Circus

I would have liked it if they did more of the really good documentaries.

Circus was added to Netflix streaming and I thoroughly enjoyed rewatching it. I would like to have seen the 2010 season as well (the show was 2009's).

There was a documentary about Cirque du Soleil too and that was also awesome and I would have liked to see more years of that too.

I'm not completely sure these don't count as "reality tv" because there are a lot of these video diary type moments and such, but it's still about being in the circus. It's not artificial and manufactured. These people were in the Big Apple Circus even if there wasn't a video crew following them around. Survivor and Amazing Race and all the clones of those... the people in them would not be there without the show.

What's the difference between a documentary and reality tv? I think it's exactly in whether the people are there because of the filming or if the filming is an added layer. Madonna's video of her concert tour--- not the concert themselves, but the whole back stage and traveling and the ongoing weirdness of caravanning around the world--- that wasn't reality tv with it's implied sleaziness.

Both the Cirque du Soleil and Big Apple Circus documentaries were great advertising vehicles in that they promoted a show I would never have otherwise considered viable for my entertainment into my conscious investigation. I looked into whether I could see the Big Apple Circus (can't it's on the wrong side of the country, always). I wouldn't have even thought of them otherwise.

I might see Cirque du Soleil sometime. The tickets are really expensive and really hard to get for the traveling show. But I really had figured they were a "child-required" show since they've named themselves a circus and the documentary changed my impression of their show a lot.

inside the external world

Today I pushed out the corners of the duvet cover between me and the world. It doesn't actually make the cover bigger, but it does fit better just from untucking it a bit.

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I had a mildly productive day today. I went out shopping. I found sports bras and looked at my "everyday pan" / "chef's pan" / "braiser/casserole pan" choices in person.

I found some adorable shoes that I did not buy because they only came in bright red.

And I went to a new place for a nice lunch.

But that was enough for one day. I would have done laundry but the laundry room was busy. I would have gone to the gym but I'd already done a lot of walking today.

I'm making my "everything lentil" soup tonight. I even planned ahead so I can puree the soup base with the lentils but still have meatballs (really meat cubes because I didn't thaw in advance and just cut the block of ground meat with a knife.) and those giant cous cous that are whole.

My shopping experience was okay. ( Read more... )