I made my last payment on the painting I bought from a local artist today. He wrapped it up and sent me out with it. Not before three people in the place admired it, and congratulated me on it. I was grinning from ear to ear and also hopping from one foot to another excitedly. Now it's in my office and it's hard to stop looking at it. I think I will take it home -- that seems like where it belongs. But if I kept it here I could look at it for many hours, five days a week.
It even has a smell -- like wood and oil.
This resolution -- to buy an original piece of art each calendar year -- is going to be a real treat. This one I'm counting as fulfilling 2003's requirement. So now I get to keep my eyes open for something I can fall in love with in 2004. If I can take my eyes off of this one....
A good read! Personally, I did like Dollhouse from the beginning, but I agree that without someone to truly identify with and root for it was harder to really love this show early on than, say, Buffy the series. Not to mention that Whedon shows are at their best when there's a whole cast of more or less likeable characters (I didn't love the first season of Angel either; it needed a spice of Wesley, Gunn, Lorne and Fred added). Without my by now 100% trust in Joss I might have let Dollhouse go, which would have been a real shame. It's been said before, but Whedon shows really belong on cable or public-service television like BBC (or why not Swedish television; there's a thought...). I mean, look at Dexter. A show asking us to root for a serial killer? And after a while, we do...
Posted by: r4 carte | February 10, 2010 at 07:54 AM