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Post by Sue on Oct 23, 2011 7:25:41 GMT -5
Busy day, not sufficient sleep last night, and I want to go to bed as early as possible. And need to watch Fringe, except Franklin's crashed out and I would rather watch it ONCE. There wasn't a new ep this week. Still not watched last week?
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Post by Sue on Oct 23, 2011 7:31:25 GMT -5
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Post by Michelle on Oct 23, 2011 9:10:41 GMT -5
One trustee event down, one to go... This sounds vaguely threatening. I managed to watch Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam 20 on American Masters tonight, which took some doing because Franklin hates them (although HOW I don't know, he's basically never listened to them until tonight?)but then he watched it all and all the local content after (about Sub Pop and KEXP). Me, I need to go to bed. Julia, and now they're interviewing someone from the Total Experience Gospel Choir, and now they're playing Nirvana and now they're showing the Northwest Ballet and Mark Morris andGinny's glass and Dale's glass and a bunch of other Art stuff... Forgot to record the Pearl Jam show. Dammit! Do you think they will re-air? I did record and watch the Supernatural ep with James Marsters and Charisma Carpenter. It was good fun and they were pretty cute together. I didn't quite agree with the the storyline though, because why is it OK for the Winchester boys to just let murderers live? Especially in light of the "previouslies" which showed that Jewel Staite had to be stabbed by Dean because she has killed before and would likely kill again. But then in this ep the brothers have some problem with not properly chilling the chicken feet, so oh well, I guess we'll just go on to the next case.
Um, what? Charisma Carpenter's character killed like four people and James Marsters' killed at least one (that we know about) and nothing indicated that they were in any way reformed, just that they were no longer fighting and therefore not out for revenge--for the time being.
I think it just comes down to the show runners wanted to leave it open for one or both of the characters to come back at some point. Which, hey, I'm all for seeing them get work again, but really?? And yes, I know it's "just a show" but it is a show that relies heavily on good and evil and righting wrongs and blah blah blah. I'm not a regular viewer, but even I know that.
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Post by Michelle on Oct 23, 2011 9:12:21 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the cold, Sara - I am also coming down with one. Sore throat and sniffle stage right now. Both the girls are sick as well. Well, Scubes - I think I will retiring at the end of the calendar year. It is kind of sad-making in some ways, but the crazy at work is unyielding, and the girls need more time and attention than I can give to them right now. Things are difficult for them with their case, and I think they will get worse before the get better. I recorded the SPN ep - hope to watch it tonight after the girls are in bed. Did anyone watch? It will be emotional, but what an exciting new chapter in your life! Congratulations on making the decision! I have watched the ep, and my comments are above. Would like to hear what you think!
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Post by Michelle on Oct 23, 2011 9:12:58 GMT -5
Matt Rousch give cautious thumbs up to Once Upon a Time (he says to give it at least thu ep. 3:
Once is not enough. Sometimes a second look, or a second episode, is necessary to convince a skeptic that a show is worth taking a risk on. So it is with ABC's dazzling but dauntingly precious Once Upon a Time (Sunday, 8/7c), which back when I was considering it for Fall Preview left me wondering: "Is this ambitiously whimsical fantasia the next Pushing Daisies cult fave or the next Eastwick insta-flop? (Either way, it will likely be an uphill climb to happily ever after.) It would be easier to love if it weren't so convoluted and campy."
But then ABC made another episode (the third, airing Nov. 6) available for review, and I started to find myself enchanted and beguiled, ready to curl up with more chapters of this fractured fairy tale. First, though, you have to digest the premise, and the overstuffed and often overripe pilot is a lot to swallow. We begin in a lavishly rendered fairy-tale land where Snow White (Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming wrangle with an Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), who interrupts their wedding with the promise of a curse. Said curse arrives just as Snow manages to send her newborn daughter Emma through a magical portal into our world. Years pass, and the grown Emma (House's arch Jennifer Morrison), now a loner of a bounty hunter, is enlisted by a little boy to hasten to the isolated burg of Storybrooke, Maine, where time is frozen and all our favorite characters of legend live in ignorance of their fabled origins. The boy believes Emma can reverse the curse, but first she has to face the town mayor (Parrilla again), who's given to saying things like, "I will destroy you if it is the last thing I do." (Has she been watching Revenge? Do they even have TVs in Storybrooke?)
"Seriously?" Emma remarks with some frequency, which is understandable. I was initially underwhelmed by all the heavy-handed whimsy, but I began to take Once a bit more seriously upon sampling the upcoming third episode. It cleverly weaves Lost-like flashbacks — the show's creators are Lost vets, and it shows — taking us back to Snow's colorful past as a frisky bandit, played off against her modern-day search for the John Doe she doesn't know is her Prince Charming (and their meet-cute back in the enchanted woods truly is charming). There's gorgeous fun to be had here, and I'm cautiously optimistic that ABC's patience in delaying the premiere until a month into the season, coupled with heavy and smart promotion, will pay off, at least initially. It would be a shame for this book to be closed too soon.
