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[rm]

1. Not getting into the bulk of the discussion about Tim Gunn in the previous post as I will just wind up defending my elitism in a potentially ugly way. Maybe later.

However, I will note that there's an interesting power dynamic on the show that the show doesn't seem to be clued into. This is that people respond to Gunn as a friendly but stern authority figure who they feel really really good about making the decisions -- not because they agree with the decisions, but having someone else be the brain just feels good sometimes. Okay, everyone gets that. But then! Gunn gets frustrated with them they don't start getting enthusiastic, making choices for themselves and asserting their own style right away.

Dear Tim,

They are loving your dominant attentions and don't want to slip out from under them too quickly. Your demeanor has gotten you this show, understand that this is what comes with it and don't blame the emotional wrecks your casting people choose for the program! These folks need more tools than the ten essentials and some random references to self-esteem.

Signed,

Trust me, I know.


2. As I slowly dig my brain out from being unable to let go of exciting facts such as the headquarters of the Goblin Rebellion of 1612, I have other book ideas percolating in my head. Specifically? A celiac handbook aimed at young teens/tweens, since that's the age when most kids are making a lot of food decisions on their own and facing a lot of ridicule about being different in habit or appearance (and celiac often makes you both!). It's still percolating in a vague way.

3. Alison is here!

4. My stupid landlord still hasn't deposited the additional security deposit they needed with the rent increase, but since I sent it all certified and I know I got it and we haven't heard anything bad, I'm just sort of assuming this is one of those things that doesn't happen promptly and sanely in that office. I mean, it's been about two weeks. That's not AWFUL.

5. We have an advance screening for Elizabeth: The Golden Age before it opens in theaters!!! Dance!

Comments

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

re: 5. OMG I saw a trailer and am dying with anticipation to see this. The clothes are incredible.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I started crying during the trailer. I loved the first movie but was somewhat floored by how violently this one spoke to me.

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

http://www.elizabeththegoldenage.net/site.html?main=3&sub=1

This is a different trailer than what is showing on TV. And Clive is just darling and I wouldn't kick Kate from the middle of the bed either.

[rm.livejournal.com]

that's the one I saw in the theater that just dissolves me. hope the music it in it is actual from the film and not just random trailer music. Also, I respond to intensely to grief on Cate Blanchett's face. I look nothing like her, but when I look her her face in anguished, I think this is what grief my look like on me too.

In Australia, at NIDA, wher she went to school, my teachers who had been her teachers, talked about how they had always thought her to be such and ugly strange looking girl, and how they find it very funny that everyone thinks she so beautiful because that's not really what she is for. And I suppose, in a way, that that's why my going to NIDA wound up mattering, as opposed to the reasons I did go.

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

I saw the NIDA bit in her bio page on the site. I think the prominent cheeks just adds to fierceness. She looks stunning in every outfit in the trailer. And the armor is to die for.

[rm.livejournal.com]

She had given a speech there a few weeks before I go there, so there was a lot of Cate this and Cate that going on.