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... I went to the Alice Cooper concert, and walked away from it with a t-shirt, videos and no crazy scars. My ears feel alright; they were fine when I woke up the next morning, so normal hearing loss still intact. 😳
The fact that it's been eight days and I'm still like, "what did I see?? It's already been a week??" is out of this world.
I had a general idea of what I was getting in to when I bought the ticket in October, but I didn't completely know what was going to happen. Just like I had an idea of the age range of the fans (yes, I profiled), and lo and behold, the years of watching police crime and drama shows paid off. My theory was correct on the people I'd see. It doesn't hurt that I had an idea of what to expect, but wasn't completely understanding since I had never seen any footage of Alice perform. I went in to this only knowing a real short handful of songs and knowledge of what he would attempt to do. In the end, you learn by trial and error.
It doesn't help my case by saying I probably should stop over thinking what I'm going to do or see at any time. Even though what I find myself getting in to, usually can sometimes end up being a grand sociology experiment. I can't help trying to figure it out beforehand; it's oddly intriguing and it's interesting to see how close (or far away) to correct I am.
For "as old" as the crowd was, you don't want to know how the majority of the sing-a-longs had the voices coming from the first 10 rows of the packed house. The sounds I heard (outside the band) were the various people attempting to sing, and they were raised equal to, and high above, Cooper's in a couple instances. It seemed to come primarily from in front of me since no one next to me looked totally enthralled to be there (the exception was the 4 guys in front of me). The people around me were more about staying still and quiet, taking videos, rather than really getting up and enjoying themselves. The man to my right, especially, sat for a little over an hour and looked like he was totally lost. In the beginning, his female friends looked like they knew what was about to go down more than he did.
I know voices carry, so it was probably more like the first 20 rows in front of me were having a blast, but again, there were dead spots that I could pick up over the music. I have hearing issues as it is and I can kind of differentiate some sounds better than other sounds. I could be wrong with what I heard, but I was more invested in the whole event than trying to figure out where the acoustics were crapping out (not that I haven't done that before... people hate when I watch TV with them because I point out the bad stuff).
To keep the audience guessing and on their toes, there were instances when a confetti cannon would go off into the crowd.
For real; of all things not to expect, it's confetti shooting at you from the stage of an Alice Cooper concert.
When you think things can't get more strangely weird (I mean, come on... snakes, guillotines, beheadings... in this day and age???), the last song of the main set, "School's Out" (track 1 from the same titled album, School's Out) was played. It started normally and then all of a sudden, those giant "palooza" style inflatable balls came out for the audience to not only hit around, but also was used for Alice to explode more confetti onto everyone. The show truly went from a dark vaudevillian event to a happy (but could be scary depending on your mindset) trippy hippy show in 89 minutes.
What the crazy?!
If you wait about 45 seconds in to the video, the balls show up.
I know this video doesn't start with the beginning of School's Out because I did this accidentally intentially. During my last post about the concert, I ended that video with the first minute and a half of the song. However, this version ends with a surprise mix: a couple verses of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall part 2 (track 5 from The Wall). What I don't include here is when the song goes back into the last refrain of School's Out before the concert ends and Alice comes back for the encore (Feed My Frankenstein).
The more I think about it, this may be one of the videos where I didn't have people completely in the way, so I was able to get a solid few minutes of the entire band. I only wish I didn't have to rely on total zoom the whole time, because it's blocky and pixelated and doesn't look pretty (in my opinion).
Like I said in the previous post, "short people problem".
I scanned in the covers because I wanted to remember which ones I found. Don't mind the faded bits in each picture.
I scanned in some of the pages so I could try coloring them in Photoshop because I wanted to sell the books at a yard sale. I had acquired the books during "The Time The World Was Shut Down" and never used them. I shuffled them away and forgot about them until last week. Since my community is having a yard sale next month, I figured I might as well make some room in my closet.
