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beccaelizabethYesterday I turned a large pile of paper into a half a page of notes that I probably don't need. Progress!
Then I played Virtual Villagers 4, because I played 3 the day before and it wants me to pay more before I can have another go, and I didn't know if I liked it that much. Their rental system makes a lot of sense that way, but, subscription, blah. So I played, and played, and played. I concluded that I like the little puzzle solving bits, but the daily life stuff, especially the way you have to make them research and research and research and research some more before you can do ANYthing, that gets boring as hell. Also I had to resort to the walkthrough because I like to think I'm okay at puzzles, but I did all the puzzles I could find and hadn't done all the puzzles. It's easier to solve stuff if you know there's something that actually needs to be solved. That was annoying. So, probably don't need that series of games.
While playing, I watched a lot of TV off my recorder box.
The xmas lectures were all about brains, and I discovered only the first one had anything in that was new to me, and then it was new in the sense that I hadn't seen it done, not that I didn't know it could be done. Oh, and there was a thing where he said you can't see your own eyes move in a mirror. I'm not sure about that. Mine seem to wiggle. But mostly the idea that you go blind while moving your eyes around so you don't get the swoopy smeary camera effect is new to me and interesting. But out of three lectures that was the only new to me bit. Which I guess shows I know some about this area, but mostly I wanted to know new. Except, if the world is already understood, new doesn't happen. Also, he mentioned autism in the construct 'children with autism'. Now maybe he meant that even auties grow out of the particular thing he was talking on, but I kind of get annoyed how so much of the public discourse is about children with autism. I mean, we don't stop being autistic spectrum, we just get older. And even less cute. But he was talking to an audience of young people so he was probably only trying to connect anyway. Also, I just spent half a paragraph on two words. :eyeroll: I liked lots of the demonstrations, and the real brain and the solemnity he approached it with, and the squishy heavy model brain, and the machine that made the guy lose control of his arm though really who volunteers for that experiment repeatedly??? Also there was tiny cute baby to stare at things. Pretty good lectures. I watched on fast forward and deleted when I was done though. Guess if I want to learn new things about brains I need texts for grown ups.
The Ladykillers wasn't as funny as I remember. Guess I wasn't in the mood. That or the having it memorised kind of blunts it. The Lavender Hill Mob had one fun idea and then had a long film after it. I got bored.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers was fun. I recorded it so I could get a fair copy, since the other one I watched got the ending cut off. I forgot that was why I recorded it and deleted it off the box. :eyeroll: But, interestingly, I actually liked it better when the ending was snipped earlier. When I watched it, he got to the middle of the road in the traffic and was running around screaming warnings and we already knew they'd arrested him and called a pshrink on him. The End. That was awesome. With the whole ending on it all goes back in the box. Very reassuring, very old movie. I liked better the cut short version that implied the pod people wouldn't be opposed. As the idea was that people just sort of forgot to care, and you could tie it to anxieties about work and divorce and changing roles, that was great. And why the movie remains a classic. There's lots of political readings too of course, the idea your neighbours are conspiring just stays popular, but I like the capitalism kills caring read. And then the pshrinks are there to explain why we shouldn't get so worked up about it anyway. Psych as method of control, but all in a very jolly friendly we take care of you really small town way.
Creepiest line in the movie is when they're going to pod the baby and then there'll be no more tears.
Cause it sounds so reasonable and so wrong wrong wrong.
Classic.
I watched Vertigo. That was kind of awesome. Lots of interest in the camera stuff, long stretches with no speaking that still worked. The version I recorded off the TV had the sign language guy in the corner but neither sign language nor subtitles interfered with the visuals that I recall, which is interesting. Often on TV the subs will end up blocking half someone's face in the really emotional moments because it goes in so close there's nowhere to put the words. Didn't happen that I can think of on this film. The plot is great, and though I'm sure I've read it vaguely in college stuff I didn't know it to know what was coming exactly. And I like it that it's a film with a creepy stalkery guy where the film knows he's creepy. He's all shaking to pieces. It's great.
Unfortunately I did not watch all of Vertigo. Because the bloody recorder box snipped the end off.
(Nobody tell me the end. I know the internet could tell me the end. I want to see the end.)
College is bound to have it though so I can watch the end next time I go in.
I kind of love that I can do all this movie watching and call it homework for diss prepnext year this semester. I mean, I'm not going to write about any of them, but now I know that! My subject: got to love it. ;-)
I do not so much love how many hours I ended up being awake in a row. It wasn't 24 this time so that's an improvement.
Then I sleeped between about 1600 and nearly midnight, which is also an improvement because that way up I can manage lessons, but a bit unhelpful because that way up I miss all the social. Maybe I can do meditating or something in daytimes next week.
Anyway. Today I do another couple hours of essay, then think of what else to watch.
Probably Alphas, since the recorder box was getting huge great chunks of it yesterday and today, including when it would have been recording Sherlock except I bumped that to a different slot. I think the announcer voice said the many many episodes were like most of season 1 of Alphas, so now I just have to put whatever the box has recorded in order and I can watch a new show.
