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ETA: SMRT-TV is back from hiatus, and features a slightly new format, as well as an interview with Adam Baldwin. Go forth and read!!
Had a lot of quiet time this weekend, which is good but sort of left my feeling like I was living in my own head - noises, sounds, smells so much more hypersaturated than normal when I have no one to translate them to.
I was also having a weekend of input, when so many things I want to take in loom large and I wonder how I can possible take in enough imagery or words or sounds to have output. Books, and movies and music, thoughts and conversations all press on me, wanting space, wanting room and I start to doubt whether I'll ever be able to flip the switch, give out instead of taking in.
Saw The Constant Gardener yesterday, which didn't help the strange isolation, or the input issue. It was a remarkable movie, so very layered and rich, these unexpected glimpses into a relationship, into a situation that looked one way on the surface and was something else entirely, something rich and deep and true.
I also watched two eps of Rome and enjoyed it thoroughly, historically inaccuracies notwithstanding. I love Marc Antony, and Caesar has "presence", he makes a very good Caesar. Some things they're getting very right, and other things not so much, but I love the richness of the detail, love Titus Pullo and the slaves and the gorgeous clothing and the graffiti:) I will have deeper thoughts later, but for right now it's so very shiny, and my HBO access is so very over. Sigh. Also,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vaznetti (who is an expert!) has some great thoughts on the shows portrayal of women, not so much an analysis of the actual portrayal, but how it mirrors the primary sources of the time, and the dichotomy between giving credence to this "gaze" when it's Tacitus, and being vaguely disappointed by it when it's filtered through a 21st century interpretation. She also gives good Classics and discusses perceptions of women, power, and politics in Ancient Rome.
Also watched SG-1 and BSG. ( Barely Spoilers )
Had a lot of quiet time this weekend, which is good but sort of left my feeling like I was living in my own head - noises, sounds, smells so much more hypersaturated than normal when I have no one to translate them to.
I was also having a weekend of input, when so many things I want to take in loom large and I wonder how I can possible take in enough imagery or words or sounds to have output. Books, and movies and music, thoughts and conversations all press on me, wanting space, wanting room and I start to doubt whether I'll ever be able to flip the switch, give out instead of taking in.
Saw The Constant Gardener yesterday, which didn't help the strange isolation, or the input issue. It was a remarkable movie, so very layered and rich, these unexpected glimpses into a relationship, into a situation that looked one way on the surface and was something else entirely, something rich and deep and true.
I also watched two eps of Rome and enjoyed it thoroughly, historically inaccuracies notwithstanding. I love Marc Antony, and Caesar has "presence", he makes a very good Caesar. Some things they're getting very right, and other things not so much, but I love the richness of the detail, love Titus Pullo and the slaves and the gorgeous clothing and the graffiti:) I will have deeper thoughts later, but for right now it's so very shiny, and my HBO access is so very over. Sigh. Also,
vaznetti (who is an expert!) has some great thoughts on the shows portrayal of women, not so much an analysis of the actual portrayal, but how it mirrors the primary sources of the time, and the dichotomy between giving credence to this "gaze" when it's Tacitus, and being vaguely disappointed by it when it's filtered through a 21st century interpretation. She also gives good Classics and discusses perceptions of women, power, and politics in Ancient Rome.Also watched SG-1 and BSG. ( Barely Spoilers )