The scans came out okay, but I wanted to plug them in Photoshop to do some alterations, as well as "coloring".
Hence, "I cheated in coloring". I'll put the photos side by side for comparison. I didn't edit the images fully, as you will see. Meaning, you can still see the scan lines around the edges of the page. The exception of the last image, where I did an "oopsie" saving it after coloring it.
From the 80s book:
From the Skull book:
I know the sugar skull isn't the right colors for this type of image, but you can make things your own and create artistic freedoms with them.
In all honesty, it was harder for me to scan the pages into the computer (My mother has a Canon PIXMA TS3720 Wireless All-in-One Printer (6671C022)) and then transfer them to my computer, than it was to quickly edit everything. As these are paperback books, I had to rotate, scan, push the lid down, adjust, and do a lot more to get them on my phone.
Yes, on my phone because I've got enough products made by Canon, it's easier to install the programs I need on my mobile devices so I can do some work.
For as much as I hate using my phone for things, there are some positives, I suppose. The Canon Print App is beneficial if I need to scan something real quickly to my phone to send in an email (it scans jpeg and PDF). The Canon Connect app wirelessly transmits the images from my Rebel T7i to my phone because my family is greedy and wants their photos "Now!". Plus I am still using the Canon 6219B002 PIXMA iP7220 Wireless Inkjet Photo Printer, which is no longer being sold on Amazon because it's old already.
Shh... it's still working. I don't want to jinx it.
I like these printers though, because they do what I need them to do with scanning (my mother's) and duplex (double sided) printing and CD / DVD printing (on mine). Plus, I've found third party ink that works with these printers for half the price of the normal Canon ink.
Shh... I don't want the prices to go up and have ink problems.
Overall, I'm happy with staying with Canon since I've got decades of cameras (35mm film and multiple DSLRs) and a video camera. Everyone has their alliance, and Canon is mine.
I guess I'll keep scanning and coloring when I want to impress my friends, but I know nothing compares to being in front of a piece of paper and making the attempt at staying in between the lines.
I went and saw Alice Cooper last night perform at the Barbara B. Mann Performance Hall in Fort Myers, Florida. It's the "Too Close For Comfort" tour and Alice is making his way through the area this week.
(I found the above image online, as part of the promotional material for the tour)
Back in October, I got an email that Alice Cooper was coming this way, and I figured I'd get a ticket because I know just a handful of songs, and had never seen him perform. One of us is probably going to die of old age before I'd get another opportunity.
So I bought a ticket. Row X, Seat 23, which is the back of the theatre, left orchestra section. There were 3 more rows behind me and then the door, so I had an easy way out if it got too much or when the concert was over, I'd be one of the few to leave first.
I told my friend Cat I was going, and she was excited for me, wishing me the best of time. I don't know much about Alice Cooper, so Cat being super positive means it is right in her wheelhouse.
One of the things I know, from first hand experience, is I had a co-worker who performed with Cooper back in the day. This woman said she was part of a 10 piece band (five married couples who were best friends) and they were Alice's opening act, one time, decades ago (the band disbanded in the late 1980s). Her band was so different from Alice's, that they (her and her friends) wondered what they were getting themselves in to because they were neat and clean - wore dressy (professional, cocktail type) outfits (all matching) and looked so innocent. They did a lot of cover songs and some of their own, but it was pop style music - positive, clean and fun. Easy to jive / bop your head to. Whereas Alice was dark and gloomy with themes not meant for the faint of heart. He's vaudeville, he's showy, he's scary. The opposite end of the spectrum my co-worker's band was being perceived as. They got the the club and saw all the fans of Alice Cooper and wondered what they got themselves in to. They were half tempted to back out, but didn't because that's not how they roll. The whole thing felt like a skeevy biker bar atmosphere, for being in straight (on the up and up / everyone's welcome) club. They were proven completely wrong and admitted that their perceptions got the best of them. They did what they did best - perform what they know and didn't let anyone talk them down. The woman said that the packed house loved hearing her band perform and they got to do quite a big set before Alice went on stage. It was a totally new experience for them and everyone got along swimmingly (even Alice's fans became this woman's band's fans). She said that Alice looks so scary and hard to talk to, but he's the most amazing guy. Easy to get along with / approachable and will tell you anything and everything once you get him talking. The person behind the gothic look is not the man represented behind the scenes. He leaves his character at the door (or on stage) and is a normal human being off stage / when you're just hanging out (or as normal as you can get, given the circumstances). Just because he legally changed his name to his stage name, doesn't mean he's as bad as you think he is. It's all an act for public consumption, much like a lot of the performance art rockers are of that generation (Iggy Pop comes to mind).
