Middle Week

The interview went well, I think. I'm sure I sounded a little dorky (especially when I was making the squelching sounds of an esophagus being burned), but mostly I think I was articulate. It was interesting to put on my analysis/writer/fan hat for a specific subject, to coax open both aspects. It's not that I'm a CSI fan in the way that we define fannishness (no fic reading, no devotion to actors and characters), but I do enjoy it and I have spent A LOT of time thinking about it over the last year due to SMRT-TV. (And Liz, I didn't get a chance to really mention the website!! They promised to plug it though!! I was running late and we just stepped right into talking about the show!!) I'm trained in analysis - literary and textual, so it was fun to get to use those skills in response to someone else's questions. I'm not sure I could have been that analytical (verbally) about a show I was enamoured with. There's something about the distance that helps with sounding reasonable. Although, who knows how it'll come across.

Anyway, the show's called High Definition hosted by Don McKellar and according to the CBC website, it'll air on Saturday morning at 11:30 a.m. (I'm guessing that the segment on CSI will be a short component of the whole thing). I'm hoping they stream it so I can hear myself sound dorky:)

He asked about the violence, unsurprisingly, and whether the interest in this sort of show reflects our post 9/11 sensibilities, asked about character development, and it's all the stuff we talk about here reflected back.

I found many of the responses here to be interesting, actually. For one, I got several responses from people bothered by the franchising of the show (and I won't mention the SG-1/SGA thing or the Buffy/Angel thing. And yes, I know they're genre shows, but it's the same concept folks). I also had one person say they didn't think the writing and acting were very good. I'd beg to differ on that (at least for the original flavor. You can say all the negative things about CSI:Miami you'd like:). I do think the acting and the writing are well done. But it's a different kind of show with a different purpose and sensibility, and I think a big part of it's appeal is the way it allows us to leave it at the door once the hour is up.

Thank you all for responding though!! It was much appreciated and gave me something to bring with me in my brain to keep it thinking about the subject matter.

Post-Pilates

I'm totally doing the Hollywood exercise thing - Pilates, Yoga, Belly Dance, Ballet. I need some cardio in there to lose some weight, but I'd have to get my shit together enough to cancel one gym membership and enroll in another first. For the moment, I'm thinking at least the movement is good for me. I don't run outside. My knees are long-time victims of being a stubborn teenager who didn't want to tell anyone when I was hurt, and pavement kills me.

I bought a box of cutie clementines and we're eating them like a race, trying to devour them before they go bad. They're perfect, small and sweet and cold and tart. Such a nice fruit, but intimidating in the I don't want to waste them and they sit there and scream, "Eat Me."

I was going to talk - as promised about Capote, but I'm still thinking about James Frey and the "fictionalization" of memoir, and the novelization of memoir and how Capote's work is acceptable while I don't personally think Frey's is justifiable. I suppose part of it is that Capote was attempting an entirely new genre of writing, and Frey seems so terrible self-aggrandizing to me that there's an awful evil little part of me that was thrilled to see him caught in his lies and knocked of the pedestal of literary It boy.

( Capote and Non-Fiction and Reciprocity )