A funny thing happened....
Nov. 19th, 2011 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickdzootOn my way to my golden years.
Yeah, well, let's not go into that, it's way too dull and repetitive and personal.
But, my Woodstock years were not spent in vain. I'm as revolution minded now as I was then, and I was only in high school. This suggests that either I am just as clueless now as I was in high school, or that the world has devolved back to the same circumstances.
I'm inclined to vote for the latter, but then I would, wouldn't I?
Since I do, I have to say, it's really depressing to believe. But, I also have to say that by and large, I find the Occupy activists both comforting and exhilarating. Comforting, because at least what my uncle refers to as MoronNation may not actually be morons...
And in other news....
So anyway, my faithful car, referred to as Little Red, because it was a little red Saturn coupe that was built in 2000, and sold as a 2001, has been retired. It has been through a lot, four long distance moves, several tropical storms--during one of which it ended up raining as hard inside the car as it did outside the car--a replacement engine, but no accidents.
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I was astonished to find I could even get financing at a less than ruinous interest rate, presumably because it's with the bank I've used for the last three years for accounts that I have been obsessive compulsive about keeping track of every single cent and checking the balance every day to be certain I haven't miscalculated. At any rate, I am also embarrassed to admit that I am now the owner of a 2005 Ford Escape, which was a vehicle I was looking at several years ago when they first came out. It is very weird to make the change, not only from a manual transmission to an automatic, but to make the change from sitting way down low, to sitting up fairly high.
My new happy place for TV is Glee. Who can resist a show that is so blatantly silly that people are actually breaking out into song and transitioning to theatrical garb while doing so. Then, of course, there's the soap opera aspect, and the characters. The nifty thing is that the characters are not one note, nor are they perfect, and even the villains have interesting facets. And my God, Sue Sylvester, how can you not adore her even when she's awful! Heh.
So I'm going to visit my daughter and son in law at Christmas which, tra la, means I get to reclaim my copy of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well as the second book. I got the the third as an eBook, but I don't want to reread it without rereading the first two. Yes, I known how neurotic that sounds, but hey.
So all told, the years from 2005 to 2010 were drek of the worst kind, but things might just be looking up.
And I still have the second two movies to watch. Heh. Can anyone who has seen them tell me if they're worth the watching? I thought the first was actually very good, especially considering how movies seldom translate the written story as well.
Yeah, well, let's not go into that, it's way too dull and repetitive and personal.
But, my Woodstock years were not spent in vain. I'm as revolution minded now as I was then, and I was only in high school. This suggests that either I am just as clueless now as I was in high school, or that the world has devolved back to the same circumstances.
I'm inclined to vote for the latter, but then I would, wouldn't I?
Since I do, I have to say, it's really depressing to believe. But, I also have to say that by and large, I find the Occupy activists both comforting and exhilarating. Comforting, because at least what my uncle refers to as MoronNation may not actually be morons...
And in other news....
So anyway, my faithful car, referred to as Little Red, because it was a little red Saturn coupe that was built in 2000, and sold as a 2001, has been retired. It has been through a lot, four long distance moves, several tropical storms--during one of which it ended up raining as hard inside the car as it did outside the car--a replacement engine, but no accidents.
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I was astonished to find I could even get financing at a less than ruinous interest rate, presumably because it's with the bank I've used for the last three years for accounts that I have been obsessive compulsive about keeping track of every single cent and checking the balance every day to be certain I haven't miscalculated. At any rate, I am also embarrassed to admit that I am now the owner of a 2005 Ford Escape, which was a vehicle I was looking at several years ago when they first came out. It is very weird to make the change, not only from a manual transmission to an automatic, but to make the change from sitting way down low, to sitting up fairly high.
My new happy place for TV is Glee. Who can resist a show that is so blatantly silly that people are actually breaking out into song and transitioning to theatrical garb while doing so. Then, of course, there's the soap opera aspect, and the characters. The nifty thing is that the characters are not one note, nor are they perfect, and even the villains have interesting facets. And my God, Sue Sylvester, how can you not adore her even when she's awful! Heh.
So I'm going to visit my daughter and son in law at Christmas which, tra la, means I get to reclaim my copy of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well as the second book. I got the the third as an eBook, but I don't want to reread it without rereading the first two. Yes, I known how neurotic that sounds, but hey.
So all told, the years from 2005 to 2010 were drek of the worst kind, but things might just be looking up.
And I still have the second two movies to watch. Heh. Can anyone who has seen them tell me if they're worth the watching? I thought the first was actually very good, especially considering how movies seldom translate the written story as well.
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Date: 2011-11-20 05:54 am (UTC)I phrased it that way because ... "American" versions of the movies are being made, with Daniel Craig and an actress whose name I'm not sure of (Noomi Rapace?). There's been some noise online about the posters. Also, IIRC, the actress for the remakes is a lot thinner than the one in the original movies (whom I liked because she didn't look 'movie' but looked like a real person.)