Media Media Media
This has been such an awesome week, media-wise.
On Tuesday, I met
musesfool for the first time (FIRST TIME. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE????) and we went to the Fringe panel at the Paley Center, where we were shown an episode ("Entrada," which I love despite the 'vagenda' line that always rubs me the wrong way) and then Anna Torv and John Noble talked. They were adorable and fantastic and I want one of each please. It was also kind of disorienting for me, because I am so used to fandom asking fandomy questions, and yet this was co-sponsored by SAG, so a lot of people were asking acting-type questions. It's not that they were more or less weird/creepy/invasive than some of the things fannish fandom throws at our shiny object celebrities, but they were weird/creepy/invasive in a different way, which I found fascinating. Then
musesfool and I had dinner and talked about fandom, which was frankly more fun than the panel because neither of us was, um, creepy.
The moral of the night, though, was that Anna Torv and John Noble were fantastic, and that is a good moral!
Then last night, I went to the Paley Center AGAIN, this time for a To Kill a Mockingbird documentary ("Hey, Boo") and panel. I was not 100% impressed with it; it felt kind of disorganized to me, and while the documentary's focus on the book rather than the author, it spent a lot of time explaining WHY it was on the book rather than the author, so it ended up being about the author. Sometimes I feel like it's a more magical book when you don't know that basically, Harper Lee = Scout. Also I would have liked to see more nuanced discussion of the portrayal of race in the book; if you're going for straight textual analysis, you kind of have to go beyond "This was a life-changing and country-defining civil rights text" being repeated over and over.
That said, Oprah read the "Stand up, Jean Louise, your father's passing" scene out loud in the documentary, and then I saw Tom Brokaw live, so my complaints are limited. (He's dreamy!)
Which is to say, my Paley Center membership has been well worth it. :D
This morning, I listened to a Survivor podcast which made me feel much better with my level of investment in reality TV (I am not even CLOSE to the worst, y'all. I could tell STORIES...) and really, that is always a good thing.
Also, after three days, my ridic OCD feelings about how I need to HAVE The Good Wife s1 on DVD have passed, so it no longer causes me anxiety! \o/ Does that mean I can buy it on my lunch break today? :D? :D?
Cross-posted at http://fox1013.dreamwidth.org/55520.html. Comment wherever you feel more comfortable.
On Tuesday, I met
musesfool for the first time (FIRST TIME. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE????) and we went to the Fringe panel at the Paley Center, where we were shown an episode ("Entrada," which I love despite the 'vagenda' line that always rubs me the wrong way) and then Anna Torv and John Noble talked. They were adorable and fantastic and I want one of each please. It was also kind of disorienting for me, because I am so used to fandom asking fandomy questions, and yet this was co-sponsored by SAG, so a lot of people were asking acting-type questions. It's not that they were more or less weird/creepy/invasive than some of the things fannish fandom throws at our shiny object celebrities, but they were weird/creepy/invasive in a different way, which I found fascinating. Then
musesfool and I had dinner and talked about fandom, which was frankly more fun than the panel because neither of us was, um, creepy.
The moral of the night, though, was that Anna Torv and John Noble were fantastic, and that is a good moral!
Then last night, I went to the Paley Center AGAIN, this time for a To Kill a Mockingbird documentary ("Hey, Boo") and panel. I was not 100% impressed with it; it felt kind of disorganized to me, and while the documentary's focus on the book rather than the author, it spent a lot of time explaining WHY it was on the book rather than the author, so it ended up being about the author. Sometimes I feel like it's a more magical book when you don't know that basically, Harper Lee = Scout. Also I would have liked to see more nuanced discussion of the portrayal of race in the book; if you're going for straight textual analysis, you kind of have to go beyond "This was a life-changing and country-defining civil rights text" being repeated over and over.
That said, Oprah read the "Stand up, Jean Louise, your father's passing" scene out loud in the documentary, and then I saw Tom Brokaw live, so my complaints are limited. (He's dreamy!)
Which is to say, my Paley Center membership has been well worth it. :D
This morning, I listened to a Survivor podcast which made me feel much better with my level of investment in reality TV (I am not even CLOSE to the worst, y'all. I could tell STORIES...) and really, that is always a good thing.
Also, after three days, my ridic OCD feelings about how I need to HAVE The Good Wife s1 on DVD have passed, so it no longer causes me anxiety! \o/ Does that mean I can buy it on my lunch break today? :D? :D?
Cross-posted at http://fox1013.dreamwidth.org/55520.html. Comment wherever you feel more comfortable.