So my going last night, I knew I'd be getting into something different, and majority of the packed hall would be all old white men.
I'm sorry for it sounding like I'm profiling, because I'm really not. Having experienced the Dio Hologram Concert, I lumped Alice Cooper into the same category because he's a similar genre (70s alt-glam-metal-shock-rock). I mean no disrespect.
The Dio concert was all men and women over 55 who belong in a metal mosh pit rocking out in tattered jeans and long hair. Hangbangers unite! \m/ ( -_- ) \m/
The Alice Cooper concert was a little more death metal with the old men in guyliner and ponytails, black straight leg jeans and t shirts. The women in black dresses or jeans with cutoffs. There were just as many women at this concert as there were men, where at Dio, it was more men than women. I feel like majority of the people there were over 65 and if there was two dozen people under 45 (including myself), there was a lot for the younger generations. If the (older) fans weren't in gothic metal attire with full makeup (men included), they had full sleeve tattoos instead.
I saw plenty of folks with aged black and grey ink on their arms, and it wasn't aged due to too much sun. It was aged because, well, of their age. Like they got the permanent picture 40-50 years ago on their skin and it grew up with them. I saw plenty of fan shirts and old concert tees. Others had wild sayings (a guy in a cowboy hat, long scraggly salt and pepper beard with just as long greying hair, had a black tank top on saying "Crazy Bitch" in white lettering. He had black jeans with boots to finish the outfit. Another guy had a black shirt that said "Evil keeps me young" with black pants). One guy who sat in front of me, had a "Ozark Music Festival Survivor" t-shirt. I didn't see that it said that on the front until he turned around to face me. The back of the shirt had a giant list of performers on it, with "Guest Announcer Wolfman Jack".
I figured this shirt had to be at least 40, 45 years old because The Wolfman has been dead for 30 years. I remember being little and listening to him on the radio during the July 4th fireworks in New London Connecticut.
When the guy in front of me turned around and I read where the shirt was from, "Ozark Music Festival, July 19-21 1974 Sedalia MO", it solidified my wondering. There was maybe a handful of older adults there that were out of place in what they were wearing. They looked like they came for a dinner date night out - dressed fancy enough in "dinner and a show" attire, that I didn't feel so bad for looking like I didn't belong (I was wearing my Nightmare Before Christmas sneakers, plain cargo shorts and "Classically Trained NES" t-shirt).
There was no opening act, even though the show was supposed to start at 8pm. Alice didn't get on stage until 8:15, so the people getting a little smashed were getting a little antsy.
Once started, a pair of characters came out before the curtains went up. A pin light followed them as they walked back and forth (towards each other and passed each other). They were a pair of Plague Doctors (you can find a slew of stuff here. I don't know how informational the books are though).
I'm sorry I didn't get a picture of them while it was happening because it went by so quickly and the people in front of me felt like I was standing behind giants. I didn't realize I'd be having to submit to short world problems (I'm five foot five and a half) at the concert.
Once the characters did their cleansing thing (they walked the stage with lanterns and bells), the curtains opened to the band ready to play and another curtain that looked like it's supposed to be front page news - "Banned in Florida! Alice Cooper" with sub headlines. Music started with "Lock Me Up" (track 2 from 1987's Raise Your Fist And Yell) which segued into Welcome To The Show (track 2 from 2023's Road).
