z

Dang-nabbit, internet, is persuading me to buy books again. (I really do not need to buy any more books. Although at least they are e-books - which is either a lease to read it on the Kindle, so not really buying ...I don't know, the whole thing confuses me to no end. And I can't afford a Kindle and a Kobo. Plus buying books on Kindle is easy and cheap, so there's that and I get points. )

1. I bought Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safron - about a boy in late 1940s Barcelona or post WWII Barcelona who is charged with protecting a book, long out of print, and rare - from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The Book in question is also entitled "Shadow of the Wind". Thank you Sarah Michelle Gellar for perking my curiosity enough for me to purchase this book. Much appreciated. (She said in an interview broadcast on Instagram that her two favorite books were Donna Tartt's Secret History (which I loved and devoured in the 1990s) and Shadow of the Wind (so I got curious about Shadow of the Wind - which Stephen King also adored). The book is difficult to describe with a convoluted plot - I apparently like to read and write these types of books, which makes my life more difficult but far less dull.

Then grabbed, "Locked-In by John Scalzi" - which I'd flirted with previously, as when he first published it ages ago, but got persuaded when he posted that a bunch of people in Texas (it's always one of the Southern States - must be all those hot days? Bakes the brain?) had chosen to ban it. He was upset about it. (I'd have been too.) Apparently it's never happened to him before. (which is interesting - he's certainly liberal and political enough). So, I got curious - and decided to get it for $6.99.
Which is admittedly more than usual, but there you go. It's a sci-fi/mystery hybrid with a convoluted plot. Has a Black Mirror vibe to it. I've read a couple of his "stand alone" books: Red Shirts, Starter Villain, Kaijiu Preservation Society...the last two were read by Will Wheaton. Scalzi is a nerdy sci-fi writer, and usually has nerdy protagonists. He's kind of similar to Andy Weir? Except I like Weir's books slightly better.

As an aside? I'm fundamentally against censorship. Are there books that I despise? Yes. Do I think they should be censored? No. The challenge of "free speech" is folks you don't agree with have to have it too - in order for it to work. There were librarians commenting on Scalzi's post stating they sent out books they despised all the time.
( thoughts on book censorship )
And finally a Dark London Mystery/Romance Series novel entitled Winterblaze by Kristen Callihan which was $1.99,
and a second chance romance between an estranged married couple, in a paranormal verse. "Poppy Lane is keeping secrets. Her powerful gift has earned her membership in the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals, but she must keep both her ability and her alliance with the Society from her husband, Winston. Yet when Winston is brutally attacked by a werewolf, Poppy’s secrets are revealed, leaving Winston’s trust in her as broken as his body. Now Poppy will do anything to win back his affections." The second chance ex-lover trope is a huge kink of mine. (I prefer older romances to young ones...for the most part.)

I love books. Books are my friends. They've seen me through some tough times.

Coworker: Are you one of those people who always has a book in your hand or with you?
ME: Definitely

If I had to choose between books, television and movies - I'd probably pick books - easier to carry around and less noisy.

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March 8, 2026- Daylight Savings Time & Guilty Pleasures

2026-03-08T19:23:46Z

Slept horribly last night - ended up finishing The Botantist's Assistant, which features a neurodivergent middle aged female detective trying to solve the murder of her boss, a research fellow at a university. It's okay, but I probably should stop picking up books rec'd from Smart Bitches. (Yes, I got it from my brother - but only because I asked for it - via a rec from Smart Bitches.)

Got about five hours of sleep, which isn't too bad, considering I didn't fall asleep until 3:30 (2:30 until Daylight Savings Time struck at 2 am). Someone posted on FB - "Does anyone like Daylight Savings Time" - and I thought, yes, unfortunately, or it wouldn't exist - they are all the people who don't have to get up before 8 am each day to go to work, and usually get home after 5:30 pm, and don't care about morning light. I am obviously not among them. I get up at 6 am and am usually home between 4:30 and 5pm. Daylight Savings Time as a result plays havoc with my sleep patterns and just around the time I was getting it right. (An example of how helping some often hurts others, or how getting what you want may be at the expense of someone else's health.) I'm at my best sometime in May, when sunrise is at 6 am and sunset at 7 pm.

