The other day, I put up my latest blog post on my/our plans for this weekend. I was mentioning one of the things we were doing with my sister. She hadn’t seen the post and asked, “What is the special occasion?” I sent her a link to the post.
But it got me thinking, as we made plans for the rest of this weekend, specifically tonight, next weekend, and the weekend after, what and why the special occasions are. I’ll recite the what in a moment, but the why is, in part, a cold, cold winter. Over the last few weeks, it has dipped into, and stayed in, the single digits and negatives. It’s comforting mentally to have something warm and cozy to look forward to, or something to look forward to, period.
Also the way my mind works or like to work is thematically, hence the theme of this blog of initially looking at an unfinished person through the lenses of body, mind, and soul. That has expanded or contracted to what I read, what I watch, and what I listen to. So I’m drawn to seeing the world through themes. So, for example, this month is Black History Month, and I plan to read a few books on Black history.
Close to next weekend is Valentine’s Day, and the following weekend is Presidents’ Day Weekend. My wife is off next weekend and off Monday, as am I, for President’s Day. So, Friday night, Kim and I plan on watching more of The Afterparty. We’ve only seen the first episode, but on Friday, the fifth episode arrives so we’ll catch up. Then on Saturday, we’re delving into black and white movies, with The Seventh Seal, which Kim never has seen, and The Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.
We’ll end the weekend with watching a little football, no, not the Super Bowl, but Going Deep with Terry Bradshaw and, in keeping with it being Sunday, going to church (sort of) with Danny McBride and John Goodman in The Righteous Gemstones. We’ve been wanting to watch it, but just haven’t gotten there yet.
On the Sunday of President’s Day Weekend, we plan on watching All the President’s Men and who knows maybe start a Ken Burns bio of a president. That’s a couple of weeks out, so plans might change.
Tonight, our plans originally were to have a PBS night, maybe watching Around the World in 80 Days, but then last night we watched a trailer for a movie on Apple+ called Coda and decided we wanted to watch that. We’re also going to watch the latest episode of Somebody Somewhere on HBO and end the night with another episode of Joe Pera Talks with You.
Here’s a playlist of all the shows and movies that we are planning to watch this month:
Do you plan things out ahead? Do you have themed weekends/days?
Still an unfinished person... 
I never thought about themed reading or viewing. Interesting how you are pairing films with anniversary events or special days. It must make the process of choosing more of a fun event, rather than just plonking down in front of the tv and scrolling through one of the subscription channels in the hope that something jumps out at you!
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It does help. Although sometimes it is fun to find new things.
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I love the way to you think – we don’t have themed nights or weekends – and never even thought about it. But it’s such a good idea.
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It’s just the way my mind works, I guess. Sometimes things don’t fit neatly into the box, and that’s okay too.
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First of all, I did see your post. I just didn’t see the special occasion and still don’t. 😉😉 joke! Joke! And seriously – no I don’t think in themes often. That’s why I am so boring. It all sounds like fun. Well, some of it. Some of it sounds boring and like something old people do. 😉 (again .. I am kidding. I do a lot of old people stuff too!)
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Again – I am joking a lot here. It actually does sound like a lot of interesting stuff to watch. I think I may check a couple of them out.
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Some might not be for you, to be honest, but Joe Pera reminds me a lot of Jonathan or something he might like. You might too And they’re short. 11 minutes. It’s on HBO Max.
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I know – I’ve seen the one you shared with me. I will check out the rest. I keep forgetting to tell him about it
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I’ve been surprised too when I’ve tried some things you’ve suggested and liked it – you never know. Tastes change.
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It happens when you get older…boring happens. 🙂
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Trust me I know. I’m taking a break from reading a Cat Who book under a blanket with a cup of tea. I’m feeling my parents age. 😉
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Ok, first of all, I looooove that you do these themes. So much fun!!!!!
Second, thanks for the block of trailers. I definitely want to see Somebody Somewhere, Coda, Afterparty, and the Joe Pera thing! They all look really good and I see that John Early from Search Party is in After Party so I definitely must see that.
To answer your questions, I do not plan things ahead or have themed weekends or days but want to try it…just don’t know if I can do it since I’m so not a planner and that would go against my own nature. LOL I need someone else to do all the planning and then just invite me over. Ha ha.
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We highly recommend CODA, even if you have to rent it somewhere. It’s well worth it.
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I have Apple so I watched CODA and it was SO good. Cried all the way through it.
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Sooo good.
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Ok. First off, I am super impressed with you putting together all those trailers for us to watch. And second, they all look so good! I am obviously missing out by not having HBO. Have a great rest of your weekend.
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We ditched Netflix and Amazon Prime, so can afford HBO Max, plus it’s more like a hub for other channels, including Turner Classic Movies among them.
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