Bits n' pieces

[chronicpaint]

• Went to Loomis last night and bought what I actually needed. Found out I may be able to return the tub o' gesso that I bought by mistake. The catch is I have to go in during the day to make my case to a manager. Hmm, may have to use some flex time.
  

• My copy of the Doctor Who series 3 soundtrack came from Amazon.co.uk on Tuesday. Murray Gold is amazing. He writes beautiful, evocative music that really gets inside me. Martha's Theme is lovely, and a really interesting counterpoint to Rose's Theme. There's something more solid, patient about it. Where Rose bitched about being a lunch lady for three days in School Reunion, Martha scrubbed floors for months in Human Nature/Family of Blood in a more racist era. It's kind of the difference between the two characters. Rose was swing in on a rope to save the Doctor, but Martha walked the world for a year to save the world. This new CD is more symphonic, more sweeping. There's not quite the musical variation as on the first CD, but it's lush and evocative, heartfelt. And yes, I am a total Doctor Who Geek.

• Bought Gail Simone's first issue of Wonder Woman yesterday. Nice to see a confident, strong Diana. No "Who am I? Why am I here? angst. She kicks some gorilla @$$ in the opening scene, but then uses her wisdom to bend them to her will without having to kill anyone. There seems to be an interesting twist to her origin coming which I look forward to seeing. And we get the nice return of Etta Candy in an interesting new version of the character. The issue, on the whole is a bit offbeat, but I'm interested to see where Simone goes with it. Apparently she has a big space opera storyline coming up after the first arc which could be interesting too.

• I think the guy that I kind of LIKE has figured out that he's the one, because he's acting differently around me. It's not terribly surprising, as I'm sure I'm nowhere near as subtle as I think I am. I guess now I have to have the "honestly, it's no big deal. I really would rather hang out and be friends than not have anything to do with you."  A crush can be gotten over quickly. I've had lots of practice and the fun we had (or at least, that I had) hanging out with him is more important than anything else. *sigh*  Perhaps there's a monastery nearby with an opening???

• I think the reason I fiddled about with this stupid crush-like thing rather than dealing with it head on is the buried belief that I'm just not attractive. It may sound like I'm fishing for compliments, but I'm really not. In my forebrain, I know that I'm a reasonably good looking, intelligent, funny, all around good catch of a guy. But that belief that I'm still the fat kid no one liked in grade school is buried really deep and I've been working on rooting it out for a long time. It's a constant back and forth, two steps forward, three steps back kind of thing. And it turns into a self fulfilling prophecy kind of thing. I don't believe I'm a catch, so I act in an offputting way, which just confirms that subterranean core belief.  *sigh*  No, really, anyone know a good monastery around here?? 
  

• It's almost Friday  :) 

Comments

[dendren.livejournal.com]

I'm so looking forward to checking out Gail Simone on Wonder Woman. It's been a while since WW has been in good hands and I've yet to read anything I don't like by Simone.

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

I loved her work on Birds of Prey. I think this run has a ton of potential, as the character has been somewhat mishandled in this most recent incarnation. The Allan Heinberg arc was good, but so badly scheduled that it screwed the momentum. Amazons Attack was an atrocity and Jodi Picoult made WW into a whiny, useless idiot. I'm looking forward to seeing Simone put her back on track.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

I actually really enjoyed the Heinberg arc, but the way it was cut off and not resolved for almost a year pissed me off terribly. DC is doing that so much lately, delays are one thing but all of a sudden they are just stopping a story in the middle and saying they finish it "in next years annual" or something.

I didn't care much for the Piccoult arc along with the attack stuff. I do have to admit I'm loving having Diana Prince back tho, depending on how she's handled long term.

I don't know if you caught 5 of a Kind/Outsiders with WW and Grace... I actually liked that quite a bit. WW was playful and strong and tying Grace to the Bana/Amazons was prolly the only decent thing to come out of Amazons Attack.

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda liking this new incarnation of Diana Prince too. Reminds me of the later episodes of the TV show, where Diana was a superspy for the IADC. Or back in the 70's when the comic book Diana worked for the UN. She's still smart and capable in civilian guise, rather than simpering over Steve Trevor. ;)

Or she is when Picoult isn't writing her ;)

I missed the Outsiders thing. My comics are minimal these days. Been reading too many feminist comic lover blogs that make me mad about the industry ;)

[square-baker.livejournal.com]

You're the first person that I've seen write about Doctor Who music. :)

Did you ever buy the Radiophonic CDs with the early stuff? I love Delia Derbyshire.

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard the older stuff. I kind of came to DW from the new series. Only ever saw bits and pieces of the original series from when YTV ran it here in the early 90's.

I love Murray Gold's work though.

[square-baker.livejournal.com]

The music in Utopia topped that of Army of Ghosts.

I added you, btw

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I find the series 3 stuff more symphonic, more melancholy if that's the right word. It's kind of a sad, more dark series than the first two in some ways. The short time of not being the last, then returning to that solitude. Martha coming into his life, and then going again.

I added you back :)

[square-baker.livejournal.com]

I wish that Martha had been developed more as a character. I'm a bit over all the fawning over Rose, or making the whole series as romantic relationship fodder.

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

See, as much as I loved Rose, I loved Martha too. Though the Doctor crush was a but wearing, she never let it get in the way of doing what needed to be done. My theory is that they only ever intended for her to be the "rebound girl" and leave at the end. I think the Torchwood gig and the 5 ep return was them scrambling to bring her back when she proved so popular