Things have been chaotic here: day job, writing job, regular life and a family member in and out of the hospital (let’s all promise not to get old, yeah?), so I’ve been finding my entertainment where I can.
I’ve been listening a lot to Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go. I like the way she’s cribbing from older songs and making new things out of them. She’s definitely a singer with a personality that’s larger than life. I am officially a wuss though: I find the videos to her songs deeply disturbing.
Oh well, it’s the music that counts!
I’m particularly fond of “you should see me in a crown”, which resonates really well with my character Silene.
Note: should you go check Billie Eilish out on youtube, be aware all of her videos are triggery in one way or another: strobing lights and scary doctors, spiders crawling on people, and so forth.
I watched season 4 of Legends of Tomorrow. This season didn’t quite rise to Beebo heights, but was often fun. Which is all I want from Legends. I was concerned at first, because as much as I enjoy Matt Ryan’s Constantine, the idea of sidelining Nate upset me. I love Nate! I like that he’s a good guy with a good heart who wants to be friendly and isn’t chock full of toxic alpha maleness. I love his friendship with Ray. And splitting them up so Constantine could be snarky and all damaged… been there, seen that. A lot.
I wasn’t sure if it would work. In the end, though most of the season was actually about Nate. I didn’t love that we lost Zari, but that’s the plus of having a lot of women in important roles: I don’t get all bristly about the fact that one vanishes.
Things I’ve been failing hard at: cooking and baking! Oh my god, I tried to make cookies and first I forgot where I was when counting out cups of sugar, then I forgot the baking soda completely. (The cookies came out all right, but I didn’t enjoy them much, knowing I’d made them ‘wrong’: Butterscotch oatmeal for those of you who want to imagine my failure.)
And cooking–apparently you can screw up spaghetti with meat sauce. It wasn’t even an interesting failure. Once upon a time, while deep in writer brain, I absent-mindedly threw a whole slug of dried oregano into my spaghetti sauce, only to realize after I’d stirred it in that the herb was actually catnip. Still edible, even if weirdly floral. But this spaghetti was both bland and over salty. Fail!
Cooking and baking is always a good barometer of my brain power. When I start screwing the basics up, it’s time to stop, relax, and really focus on what is going on in the moment. Never my strong suit. So it’s kind of nice to have that harmless reminder of too-salty spaghetti and fail cookies.
Next week, I hope to get caught up on my podcasts, and maybe start Lucifer season 4.
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