By choice I don’t watch very much television. For me it’s all too easy to sit down in front of the thing, and before you know it time has passed, a day is gone. For this reason I don’t have television service in my home, but I do have it in the building next door, in the office area under my dungeon.

I do though watch and enjoy a good number of movies on DVD, and in this I include some of the extremely good TV shows that are available on disc. Rome, The Sopranos, and Pen & Teller’s Bullshit come to mind.

Recently I’ve started watching OZ, an HBO series from quite a few years ago.

I don’t find OZ to be spectacular TV as is Rome, nor particularly exciting as is The Sopranos, nor in keeping with my own core values as is Bullshit. What I do find in it however is a very interesting vision of open and naked dominance and submission.

The groups within the story all fight for dominance over each other, and the individuals within each group fight for dominance over the other group members. There are explicit D/s storylines within the show, but beyond that the entire show is more or less devoted to the theme of dominance and forced submission to the will of the stronger group or individual.

Of course our society is in its entirety one of power, all relationships have the dominant partner or group along with the submissive. BDSM simply recognizes these facts and uses extreme forms of them for pleasure. OZ through its prison setting throws these fundamental facts into our full view, confronts us with them.

Interesting watching.

Posted by Milliscent at 12:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I’ve watched a handful of movies recently and as they were all fairly good I thought that I should pass the titles along. All of these were quite lighthearted.

The Golden Compass was the best of this batch I think and while it was obviously meant for a young audience I did enjoy the movie. This is of course the movie that had the fundamentalists in a tizzy when it hit the theaters, I’ve got to figure that anything Pat Robertson and his ilk dislikes must be good.

Stardust was another movie for a young audience, but I must say that Robert De Niro plays a superb crossdresser!

Next I’ll mention Over Her Dead Body, the first movie in this list actually made for adults. While the story was a bit weak, I thought that Eva Longoria played her part masterfully.

Life can't all be vanilla though, I also watched Headspace which I found to be a quite entertaining bdsm documentary.

Posted by Milliscent at 10:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)