Then I played Virtual Villagers 4, because I played 3 the day before and it wants me to pay more before I can have another go, and I didn't know if I liked it that much. Their rental system makes a lot of sense that way, but, subscription, blah. So I played, and played, and played. I concluded that I like the little puzzle solving bits, but the daily life stuff, especially the way you have to make them research and research and research and research some more before you can do ANYthing, that gets boring as hell. Also I had to resort to the walkthrough because I like to think I'm okay at puzzles, but I did all the puzzles I could find and hadn't done all the puzzles. It's easier to solve stuff if you know there's something that actually needs to be solved. That was annoying. So, probably don't need that series of games.
While playing, I watched a lot of TV off my recorder box.
The xmas lectures were all about brains, and I discovered only the first one had anything in that was new to me, and then it was new in the sense that I hadn't seen it done, not that I didn't know it could be done. Oh, and there was a thing where he said you can't see your own eyes move in a mirror. I'm not sure about that. Mine seem to wiggle. But mostly the idea that you go blind while moving your eyes around so you don't get the swoopy smeary camera effect is new to me and interesting. But out of three lectures that was the only new to me bit. Which I guess shows I know some about this area, but mostly I wanted to know new. Except, if the world is already understood, new doesn't happen. Also, he mentioned autism in the construct 'children with autism'. Now maybe he meant that even auties grow out of the particular thing he was talking on, but I kind of get annoyed how so much of the public discourse is about children with autism. I mean, we don't stop being autistic spectrum, we just get older. And even less cute. But he was talking to an audience of young people so he was probably only trying to connect anyway. Also, I just spent half a paragraph on two words. :eyeroll: I liked lots of the demonstrations, and the real brain and the solemnity he approached it with, and the squishy heavy model brain, and the machine that made the guy lose control of his arm though really who volunteers for that experiment repeatedly??? Also there was tiny cute baby to stare at things. Pretty good lectures. I watched on fast forward and deleted when I was done though. Guess if I want to learn new things about brains I need texts for grown ups.
The Ladykillers wasn't as funny as I remember. Guess I wasn't in the mood. That or the having it memorised kind of blunts it. The Lavender Hill Mob had one fun idea and then had a long film after it. I got bored.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers was fun. I recorded it so I could get a fair copy, since the other one I watched got the ending cut off. I forgot that was why I recorded it and deleted it off the box. :eyeroll: But, interestingly, I actually liked it better when the ending was snipped earlier. When I watched it, he got to the middle of the road in the traffic and was running around screaming warnings and we already knew they'd arrested him and called a pshrink on him. The End. That was awesome. With the whole ending on it all goes back in the box. Very reassuring, very old movie. I liked better the cut short version that implied the pod people wouldn't be opposed. As the idea was that people just sort of forgot to care, and you could tie it to anxieties about work and divorce and changing roles, that was great. And why the movie remains a classic. There's lots of political readings too of course, the idea your neighbours are conspiring just stays popular, but I like the capitalism kills caring read. And then the pshrinks are there to explain why we shouldn't get so worked up about it anyway. Psych as method of control, but all in a very jolly friendly we take care of you really small town way.
Creepiest line in the movie is when they're going to pod the baby and then there'll be no more tears.
Cause it sounds so reasonable and so wrong wrong wrong.
Classic.
I watched Vertigo. That was kind of awesome. Lots of interest in the camera stuff, long stretches with no speaking that still worked. The version I recorded off the TV had the sign language guy in the corner but neither sign language nor subtitles interfered with the visuals that I recall, which is interesting. Often on TV the subs will end up blocking half someone's face in the really emotional moments because it goes in so close there's nowhere to put the words. Didn't happen that I can think of on this film. The plot is great, and though I'm sure I've read it vaguely in college stuff I didn't know it to know what was coming exactly. And I like it that it's a film with a creepy stalkery guy where the film knows he's creepy. He's all shaking to pieces. It's great.
Unfortunately I did not watch all of Vertigo. Because the bloody recorder box snipped the end off.
(Nobody tell me the end. I know the internet could tell me the end. I want to see the end.)
College is bound to have it though so I can watch the end next time I go in.
I kind of love that I can do all this movie watching and call it homework for diss prep
I do not so much love how many hours I ended up being awake in a row. It wasn't 24 this time so that's an improvement.
Then I sleeped between about 1600 and nearly midnight, which is also an improvement because that way up I can manage lessons, but a bit unhelpful because that way up I miss all the social. Maybe I can do meditating or something in daytimes next week.
Anyway. Today I do another couple hours of essay, then think of what else to watch.
Probably Alphas, since the recorder box was getting huge great chunks of it yesterday and today, including when it would have been recording Sherlock except I bumped that to a different slot. I think the announcer voice said the many many episodes were like most of season 1 of Alphas, so now I just have to put whatever the box has recorded in order and I can watch a new show.
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Date: 2012-01-10 08:58 pm (UTC)I guess I'm the kind of person who has to hold back from yelling "'Rosebud' is --" all the time.