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Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics). Sometimes I just write whatever I feel like. Other times I respond to prompts, many taken from the following places:  "The Soundtrackers Group"  "Blog Harbor" "Blogging Circle of Friends " "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" "JAFBG" "Take up Your Cross" Thanks for stopping by! 
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| To qualify for my Watch List every month, the following has to be something that I've watched that's new to me. It doesn't necessarily have to be a current show, but it can't be reruns or rewatches of something I've already seen. So if I'm including it in this list, it means this month is the first time I've watched it. I'll put "DNF" (Did Not Finish) next to anything that I stopped watching and have no immediate plans to finish. Movies  The Life List — DNF A Minecraft MovieI didn't love either of the movies that I watched this month. The Life List was a generic romantic dramedy on Netflix, starring Sofia Carson as a young woman who works for her mother's company and, when her mother dies, is forced to go on an adventure of self-discovery. It ultimately felt like a rehash of P.S. I Love You, right down to the person who died giving the person on the journey prepared messages from beyond the grave. Overall, I haven't been terribly impressed with Netflix's original films, especially the ones of this variety where it seems like they're looking to compete with generic Hallmark or Lifetime cable movie fare with their own stable of regular actors. I usually watch movies straight through but we started this one late and I just had no interest in continuing it the next day. A Minecraft Movie was just okay. I'm not a huge fan of Jack Black under normal circumstances, and this kind of reinforced the fact that his schtick just isn't my thing. Jason Momoa was really funny in the role of a past-his-prime former gamer celebrity, but the script didn't do him any favors by making his character incredibly dumb and pretty much a one-note joke. I wish they would have given him a little more to work with, because Jack Black and the other characters were pretty dull and he was the sole bright spot until it became repetitive. Unless you're a huge fan of Minecraft, I don't think there's a lot to this movie for anyone else. Television Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) Bosch: Legacy (Season 3) The Pitt (Season 1) The White Lotus (Season 3)Unlike the disappointing movies this month, the television was all okay-to-pretty-good. Bosch: Legacy is a continuation of the very successful Bosch series on Amazon Prime, based on the bestselling Michael Connelly crime novels featuring the same character. I'm probably biased because I love the books so much, but I really enjoyed this series. The original Bosch was great, and this spinoff focused on his daughter Maddie (who was a teenager thinking of becoming a cop in the original series) finally getting her badge and starting her career in law enforcement while her father Harry transitions to a second career in private investigation. The stories were really interesting, especially the one where Maddie was kidnapped and buried out in the desert so that the killer could use her as a bargaining chip for a lighter sentence for other crimes. The Pitt was something that I first thought was just going to be an ER-spinoff (many of the same creators and it even has Noah Wyle as a doctor), but this one took a different approach where, instead of a case of the week, the entire season covers a single day in the ER (each episode is one hour of the day, told chronologically), on a day where there's a mass shooting at a music festival and the hospital has to become a trauma center. It was a really compelling way to tell a story and apparently they already have plans for another season told the same way (with all episodes covering and hour-by-hour account of a single day), and I'm definitely invested enough to see what they do the next time around. The White Lotus was something I was really looking forward to seeing. The first season set at a "White Lotus" chain in Hawaii was a surprise hit, and the second season featuring a mostly-new cast at an Italian branch of the chain was interesting. The third season was set at a third resort in Thailand, which is a location that I really loved, but none of the characters were interesting to me. Usually each season has a couple of people I'm fascinated by, a couple of people that I think are somewhat interesting, and one or two that are duds. This season there were no fascinating characters, only one or two interesting ones, and a whole lot of duds. If there is a fourth season of the show, I hope Mike White figures out a way to get back to interesting characters and storylines. TOP PICK: Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) |
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