Happy Friday! We are up to a balmy 3F/-16C this morning. S_____'s school is cancelled for the fourth time this week anyway, as the weather has been so rough they couldn't get the buses to start. This would have been a huge, nerve-racking hassle if I wasn't home. So good thing I'm unemployed, I guess.
We've been watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. First season, second episode. I'm enjoying it so far: the two episodes I've seen were well written and well paced. One thing that I thought was smart: Amy Sherman-Palladino likes to make dubious fat jokes and other japes related to how people look, plus she has a thing for stereotypes. In a contemporary TV show, that probably would no longer fly. But The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is set in the late 50s, those kinds of jokes are part of the mentality of those times. In my opinion, a fat bashing joke coming out of the mouth of a rich jewish housewife living in the late 50s is less cringe inducing than one made by someone living now, know what I mean?
Yep. It makes sense for her character. She is also a victim of the same superficiality of the time, as demonstrated by her early-morning make-up routine.
Glad you're watching it. We watched both seasons. We loved it.
And yes, Ferris Bueller connects better with youngings than any of the other John Hughes movie. A couple years back, our dudes and a gaggle of neighborhood kids had a watching party.
Ack. Our furnace crapped out. Super grateful it made it through the worst of the polar vortex. And it's not totally dead. We're hanging on to about 61-63F in here. But I do already have someone coming by.
I’ve been trying to get the open chord and grid major scales down. I really like having guitartricks.com as my teacher. I haven’t been trying to learn any songs lately, but I gotta believe that studying theory and scales is gonna pay off in the long run.
Repair guy was a world class mensch. Correctly identified issue within an hour. Nothing was broken, we just have a fancy schmancy two stage heater that wasn't wired for the second stage so it was only operating at low speed. Normally we get away with that, but during the polar vortex... not so much. He fixed that, cleaned everything and now our heater is awesome. Better than ever, actually.
I’ve been trying to get the open chord and grid major scales down. I really like having guitartricks.com as my teacher. I haven’t been trying to learn any songs lately, but I gotta believe that studying theory and scales is gonna pay off in the long run.
It does. But don't just practice scales and study theory, or you're gonna get bored soon. Do both, songs and theory. And try to use the theory you've learned to figure out what's going on in the songs, like in "oh, that's a minor pentatonic solo!", stuff like that.
I haven’t learned that yet. It’s actually not boring. The site provides backing tracks and exercises so that I’m not just going back and forth with scales. I should learn another song, but I don’t know which one. I’d like to learn Coconut Grove by the Lovin’ Spoonful at some point.
Boom. It's official. I work for A Tried & True company. More base, more vacation, better benefits, half off their phone/internet/tv. Nothing left to do but day drink and watch Netflix until I start in March.
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Glad you're watching it. We watched both seasons. We loved it.
His school puts a lot of effort into their annual musical, so I'm actually pretty excited.
I've never seen it before.
It's so freakishly cold still we haven't really planned much of anything.
..until the nxt polar wobble hits.
How the hell is that musical so popular? The words are seriously teenage girl love song lyrics.
In his eyes I see the light.
When I'm near him I have no fright.
...level bullshit.
I mean, there's Hulu and Xanax, too, right?