Again, I don't know a lot of the songs. I took several videos and pictures (as did everyone around me). When I edited the videos together, I needed to rely on the set list website from the night prior in Orlando, as the time of this writing, the Fort Myers set isn't up yet.
Due to my being short, it's a bit of a stretch for me to have gotten really good shots. I was standing on my toes for the entire evening, and was trying not to block the people behind me while filming because they too were filming (one of the women kept her flash on on her camera). You can see in the videos, as well as some of the photos, how far I was sitting standing from the stage because I zoomed out for the crowd a few times, so don't think I have an all powerful camera in my pocket or ran up to row M or something. I stayed at my assigned seat (except once during the guitar solos so I could pee). Everything was done in zoom mode and all magic went through my phone while I edited basics on my computer. I did try to focus the images while recording though, so you'll see the light change a bit in the videos because stage lights affect the recordings differently.
As a side note, security was stopping people left and right, and asking them to turn the flash off the camera, but they didn't stop people from filming. Gone are the days when you got your camera taken away from you (or at least the film in the camera... I know from experience!). I'm glad we didn't get a Yondr pouch to put out stuff in, like Bob Dylan has fans to. It'll come one of these days, to all events. It's just going to take time.
The photos were stills taken as I was recording, as the iPhone lets you snap photos at the same time (it takes a screen shot). The only thing I did to the stills was put my name on it and sharpen them a little.
Each song melted into the next, and there was no intermission. It went straight through, unless you count the drum solo by Glen Sobel and the guitar solos by Tommy Henriksen and Ryan Roxie as a stopping point for Cooper, than that's it. The band played the entire hour and 30 minutes (8:15-9:45pm). Alice needed some wardrobe changes and they needed to reset the stage in some places.
Yes, the stage needed reset - there was a pair of tall stairs; one on the left and one on the right. They were used in the guitar solos as well as props for a couple of the songs, but since they're on wheels, stagehands needed to turn them at certain points in the night to face the audience or be turned to face the back of the stage.
There was a song "Snakebite" (track 3 from 1991's Hey Stoopid) where he performs with an actual snake. I think it's a boa constrictor. From the same album, Alice performed Hey Stoopid (title track, 1) and Feed My Frankenstein (track 7, performed as an encore). The Hey Stoopid song is part of the video montage and stills from Feed My Frankenstein are uploaded above (last 5 photos).
Throughout the 90 minute set, I couldn't help but watch the graphics play out on the big screens. Yes, a camera was following Alice Cooper around so you could see him from the back rows, but during certain segments, the screens were playing really nifty animations. During "Go To Hell" (track 1 from 1976's Alice Cooper Goes to Hell) was dancing skeletons in top hats with a fiery red backdrop. Even the lights were turned red to resemble flames. It was really cool the way things transitioned. There was another song (it might have been for the aforementioned Frankenstein, I can't remember), but it started with a rain scene. The way the ground was shifted into rolling fog and sounds of thunder with lightning clapping, you'd have thought it was pouring on the stage. Even the band looked around "pretending" they were getting wet. I was more interested in what was happening around everyone than seeing what Alice and his band were wearing at various points, truth be told.
There were lots of props and people (characters) happening during songs too. During one song (I don't know what), a girl came on stage with a coffee mug and swooned over everyone before Alice "sliced" her throat and she was dragged away, "dead". Another song had paparazzi take photos, and he met a similar end. Alice's wife Sheryl joined in the festivities, quite a few times, dressed not only as a Marie Antoinette / Rococo type of character (I googled this last bit so I can describe it), sending Alice to the Guillotine (during the Killer / I Love The Dead medley - track 8 from Killer/ track 10 from Billion Dollar Babiesrespectively). She also dressed in a type of provocative outfit you'd see a "woman of the night" wear, during the Go To Hell performance. She also came around with a whip during this scene too. I could be wrong in my descriptions, as it was hard to try to adequately find proper search terms.