Today's Unitarian Church Service was on Guilty Pleasures, it was about enjoying what you love without letting society dictate it, but at the same time - listening to your conscience and not going against your own values because society dictates you should love this particular thing. It was interesting - because the Minister is Transmale Pacific Asian devoted Harry Potter Fan, who was struggling with the desire to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. (I really feel for the LGBTA+ who fell in love with Harry Potter as kids, only to discover the author is a transphobic bully, who uses the money from Harry Potter to fund her anti-trans or Terf causes, and influence legislation against them.) He compared the so-called societal guilty pleasures of ice cream, country music/pop music, and romance novels to their desire to see the play Cursed Child (which has excellent stage craft). The difference between them - is a value issue.

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The world isn't simple, is it?

Television

Been watching British Costume Dramas. Currently the newest (or at least I think it is the newest) adaptation of the Count of Monte Cristo on PBS, with Sam Clafin and Jeremy Irons. I'm enjoying it. I can't remember the story at all, and I don't think I ever watched all of it or seen it. I keep meaning to read the book - which is insanely thick with teeny tiny print. (It's why I read so much on the Kindle - the paperbacks have teeny tiny print - which require reading glasses, and some have faded print.)
It's a good adaptation - Clafin manages to get across both the innocent sailor, and the hardened wrathful ex-prisoner filled with vengeance. [PBS Passport]

Also started the last season (or the revival of Downton Abbey on Netflix which is followed up by the Grand Finale), and Grantchester on Netflix (a mystery series about a minister in a small British town outside of Cambridge during the 1950s, starring James Norton.

And I think I might start Maigret (PBS Passport), and a rewatch of Veronica Mars (which I can't remember at all - I can't even remember my recent rewatch of it in 2025 which got rudely interrupted halfway through season 1 by Hulu removing seasons 1-3. Netflix picked them up last week.)

And of course, I'm still watching and loving The Pitt which is the perfect medical procedural drama. It keeps all the action in the ER, and focuses on Doctor Robi's sixteen hour shift. So, say a character leaves the ER or has to run an errand or go upstairs to surgery, or go to a deposition? We don't follow them, we stay in the ER with the chaos going on there. We only leave the ER - at the very beginning of each season - following Robi on his bike to work, or at the very end of each season when the doctors from that shift leave to share a drink. That's it. I find this approach to be a breath of fresh air? It removes some of the unnecessary melodrama relationship drama bits from the procedural. And makes it far more realistic. It's in a lot of ways a no-nonsense straight up medical procedural, with relationship drama along the edges.

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Mother: You're home?
Me: Well, where would I be? It's overcast and gloomy, and there's nothing to do with anybody. I'm fine here.

It's kind of sunny. But no real blue sky to note.

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March 7, 2026 - Three Day B-Day Weekend

2026-03-08T03:31:31Z

Bought myself flowers. Reddish purple carnations with baby's breath - a small bouquet that fits perfectly in a small green ceramic vase in the my living window. The Saturn night light is lighting it up nicely. ( explanation of the night light )

I'm also on a total news blockage. Yes, I'm ignoring what is happening outside of my section of the world at the moment.

And, I bought myself birthday cake. Because birthdays must have cake. (I think I have birthday candles somewhere? Although they aren't necessary. I'm kind of beyond the point of candles.) It's the only time I eat cake all year long - mainly because I'm diabetic and gluten intolerant, so finding a gluten free cake that's not going to put me into a diabetic coma is ...not easy. I ended up buying three small slices of cake by "By the Way Bakery" - which sells its products (made in NYC) via Whole Foods. I bought a slice of cloud coconut cake, raspberry cake, and chocolate cake. Also, was deliciously surpised by a Gluten-Free Desert Special at Met Fresh - which is about four blocks or five minute walk from my home. This was for a Dark and White Chocolate Cake, Gluten Free with White Chocolate Mouse and dark chocolate ganache layers and icing. It's a layer cake. It's delicious by the way - I cut myself a small slice tonight - garnished with whipped cream and raspberries. It will probably last a week.

The birthday itself lands on Monday, which I'm taking off for two reasons, a) it's my birthday, b) it's now the day after Daylight Savings Time begins in the US. (Whomever came up with that idea is paying for it somehow. Maybe they'll get hit by a cranky sleep deprived bus driver?)

Mother kindly bought me gifts via Amazon (which is relying too heavily on tech and making life more difficult for its customers as a result).
( the ordeal of getting gifts from people via Amazon, when you have an Amazon Locker in your building for security purposes )
I go down and get the package, which entails point the phone at the locker in my mail room, pushing a button for blue tooth, then pushing pick up and the locker with the package opens.

