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Woke up with some Philip Glass String Quartets, then Beborn Beton, Killing Joke, MIA...
I listened to the latest noisiest things, Wychdoktor, ESA and Synapscape, while crafting.
CraftingI'm starting to make some black jersey shorts, from the "I Love Pants" book, using the cheap but lovely jersey I scored at the cheap shop nearby. I actually only did the pattern tracing. It is so strenuous for my back, doing it on the living room table. Ugh! It's good that I was able to stop myself from cutting the fabric, which is terrible too.
I adapted the Japanese pattern it into a larger size, because my size isn't even in the book. It's a wonder they didn't adapt the patterns into European sizes. Or try to sell it as a childen's book. *sideeye* I'm an XL, come on. Luckily, the pattern wasn't hard to grade at all.
WatchingI've blabbered about Sense8 all over social media last night, so I'll just copy paste what I posted on Facebook last night, more for myself than for anyone else.
Just 2 Sense8 episodes left and I'm still extremely skeptical.
Of course, I'm delighted about the inclusive cast, the representation of a trans woman (played by a trans woman) whose life isn't a terrible story of drugs and prostitution, of gay couples, interracial relationships, the plot line about Kala's arranged marriage is nuanced and interesting and Capheus is a compelling character...
But the characters remain mostly archetypes, their action scenes are more often than not (and certainly deliberately so) trope reenactments. It can be funny (I do enjoy Lito's scenes a lot, except for the abuse on women, which is a personal issue), but mostly it feels like I've seen them a million times before in other movies and TV shows.
I'd be on board for this, if only the dialogues weren't SO heavy-handed. Holy Wachowsky! The more gravitas, the less substance there is. It feels like characters are reading Paulo Coelho to each other. I just can't get into it, it's so over the top and cliché-ridden. I get that it makes sense given what they are, but it feels like no character has its own voice, they all spew the same pseudo-philosophical mishmash.
And the plot, well there isn't one. So far (spoilers, well, if you'd call them that) there's a corporation of geneticists (don't they have a bad rep, these guys, lately) are looking for them. And there's Said and Splash are around, and we don't know if they're the good or the bad guys. That's... novel.
Anyway, 2 episodes to go, but it's super disappointing to get such a great premise and cast (well, the main roles, because the acting of the secondary roles is abysmal), all for this.
Reading
Still faithfully trying to get through The Mechanical. I'm hopefully over the body horror part, which was pretty stomach-churning (props to the writer for finally making me feel something, mind). But mostly I fell asleep listening to Newt. ^_^
