Media week in review
Dec. 28th, 2019 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserWhat I'm currently reading
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (what a long title!). I've been feeding some crows for a couple months now, so my mother got this book for me for Christmas. Really, really heavy nonfiction. In the first 10% or so, it's been mostly just about the physical structures of their brains. More than an hour of reading just about the physical structures in a crow's brain. I'm not sure who the target audience of this book is.
What I'm currently watching
Live TV! I haven't had cable in a couple years, but Comcast is giving it away through its app/website for a week, so I'm very much enjoying the nonstop stream of crap on mainstream channels.
Unsurprisingly, I've watched less other stuff, since I'm feasting on live TV.
Aftermath: So very bad, but I'm enjoying it for some reason. It's like they took every idea from end of the world movies and every idea from horror movies and just jampacked them into each ep. Nothing makes sense, everything is so cliche, and the characters are so stupid and unlikable. I have no idea how or why I'm enjoying it.
Mandalorian: I haven't mentioned this one yet in previous posts, even though I've been watching it weekly. I'm not even a Star Wars fan, but I'm loving this show so much! There's just one ep left until season 2 in fall of 2020 *sob*. I'm going to rewatch the whole thing at least once before then.
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: I keep thinking I'm going to drop this one. It's sort of like a cross between Black Mirror and Twilight Zone, but the stories have been falling flat for me. That and the British accents are so thick, I wish there were subtitles. I watched three eps of ten so far. Since each ep is a self-contained story, I might keep going I guess...
The Witcher: OH MY GOD this show is so good. I never read the books or played the games, but man I love this show. The acting, the music, the fights! The story! I love ever moment of it. I'm on ep four of eight. The season is way too short... (I'm going to have to read the books for sure.)
The Man in the High Castle: No eps yet this week. Boo.
The First: Same.
What I'm currently playing
No different than any of the previous weeks. Maybe I need a different section here? I play Jurassic World Alive on my phone while I play FFXIV on my computer. I try to avoid playing Candy Crush in bed before I sleep, since that cuts into my reading time.
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (what a long title!). I've been feeding some crows for a couple months now, so my mother got this book for me for Christmas. Really, really heavy nonfiction. In the first 10% or so, it's been mostly just about the physical structures of their brains. More than an hour of reading just about the physical structures in a crow's brain. I'm not sure who the target audience of this book is.
What I'm currently watching
Live TV! I haven't had cable in a couple years, but Comcast is giving it away through its app/website for a week, so I'm very much enjoying the nonstop stream of crap on mainstream channels.
Unsurprisingly, I've watched less other stuff, since I'm feasting on live TV.
Aftermath: So very bad, but I'm enjoying it for some reason. It's like they took every idea from end of the world movies and every idea from horror movies and just jampacked them into each ep. Nothing makes sense, everything is so cliche, and the characters are so stupid and unlikable. I have no idea how or why I'm enjoying it.
Mandalorian: I haven't mentioned this one yet in previous posts, even though I've been watching it weekly. I'm not even a Star Wars fan, but I'm loving this show so much! There's just one ep left until season 2 in fall of 2020 *sob*. I'm going to rewatch the whole thing at least once before then.
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: I keep thinking I'm going to drop this one. It's sort of like a cross between Black Mirror and Twilight Zone, but the stories have been falling flat for me. That and the British accents are so thick, I wish there were subtitles. I watched three eps of ten so far. Since each ep is a self-contained story, I might keep going I guess...
The Witcher: OH MY GOD this show is so good. I never read the books or played the games, but man I love this show. The acting, the music, the fights! The story! I love ever moment of it. I'm on ep four of eight. The season is way too short... (I'm going to have to read the books for sure.)
The Man in the High Castle: No eps yet this week. Boo.
The First: Same.
What I'm currently playing
No different than any of the previous weeks. Maybe I need a different section here? I play Jurassic World Alive on my phone while I play FFXIV on my computer. I try to avoid playing Candy Crush in bed before I sleep, since that cuts into my reading time.
