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Oct. 29th, 2009 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erdaI just locked myself in my room because my house is full of company and their children, who are all fussing and crying. If I pick up one more baby today I think I may need back surgery.
We're getting geared up for trick or treating, but I have to REST a little or I will never make it through the rest of the day.
Now to more important things, specifically Numb3rs and Whip It
I decided to start watching Numb3ers. Hee! It didn't take me long to remember why I stopped watching so quickly when it first came on. Most ridiculous execution of absurd premise ever. Ahahahahahaha! I don't care, though, plot being secondary to character love in my mind. I've only watched the first 2 eps, but it looks majorly slashy so far.
I have been thinking about Whip It a lot lately. I'm so in love with this movie that I've been making up stories about it while rollerblading around the lake every day. It takes me back to my childhood. I used to watch women's roller derby on TV as a young impressionable child. Seeing women doing something besides cooking and caring for children was so strange to me that I kind of envisioned roller derby as some sort of science fiction show. I didn't connect it to my own life or think that it was something I could maybe do or anything. It was just so strange and foreign and incomprehensible. But I loved watching it, and I think it influenced me in subtle ways. This movie brings that strange glimpse into a world where women could be people doing things all back to me. I don't think younger people can really understand what it was like to grow up so completely sans role models as I did. There didn't seem to be any place in life not just for a girl who liked math and science and wasn't interested in weddings or Barbie dolls, but for a girl who did ANYTHING. I felt so strange and unreal and confused as a child. There were just no possibilities to fill my imagination, and I didn't know what was wrong. It seemed like a personal failing to me.
Having said that, I must confess I haven't been to seen Whip It yet, and I have only a general idea of the plot from one trailer I watched. It's passed through already, so I won't get to see it for a while. I just didn't want to go see it alone, or with someone who wouldn't get why it feels so important to me. I'll watch it with my daughter when it comes out on DVD. I'm really looking forward to it.
We're getting geared up for trick or treating, but I have to REST a little or I will never make it through the rest of the day.
Now to more important things, specifically Numb3rs and Whip It
I decided to start watching Numb3ers. Hee! It didn't take me long to remember why I stopped watching so quickly when it first came on. Most ridiculous execution of absurd premise ever. Ahahahahahaha! I don't care, though, plot being secondary to character love in my mind. I've only watched the first 2 eps, but it looks majorly slashy so far.
I have been thinking about Whip It a lot lately. I'm so in love with this movie that I've been making up stories about it while rollerblading around the lake every day. It takes me back to my childhood. I used to watch women's roller derby on TV as a young impressionable child. Seeing women doing something besides cooking and caring for children was so strange to me that I kind of envisioned roller derby as some sort of science fiction show. I didn't connect it to my own life or think that it was something I could maybe do or anything. It was just so strange and foreign and incomprehensible. But I loved watching it, and I think it influenced me in subtle ways. This movie brings that strange glimpse into a world where women could be people doing things all back to me. I don't think younger people can really understand what it was like to grow up so completely sans role models as I did. There didn't seem to be any place in life not just for a girl who liked math and science and wasn't interested in weddings or Barbie dolls, but for a girl who did ANYTHING. I felt so strange and unreal and confused as a child. There were just no possibilities to fill my imagination, and I didn't know what was wrong. It seemed like a personal failing to me.
Having said that, I must confess I haven't been to seen Whip It yet, and I have only a general idea of the plot from one trailer I watched. It's passed through already, so I won't get to see it for a while. I just didn't want to go see it alone, or with someone who wouldn't get why it feels so important to me. I'll watch it with my daughter when it comes out on DVD. I'm really looking forward to it.