Media This and That
I had a flare-up today and finally started being able to move around again and I said 'nnng' and Chance raced in to check on me and give me lots of snuggles. Good dog! Though yesterday when I finished making lunch I caught him curled cozily up on my spot on the bed. Not so good dog! Just lots of flare-ups lately, plus bonus whole-leg and arm cramps; I blame the recent foggy weather as I've been good about taking my magnesium.
Recent media:
Hawkeye -- I haven't really liked very much Marvel; the only other run I can think of that I enjoyed was the Miller run of Daredevil. It's probably not a surprise that Hawkguy is in kind of the same vein: more street level, crime-fighting, martial artistry, etc. This comic is very, very, funny, and isn't afraid to cut up the narrative order so it can have fun back and forth cut scenes, and it doesn't answer all of the questions immediately; it lets you wonder, and it makes good use of repetition and theme. It's done in a stylish de-saturated low-color palette that has a lot of purple (yay, purple!) and art that manages to pack a lot of detail into not a lot of lines -- like the frame that managed to show how Clint's tux was rumpled, but that he still looked good in a tux. Naturally rumpled, that guy. It has lots of silhouettes and iconic art, and even some diagrammatic art, with lots of cute little jokes in it but it's not so fiddly that my eyes cross trying to see it all. Anyhow, I really like lots of things about it, especially Kate Bishop, who is also Hawkeye. I don't read a lot of comics right now, but this one was definitely worth making an exception.
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan. This is a bad-memory reread because I spaced out on the first reading and couldn't remember enough of it. It has a lot of lovely description in it so I am happy to be reading it again even though it's also sort of familiar.
Water is a movie about widows in India in the 30s, with the viewpoint widow being a child whose husband died before she was old enough to go live with him, so she never even knew him before she was sent off to live a life of poverty with the other widows. It plays on some Bollywood tropes (only a little dancing, but a lot of singing) but only to make it extra heart-wrenching. It's very beautiful but very sad.
Justified is on Amazon Prime, which since we accidentally got we have actually been making use of. If they keep adding TV shows then I think it will keep being worth it (we haven't gotten Netflix streaming yet, but that would be the alternative.) We're in the beginning of Season 3 and still like it. Definitely a lot of violence, but a lot of good characters, too. I found a movie about Harlan County coal miners (the series is set there) so added it to our Netflix queue.
Nero Wolfe I can't recall specific titles right now... kind of popcorn books but there's a lot of delicious phrasing in them. They're not all great but I've liked all of them and I like the characters a lot. I don't bother trying to solve the mysteries so they aren't very brain-testing.
Recent media:
Hawkeye -- I haven't really liked very much Marvel; the only other run I can think of that I enjoyed was the Miller run of Daredevil. It's probably not a surprise that Hawkguy is in kind of the same vein: more street level, crime-fighting, martial artistry, etc. This comic is very, very, funny, and isn't afraid to cut up the narrative order so it can have fun back and forth cut scenes, and it doesn't answer all of the questions immediately; it lets you wonder, and it makes good use of repetition and theme. It's done in a stylish de-saturated low-color palette that has a lot of purple (yay, purple!) and art that manages to pack a lot of detail into not a lot of lines -- like the frame that managed to show how Clint's tux was rumpled, but that he still looked good in a tux. Naturally rumpled, that guy. It has lots of silhouettes and iconic art, and even some diagrammatic art, with lots of cute little jokes in it but it's not so fiddly that my eyes cross trying to see it all. Anyhow, I really like lots of things about it, especially Kate Bishop, who is also Hawkeye. I don't read a lot of comics right now, but this one was definitely worth making an exception.
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan. This is a bad-memory reread because I spaced out on the first reading and couldn't remember enough of it. It has a lot of lovely description in it so I am happy to be reading it again even though it's also sort of familiar.
Water is a movie about widows in India in the 30s, with the viewpoint widow being a child whose husband died before she was old enough to go live with him, so she never even knew him before she was sent off to live a life of poverty with the other widows. It plays on some Bollywood tropes (only a little dancing, but a lot of singing) but only to make it extra heart-wrenching. It's very beautiful but very sad.
Justified is on Amazon Prime, which since we accidentally got we have actually been making use of. If they keep adding TV shows then I think it will keep being worth it (we haven't gotten Netflix streaming yet, but that would be the alternative.) We're in the beginning of Season 3 and still like it. Definitely a lot of violence, but a lot of good characters, too. I found a movie about Harlan County coal miners (the series is set there) so added it to our Netflix queue.
Nero Wolfe I can't recall specific titles right now... kind of popcorn books but there's a lot of delicious phrasing in them. They're not all great but I've liked all of them and I like the characters a lot. I don't bother trying to solve the mysteries so they aren't very brain-testing.