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No new snow, no frozen rain, and the sun is shining. A day or two off snow duty and I am feeling better. I woke at 8:00 in spite of having gone to bed a bit later. Though I went to bed earlier than usual too. I am still sleeping a bit longer. That is what happens when you push an older class destroyer to it's limits. Nothing I can't survive it seems. Still, waking to a clear driveway and sunshine is a great boost to the ego. I won't say I can always do that. I will say it is more possible, as I see things. The more I can do myself, the longer my timeline, if that isn't in my hands, what of it is I will work as I may.
Today is mostly a day of rest. I wouldn't mind getting a few things sorted and started. It just won't be a day at the races. Old home day, no more. Coffee! I haven't had that in a while, doing tea lately for some odd reason. Good enough, I suppose. Nice for a change. But it isn't coffee. Hmm... my friend suggests he does coffee in the morning, tea at night. Might be worth a while to mix and match things as such for a bit. Plus, getting in some honey isn't all bad.
I did test sugars, pretty high still, but not the 500, or higher, it had been. Now that I am back on track I will begin to monitor and pay attention. I have some options to sugar that I like, if even these will have to be checked to see if they fit my goals. With medicine coming in, and me back on regular doses, I will start tending consumption and seeing what works and what doesn't. As I said though, my system is really screwy. It doesn't match up with what they have been telling me, not in a patent way. So... I need to figure it out myself, a bit. I know what they want, numbers-wise, now it's up to me to achieve those since their advice doesn't hold up well. Fair enough. If I want to live, it behooves me to pay attention and make the effort.
Life is good. A day of rest is great. I may be out tomorrow. Hmm... I may just take a movie over, tomorrow, and some popcorn. A bit of butter and I find I don't need all that much salt on popcorn anymore. An air popper cuts the fats to just butter. A nice gig once in a while, now that I found popcorn that seems to fit the region... being dryer and higher elevation, a different popcorn was needed. My old standby just didn't work in the highlands. Anyway.... later.
Don't feel overly obligated, but if you can then mention the movie you selected. Admittedly I'm curious.
ReplyDeleteOh, hehehe, and no pun at all, but... Sunshine. Sci-fi, at least in it's class, to my mind, at it's best. I've watched it every two to four years since I found it. It holds up well.
ReplyDeleteAnother movie I may offer, in time, is Angel Heart. That... is a bit more rarefied. And strictly not sci-fi. Rather... very... dark, if you can handle it. Saw that one in the theaters, back in the day. Once in a while, when I need it rare...
"Sunshine's" a rather decent film. It actually gives the mind something to chew on, rather than being simply another wheelbarrow load of special effects.
ReplyDelete"Angel Heart" is one I haven't seen (surprising since I've tried to see every Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke performance out there), but it's one I plan to catch.
Recently I've re-watched Menzies' classic "Things to Come", as well as Miller's "Mad Max". And, since Man does not live by SF alone, I've also been watching "In Harm's Way" and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (I should mention in passing that I have a passion for well-done black and white cinema).
Things to Come sounds a lot like, in one sense, exactly what has happened, at least from the elites' way of thinking. Which Mad Max, the original? The new is Mad Max also, but with a sideline. I'm curious about the new one, I just fear they have feminized or otherwise rotted it, so have avoided it. I haven't seen In Harms Way in forever, but remember it and well enjoyed it. John Wayne was favored by my generation, and your generation, though is gone to the new generations. The other is unfamiliar. I like Burton, if memory serves, a great deal.
ReplyDeleteOddly, even when young I wasn't much of a star follower, directors were right out. Back then it wasn't as personal as it is today, or political at all. Doesn't make sense, as I followed authors and tracked down, often, every book of theirs I could find. Even if I burned out on them I would merely take a break and... though, at some point, one realizes there is little need or use, and there is no way to track them all down and read all their material, save as some strange study. A few authors, perhaps, but not many, certainly not very many, and definitely not all. Not even all one likes.
Well, do enjoy. Oh, and... why can't one live on sci-fi alone, Preciouses? Why?!? Uhrm, what I mean is... well sci-fi/fantasy/fiction... I suppose you are right. I may have to, after I have made a solid attempt at putting my sci-fi/fantasy/etc movie library back together, work on some of the others. I loaned... 20... 30... movies to a friend. He died. They are gone. I like so few and rare for my collection, and I didn't right them down. Expensive and difficult to find, some of them. Anyway... about not watching all that sort? "Splitter!" Even if I might agree, I have to call a spade a spade.
With "Things to Come", Wells predicted World War II (sort of). On the downside, by 2036, Wells had all of us living in an antiseptic city resembling a new shopping mall before the stores moved in. And everyone's wearing what seem to be window curtains. In spite of this, Menzies does pull off an interesting piece of cinema.
ReplyDeleteI was referring to the original "Mad Max". The new one lacks the sharpness of the original, but Miller still proves himself to be the master of lean dialogue (the entire script couldn't have been over ten pages, if that). I'd recommend a look-see, but try not to pay full cinema price for it.
"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" is a good cinema example of John le Carre's no-nonsense/no-glitz espionage thrillers. There are no flashy heroes with tricked out cars. Everything's grey and icy and spiritually murderous (which is how le Carre and his peers see the spy business).
"In Harm's Way" is a perennial favorite with me. I may get drummed out of the Film Buffs Union, but I always preferred Wayne as a Naval officer (and I think Patricia Neal did more for him than Maureen O'Hara). Purists have complained about the poor quality of model work in the film . . . and I'll grudgingly concede . . . but they're missing the point that the movie was not about an accurate depiction of a World War II naval battle, but about the relationship between several characters caught up in the days after Pearl Harbor.
Oh, I used to live entirely on SF. But when I grew a bit older, and began a serious study of the genre, I kept encountering names such as John Ford, Sergei Eisenstein, F.W. Murnau, etc., as well as references to films having little or nothing to do with SF. Eventually I had the epiphany that, to fully appreciate SF cinema, I needed to step back a bit and study other genres. The result? I now enjoy Westerns, character dramas, historical epics . . . all sorts of films.
And it occurred to me that I used "cinema" too many times in that previous ramble.
ReplyDeleteIf you were writing for an audience which demands the use of many nouns for the same thing, then yes. As for me, it works. How many terms for "cinema" are there? Probably too many, especially when you are trying to have them all mean, pretty much, the same or very similar things.
ReplyDeleteOkay, on the rest of it. As for me, on the topic of the spy world, I think he got it right. Even .mil is, when defecation and ventilation meet, is similar. War is so rare these days, regardless of what people want to think about even the Middle East, that few remember what war really means. Not skirmishes, or battles, but full out, run and gun until you bleed and die and keep on going for years, decades, centuries. Life gets nasty when all about is actual war.
As to "why not"... I suppose you have a point. Though I already agreed with it, I'll do so again. If nothing else, just to make sure what one likes is what one likes, though there are other reasons. Just because, however, we might know something, it doesn't mean we have to like it. *grins*