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1. Ugh, trying to find spoilers for X-men comics is giving me a headache.
So will stop.
Spoilers are your friend - when it comes to long-running serials. It's the only way you get fair warning - when the evil writers decide to kill off your favorite characters for the upteenth time. Or torture them. It's actually not that bad when they torture them - means they get a storyline. Happy characters are sidelined, barely seen characters in serials. (Did I mention the writers are evil?)
( Read more... )
2. Site Tour went better than expected considering it was 101 heat index (we had 91 but with 75% humidity - it felt like 101). So we kept it short. All we did was walk across a bridge - a bridge in desperate need of replacement. It was a wrought iron bridge with a grate.
It was actually nice to get away from the office for a bit. This is the only project and project team that's not making me crazy at the moment.
3. I don't know when or if I'm going to see Oppenheimer and Barbie. I told mother that tickets for the 70 mm Oppenheimer were sold out for weeks on end, and going for about $1400 a ticket.
Mother: WHAT? You're kidding me.
Me: No. I was shocked to.
Mother: Do you really need to see it in 70 mm or Imax?? (She saw it on Standard)
Me: Probably not, but I would prefer a comfortable theater - otherwise, I can just wait and see it at home.
On the fence about Barbie.
Me: An acquaintance from church posted on FB that she went into Barbie a mid-middle aged existential angst, and came out crying her eyes out, and felt her soul had grown a little from the experience.
Mother: What? You are kidding me.
ME: On the other hand it does feature one of my favorite songs.."Closer to Fine" - albeit from the trailer - in a satirical manner (so maybe not?)
It's gotten interesting responses. Kind of runs the gamut. Another one of those movies you either love or hate apparently (note I'm talking about folks that agree with the message. I've been ignoring the conservative reviewers.)
Well according to <ahref="https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/barbie-box-office-crosses-200-million-oppenheimer-100-million-1235679593/">Variety ...good news:
“Barbenheimer” fever continues to sweep the box office.
( both are doing very very well )
I kind of guessed that - when I was told how hard it was to get tickets. People went nuts over it. Helped by the positive word of mouth. If either film had been horrible - this wouldn't have continued. But there are repeat viewers in there, and folks loved it so much they are telling everyone else to see it too.
4. I keep forgetting to mention Sinead O'Connor's death which kind of blindsided me yesterday when I heard about it on FB.
She died at 56. Same age as me. Literally just a few months older - she was born in December 1966.
I had her albums in my 20s. I adored her. And today...her voice came into my earphones from my phone, and it was her protest against capitalism and the Catholic hierarchy - which is right after her rendition of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina - Instrumental" and only on the album. The protest that got her into so much trouble. In it she declares..."can you really say you aren't in pain? Like me? Are any of us not living painfully?" and at another point? "To live you have to die." This was when she was 21. She was filled with rage - at her abusers, who had abused others, and her inability to obtain Justice, no matter how loudly she railed and pleaded against them.
Here's a video of one of her songs...
I was wondering lately what happened to her...and then discovered she had died, and at 56. In my mind, she'll always be 21.
So will stop.
Spoilers are your friend - when it comes to long-running serials. It's the only way you get fair warning - when the evil writers decide to kill off your favorite characters for the upteenth time. Or torture them. It's actually not that bad when they torture them - means they get a storyline. Happy characters are sidelined, barely seen characters in serials. (Did I mention the writers are evil?)
( Read more... )
2. Site Tour went better than expected considering it was 101 heat index (we had 91 but with 75% humidity - it felt like 101). So we kept it short. All we did was walk across a bridge - a bridge in desperate need of replacement. It was a wrought iron bridge with a grate.
It was actually nice to get away from the office for a bit. This is the only project and project team that's not making me crazy at the moment.
3. I don't know when or if I'm going to see Oppenheimer and Barbie. I told mother that tickets for the 70 mm Oppenheimer were sold out for weeks on end, and going for about $1400 a ticket.
Mother: WHAT? You're kidding me.
Me: No. I was shocked to.
Mother: Do you really need to see it in 70 mm or Imax?? (She saw it on Standard)
Me: Probably not, but I would prefer a comfortable theater - otherwise, I can just wait and see it at home.
On the fence about Barbie.
Me: An acquaintance from church posted on FB that she went into Barbie a mid-middle aged existential angst, and came out crying her eyes out, and felt her soul had grown a little from the experience.
Mother: What? You are kidding me.
ME: On the other hand it does feature one of my favorite songs.."Closer to Fine" - albeit from the trailer - in a satirical manner (so maybe not?)
It's gotten interesting responses. Kind of runs the gamut. Another one of those movies you either love or hate apparently (note I'm talking about folks that agree with the message. I've been ignoring the conservative reviewers.)
Well according to <ahref="https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/barbie-box-office-crosses-200-million-oppenheimer-100-million-1235679593/">Variety ...good news:
“Barbenheimer” fever continues to sweep the box office.
( both are doing very very well )
I kind of guessed that - when I was told how hard it was to get tickets. People went nuts over it. Helped by the positive word of mouth. If either film had been horrible - this wouldn't have continued. But there are repeat viewers in there, and folks loved it so much they are telling everyone else to see it too.
4. I keep forgetting to mention Sinead O'Connor's death which kind of blindsided me yesterday when I heard about it on FB.
She died at 56. Same age as me. Literally just a few months older - she was born in December 1966.
I had her albums in my 20s. I adored her. And today...her voice came into my earphones from my phone, and it was her protest against capitalism and the Catholic hierarchy - which is right after her rendition of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina - Instrumental" and only on the album. The protest that got her into so much trouble. In it she declares..."can you really say you aren't in pain? Like me? Are any of us not living painfully?" and at another point? "To live you have to die." This was when she was 21. She was filled with rage - at her abusers, who had abused others, and her inability to obtain Justice, no matter how loudly she railed and pleaded against them.
Here's a video of one of her songs...
I was wondering lately what happened to her...and then discovered she had died, and at 56. In my mind, she'll always be 21.