I open the package, which Mother told me had two wrapped presents inside. ( sigh, Amazon has gone downhill in the wrapping presents department - and considering they are using a gift bag - this is saying a lot )

It's been gloomy all week long. That lyric from an old Sarah McLachlan song comes to mindThe winter here is cold and bitter, It’s chilled us to the bone
I havent seen the sun for weeks...

Which is a bit melodramatic, I know. It's been more like days. Although the winter has been cold and bitter here - no 80s or 70s like elsewhere. We still have the heat on. It's been in the 30s/40s F this week. Which granted is much better than the single digits, teens, or 20s like most of the winter, or 20s/low 30s like the previous week.

Tomorrow it's supposed to be warmer, which dare we hope, sunshine. And Monday sunny and in the 50s, and possibly get up into the upper 60s next week. If it does that - I may walk up the pier to the cherry blossom exhibit during lunch time sometime next week. (Nice thing about Breaking Bad and new work location is they don't seem to notice if I'm gone for about an hour and half at lunch.)

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On the reading front? I'm still in a reading slump. But I've almost made my way through the 285 page paperback book - The Botanist's Assistant by Peggy Townsend, which I got for Christmas. It's only been three months since I started reading it.( Read more... )

Having more success listening to Jim Butcher's Dresden Files via audible.
I finished Twelve Months - narrated by James Marsters. It was good.
Better than Battleground, mainly because more character development and less fighting. ( Read more... )

I'd say more...and have more to ramble on about - but I've got to go to bed. Or I'll screw up my sleep schedule more than daylight savings time is going to do. At least the clocks will automatically change themselves, except for the oven and microwave oven clocks.

[ETA: Fixed the year, because I can't quite get used to the fact that it is 2026 yet...]

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This that and the other thing...

2025-09-26T23:00:09Z

1. Vaccines

Got the COVID vaccine after work. The New York Governor made it possible for everyone between the ages of 6-110 to take it for an expandable 30 day period, under an emergency order.

I scheduled it while at work for around 4:40pm, and ended up getting there early - so go it around 4:30pm. I got it today, in case there are any major side-effects. That way I have the weekend to get past them, not that I've ever had any outside of a sore arm. ( Read more... )

No, I didn't get either the Flu shot or the Shingles at the same time. My primary care begged me not to. I'm immune-compromised, so it's not a good idea. I tried to tell her that everybody else that I know of - has, but she was adamant. I could, I suppose, ignore her and do it anyhow - but I was afraid to - best not to take an unnecessary risk.

2. Take a photo of any book with your phone and have it instantly read to you - I keep seeing this weird app advertised on Facebook, in which you can take a photo of literally any book in a library or book store and automatically have it read to you.

Speechify reads books to you

Of course it does it in a monotone - but you can pick any number of digitized voices to do it.

I don't have any issues with having books read to me - my issue is that someone can willy nilly go to a book store or library, scan the book, and have it read to them for free? I don't know, that kind of screams copyright infringement? It's one thing if the writer is getting paid a royalty from the service...but what if they aren't?

3. Traveling Water Color Kit Another thing advertised on FB and Instragram that I'm resisting the urge to purchase: Tobios Travel Watercolor Kit, whomever is marketing this is doing an excellent job. I keep reminding myself - that this is not how I like to paint. I like to do it alone. In my apartment. With a large canvas. And room. Not in miniature. I have shaking hands, and no fine motor coordination - so can't do the miniature work well. I'm not a miniaturist, I tend to work better large? Big woman. Big hands. Big canvas.

But it is lovely for someone who wants a small traveling kit to wander about doing small stuff with?

Don't get it from Amazon - which apparently is selling knock-offs.

4. Shopping Went online shopping - via Talbots and Amazon - and picked up a few things on sale, including pjs, and a shawl.

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As an aside? For the most part, I hate or dread shopping. But I did find it weirdly comforting doing it online this week. I prefer online than in-store shopping. Sales clerks and other shoppers and the dressing rooms, plus hunting stuff makes me edgy.

I like it displayed. I have no patience for hunting through the racks. I'm not a good bargain shopper. My mother isn't a shopper. The appeal of hunting for things in stores is kind of lost on us? But hunting for things online shopping is fun - even if it's a bit like playing Russian roulette? Since I suck at returning things, and some places don't let you.

