faced with reality, i chose frivolity
If given the opportunity, everyone should watch the American Masters portrait of Annie Leibovitz. She's most known for her work for Rolling Stone (a naked John Lennon curled around his beloved Yoko Ono) and Vanity Fair (Whoopi Goldberg immersed in a tub of milk, Demi Moore both very pregnant and in the nude, Tom and Katie and baby Suri), but her personal portraits of her family are just as astonishing. Her work can be both fantastical and intimate, and they are often both at the same time.
She's lived an incredible life as well. She followed the Rolling Stones throughout an entire tour during the 1970s, she went into the morgues in Sarajevo during the siege, she became a mother for the first time at the age of 51. It's hard not to be blown away, especially when you think about how she's only one person and yet she's done so much in her lifetime. And the collection of people who give testimony about her is pretty amazing as well: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anna Wintour, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mikhail Baryshnikov. All of these people who have varying professions and yet all of whom have worked with Ms. Leibovitz, either in front or behind the camera. Amazing.
I also watched Friday Night Lights, and that kind of broke my heart as well.
She's lived an incredible life as well. She followed the Rolling Stones throughout an entire tour during the 1970s, she went into the morgues in Sarajevo during the siege, she became a mother for the first time at the age of 51. It's hard not to be blown away, especially when you think about how she's only one person and yet she's done so much in her lifetime. And the collection of people who give testimony about her is pretty amazing as well: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anna Wintour, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mikhail Baryshnikov. All of these people who have varying professions and yet all of whom have worked with Ms. Leibovitz, either in front or behind the camera. Amazing.
I also watched Friday Night Lights, and that kind of broke my heart as well.
- MATT! Is he not the greatest woobie there ever was? You just want to hold him and sing him songs and make every all better for him. God, to be that young and have so much on his shoulders, and just when things are supposed to get a bit easier with his dad being home (even if it's just for two weeks), it all gets shot to hell. I can't imagine what it's like to have a parent who prioritizes his work in Iraq over his own family when the latter is just barely holding it together. Like I said, I just want to hug Matt so badly.
- I really, really loved the Landry/Riggins interaction. It's nice to see some humor injected into Tim. Yeah, he looks pretty when he does his James Dean broody thing, but he has to smile every now and then, too! I so would not have guessed that Landry would be into the hardcore scene. Maybe I'm just having a hard time picturing a hardcore scene in the middle of Texas, but man, was I laughing at his band's performance.
- Still not that interested in the Jason and Lyla thing.
- Coach Taylor and Mrs. Taylor prove to be more and more awesome with each episode. Enough said.
- I'm worried about Tyra. I don't see how they can work her into the storylines being that she is neither a footballer nor one of their girlfriends. The preview for next week's episode seems to have a juicy Tyra plotline, but do you think it will go well with the rest of the episode, or will it feel out of place like her storyline with the out of town guy she had a one-night stand with? I like her character and what she could possibly bring to the table (someone who doesn't exactly have the same "football is everything" mentality, and who struggles to get out of the small town one day and make something of herself), but I fear that she will on her way to Mandyville if she isn't given more to do that is relevant to what everyone else is doing.