Thanks for sharing, Sue. I am interested in watching this.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 23, 2011 13:03:09 GMT -5
Busy day, not sufficient sleep last night, and I want to go to bed as early as possible. And need to watch Fringe, except Franklin's crashed out and I would rather watch it ONCE. There wasn't a new ep this week. Still not watched last week? I did not know that. Or OOPS. I watched last weeks, too, and even remember being disappointed in not finding out what happened with Peter, wet and naked until the 28th. Oh, well. I've been fighting the cruddies this week- managed to get rain rot aka ringworm from sitting around in wet clothing on a day I was weather-proofing the chicken coops in a deluge, downpour, frog-strangler, gully washer. Today I need to photograph all 14 babies in profile, top view, and head close-up for a documentary set on sexing Easter Eggers (who are TRICKY, let me tell you!). Also wash the bedding, because I probably picked up the fungal pathogen from Franklin, who sleeps in the nude, and the sheets need to get a dose of UV after they're washed. Julia, feeling positively dissolute for washing sheets on Sunday
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Oct 23, 2011 13:52:37 GMT -5
Success at last... we finally pilled Shadow. Wretched fuzzyweasel, she held the second pill in her cheek for over a minute and pretended to swallow, but I spotted it when she spat it out, and we grabbed her and kept trying. I'm sure she swallowed it the last try, because I watched her very closely and gave her treats, so she had to be swallowing those. I'm going to make an appointment and drag the cats to the vet for their second dose, though; it just isn't worth the trauma, and by that I mean all four of us. I have slayed a useful or three; I walked to the market for our groceries, drove for Aged Mum's, then walked back again with the Elder Daughter because she had coupons and she wanted smoked salmon for lunch. I still need to vacuum the living room, put away the laundry and flea the cats, but that can wait until later today. I'd also like to photograph my little Halloween shrine now it's finished, but that, too, can wait. The Husband succeeded in repairing his recliner, which was sagging on one side and no longer reclining. Turns out the big spring on one side had broken (a while ago) and the spring on the other side finally gave up and stretched out of shape, and some rivets had gone. So he went to Home Despot, got two replacement springs and some nuts and bolts, and put it all back into working order. There's still one bit of wood that needs to be screwed back in better, but it's usable now and can be fixed the rest of the way next weekend, or if he's able to take a day off this week, he can do it then. Also he needs to finish replumbing the back yard; the leak is stopped, but the far back faucet won't work until he puts in a new line bypassing the defunct sprinkler system. S'cubies, and I'm going to scrounge some lunch and go have a lie-down before I tackle the rest of the usefuls.
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Post by Lola m on Oct 23, 2011 18:50:56 GMT -5
Hey ho, all! So, who's going to watch Once Upon a Time tonight? I think it looks like it could be very cool - looking forward to seeing it.
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Post by Lola m on Oct 23, 2011 18:53:38 GMT -5
Success at last... we finally pilled Shadow. Wretched fuzzyweasel, she held the second pill in her cheek for over a minute and pretended to swallow, but I spotted it when she spat it out, and we grabbed her and kept trying. I'm sure she swallowed it the last try, because I watched her very closely and gave her treats, so she had to be swallowing those. I'm going to make an appointment and drag the cats to the vet for their second dose, though; it just isn't worth the trauma, and by that I mean all four of us. I have slayed a useful or three; I walked to the market for our groceries, drove for Aged Mum's, then walked back again with the Elder Daughter because she had coupons and she wanted smoked salmon for lunch. I still need to vacuum the living room, put away the laundry and flea the cats, but that can wait until later today. I'd also like to photograph my little Halloween shrine now it's finished, but that, too, can wait. The Husband succeeded in repairing his recliner, which was sagging on one side and no longer reclining. Turns out the big spring on one side had broken (a while ago) and the spring on the other side finally gave up and stretched out of shape, and some rivets had gone. So he went to Home Despot, got two replacement springs and some nuts and bolts, and put it all back into working order. There's still one bit of wood that needs to be screwed back in better, but it's usable now and can be fixed the rest of the way next weekend, or if he's able to take a day off this week, he can do it then. Also he needs to finish replumbing the back yard; the leak is stopped, but the far back faucet won't work until he puts in a new line bypassing the defunct sprinkler system. S'cubies, and I'm going to scrounge some lunch and go have a lie-down before I tackle the rest of the usefuls. Pilling cats! OMG, always such a pain in the ass to do! I congratulate you.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 23, 2011 18:54:20 GMT -5
