Hi, friends!
I hope your day is going well.
Recently I rediscovered how much I like sudoku puzzles for focusing my brain away from other dumb shit. Cooking is also wonderfully soothing – there’s something almost meditative about the chop chop chop chop of food prep.
I know some folks swear by hot baths, but sometimes I’m too pulled away into other work for that to be feasible.
Do you have activities that let your brain chillax?
i have music…..normally
today i have rebel moon apparently
between some very stylistic violence and a mix match of accents ranging from scottish to south african….and a premise i like….i am pretty entertained
What I Watched: “The House of Gucci” (finally.)
Yes. Yes yes yes. Beautiful settings, beautiful clothes, beautiful people (except for Jared Leto, who they…well, watch it for yourselves if you haven’t already seen it.) It lulled me into a nice mid-afternoon nap today. It’s irritating, though, that they all have this awful “That’s amore” Italian-inflected English. Speak English for the Anglophone audience, or Italian, like the Guccis would have, and subtitle it, but not this weird “Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day” insulting amalgam.
I’m curious how they did it in Ferarri which just opened. Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley and Patrick Dempsey in the cast suggests to me they just went with flat American, but maybe they all tried to do accents.
wow…didnt know this was a thing
anyways….its ferrari….sounding italian dont matter ..just dont make ferrari look bad
you do realize its pretty fucking stupid to expect things to sound italian in english right?
i mean….they have a language
(edit) i tried to make that sound less harsh….but failed….so is what is
My favorite way of doing accents was in The Death of Stalin, where they had Steve Buscemi with his native Brooklyn accent as Kruschev, Michael Palin in his English accent as Molotov, and the rest of the cast doing the same.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed Ferrari does right by the cars as well as the people.
It was brilliant because several of the actual historical persons weren’t native Russian speakers like Stalin and there are regional accents of Russian. I thought Jason Issac’s use of Yorkshire fit his character of Zhukov.
My favorite is for how they often just use generic fancy British accents for “any historical setting movie in Europe” ahahahah.
I saw parts of House of Gucci. Intriguing story, but yes the accents were too much. It was like The Godfather staged by loud (Southern) Italian Stereotypes.
Walks are my way. Today I saw two peregrine falcons at the old water tower. I sort of assumed they migrated south, but there are probably enough pigeons around to keep them fed.
You know what’s the opposite of self soothing? Cleaning my kid’s lice infested hair on Christmas.
I will self soothe with rum balls, sparkling wine, and possibly Rebel Moon after they fall asleep.
Nooooooo I’m so sorry you had to deal with that along with all the other prep work for a holiday.
Memories…sigh. Hang in there.
I remember the whole family coming down with them, and my wife being no good at finding them, so I ended up having to do everyone’s hair.
Completely off-topic, and not festive at all, but does anyone have any experience with post-COVID symptoms? Ever since I contracted it in the hospital (and I was asymptomatic; I was perfectly fine I thought) I didn’t lose my sense of taste or smell. My situation is even worse, in a way. Everything I eat tastes like the plate has been soaked in dishwashing liquid and not washed off, or the fork hasn’t been washed at all. Better Half doesn’t notice this. I made something recently and I threw it away because it tasted like I’d poured in an entire container of Morton’s salt. I suppose there might be something wrong with the dishwasher but nothing’s different from before I went in. Has anyone else ever experienced this? I think we’ve all had COVID by now, haven’t we?
ETA: Santa’s going to be here any minute! The Faithful Hound was tap-dancing in anticipation. He is snuggled up against Better Half in my spot in the bed, on my comforter, but that’s fine, I’ll squeeze in at some point. He’s been a very good boy this year and deserves lots of presents.
One of my friend’s husbands had a similar thing happen. It took a few weeks and it took really strong flavored food to kind of shock his taste buds into a reset. Like a big glop of wasabi tasted normal. And then other foods started tasting closer and closer to normal.
Oh no that sucks! For science you should try Brighter’s friend’s trick. Maybe start with something like lemon juice and work your way up to horseradish or wasabi.
Just in case anyone sees this: is there to be no Christmas Day DOT? I would do one but I can’t create content anymore, I can only comment. Which is probably bad enough.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!