Friday, January 2, 2009

Yesterday, my monitor started fraking with me again. Badly. It's been ok the last few weeks. I don't know what sets it off, but it's really fucking annoying. I know I need a new one; I'd even welcome it. This monster takes up too much room. I'd like one with at least the same size screen or larger, but flat so it doesn't take up as much room.

The other day while I was out with Janice and the kids Janice pointed out a HUGE flock of birds. Then yesterday evening, I was chatting online and I heard this strange noise. I thought it was rain or something. I went into Mark's room so I could look out his big window; opening it a crack. I saw no rain, which is what I thought it was at first, then the sound really hit me. I looked at the trees across the railroad tracks and they were filled with crows. All of them cawing. It was a powerful image. Creepy. I called Janice and told her. She called me back playing the school house music from that scene in 'The Birds' where Tippi Hedron is waiting with her back to a jungle gym that is slowly filling up with birds while the kids inside sing an annoying song. She found it on youtube.

Janice and I used to watch "The Birds" on television every year. It terrified our mother, who was afraid of birds. It seemed that every year a bird would find it's way into our farm house, and we'd chase it down while our mother screamed and cried. Good fun as a kid. lol

While my monitor was working yesterday I worked on some artwork for poetry I plan to write in 2009. A lot of what I write is inspired by people and books and things. But a lot of what I write is inpsired by the art I do. I like both ways of working. I only wrote 4 poems in 2008. It just didn't feel like the time for it, but I want to get back to that in 2009.

And when my monitor started messing up I found that playing windows media player actually helps. Well, it doesn't help so much as windows media player seems to be ammune to the trouble. So I could watch stuff that I had on my computer and it came in great.

I watched the first 3 episodes of Will & Grace Season 8. I once read a survey taken on some website asking when Will & Grace jumped the shark. Many people voted for bits of the first 4 seasons which I can understand, as the show is very hit or miss, but there more hits than misses in my opinion. I recently saw the 5th Season and I thought that was fairly good as well. I've seen bits and pieces of the 6th Season and it was ok too. So I just assumed these people were bitter or something. Only Season 8 is sucking beyond the telling of it. There's a funny joke every once in awhile. But the stars look terrible. The wring is mostly subpar. And the staging is just...ick. There's this scene where Jack is supposed to be teaching Will how to swim, and from the dialogue pouring out of their mouths there are other people in the pool with them, yet it's OBVIOUS they are alone. Not an extra in sight. I felt humiliated for the actors. It's just really, really terrible. Now I don't know if Season 7 was this bad, but I can now say that it probably should have ended with that season. I'll probably finish the season, so that I've seen the final season, but it's not going to be pretty.

I also watched more Ally. And while I enjoy the first season, Season 2 is an improvment. I'm nearly finished with 2nd Season, and it's just very well done, and a brilliant extension of Season 1. I remember Season 3 as slightly mixed - Season 4 as excellent, and what I saw of Season 5 was crap...which was understandable as so much they depended on for the series was yanked out from under them before Season 5 began. I'll see if I feel any differently about it this time, because this was great series for 4 seasons, and deserved better for it's final season. Will & Grace was also just so so.

BSG Season 4.5 begins 2 weeks from tonight.

I slept from about 8pm to 4am. Very nice. Nice dreams. Good rest. Comfortable. Wish it was always that easy.

   posted by Bald Jason at 05:58 AM
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