Debating buying a pair of Uno Black Sneakers from Amazon. I don't really need them. I have enough shoes. But does one ever really have enough shoes? Ponders.

5. Buffy Revival or Continuation (Because it's not a reboot! Got it?) I keep stumbling upon online fights over whether it's a reboot or a continuation or a revival...which is kind of amusing. Welcome to the Internet - where people fight over semantics incessantly.

Anyhow, the latest: Gellar Reveals more about Buffy's Comeback and Insists its not a Reboot (But it's a lot easier to call it a reboot.)

"In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Sarah Michelle Gellar was asked about the Buffy reboot which is under no circumstances to be called a reboot. “There’s so little I can say about what we just shot,” Sarah explains. “I will say that it’s not a reboot. It’s a continuation of a world - the world of Buffy, if that makes sense. It’s picking up 25 years later in a world of Buffy. It’s equal parts incredibly thrilling but also it’s very nerve-wracking. People have been asking for this for so many years but everyone also has an opinion on how it should be done."
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[From what I've read - I don't think much of the original cast will return, outside of maybe one or two, and as either special guest stars or brief cameos...I think it's mainly a continuation of the world, with Gellar more in a Giles' role. The shift is the mentor/watcher will be Buffy herself. Which is also why - I don't think it will do that well or get picked up past one season? Because the fandom fell in love with the characters NOT the world? Joss sucked at world building. Star Trek, it's not. Also what was captivating was the dialogue and banter, the one liners, and the humor - also, sigh, the supporting characters. A good portion of the fandom did not watch for Buffy - they watched for everyone else. I know I did. Buffy did pull me in - but not Gellar, it was the writing, direction, and how Gellar played Buffy against and with the other characters. I've not liked her in anything else. And I didn't like books like Fray which were playing with the world - but didn't have the television characters in it. But hey, I could be VERY wrong about this? Just because it doesn't seem appealing to me...doesn't mean it isn't to other people?]

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Wednesday feels like doing a reading meme for the heck of it...

2025-06-12T01:54:50Z

Somewhat sleep deprived, but hanging in there?

I'm still in a reading slump. It may be somewhat affected by the amount of technical information I have to read at work daily on a computer screen. Very dry technical and legal information. Things like how many cubic yards of Permeable low-density cellular concrete (PLDCC) is required for a job, and what a credit should be in cost savings for not installing that many cubic yards. Add to that contractual information, which is a lot less interesting than the technical data, not to mention editing financial documentation and legal documentation.

Yeah, that may have an effect. And it probably explains why I am doing lots of fantasy audio books. Finished Crooked Kingdom - the sequel to "Six of Crows", which was a long, but ultimately satisfying conclusion to Six of Crows. I kind of fell for Kaz Brekker and Inej. The others, I was ambivalent about. Similar to the television series Shadow and Bone, actually. Although I think it would have been better if it had just focused on the Crows. The audio book works because it has different narrators for each characters perspective in the books, of which there are eight, two villains. Some are better than others - the Inej narrator is by far the best, and I kind of wish they were reading Kaz's pov instead of the guy reading Kaz's.

Struggled to find something to follow it with. Tried Peter Watts Blindside, a sci-fi novel about a group of oddities who are sent into space to confront an alien presence. Part philosophy, part morality, part hard sci-fi. It was dirt cheap, but also hard to listen to. The Narrator is good, but it's not holding my attention. Nor did Susannah Clark's follow up her popular novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (which I also tried to read, gave up on, and watched the mini-series instead), Piransi. What is it about? I have no idea, I gave up after two chapters. Here's what I found on Google: ( Read more... ) Which I guess explains why I gave up on it? My brain has no room for it.

Finally decided on Graphic Audio Dramatization of another of the Kate Daniels novels, which basically have an entire cast - it's like listening to a radio play of your favorite books. And I've forgotten most of the story by now, so...

These are rather cheap - just cost me $9.99 a month. Because I have a subscription and with that you get a credit each month, and I had about five credits. So, I have about fifty books to listen to, plus free podcasts, etc.

