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I woke up alarmed.
I know this is kind of old news, but I was just reminded of it. A stroll through my lesser played itunes has led me to ask What the fuck happened to Liz Phair?!?. She used to be so cool, and now she's playing crappy pop I've even heard on Smallville. I know she married some kind of big wheel producer guy, and I guess he turned her into a purveyor of derrivative shit. Too bad, really. As Hamlet said to Ophelia I did love you, once.
Thanks to everyone who made supportive comments after my last frustrated post. I've resolved to concentrate on things I have power over and look past those I don't. They keep telling me to do that at that place I go. With that in mind, I'm cranking out an extra chapter this week, I had an extra therapy appointment, and I actually showed up for EMDR. I also didn't let my recent depression throw me into a fit of weed and junk food lasting for days at a time (well, staying in town this weekend helps with that too). Plus, a few people decided to offhandedly remind me of my value by asking me to do things for them. I've been asked to write things, to record some vocal stuff, and my buddy asked me to smudge and bless his new house (which I was totally going to do anyway). So I got to do a few things I'm actually good at. Because if people don't remind me of my own value, I tend to forget. I hope I don't forget to breathe or maintain a heartbeat next...
The Friday Five is a good one this week, so here it is:
1. What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
James & the Giant Peach, All of Charles Shultz, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Giving Tree--all of Shel Silverstein really.
2. What was particularly special or memorable about those books?
They either had situations that mirrored things in my own life, or successfully allowed me to fully emerse myself in the story for long enough to forget my own life.
3. Have you re-read any of them as an adult?
All but The Cat At My Gymsuit, which I have not come across as an adult.
4. If so, were the books as good as you remembered them?
Overall, they were better. I understood the underlying themes more closely and learned things about myself as a child.
5. What do you think about movies being made out of children's classics (like the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of The Rings, etc.)?
In general, I like them fine. I wouldn't really call LotR a "children's classic" even though many of us read them as kids. I read Stephen King as a kid, but I was not his intended audience. I must say though, that the books and movies coming out for kids now is vastly supoerior in many ways than the stuff we had. Our stuff dealt with important themes and was memorable and funny--but the level of fantasy and you know...wonder has increased exponentially. What I'm saying is, I wish Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket were around when I was a kid and not, say, 30.
Is that a real show? That would be hilarious. Someone, please tape it for me. ;-]
H bought me this badass Marine Aquarium screensaver because nobody makes free ones for macs. It's the 2.6 version that has a 3D background and fish. Like I explained to him, $20 is a lot for a screensaver, but it's really cheap for a saltwater aquarium full of fish that never die. I can even have 8 lionfish if I want--that's like, a thousand dollars worth of fish who could never sting us like a real lionfish, plus a starfish. So yeah, it's pretty cool. They also have shark screensavers and freshwater fish ones. I daresay though, that they are surprisingly lame.
And did you guys know that people still smoke "blunts"?
I had no idea, I thought that went out years ago.
Thanks to everyone who made supportive comments after my last frustrated post. I've resolved to concentrate on things I have power over and look past those I don't. They keep telling me to do that at that place I go. With that in mind, I'm cranking out an extra chapter this week, I had an extra therapy appointment, and I actually showed up for EMDR. I also didn't let my recent depression throw me into a fit of weed and junk food lasting for days at a time (well, staying in town this weekend helps with that too). Plus, a few people decided to offhandedly remind me of my value by asking me to do things for them. I've been asked to write things, to record some vocal stuff, and my buddy asked me to smudge and bless his new house (which I was totally going to do anyway). So I got to do a few things I'm actually good at. Because if people don't remind me of my own value, I tend to forget. I hope I don't forget to breathe or maintain a heartbeat next...
The Friday Five is a good one this week, so here it is:
1. What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
James & the Giant Peach, All of Charles Shultz, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Giving Tree--all of Shel Silverstein really.
2. What was particularly special or memorable about those books?
They either had situations that mirrored things in my own life, or successfully allowed me to fully emerse myself in the story for long enough to forget my own life.
3. Have you re-read any of them as an adult?
All but The Cat At My Gymsuit, which I have not come across as an adult.
4. If so, were the books as good as you remembered them?
Overall, they were better. I understood the underlying themes more closely and learned things about myself as a child.
5. What do you think about movies being made out of children's classics (like the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of The Rings, etc.)?
In general, I like them fine. I wouldn't really call LotR a "children's classic" even though many of us read them as kids. I read Stephen King as a kid, but I was not his intended audience. I must say though, that the books and movies coming out for kids now is vastly supoerior in many ways than the stuff we had. Our stuff dealt with important themes and was memorable and funny--but the level of fantasy and you know...wonder has increased exponentially. What I'm saying is, I wish Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket were around when I was a kid and not, say, 30.
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Is that a real show? That would be hilarious. Someone, please tape it for me. ;-]
H bought me this badass Marine Aquarium screensaver because nobody makes free ones for macs. It's the 2.6 version that has a 3D background and fish. Like I explained to him, $20 is a lot for a screensaver, but it's really cheap for a saltwater aquarium full of fish that never die. I can even have 8 lionfish if I want--that's like, a thousand dollars worth of fish who could never sting us like a real lionfish, plus a starfish. So yeah, it's pretty cool. They also have shark screensavers and freshwater fish ones. I daresay though, that they are surprisingly lame.
And did you guys know that people still smoke "blunts"?
I had no idea, I thought that went out years ago.