What is the opposite of having a case of the Mondays

[bironic]

I'm not dead, I've just had a persistent case of the blahs lately. Trying not to post when in a poor mood does make for a quiet little LJ sometimes.

I could point to reasons for the general lack of energy and enthusiasm—not sharing any fandoms right now for the most part, not being active enough, donating blood, needing a vacation, getting a freelance job that means more work this month, finishing Battlestar Galactica (more on that later), being pathetic when it comes to relationships, reading a Slate article and finding out a high school classmate just made a splash in the YA feminist novel world while I am still dithering around—but there are equally as many reasons to feel good, like my sister having been in town for a day, enjoyable hangouts with friends, con_txt and a performance of Riverdance coming up this weekend, nice weather, the chance to go swimming when it's not storming, and the flip side of the freelance job, which is that I will get some spending money. *shrug* This, too, shall pass. Today seems better.

Game of Thrones season two came and went while I was BSG-ing; definitely want to catch up on that. But then True Blood started last night, and I missed the last few episodes of The Vampire Diaries, so I will have to figure out when to watch what.

Movie-wise, life feels like this lately:

fandom: Avengers! Avengers Avengers Avengers! Steve Clint Tony Bruce Natasha Phil Thor Loki Joss yay!
bironic: …Prometheus?
fandom: AVENGERS!

Reviews for Prometheus have been mixed, so my expectations aren't high, but my ♥ will always belong to science fiction before superheroes, so. Maybe I can go see it before Friday when the con starts. Mostly at this point I'm struck by how much Noomi Rapace (also ♥) in the promo photo looks like Angela from Odyssey 5.






Hope you're all doing well.

Comments

[alizarin-nyc.livejournal.com]

It goes without saying that the blahs suck, but I will say it anyway, they suck. Sorry you're feeling down. con_txt will surely cheer you up. You will see linaerys!

fandom: Avengers! Avengers Avengers Avengers! Steve Clint Tony Bruce Natasha Phil Thor Loki Joss yay!
bironic: …Prometheus?
fandom: AVENGERS!

Ha ha EXACTLY. I am loving Avengers enthusiasm but also all about Prometheus, as yes, FIRST SCI FI LOVE. I was never a comics geek. I hope to see it tomorrow in 3 fucking D.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hope you managed to see it and that it was good in the 3D. Not sure in what format I will be seeing it yet.

I am indeed very much looking forward to seeing Lin! Sorry not to be seeing more of you all, but I suppose that's what Thanksgiving is for.

[ravenna-c-tan.livejournal.com]

Yes, hopefully con.txt will fix you right up! :-) (I'm dropping you a note about it in PM, in faact...)

[mific.livejournal.com]

Have to admit that I haven't actually seen the Avengers movie yet... *hides* - and I find the Marvel fandoms hard to get into.
So yeah, all the fandom: AVENGERS! is a little wearying.
Riverdance, um. I can't help but think of this cartoon (http://pics.livejournal.com/mific/pic/001ag202). Might cheer you up, anyway! :)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ha! Love it. Thanks for the link.

Nothing wrong with not having seen The Avengers - I'm sure not going to judge - or with loving it, either. Just, when fandom seems enthusiastically/intensely monofannish about whatever for a given period of time - a couple years back it was Inception, but at least I got into that after a while - it can be a bit boring and dispiriting when what people are producing doesn't excite you, even if you normally like their stuff.

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for various reasons I'm not an AVENGERS! person either, although I do read the fic and I liked the movie a lot, and it can be a little tiring.

I'm sorry about your case of blahs. :( *hugs* I hope con.txt cheers you up!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks. Yesterday and today have been fine, even though (TMI) this week is the week that I'm supposed to get PMSy if it's going to happen at all, so I'm optimistic that whatever it was has passed. Which is more than welcome.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha this is my fandom life now, too! Except modified to:

fandom: Avengers! Avengers Avengers Avengers! Steve Clint Tony Bruce Natasha Phil Thor Loki Joss yay!
topaz: ...
fandom: AVENGERS!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I just snorted out loud in the middle of this big serious meeting, oops. Hilarious - fandom shouting back even when you're not exactly arguing.