Am plodding my way through Remarkable Creatures - I don't get why people recommended it as delightful and funny, and a happy book? Right now, it's very depressing, no one is happy, all the characters are trapped, frustrated, angry and lonely, and it just keeps jumping points of view. I thought it would just be two points of view? But noooo, it's about four to date. It may be more. Each time I think it's done with character pov, it adds another one. (Reminds me of Eternity Station in that respect, also GRR Martin). And outside of Tova and the octopus, I'm not really interested in them, and want to go back to Tova and the octopus. I've decided that maybe Cameron is Tova's missing son, but that doesn't quite work, so maybe not.
Look, I don't need to read a book - to get frustrated, trapped, angry and lonely...or mundane. Escapism it's not. We'll see how long I stick with this.

I'd read the Faire Folk book - but it's bigger, and not an e-book, so not conducive to reading on subways.

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A swiftly turning planet..with people struggling to communicate

2025-06-08T01:13:52Z

CNN Aired An Exclusive Live Broadcast of the Broadway Play: Good Night and Good Luck - adapted for the stage from the film of the same name. The reason they aired it is made clear upon the airing - at the very end, Edward R Murrow, the CBS News See it Now broadcaster who famously took on McCarthy, during the Black List and McCarthy Hearings, stands front and center in front of a screen displaying multiple screens of the news. He states in a halting speech, enunciating each word, with a slight tremor to his voice, "we've seen what happens when power goes unchecked, that's not the question before us now, the question is - what will you do about it?"

I was thinking as I was watching it live on MAX (I no longer have access to CNN), that evil is like a spider, sitting in the dark corner of the room, smoking a cigar, wih a red top hat and tails smirking. And asking in a whisper of a voice, low and barely audible, "what do you want?" And indicating with a smile - "come into my parlor my dear and I shall give it to you, with a price of course".

It's insidious, and shadows egos. Self-importance. Self-righteousness. Power. Fame. Fortune. Wealth. Beware the righteous, and the self-important, and most of all the arrogant and narcissistic hunting awards and acknowledgment and power.

I don't know what I personally can do to check the power or stop it. I've been pondering it. I can write, I can post, I can draw, I can paint, I can do my job at a public agency. And I can hope people listen.

People aren't very good at listening? Have you noticed that? Too busy thinking about themselves or what they are going to say next or how they'll respond. Too filled up with thoughts to hear...ones that lie outside of their own minds and brains. I tell people a story and they tell me their own back again, and mine....slides off unheard, lost somehow within theirs? The meaning gone. And they tell me theirs and I tell them my own, and it happens all over again from the other side - with their story being lost.

I did social group therapy once - and we were for the most part forced to listen, but everyone tended to flounder at it. Either they'd ask pointed questions, correct the person's choice of words or syntax or speech (which isn't listening by the way - it's judging, and helps no one), interrupt, direct the conversation to themselves, provide advice, try to fix whatever it was, dismiss it as already solved or playing the victim, but seldom did they listen.

And once on a fan discussion board - we fell into a discussion about writing carefully, and I thought - no that's not the problem here or not that alone, we also need to learn how to read carefully. And people don't? Too busy reading quickly, flying through or past the text, to see it clearly let alone truly comprehend it? Now, for example, raise your hand if you just skimmed this passage and oh so many others? Be honest? How many have you skimmed, jumping over words and phrases and reacting to a sentence here or a paragraph there - but not seeing the whole? I know I do. Try a little experiment, if you will? Read just one paragraph of a post, or the unhidden bit. Then take a moment, and read the rest later, has your opinion of it changed?

We live in an age of content overload, and we surf and read and look at so many things simultaneously. Texts fly by. Our memory of them fleeting or garbled. And more often than not - people just read blurbs. If I post something with information below a "cut tag" - how many will read what's below the tag, and just respond to the top of the post? Losing the point of it. Or respond to the post, without reading the comments below? We don't read carefully - and most mistakes are made because of it. They were on the discussion boards. 90% of the arguments online are the result of "miscommunication" or the inability to politely ask for clarification prior to snarking, judging or condemning.

I think the flaw in the human brain is a tendency to assume everyone thinks the same and perceives things the same? When no one does? And well...a failure to communicate as a result?

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You'll have to excuse me, I'm exhausted. But the weather is shifting, and I'm hurting less all of a sudden - which means the arthritis isn't being pinged by the human weather vane.

I'm also frustrated with my fellow humans. And perhaps with myself and my own limitations. And a touch depressed, no more than a touch, as a result. But hey at least I don't hurt as much as last night. So maybe the back brace is helping?

