at it again
Had a moment to fling some thoughts out into the 'Verse. Please don't expect profoundness in my meanderings, just easing on down the timeline of life.
Let's see - what is going with me ..
Had to cancel my planned trip home (to FL) for my best friends wedding. It was a choice of having fun and spending lots of money, or getting my teeth fixed and spending lots of money. And health won out over fun. Dang it.
Unfortunately that also means I will be putting a halt to most extraneous spending. There will be a few movies I'll see, but now the free for all I've been doing lately. Book and movie buying it sharply curtailed. Don't you just hate economizing. It sucks.
I did manage to see Darkest Hour with Gary Oldman playing Winston Churchill. Excellent movie and I'm glad Gary has been nominated for Oscars. Don't think the Academy will give it to him though. Probably go to Daniel Day Lewis - favorites again. And as everyone seems to be talking about Shape of Water, that will likely get the best pic nod. Victoria and Abdul was good period piece - liberties given for movie-making set aside. Judy Densch has made older Victoria her latter years gob-smacker.
I've seen The Last Jedi twice now. I'm still not sure what I wanted that movie to be. I was excited about The Force Awakens when it came out - even saw it about 5 times. It was glaringly obvious that it was a re-hash of A New Hope, but I rolled with it. I get that Producers are setting up the Star Wars universe for a new set of characters to continue the storyline - which ever one they end up using. The books are rich with charactoers and they are authorized versions so maybe they will pull some of them into the movies.
I don't get to watch much current TV so can't really say something is my favorite, other than Big Bang Theory. Love those geeks. Been going through an espionage mood, so spending much time with The Avengers. Love me some John Steed. Patrick Macnee is adorable. I have all the seasons - 1 through 6 and the New Avengers. I haven't finished saturating my mind with The Avengers yet, so haven't moved on to other shows waiting in the wings: re-watching The Equalizer, Danger Man and The Prisioner, I-Spy, Man from Uncle, and some other Brit shows I had no inkling of: 1990 with Edward Woodward, An Englishman's Castle with Kenneth More, Man in a Suitcase, Berlin Station just to name a few. I'm going through a phase.
Books: I've been enthralled with Jaqueline Winspear's Maise Dobbs series. I'm tearing through Book 4 - Messenger of Truth. Maise is a full rich charactor with all of life's dealings for a women wanting to make her own way but hampered by the social conventions of what it means to be a woman in a modern world. It's set between 1913 and into 1940's. Good Mysteries too. I'm in a Historial Mystery mood when reading right now. Anna Lee Huber, Andrea Penrose, Laurie R King, Rhys Bowen, CS Harris. Modern mysteries - Elly Griffiths. So a few authors I'm enjoying.
So the laundry is calling me .. dryer pinging its finished so must dash.
Let's see - what is going with me ..
Had to cancel my planned trip home (to FL) for my best friends wedding. It was a choice of having fun and spending lots of money, or getting my teeth fixed and spending lots of money. And health won out over fun. Dang it.
Unfortunately that also means I will be putting a halt to most extraneous spending. There will be a few movies I'll see, but now the free for all I've been doing lately. Book and movie buying it sharply curtailed. Don't you just hate economizing. It sucks.
I did manage to see Darkest Hour with Gary Oldman playing Winston Churchill. Excellent movie and I'm glad Gary has been nominated for Oscars. Don't think the Academy will give it to him though. Probably go to Daniel Day Lewis - favorites again. And as everyone seems to be talking about Shape of Water, that will likely get the best pic nod. Victoria and Abdul was good period piece - liberties given for movie-making set aside. Judy Densch has made older Victoria her latter years gob-smacker.
I've seen The Last Jedi twice now. I'm still not sure what I wanted that movie to be. I was excited about The Force Awakens when it came out - even saw it about 5 times. It was glaringly obvious that it was a re-hash of A New Hope, but I rolled with it. I get that Producers are setting up the Star Wars universe for a new set of characters to continue the storyline - which ever one they end up using. The books are rich with charactoers and they are authorized versions so maybe they will pull some of them into the movies.
I don't get to watch much current TV so can't really say something is my favorite, other than Big Bang Theory. Love those geeks. Been going through an espionage mood, so spending much time with The Avengers. Love me some John Steed. Patrick Macnee is adorable. I have all the seasons - 1 through 6 and the New Avengers. I haven't finished saturating my mind with The Avengers yet, so haven't moved on to other shows waiting in the wings: re-watching The Equalizer, Danger Man and The Prisioner, I-Spy, Man from Uncle, and some other Brit shows I had no inkling of: 1990 with Edward Woodward, An Englishman's Castle with Kenneth More, Man in a Suitcase, Berlin Station just to name a few. I'm going through a phase.
Books: I've been enthralled with Jaqueline Winspear's Maise Dobbs series. I'm tearing through Book 4 - Messenger of Truth. Maise is a full rich charactor with all of life's dealings for a women wanting to make her own way but hampered by the social conventions of what it means to be a woman in a modern world. It's set between 1913 and into 1940's. Good Mysteries too. I'm in a Historial Mystery mood when reading right now. Anna Lee Huber, Andrea Penrose, Laurie R King, Rhys Bowen, CS Harris. Modern mysteries - Elly Griffiths. So a few authors I'm enjoying.
So the laundry is calling me .. dryer pinging its finished so must dash.