I guess Alice using his wife is a normal part of the show, as internet research says he does this frequently, all due in part to her being a performer (choreographer) in her past life. The articles I've read state that this is how they met - she auditioned to be a dancer for his 1975 Welcome To My Nightmare Tour. Other information includes the tidbit that their daughter Calico has been part of the family business a few times as well.
Speaking of clothing options, I bought a tour shirt for $50 and agree with one of the comments I heard in the lobby - "prices have gone way up and for what?".
Yeah, we all bought something, but we also don't want to pay such high prices for a shirt. The hoodies were $80! I've seen things online, where people comment they remember paying 25 dollars for front row tickets to a concert back in the late 1990s and early 2000s and they thought that was high even for that time. Now, you're paying three times that, for middle to back of orchestra. Only times I've seen anything less than 40 dollars, has been for the last 3 rows of the back of the balcony, where you have to squint to see something. It's crazy what we're doing to support a cause. But we do it and we do it begrudgingly. We're sticklers for punishment.
I think, overall, as nervous as I was to go, I had an okay time. Yeah, I get nervous about going to these things, and it doesn't match going to concerts in Boston, but this stuff is different. My mother said "at least you didn't have to fight traffic downtown. You made it home in 10 minutes. You had free parking. It's a small venue" and the list goes on. Yes, I didn't have to worry about paying for parking (meter, etc) or wonder if the concert will go on past the last train departure (which happened during the Elton John tour. If he went on for 30 more minutes, I'd have missed the last train out, completely). This facility is the size of the small halls I've been in to in Boston. The Orpheum, The Wang. It's all within rows of each other. It's the arenas (FleetCenter Suncoast) that are different.
I do like going to these things, not because I may or may not know the music, but because sometimes I like to see what's happening with the sound and vision. How the performer is using the screens and speakers. I hate feeling like my head is going to implode for half the night when I leave, due to how loud the music was, but at least I can sleep it off and by the time I wake up, my hearing is back to normal, whatever normal for my head is. If only I could see clearly enough to fully critique the stage, I would do that. But, if I focus on only that, is it really worth going? No. Just go and have a good time. People watch is part of the sociology / societal project / experiment. Go see what's changing and happening. Report back with positive and negative. Things will be different.
I hope I got everything. I'm sure I missed stuff. Check out the video and maybe try something new. You never know what you'll learn later today.
Okay, so it's a common quote from TLC series My 600-lb Life.
Raise your hand if you remember when TLC was really The Learning Channel and had really amazing stuff to watch, instead of scripted reality television. 🙋
When I came out of the gym this morning, my mother was at the pool. She was deep in conversation with one of her (international snowbird) friends and they were talking about a scale the friend uses.
This is the same friend she ended up giving the Torfurky to last week, by the way.
So the friend was explaining to my mother some app she has on her phone. They were going into everything it does and how closely she monitors it. It was then explained to me, that this app is tied to a "really cheap, 30 dollar bathroom scale". The friend then shows me the app and tells me what it can do.
Essentially, when you turn the scale on and step on it, it sends electrodes through your body. What those electrodes are doing, are measuring all sorts of things. Things like BMI (Body Mass Index), muscle mass, bone mass, water weight, heart health, body fat, and all sorts of things. She relies on it, in part, due to her eating habits (of being a vegetarian). Knowing how she's doing in daily activities, is great. Especially since it all syncs to the product app.
She knows she's got challenges with some parts of this, when she gets headaches due to dehydration. She'll set a reminder to drink more water, but if she weighs herself, the scale can tell her what her body is doing.