Success at last... we finally pilled Shadow. Wretched fuzzyweasel, she held the second pill in her cheek for over a minute and pretended to swallow, but I spotted it when she spat it out, and we grabbed her and kept trying. I'm sure she swallowed it the last try, because I watched her very closely and gave her treats, so she had to be swallowing those. I'm going to make an appointment and drag the cats to the vet for their second dose, though; it just isn't worth the trauma, and by that I mean all four of us. I have slayed a useful or three; I walked to the market for our groceries, drove for Aged Mum's, then walked back again with the Elder Daughter because she had coupons and she wanted smoked salmon for lunch. I still need to vacuum the living room, put away the laundry and flea the cats, but that can wait until later today. I'd also like to photograph my little Halloween shrine now it's finished, but that, too, can wait. The Husband succeeded in repairing his recliner, which was sagging on one side and no longer reclining. Turns out the big spring on one side had broken (a while ago) and the spring on the other side finally gave up and stretched out of shape, and some rivets had gone. So he went to Home Despot, got two replacement springs and some nuts and bolts, and put it all back into working order. There's still one bit of wood that needs to be screwed back in better, but it's usable now and can be fixed the rest of the way next weekend, or if he's able to take a day off this week, he can do it then. Also he needs to finish replumbing the back yard; the leak is stopped, but the far back faucet won't work until he puts in a new line bypassing the defunct sprinkler system. S'cubies, and I'm going to scrounge some lunch and go have a lie-down before I tackle the rest of the usefuls. We had a Sam, so that was good, and I got some things done I wouldn't otherwise have done. Only now I'm worried that he was awake instead of asleep- he's working graveyard. I have to go put the sheep in and go grocery shopping now. Julia, day of rest yah sure yabetcha
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Post by Lola m on Oct 23, 2011 18:58:22 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the cold, Sara - I am also coming down with one. Sore throat and sniffle stage right now. Both the girls are sick as well. Well, Scubes - I think I will retiring at the end of the calendar year. It is kind of sad-making in some ways, but the crazy at work is unyielding, and the girls need more time and attention than I can give to them right now. Things are difficult for them with their case, and I think they will get worse before the get better. I recorded the SPN ep - hope to watch it tonight after the girls are in bed. Did anyone watch? It will be emotional, but what an exciting new chapter in your life! Congratulations on making the decision! I have watched the ep, and my comments are above. Would like to hear what you think! Eetah on the congrats, Spring! I know you've been thinking about retiring for a while now. It'll be an ending in some ways, (and therefore bittersweet/sad,yes) but also in many ways it's a beginning too! And I know you'll be glad to be able to spend more time with the girls.
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Post by Lola m on Oct 23, 2011 19:01:05 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the cold, Sara - I am also coming down with one. Sore throat and sniffle stage right now. Both the girls are sick as well. Well, Scubes - I think I will retiring at the end of the calendar year. It is kind of sad-making in some ways, but the crazy at work is unyielding, and the girls need more time and attention than I can give to them right now. Things are difficult for them with their case, and I think they will get worse before the get better. I recorded the SPN ep - hope to watch it tonight after the girls are in bed. Did anyone watch? It will be emotional, but what an exciting new chapter in your life! Congratulations on making the decision! I have watched the ep, and my comments are above. Would like to hear what you think! I am soooo behind on DVR'd TV, I have a bunch of stuff I have to watch - including James and Charisma on SPN. Should be a hoot and a half to see them together.
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Post by Lola m on Oct 23, 2011 19:05:59 GMT -5
Very interesting link, Sue!
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Post by Lola m on Oct 23, 2011 19:22:26 GMT -5
Well if my first two MN Orchestra concerts of the season are a harbinger of what's to come? It's gonna be goooood!
Two weeks ago we had the super-cool world premier of TimePiece for Jazz soloists and Orchestra created by Stephen Paulus and his son Greg Paulus.
And just last night I heard an absolutely AMAZING performance by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, doing Piazzolla's Four Seasons in Buenos Aires. It was just heart-stirringly stunning good!! So passionate and intimate and .... man! So. Good!
The concert opened with Suite number 2 from de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat and finished with a finely done performance of Aaron Copeland's Symphony #3 - very clean and strong. But neither could compete with Nadja and the Piazzolla. Glorious!
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Oct 23, 2011 20:31:20 GMT -5
S'cubies Julia *huggles Lola* I Revolutioned both cats, single-handed. Of course now Shadow is hiding behind the computer desk... no, she escaped and is under the table. I put her treats under the table with her; I hear crunching. Cats are very high-maintenance these days, I wonder how we managed before all those vets and pills and nostrums?
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