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Apr. 8th, 2011 11:19 amThis Vividcon, I'm VJ'ing a show for the first time in years, called Riot Grrls. It's focusing on vids about women in action. I have some vids already in mind, but I'd love to get some recommendations from people if they have a favorite vid showcasing a female action star. Vids that have relationships with other characters are cool, but I want the focus to be on the female character rather than a pairing, and I want it to showcase action of some kind -- if she's mooning over some guy for most of the vid and picks up a gun occasionally, that's not really in the wheelhouse. I'm not looking for character studies so much as vids showcasing Our Heroine's capabilities in motion.
But what I'd really love are some suggestions for older vids, especially VCR era. I have a bad feeling there aren't many of those -- there really weren't a lot of female action heroines prior to the Buffy and Nikita and Xena era on TV, and only a couple in the movies. (No, I don't count the original Charlie's Angels, since that show was more about their hair and boobs and outfits than about action.) But if you can think of some vids for like Remington Steele or The Avengers or Ripley in Alien(s) or the only Sarah Conner that counts, Linda Hamilton, I'd love to hear about them. And if you know how I can see them/get hold of them, even better! I have some limited access to some old VCR vid collections, but if I can get some direction, even better.
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I've meant, for a while, to give folks an update on my dad, but I was hesitant to say anything because I've been afraid it will evaporate. After I got back from Escapade, I didn't see him again for many days because I was so sick. The day I was going back to see him, I got this early morning call, and expecting bad news, I was rather stunned when Dad said, "Hey. I was thinking about the trust, and that I'm concerned if you take on that responsibility for it, you're going to be hit with a tax burden you can't handle" and blah blah, sounding exactly like he used to sound on the phone before he started taking the painkillers. I was all "What the hell?" and missed half of what he said, because he sounded so... normal.
When I went down to see him, he was sitting up more in bed, plotting out investments, and at one point when we talked, he actually sat all the way up, crosslegged on the bed. I was agog. He said he wanted to get more walking exercise, and I told him we'd have to start talking to them about taking him off hospice care, and then he made a list for me of stuff he wanted me to bring him. He showed me how he could get up from bed all by himself and walk over to the wheelchair.
So a few weeks went by, and he stayed in this condition -- every time he got better before, he'd backslide -- and the hospice people agreed that he could be taken off, and we had a care meeting and they asked him what his goals were and he said he wanted to go back to the apartments in one month. A little aggressive, but OK. He's been doing his therapy willingly, they got him a walker, and a couple times I've seen him in the halls in the wheelchair, testing out his endurance. His back is still killing him, and it's hard to get pain meds that work enough to help but don't cause lots of other physical problems, which is what caused this whole mess. But it's looking more like a possibility that he could go to assisted living at some point.
I was afraid to be optimistic. I'm still not really believing this is going to stay around. But he's reading again, and watching TV, and we got him some new hearing aids yesterday, which will definitely help. So, we went from death's door to... I'm not sure what, but it's an improvement. He doesn't like to eat, but he does it, and he's gained back about five or six pounds. And he uses the phone, which helps when I can't go down there.
At one point I asked him how much he knew about what was going on in the world, because I wanted to tell him I couldn't come down every day like before, and he hadn't had the TV on in months. He didn't know anything, so I told him about the changes in the middle east, and the not-war in Libya, and Wisconsin, the earthquake in New Zealand, and all that stuff. He was amazed. And then the next time I went down, it was the day after the Japan earthquake, so we talked about that a lot. The last bad episode he'd had, he'd been convinced there was an earthquake happening in the building.
People think I'm not happy for him and for me. It isn't that I wanted him to die but that I had gotten into that mindspace, and it's hard to get out of that once you're in it. I was dealing with the cemetery stuff, getting ready for the legal things, and then to have that turned around is just weird. I'm still not really sure if this will last, but at least it's forward momentum.
But what I'd really love are some suggestions for older vids, especially VCR era. I have a bad feeling there aren't many of those -- there really weren't a lot of female action heroines prior to the Buffy and Nikita and Xena era on TV, and only a couple in the movies. (No, I don't count the original Charlie's Angels, since that show was more about their hair and boobs and outfits than about action.) But if you can think of some vids for like Remington Steele or The Avengers or Ripley in Alien(s) or the only Sarah Conner that counts, Linda Hamilton, I'd love to hear about them. And if you know how I can see them/get hold of them, even better! I have some limited access to some old VCR vid collections, but if I can get some direction, even better.
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I've meant, for a while, to give folks an update on my dad, but I was hesitant to say anything because I've been afraid it will evaporate. After I got back from Escapade, I didn't see him again for many days because I was so sick. The day I was going back to see him, I got this early morning call, and expecting bad news, I was rather stunned when Dad said, "Hey. I was thinking about the trust, and that I'm concerned if you take on that responsibility for it, you're going to be hit with a tax burden you can't handle" and blah blah, sounding exactly like he used to sound on the phone before he started taking the painkillers. I was all "What the hell?" and missed half of what he said, because he sounded so... normal.
When I went down to see him, he was sitting up more in bed, plotting out investments, and at one point when we talked, he actually sat all the way up, crosslegged on the bed. I was agog. He said he wanted to get more walking exercise, and I told him we'd have to start talking to them about taking him off hospice care, and then he made a list for me of stuff he wanted me to bring him. He showed me how he could get up from bed all by himself and walk over to the wheelchair.
So a few weeks went by, and he stayed in this condition -- every time he got better before, he'd backslide -- and the hospice people agreed that he could be taken off, and we had a care meeting and they asked him what his goals were and he said he wanted to go back to the apartments in one month. A little aggressive, but OK. He's been doing his therapy willingly, they got him a walker, and a couple times I've seen him in the halls in the wheelchair, testing out his endurance. His back is still killing him, and it's hard to get pain meds that work enough to help but don't cause lots of other physical problems, which is what caused this whole mess. But it's looking more like a possibility that he could go to assisted living at some point.
I was afraid to be optimistic. I'm still not really believing this is going to stay around. But he's reading again, and watching TV, and we got him some new hearing aids yesterday, which will definitely help. So, we went from death's door to... I'm not sure what, but it's an improvement. He doesn't like to eat, but he does it, and he's gained back about five or six pounds. And he uses the phone, which helps when I can't go down there.
At one point I asked him how much he knew about what was going on in the world, because I wanted to tell him I couldn't come down every day like before, and he hadn't had the TV on in months. He didn't know anything, so I told him about the changes in the middle east, and the not-war in Libya, and Wisconsin, the earthquake in New Zealand, and all that stuff. He was amazed. And then the next time I went down, it was the day after the Japan earthquake, so we talked about that a lot. The last bad episode he'd had, he'd been convinced there was an earthquake happening in the building.
People think I'm not happy for him and for me. It isn't that I wanted him to die but that I had gotten into that mindspace, and it's hard to get out of that once you're in it. I was dealing with the cemetery stuff, getting ready for the legal things, and then to have that turned around is just weird. I'm still not really sure if this will last, but at least it's forward momentum.