It really sounds like some sorcery and I can't tell you why. But I can tell you that I am not in the medical field. Thus, this post is for informational purposes only and does not replace professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always consult a licensed healthcare provider for concerns about your health. I am here to talk about stuff I hear from people, things I learn, and open a door for someone else to look into something they may be interested in. It is then, when that person can go do their own research.
The woman spoke about how she has two of these scales - one at her Florida residence and one at her Canada residence. She trusts this scale to do its thing and listens to her body when she needs to up her hydration or lower her snacking. For thirty dollars, she thought the scale was well worth it, and it's already paid for itself because it tracks everything for you in the downloadable app. You can see how your body fluctuates daily (if you weigh yourself daily) and you can change the profile and settings to suit your need, much like you can change your diet and exercise to get healthier.
She's learned a lot about herself by using this, and has more knowledge about her guts and organs than she did growing up. Yes, she still sees a doctor, but she's more empowered to do positive changes with this.
She didn't tell me the name of the scale, but from what I could gather, the app looks similar to the Renpho line of machines. Amazon does have one on a 43% discount right now, marked to 19.99 (currently listed as "Amazon's Choice"). It retails for 34.99, so it's about right in the ballpark of what the woman was talking about.
After listening to the conversation and being shown the app, I was thinking about this all day. It does sound too good to be true. A scale that can magically tell you everything you're doing with your body, without the need to visit a doctor every month? You can learn what's happening to your insides and adjust your diet as needed? Why isn't this marketed more? Why aren't doctors suggesting this thing instead of prescribing medication?
Plus, wasn't there a (fairly recent) time when certain health apps were talked about being banned (like the women's health - period trackers, etc)? The pull was due to security / privacy reasons and needed to be taken off the download shelves. This inckudes hacking problems, data management, unclear rules and regulations.. list goes on. Even for an "official" program, there was still cause for alarm because there was no full accountability going on should things go south (vulnerabilities can be aplenty).
I'm not an expert by any means. I remember seeing the headlines and hearing the conversations. So what's this (admittedly California based) product doing differently? Is it any different than the machines and software already out there? Does this woman really care? If she's not completely filling out the profile to include a lot of information, is she safe?
No one is immune to anything. Hell, I had MyFitnessPal and Runkeeper apps on my phone. I know MyFitnessPal got hacked at one point as well as I sometimes forgot to add my intake some days. Plus, the only reason I downloaded it originally was because one of my doctors kept insisting I use it (he swore by it - lost over 100 pounds and counting). I didn't find it 100 per cent useful all the time, honestly. With Runkeeper, I thought it was more of a pain to use because it kept wanting me to upgrade to a paid version and a lot of times, the little voice coach wasn't always helping (sometimes it got redundant as well). I also couldn't sync my podcasts to the app so I can have the Runkeeper open and listen to shows at the same time, even though there was supposed to be an option.
Now that I have a smart watch (okay, I'm on the Apple product line with an iPhone and Watch [series 3]), I use the bloatware fitness app that came with the watch and somehow magically downloaded to my phone during one of the iOS updates. That's become an easier product to use in the gym because I just open the app on the watch and select the program I'm doing (elliptical, stationary bike, etc).
Everyone is different. Everyone does their own thing. We have an old analog (dial) scale in one room (which we tend to use to weigh our luggage when we're flying) and a Weight Watchers (digital) scale in another room.
Gotta keep 'em separated.
I dare you not to do any air jamming as you attempt any of the musical parts to the Offspring's "Come Out And Play" track from their 1994 Smashalbum (track 7 for reference).
Gawd I aged myself.
But yeah, we keep them in different rooms for the sake of "you have to have a scale on level flooring, in the same spot, every day, for accurate readings". The analog may be a little more reliable some days, but the digital is easier to read because it's more clear (my eye sight is crap). Beggars can't be choosers; we just do what is needed.
