We Others: New and Selected Stories

#author.Steven Millhauser

bought thru Kindle.20140517

FINISHED.current

#note.//

I compared the short story, The Invasion from Outer Space with the bamboo concept presented in Soft Apocalypse.20150717

The short story, The Visit has a memorable quote. When asked why he hadn't contacted our protagonist in nine years, the answer was that he didn't have anything to show our protagonist until now -- a delapidated house out in nowhere, living with a frog wife.

Doctor Who

#notes.//
Binged in 2014 and watched Series 1-7.
So good!
20150314.rewatching some of Series 6, and can't remember outcome! How fun! I can keep watching it again and again without knowing the ending!

The Warrior's Way

#note.//
Another visually stylized assassin story. It has a nice look. Good job on typical story.
A derivative of Lone Wolf and Club (stream)?

Watched on the big TV at Ta Ree's.

#actor.//
Kate Bosworth as Lynne.hot red-head!

The Hobbit

#action.//
Watched the last one with Nick D and Le.
Did I watch all three movies at the movie theater?!

Outlier - The Story of Success

#author.Malcolm Gladwell

#PUBLISHED.20081118

#note.//
20141210.
The Koreans again!

The NPR story makes a connection to this book. Hierarchical traditions like Korea's, can be deadly when apply to aviation. Luckily, it just cause some minor inconvenience here.

>push.news.NPR.//
Nut Rumpus Prompts Korean Airline Exec To Apologize And Resign


#link.//10,000-Hour Rule.examples
U2 - The Definative Biography.book

Grimm's Fairy Tales

#note.//

20141205.//
We.me form memories because of associative thinking. The trigger in this case is the Grimm's Fairy Tales. I.we've seen it pop up on the streams in close spacing, and it therefore triggers this post.

A new translation.push.TheGuardian shows the tales as the equivalent of today's horror stories.
- American Horror Stories.self?

Today I was caffeine.storming and wondering how to make a collaborative writing platforms that works for us.me. I found this kickstarter Project of artist wanting to visually recontextualizing this ole fairy tales.

This association turned inwards and connected to me.ego at my poem reinterpretation of a Grimm's tale. It was a poem.push.HelloPoetry.self I wrote. It retells the THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS tale. The statue in downtown Bremen, Am Markt, has the four animals in this story. I didn't get a chance to visit Bremen.//

20141206.//
Just noticed that the fantastic interview with Maurice Sendak was called Grim Colberty Tales with Maurice Sendak.
part 1. & part 2.//

American Horror Story

#note.//

20141205.I've only seen the first two seasons. It was a Jaimie stream spillover.

Bones

#note.//
We started watching in Germany in German! Then we watched pirated streams in English. Then we went our separate ways, and now it's 2014 and I'm rewatching alone from the beginning!

s1:e6 - We are all so predictable. Angela predicts Booth & his girlfriend's relationship progression: Keys to each others place, weekend away, then long vacation before eventually moving in together, marriage and finally divorce.

Angela: Oh... you two are so ready for the pre-shacking up test vacation.

Booth: (mumbles) whadomean.

Angela: You have keys to each others places. You've done the weekend away a couple of times.

Yeah. It's time for the 10 day vacation.

You know, Jamaica is like a dry run for living together only with rum punch and steel drums.

Booth didn't get stage six, living together.
I made it to living together, yeah!

20141206:
I'm on s2, and realize that Cammie shows up in first episode.
The Gravedigger starts. They bring in her father. They use same themes for the TV series Chuck.

Lots of missing father and mother. Role reversal for gender.
Bones analytical, career oriented; Sealy is family-oriented, wants commitment.

>juxtapose.association=Chuck.TV.//Sarah is skilled agent, fighting; Chuck is touch and feel.

20141209:
I'm on S3. I see that they are bringing in a rotation player, extra helper since Zack leaves for Iraq. Bones is retreating back into lab. Marriage theme starts. Cannibal starts.

20151017:
s10 available online on netflix. I began watching sometime last week. Rewatched s9 first to remind myself of some of the dynamic in relationship. New characters! And sweet parting.

20151028
FINISHED.s10
They had to reintroduce some tense in the Bones/Booth relationship. Gambling habit will do that! The season finale felt like the ending of the series, but I read on TV Guide that they go renewed. There was some behind the scene dealings.

Oblivion

#note.//
I guess the plot within the first 5 minutes of the movie.

Recurring theme.narrative of a single Hero saving all of humanity, but it is not along the messiah narrative.

#actor.//
Tom Cruise

Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin)

#note.//
anime
season1.2013.FINISHED.not sure if there are any more seasons?!

Giants hunt remaining humanity.

SPOILER:
Humans can become Giants.

The Monkey King.2014

#note.watched on the way too AP's wedding

The Office

#note.
I was hooked by Jaimie when I return from Italy into watching it.


#actor.//
Steve Carell as Michael Scott, an ass regional office manager with possibly a soft heart.
Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton, hippy-ish oddball. He's been in a religious cult!

"You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader".

Aibou: The Movie III

#note.//
Watched on the plane ride back from AP's wedding.
It is the third movie that comes from a popular Japanese TV show.
It uses the classic sherlock-watson tool to drive the crime.mystery plot.
It tries to touch on bigger, political debate in Japan.

>query.should I binge on the TV series. Can I even get it on Netflix streaming.no

Transcendence

#note.//
Watched on the plane ride back from AP's wedding

Amazing Spiderman 2 - The Rise of Electro.2014

#note.//
Watched on the plane ride back for AP's wedding.

Maleficent

#note.//
Watched on plane ride back froom AP's wedding.
Average retelling.
If I were Maleficent, a powerful, magical being who was stripped of my ability to fly by a lover, I would have destroyed the entire kingdom in one huge massacre.

Knights of Sidonia

#creator.Tsutomu Nihei

#FINISHED.season1.20140909

#note.//

Usual storyline.monsters spawn in deep space come to destroy last vessel of humanity.

Where do the monsters get all their energy?

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

#author.Richard A. Clarke
#FINISHED.20140715

#note.//
Richard has moved on to cybersecurity.
Bill Clinton likes this book. No wonder, it shows in a very favorable light.

The Naked Sun

#author.Isaac Asimov
#FINISHED.201407

#note.//
Another murder mystery.
Isaac is already thinking about how technology can accentuate our inherent phobias and allow them to create entire society.cultures around these phobias. Here is such a world, Solaris.

Caves of Steel

#author.Isaac Asimov
#FINISHED.20140715

#note.classic Asimov looking from the 50's into the near-future of distant worlds colonized through hyperdrive; about 3000 years into the future. We live in domed cities of steel.