We can't make the address public so no one will ever know where we are for the next few months. The temporary space is a real "cave" worst than the old one. There are no windows so we'll never really know if it's day or night and it sure won't be as fun as Las Vegas. The shop is in the same space as all the desk, which means that we'll hear all the machines running all day long, freaking loud. And then there is the nauseous smell from all the chemicals we use for the models. [healthy living I say!]
We are moving away from the ocean. Of course, we still don't plan on having any kind of AC or heater or anything to regulate the temperature so I predict we'll be dying of heatstroke in the next couple of months and then we'll switch to wearing gloves in the winter. We have gone through that before, I remember it clearly.
Last weekend I actually had some time to go outside and "chill." Which I did. I ended up with a sunburn on my left foot, one on the right wrist, one on the left wrist, one on the nose, one on the forehead, one on the neck. When I work so much, I never leave the old "cave" and so I pay for it later ... Yeah.
I am bored. I think that sums up the state of life right now. I think that's what caused me to stop talking about the usual stories that come out of my everyday observation. The old lady with a dead dog on her shoulders, the dude who gets dumped by his girlfriend in the middle of the street. The car right in front of me that contains at least two idiots who have no idea of the size of their vehicle and thus scratch a couple of parked cars, side mirrors flying all over the place.
I guess I could talk about coming home and trying to open the apartment door with my car alarm or showing up at work on sunday when I thought it was monday ...
Anyway, I am hoping I will be able to recount those funny, funny, moments as soon as I get my groove back on.
The Scifi stuff, you know, watching it or reading it or writing it, is by far the most exciting thing in the world to me right now. Forget the insanely complex facade designs, forget about the crazy "space pods" [with cool lights inside]... No, forget about all of that. Boooooring.
I was asked to comment further on a couple of SyFy shows that I mentioned before and so here is the latest thought on what I've seen lately.
Haven
Ok, it's a cute and very SyFy type show, no question about it. BUT and it's a big one, I have to say that I have noticed a slightly disturbing trend in the few episodes we have seen so far and I would be remiss if I didn't point it out right now.
Pilot: Welcome to Haven -
A woman is affecting the weather when she is upset. Cure: Calm her down and isolate her.
Butterfly -
A young kid is traumatized by the loss of his parents and fears loosing those he loves. He unwitignly harms other people who may be threatening him in any way. Cure: Calm this one down too and go away, far away.
Harmony -
Some guy is distressed over his wife's illness and when he plays music she gets better. The problem is that regular people start getting sick [crazy is probably more accurate]. Cure: Put him on a boat with sick wife and other sick people and send them far, far away.
Consumed -
A guy gets angry easily and then we discover that if he happens to eat while angry, the same food consumed by others goes bad instantly [pretty nice special effects and animation in this episode] Cure: Calm him down and stop him from eating food while in a foul mood.
Ball and Chains -
A woman wants a baby so bad she inadvertently releases another one of her persona [apparently that condition is a family thing] who has sex with men [easy] who die of old age the next day as she gives birth to a child [24hr gestation]. Cure: Calm her down and chain her to the lighthouse, away, far away from people [men in particular]
Call me crazy, but it seems that all the scripts written for this series are very, very similar. I know everything as a "formula", but this one is sooooo obvious you'd think there was only one writer with limited imagination on staff. Too bad.
Memphis Beat
I discovered this little gem a couple of weeks ago. Checked out all the episodes online and I really, really liked it. I hear a lot of people are snubbing it because they are looking for an authentic Memphis experience and when the found out that the show is actually shot in New Orleans, well, it cause quite a ruckus. I personally don't really understand what the difference is. I know very little about that culture and since I lived in Europe most of my life, Elvis was not really part of my experience. No one in my family has ever mentioned or played "the music of the south." I can't even talk about it in an intelligent way.
However, I like the tone and the sounds of this show. The set up is a little bit out of the ordinary and I already see how this could become a great cop drama. Hope thei get picked up for another season. There is a background story that has been lingering in the dark for a while, sneaking it's ugly head during the last episode. I saw it coming a mile away, but it was done so well, I didn't mind the fact that I had anticipated it.
Dwight Hendrix [Jason Lee] is a cop, with a heart, an ex-wife he's still in love with and he's such a mama's boy, it's totally endearing. On saturday night, at the bar around the corner he sings whatever that music is they do in Memphis and i love it.
They have the little cop guy who's been on a bunch of other shows, DJ Qualls or something. He has such a great "physique," it's just hilarious. And then there is the cop played by the guy who used to be Jerry on ER. Well, he's still hanging around a desk a lot and taking phone calls all day long, but now he's a cop, he has long braided hair [a la native American] and he gets beat up by his wife on a regular basis. The chief of police is this feisty woman who handles the whole crew with an iron first, and a great sense of style, I've seen her somewhere else, but I can't remember where and I am obviously too lazy to look it up.
Click here to visit the MB site.
Persons Unknown
What the hell is this thing? I stumbled over it completely by accident and I immediately thought I should watch at least one episode, just to see. Well, starting with episode six or whatever was a complete waste of time because I couldn't figure ANYTHING out. so I decided to go to On demand and try to pick an earlier episode. Unfortunately they didn't have the pilot so I started somewhere I don't know where and after watching 4 or 5 episodes I ended up somewhere I don't know where. Ha!
Following some internet research I basically find out that this show was filmed over a year ago and that it was shopped around for a while before NBC purchased it. Once again, sometimes I don't even know why these networks bother. For one, they don't advertise the thing. Two, they bury it outside their regular seasons so it's even harder to find. Three, they play in on Fridays, the day of the week notoriously known in primetime as the place where they stick the shows they [networks] don't know what to do with.
Now the absolutely saving grace of this show is that it's only 13 episodes, and so the persons Unknown and the mysterious plots should all be finely explained and resolved at the end of the run. which should make this sligthly less painful. Finally, we're getting somewhere.