I need to still lose weight, even though one of my doctors were amazed last week because I am down a surprising amount (to them). They weren't expecting me to lose what I have (slightly north of 20 pounds) in a short period of time, but I'm getting it done by going to the gym every day and watching what I eat. I don't need the fitness apps I had in the past because I'm following whatever crazy is in my head. If I'm not hungry, I don't eat, but I still drink water. I cut down on the junk food, salts and colas. I am a little more careful these days and I'm trying to get down further in my weight. It's tough for sure, but I'm trying.
Today's Wednesday.. I think a new episode is on... Gotta get ready for it. I've gotten used to guessing the "unknown weight" and have been pretty damn close.
I keep hearing ads for Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches on AMC in the podcasts I listen to. For old audio series I am on, they sure do have updated commercials.
Mayfair Witches is out with season two right now, but I can't make any comments on it, as I haven't start it. I've got it on my AMC app list on my (now listed as renewed on Amazon) Roku 3.
Sarah Fenn, a modern-day witch, uses her powers for good, living in the town of Sanctuary. Though her daughter, Harper hasn't inherited Sarah's powers, when local teenager, Dan dies during a party, Harper is accused of killing him - by magic.
The first (and so far only) season is seven episodes, rated TV-MA and has some content advisory in the beginning of each episode (Flashing lights, violence, alcohol use, smoking, foul language, sexual content). Each episode does feel long and slow moving, for it being roughly 55 minutes each.
I have mixed feelings about the series. It's new enough that it's a different spin on what we think about supernatural /sorcery. But it's old enough that it's reusing a lot of basic elements and themes, for being based in the United Kingdom (shot primarily in Ireland, according to the internet). Meaning, they're loosely premising a piece of this as being the UK's answer to the Salem Witch Trials.
Which, after watching just the series and not reading the book, is far from being on the same side of the street. Let alone in the same circle of friends.
Yes, this is (again) a supernatural /sorcery show. The kind we saw in science fiction shows of the early 2000s (Charmed, Buffy, etc) but it's got a dramatic flair that will keep you watching it as one of those train wrecks you can't look away from, instead of a popcorn-on-the-edge-of-your-seat show. It's interesting because it's about a star sports player who dies suddenly at a raver in the middle of nowhere and the main suspect is the "only registered witch in town" because the daughter dated the kid at one point. It's a lot of back and forth between the towns people and the suspect because she can't say "no" to anyone for fear of being retaliated on and killed because she's a witch. She wants to do what's right and keep her family safe, yet, she knows she's doing bad things in the process.
I don't want to spoil this because I know people will want to watch it out of boredom and I actually want to see how season two progresses. I'm interested in the books (there are two) because sometimes the book is better than the video.
I'm just torn because it's got some good to it and it's not something we've seen 100% before. But there are points in it, that are such eye rolls, you know you've seen the scene in another show. That's why it's not new new, but it's not old either.
It's like when I watched Young Dracula. It's mind numbingly boring and a way to pass the time, but I also saw the connections to history with it. How you have to stand on the shoulders of the past in order to get to the future type of thing. I learned a little more about a Renfeld (but also because of the book A Taint in the Blood: A Novel of the Shadowspawn).
So Sanctuary taught me that there's other worlds of witches out there and they can attempt to make a living on a small little island and help people. It's not just magic every second to fake people out. It's like in real life we go to psychics, mediums, tarot readers. This story is a woman who has a magic shop and works to help people relieve some issues. In turn, she's got her own little coven of a few close friends and she uses them to gain energy. But they use her big time in other ways and she unwillingly agrees. #Spoileralert #Nospoilers.
If you want to see something to pass the day, try this show. If you hate it, you hate it. If you like it, you like it. I'm not going to judge. I'm just making a suggestion of something else to binge for a minute in case you're stuck inside because you're sick, it's bad weather, or you're just looking for something to do.
If all else fails, read a book. Go outside and play (if you can). Do something creative. I'm going to get ready for bed; it's almost 8:45pm and I've been going to bed way too late the past month. I've been super bad about this.
