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House - Season 4
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Even by the standards set up in the premise and beginning, by the end of Season 4 I was done. Just a little too out there, the producers must have been thinking that because they got away with the first 3 seasons of this nonsense the audience wouldn't mind another.
Pure escapism, and never to anyplace pleasant.
But the cliffhanger, well, that just might see me downloading Season 5, although I should watch a few other things to cleanse my intellectual palate...
Satori in Paris - Jack Kerouac
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Written in 1966, a madcap description of his week or so in Paris and France.
Definitely not his best, although I was pleased to see references to "Lolita" and Celine.
At this point in his life he's drunk all the time, sun-up to sundown, he's only a few years left and it shows. But a trifling read so I won't hold that against him.
House Season 4, Work, Toronto
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Long overdue for some adventure and it's killing me.
Into Season 4 of "House", there are some better episodes and new characters to mix up the dynamic and exposition. Worthwhile episodes included the one with the Magician (and very much a magician and I recognized the universal decorating style of all Magicians), 97 Seconds, Guardian Angel, who knows, the season's not done yet there may be more to come...
Toronto is booked, Saturday head out for a 5 day homeless stretch in the big city, which (I'm counting on) should restore my sense of gratitude for living where I am. It is paradise, after it's fashion, but you can have a little too much of a good thing...
Saturday, road trip booked with friend to Kelowna (from where leaves my flight) - going to stop at every bloody thrift shop, I need art supplies, have a list, picture frames, I'll unload her car when I get back...I'm already well into a mental inventory of all the treasures I'm going to find, now only to do it...
Kelowna is pretty damned good for picture frames, but there's a few other things I need as well.
And, on the way as well, there's a flea market in Oliver with (apparently, as I've been told) a watch dealer in the back, I'm hoping for a black-dialed Omega Cosmographic, Moon-phase, but...
If not there there's always Toronto. I need a fairly successful treasure hunt there to recover my expenses.
Which catches us up. Reading, the books pile up faster than I'm getting through them, but I will, don't you worry...
New Concepts of Hypnosis - Bernard C. Gindes
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Came through the thrift shop so I took home to read. I should note it was written in 1951, so "New" is a relative term, still much has stayed the same while a great deal has changed.
Of interest in it was the consideration given Mesmer, electricity, the idea of "Animal Magnetism", ideas on volition and personal autonomy, and the chapter on language foreshadows Bandler & Grinder "Frogs into Princes".
Worthwhile, if a bit dated, but if you don't know where we've come from you can't know where we're going.
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