It's a warm spring evening. The sky has cleared of clouds, and it's sliding towards dark, from twilight. Nine PM on the East Coast. But I can still see puffs of cloud moving slowly across the pale blue sky, lit from within by moonlight. Our swiftly turning planet in the vacuum of space, surrounded by stars and galaxies which far too many of us take for granted as we bumble upon it babbling and gurgling at one another as is our way.

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The Artist's Way and Breaking Bad

2023-03-23T02:11:55Z

The Artist's Way's writer certainly loves to do lists. We have more lists.

I'm not that good at lists. I tend to draw a blank when asked to do them. Forget about them when I've done them or lose them. And often forget what I put on them. Also, they are never in order. My brain is apparently too poorly indexed for lists.

This chapter of the Artist's Way is frustrating me. It wants me to stop reading for a week. I mentioned this to mother.
( me whinging about an exercise in a self-help book )

Lists..

1. list five hobbies you'd like to try
2. list 5 classes you'd like to take that sound fun
3. list 5 things you would never do that sound fun
4. List 5 things that would be fun to have
5. List 5 things you used to enjoy doing
6. List 5 silly things you'd like to try once.

Then these exercises...

1, Describe an ideal environment to live in - town, country, swank, cozy. Why? What does it involve? Write one paragraph and find an image that describes it.

Describe your favorite season - why it is your favorite, and provide an image.

2. Time Travel

a) Write a letter to your 80 year old self, and figure out what you would be like at that age, what you would be doing. (Eh, pass. It's hard to do when I'm dealing with an 80 year old mother.)

b) Remember what you were like at 8, and have your 8 year old self write you a letter - what would they say? (I have no clue.)

3. List on-going self-nuturing toys to buy your artist self. (Mine is bereft, I have subscriptions to Apple Music, Comixcology, Audible, and various streaming channels. But I might want to do the theater ticket thing at some point.)

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In other news, Wales has decided she wants a vacation somewhere, and wants me to come with. Which okay. Except Wales is cheap. Which again okay. Wales is also contemplating moving to Switzerland and Scandinava.
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Life in Pieces by Bryan Cranston

Still working my way through Cranston's biography. More so today - since I foolishly decided to do the reading deprivation idea - only to realize in 2023 - it would make more sense to make it a smartphone deprivation. We aren't addicted to reading in 2023, we're addicted to smartphone's. Of course I'm not really addicted to mine, I just listen to stuff on it most of the time. I can go a whole weekend without looking at it - and have. For me? A television deprivation might be the most useful.

Anyhow, it's interesting where you learn stuff from. ( Read more... )

His description of working on Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad is fascinating. I always knew television is a collaboration, but didn't realize the extent. Cranston filled in the gaps on both characters. The writer didn't really create these characters, he did. He created the character on Malcolm. Came up with the attire, the weaknesses, what motivated him, everything - because it wasn't on the page. Same with Walter White in a way - he figured out what Walter White would wear and why. He asked Vince Gillian about Walter White's motivations, and when Gillian didn't know what they were - challenged the writer to find them.

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Cranston states that he had to find a way to get into the character, understand who he was and what he thought, and build him. Once he did that - he'd know without thinking what the character would wear, say or do in every scene. He could sell the writing and the character.

He also states, that he chooses his projects based on the writing. ( Read more... )

The collaboration between the actors, studio, writers, directors, etc made that show work. It was one of those rare instances in which everyone fit or came together in a perfect marriage of equals. There were some issues, of course. Mainly to do with direction and blocking, and the idiotic writers trying to make direction and blocking decisions from LA, while they were working in New Mexico. But other than that - it went smoothly.

The reason - Cranston got the role was he'd played a similar character trope in an X-Files episode written by Vince Gillian. ( Read more... )

Hmm, now I kind of want to rewatch Breaking Bad and that episode of the X-Files. (I won't, too much else to watch, damn it. Maybe a weekend without television? Not this weekend - it's supposed to rain.)

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Wednesday Reading Meme?

2018-12-13T03:19:28Z

Reading?

I figured a real good way to meet the Good Reads Reading Challenge -- just read comic books. I can easily plow through 20 comic books between now and December 31. ( Read more... )

X-men books read currently?

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What I'm reading outside of the X-men?

Children of Blood and Bone by Toni Adeymei -- which is a YA dystopic fantasy novel that takes place in Africa. Utilizing Nigerian folklore. It's different, but also the same. ( Read more... )

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