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emma_in_dreamWhat I have been watching
I have been really enjoying *Crusoe*, which essentially consists of Crusoe and Friday frolicking on a tropical island while wearing very few clothes. I am up to episode six and so far they have been swimming, fishing, running and play fighting, all shirtless. This is exactly right for the level of mental ability I have at the moment.
I see that the show has some problems – the necessary use of flashbacks and the fact that this is apparently the most often-visited deserted island in the South Seas. Possibly in a later incarnation it was Gilligan’s Island as in six episodes it has been visited by cannibals (twice), mutineers (twice), Spanish soldiers (twice), pirates (once) and unidentified natives (at least once). And yet Friday and Crusoe are unable to ever get off the island! Sadly it only ran for one season so I suspect they will end up marooned there forever.
OTOH, the show also features fabulous, ridiculous technology. Crusoe likes inventing things and the island is essentially a Disney-park with flying foxes and tree houses and a home-made orange juicer. (Another resemblance to Gilligan’s Island!)
For a songvid highlighting the semi-naked frolicking, see: http://talitha78.livejournal.com/177460.html
What I have been reading
I have begun *Crime and Punishment*. Only two chapters in and already deeply depressed – characters introduced so far include a student planning a murder, a sordid pawnbroker, and an alcoholic who whores out his daughter. (Though this is Russian literature, in which such a cast would be found even in a ‘comedy’).
I have been really enjoying *Crusoe*, which essentially consists of Crusoe and Friday frolicking on a tropical island while wearing very few clothes. I am up to episode six and so far they have been swimming, fishing, running and play fighting, all shirtless. This is exactly right for the level of mental ability I have at the moment.
I see that the show has some problems – the necessary use of flashbacks and the fact that this is apparently the most often-visited deserted island in the South Seas. Possibly in a later incarnation it was Gilligan’s Island as in six episodes it has been visited by cannibals (twice), mutineers (twice), Spanish soldiers (twice), pirates (once) and unidentified natives (at least once). And yet Friday and Crusoe are unable to ever get off the island! Sadly it only ran for one season so I suspect they will end up marooned there forever.
OTOH, the show also features fabulous, ridiculous technology. Crusoe likes inventing things and the island is essentially a Disney-park with flying foxes and tree houses and a home-made orange juicer. (Another resemblance to Gilligan’s Island!)
For a songvid highlighting the semi-naked frolicking, see: http://talitha78.livejournal.com/177460.html
What I have been reading
I have begun *Crime and Punishment*. Only two chapters in and already deeply depressed – characters introduced so far include a student planning a murder, a sordid pawnbroker, and an alcoholic who whores out his daughter. (Though this is Russian literature, in which such a cast would be found even in a ‘comedy’).
