Avoiding Hollywood, especially what they advertise heavily.

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I simply have blown Hollywood off.  It has, at the least, stopped being an American institution.  Which is fine, if their business is for foreigners, I just consider it an export franchise and leave it at that.  The anti-Americanism reached a level so as to make all of their major stars and productions toxic to locals, if they stopped and thought about it.  Then again who was it that Romans through to the lions to entertain the masses?  It was their own countrymen for the most part.  So it goes, I suppose.  For my part, I simply have declined to accept.  Having said that, I have seen a few movies in the latter years.  Most do not fail to disappoint in their worthlessness.  Once in a while, however...

Over at AoSHQ, there was a link to a list of movies that, for various reasons, I may consider viewing.  Sorry, I don't seem to be able to link to the exact post, and the particular bit was a part of a larger smorgasbord of links and notions anyway.  But they often have interesting stuff, so visit if you are curious about... things... almost anything.  As to the movies, rental, if they can be found, or purchase if in the cheap enough section somewhere.  Not all of them, mind you.  But what I might would almost certainly be different from what you would choose.

Now, I have looked at the trailers for the movies I want to see, and they look like they might do.  Big, bold, hard, different.  I don't see much multicultural or anti-me stuff, though I will do more research on the cast and look a bit closer.  I hate biting into a great looking steak only to find out it is a crap sandwich with a faux exterior.  I have seen one of the movies, Pandorum.  And, while not a super movie, it was at least entertaining and non-offensive... assuming you can handle hard realities, hard choices, and some mind-bending final understandings.  Zouch.  Truth be told, I was pretty sure what was going to happen by the end, just not all the details.  And it wasn't truly mindbending, to me, just... interesting.  Still...  The only problem I had watching it is that I was too often distracted by looking for the typical Hollywood political and social asshattery so that I sometimes couldn't keep focused... that sort of keeps me from entering into a movie.  Don't even look at me that way.  Entering a movie that is against your moral, social, religious, and political beliefs is selling out.  Believe.  It IS indoctrination.  Enjoy that if you will, I refuse.  Anyway, after having seen, and approving of, Pandorum, I am more inclined to give the movies on the list which interest me a shot.  I love a well told, or visually stunning, performance as much as the next.  I just won't sell my soul to enjoy it.  Oh, I have also seen Descent.  It was okay.  It's not really my type of horror, but beside that it was intense.  It didn't contain one aspect of the horror genre, dealing with women, that I really don't like.  For that alone it gets a boost.  Not bad, a solid good, but not truly great, either.  As I recall.

Rough, this morning.  I needed a bit extra sleep.  I did stay up until 21:30 or so, I think.  I almost, or did, stretch that a bit much.  Waking at... who knows, but before 6:00 by a half an hour or two... I am a bit sore and tired this morning.  I am pretty sure I slept wrong, but nothing I did with the pillows and rolling allowed for comfort last night.  Lower back is rough, most upper body joints feel just every so slightly out of alignment, and there was a headache, if that seems to be easing a bit.  Yeah, my exhaustion, this time, isn't just mental.  And the little drives and efforts the last few days have strained my resources.

Hmm, but... before I go back on insulin they want me to do blood sugar tests four times a day.  I just about protested, but I think I can do this for the few days they want it done.  I won't do that on a permanent basis, usually only testing three times a week max.  I simply won't do that.  Nasty it is.  Anyway, the sooner I get going on that the sooner it will be finished.  *poke*

Still, my goal today is to do a full day, if a nap may be required.  I might have to limit the nap with an alarm and a lot of willpower though.  Getting the testing done rightly.  Hmm, best set an alarm or it will be forgotten in the fog.  And, as I suggested, I will begin looking for little tasks to do.  Tasks, specifically, which will open up the possibility of doing bigger tasks when I can finally get to those.  Baby steps, always, and again, baby steps, and those are only hoped, planned, not guaranteed.  But it's all I have to give.  If not today then tomorrow.  If not tomorrow then the next day.  Making and keeping goals in mind until I can do them has been a huge part of my successes.  I have to remember, I have been more successful, seen more things done, in the last few years than in the last 25 before them, combined.  I must remember, when in a slump, that I am indeed getting somewhere.  Not far, not fast, not laudable for most, but with my givens?  Golden.

Later.