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Feb. 8th, 2011 09:06 pm# It's those post-Christmas kill me now, now, now! days. Yesterday was especially bad, warm, cloudless blue sky, the sun shining outside, while I was cooped up in the store, feeling trapped and hating very single minute of it. It's even worse when business is slow and all you do is think about how you really need to find another job, except that you don't even know what kind of job because it's not as if you're exactly qualified for anything, and you already panic at the thought of the whole interview process.
# In TW rewatching news, watched Combat yesterday, and it's really kind of fascinating. Owen's pain bleeds all over the episode. Gwen does her fair share of bleeding, too. And then you have Jack, for whom OOT was at least as devastating as it was for Owen, and Ianto, who lost a girlfriend he loved under far more traumatising circumstances, and they're having a moment of empathy over the Weevil's possible capacity to feel pain. No wonder it took them until CoE to actually start talking about the things that matter.
# Watched the first episode of Outcasts, because I can't only ever post about TW all the time and need at least a Zweitserie, so to speak (although that reminds me that I still have left-over notes from the last three Merlin episodes buried somewhere back in skip=100something...), but I can't really say much about it except that I was sufficiently intrigued to watch the next episode.
# I had a nostalgic moment recently browsing through YouTube and looking up all the stuff I listened to ten years ago, and how embarrassing is it that I apparently still have a bit of a of a soft spot for Marilyn Manson from the ACS and MA era? I'm seriously too old for that. But there's a kind of mixture between earnestness and theatrical pathos to the earlier stuff that still has a certain power and is oddly appealing. ACS especially holds up quite well.
On a more serious note, Tool. I never really was a fan of them as such; they're a bit too pretentious for my taste and personally I find this whole image they cultivate rather off-putting, but these are maybe my favourite nine and a half minutes of music:
Tool, Lateralus
( lyrics under the cut )
# In TW rewatching news, watched Combat yesterday, and it's really kind of fascinating. Owen's pain bleeds all over the episode. Gwen does her fair share of bleeding, too. And then you have Jack, for whom OOT was at least as devastating as it was for Owen, and Ianto, who lost a girlfriend he loved under far more traumatising circumstances, and they're having a moment of empathy over the Weevil's possible capacity to feel pain. No wonder it took them until CoE to actually start talking about the things that matter.
# Watched the first episode of Outcasts, because I can't only ever post about TW all the time and need at least a Zweitserie, so to speak (although that reminds me that I still have left-over notes from the last three Merlin episodes buried somewhere back in skip=100something...), but I can't really say much about it except that I was sufficiently intrigued to watch the next episode.
# I had a nostalgic moment recently browsing through YouTube and looking up all the stuff I listened to ten years ago, and how embarrassing is it that I apparently still have a bit of a of a soft spot for Marilyn Manson from the ACS and MA era? I'm seriously too old for that. But there's a kind of mixture between earnestness and theatrical pathos to the earlier stuff that still has a certain power and is oddly appealing. ACS especially holds up quite well.
On a more serious note, Tool. I never really was a fan of them as such; they're a bit too pretentious for my taste and personally I find this whole image they cultivate rather off-putting, but these are maybe my favourite nine and a half minutes of music:
Tool, Lateralus
( lyrics under the cut )