Hope you find your way back into enthusiasm for something that is shared with others... or at least don't mind the intervening time.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

Ooops. :-D

The intervening time's been ongoing for a couple years now, so it's nothing new. I mean, I am enjoying the shows I'm currently watching/re-watching, but there's no fandom-y spark. That's okay though. I live in hope. And there's always cross-stitch.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Fractal patterns FTW, as far as I'm concerned. :) Also, seemed to me you were doing okay with posting the occasional Ten fics and stuff, and there was the end-of-House essay, so even if it's a low level of fannish engagement, I know you're still out there, like keeping the engine warm until the next show or whatnot catches your participatory fancy. :)

[thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com]

Hey, I plan to see Prometheus. In fact, I would have seen it opening night except it was showing at midnight and Hunger Games was showing at 9pm, so I went with the fannish movie choice that wouldn't keep me up late. You're not the only one with the posting malaise; in the past two months I've seen Hunger Games and Avengers and Cabin in the Woods and haven't posted about any of them, despite liking them all. Oh, and I also watched Stargate (1994) -- oh noes fake O'Neill! -- and DS9, which is partially your fault. I'm part way through the third season right now and loving all the characters.

I hope Riverdance, Prometheus, and the weather perk you up. *says nothing about swimming in case she jinxes that again*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

DS9! I will totally take any blame for that that you wish to assign. Have you seen that someone over at the AV Club is posting his thoughts while watching the show for the first time? I was like 11 when the show started so I've found the posts fascinating (and fun) for the themes and character traits he picks up on as well as the observations he makes about how the show excels/surpasses others of its time or even currently in some arenas.

I did get a chance to swim Sunday evening when it was 90-something degrees out, which was great. Thought The Hunger Games was also an interesting study in book-to-film adaptation, especially in the use of visuals to convey long or complex concepts from the text. Sometimes more successfully than other times. Thought the beginning was too fast and clunky, although I understand why those economical choices were made.

Like you say, though - sometimes it just feels like too much effort to do a proper post about these things.

[thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen those AV Club posts; thanks for the pointer! I'm reading them now, and they are indeed interesting. Browsing around his reviews, I find myself agreeing with a lot of what he has to say about DS9, but his reviews of TNG and TOS make me feel like I was watching different shows than he was. I've had this disagreement about ST with other people before, and my current theory is that it relates to how we first watched those show -- TNG being the show of so many people's youths, it makes sense that they'd have processed it differently than someone who did not watch it as a child (I was a terrible snob back then, and I thought it looked awful), because children are prone to latch on to cool ideas no matter how terrible the execution and play with them in their minds, whereas watching right now I'm more prone to appreciate TV plots where, however weak the idea, the execution is engaging.

Thought The Hunger Games was also an interesting study in book-to-film adaptation, especially in the use of visuals to convey long or complex concepts from the text. Sometimes more successfully than other times.

If you feel like it, I'd love to hear more about this. I haven't read the book, so I can only guess what they did differently or what complexities they were trying to use visuals to convey.

No more comment preview? Come on, LJ...

[sarcarmic.livejournal.com]

The two last pics are Scarlett, right? ;)

[sarcarmic.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I meant Charlize. Oy! :)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

In fact they are Tamara Craig Thomas as the character Angela in the TV show Odyssey 5! I really think the promo shot above makes Noomi Rapace look like her, which was startling since the last time I saw Rapace she was all punked up for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But maybe that will change once I actually see the movie.

[sarcarmic.livejournal.com]

Geez, I'm completely out to lunch! I read your post before I finished drinking my coffee first thing this morning, and visibly things didn't improve as the day wore on! /o\ Let's just forget I said anything, ok?
Imana be over there (-->) feeling like an idiot :)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ha! No worries. <3