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So the last episode of Six Feet Under aired tonight, which was more of the exhausted soap opera stuff, tying and untying all of the knots that need to be tied or untied. At the end of a show, a 5 minute montage that I actually quite enjoyed. Saved the finale, on a certain level. Was rather on edge during the entire show tonight that it would end mired in the same marshy patch of melodrama where it’s been for, i dunno, almost 2 season…

Here’s a summmary of this final montage via the NY Times, where someone’s been up late writing tonight:

As Claire drove east in a new car – bless her, she had totaled that hideous hearse in her accident – she let her mind wander. Into the young, agile mind came a premonition: everyone would die. Suddenly the show became a montage of the ways all the show’s remaining major characters would leave this world. Keith (Mathew St. Patrick), David’s boyfriend, was shot in the back of an armored truck. An aged Brenda died while listening to her brother ramble on about emotional closure. Ruth expired in bed, attended by David and her companion, George (James Cromwell). David keeled over while fantasizing about Keith. Rico collapsed on a cruise ship.

And finally Claire herself, her eyes so rheumy they looked opaque, died in a huge dark-wood bed, surrounded by evidence of a well-lived, love-filled life and an HBO set designer’s sense of future décor. The year was 2085. She was 102.

The Times writer assumes that this sequence is Claire’s fantasy of what was to come, not a presentation of what’s “really” in store for the characters. Maybe, maybe not. SFO is usually pretty careful to mark fantasy as such, to break away from the daydream back into jarring reality…

Whatever. But if Alan Ball had really wanted a jarring close, to bring the momento mori factor to the next level, how incredible would it have been if he had thrown some more-than-familial history into the mix. More and better terror, David and Keith running a souvenir shop in Venice Beach where wealthy teenagers from Some Other Country come to do their Spring Breaking where their yuan/euro/yen goes a lot further, Rico finally run out of business by the conglomerate (really, he’s going to make it to the cruise ship running a family owned funeral home?)

The melancholy here, in this montage, is a sense that we’ll die and miss the more and better (especially the fabulous homes…) Which is the melancholy that coats the surface of contemporary American life… Underneath the surface, however, an extremely deep well filled with waiting for the other shoe to drop… Fire or fizzle or both…

Rome begins next Sunday.

Lenny at DC Art News has two great articles up today. One on the statues around cities that artists supposedly made or something like making. I have always wondered why the cities don’t just commision real sculptures. But it will never happen in Richmond. We have one good sculpture down town by the railroad station that no one can leave from. Horid location, great piece, great idea for a train station, rediculous that trains don’t leave it but once a day. Sorry today’s writing is quite poor, due to the fact that this is my last day at my desk job. I will have to do my research during my working hours now. But posts will either be more, or better constructed in the future. Anyway, Good BYE Dean’s Office. I will miss the hours of surfing website, putting away papers, telling parents that their children have significant others and that is the reason they do not return their calls. I will miss packaging up highly paid faculty’s crap to ship to their other office in the middle east.

There are several conditions to be thought of when purchasing dining room furniture that will actually satisfy your living style plus your taste. If you read and learn some home design principles, it will be easier to produce some of the ideas.

So, when organizing furniture for the dining room, look into the following crucial aspects:

No matter what dining room furniture you are going to decide on, balance is the most significant aspect which provides your dining room the impression of equilibrium. To achieve balance, consider the following things:

• Color – A lot of color will spoil everything.

• Pattern and Texture – These are of the same relevance as colors.

To illustrate, whenever you selected modern dining room furniture set for this room, you’ll be able to attain a proper balance by placing two chairs on every side assuming you have four.

Mess will overcrowd any dining room. So, offer a number of lovely looking baskets or cabinets to stock things in.

- Dining Table To Choose

Pick out a table based on the form of your dining room. If you have a long narrow dining room, shop for a table of identicalof similar shape. Keep in mind that square tables look perfect in large kitchens. Though you could very well also buy a round one which stands out as the best option for a small dining room.

Hopefully, these interior planning ideas will help you when selecting your dining room furniture. They’ll certainly make your dining room airy, trendy and modern .

There is also a different type of balance, which is called asymmetrical. This implies that the pieces of interior design are balanced without actual duplication. To illustrate , you can have three wall paintings on one particular side of a country dining room table and one on the other.

Aside from that , there is also radial balance which can certainly be accomplished when you set up an accent on the central part of a dining room.

There tend to be also some more good ideas pertaining to this kind of room:

- Let it look bigger.

Designers would suggest making a strong easy access directly into the dining room to establish more open design . You should really use lighter window finishing. Put mirrors to reflect light and create the trick of larger space.