Saturday 9: Good for You

Saturday 9: Good for You (2015)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Selena Gomez sings about how eager she is to look good for her lover. What color do you look best in?

A. Blue or dark green. My eyes are hazel, and blue makes them look blue and green makes them look green. I have fair skin, so lighter colors make me look washed out.

 

2) She compares herself to a diamond, which is the birthstone of people born in April. Do you know your birthstone? Is it a gem you often wear?

A. My birthstone is a pearl or alexandrite. I have a couple of pearl necklaces, but I don't think I have any alexandrite. I used to wear the pearls frequently pre-pandemic. There isn't much point in putting them on these days, since I don't go anywhere.

  

3) Selena Gomez is a successful singer who has appeared on the Billboard charts more than 30 times. She also has her own cooking show on HBO Max. In each episode, Selena invites a chef to help her master a new recipe. She says that, off camera, the dish she enjoys making most is spicy miso ramen soup. What's your favorite soup?

A. Campbell's Chicken Pub Style Soup. I used to like tomato soup, but my stomach doesn't like it anymore.

4) She was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in the Hulu miniseries Only Murders in the Building. Have you streamed anything interesting lately that you would like to recommend to Sat 9ers?

A. Season 4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is on now on Amazon Prime. New Shows are out on Fridays. I am also watching The Gilded Age and My Brilliant Friend. I recommend all three. My Brilliant Friend is in Italian, so there are subtitles.

 

5) Selena Gomez provides the voice for Mavis Dracula, daughter of the Count, in the animated Hotel Transylvania movie and its sequels. In these family movies, Dracula and his family run a luxury hotel where monsters can vacation and get away from it all. The tone is similar to The Munsters and The Addams Family, TV shows from nearly 60 years ago. Caspar the Friendly Ghost has been entertaining children for generations. When you were a child, were you fascinated by ghosts, goblins, monsters and other such creatures?

A. Yes, and I am still fascinated by them. What is in our psyche that makes us feel the need to make up such creatures?

6) Selena's busy schedule is especially impressive when you realize that she lives with lupus, a chronic condition that can affect the skin, joints and kidneys. She credits "diet, routine and medication" for helping her avoid flare-ups. Do you have any tips that might help us increase our productivity and efficiency?

A. Use a timer. Work at something for 10 minutes. If you want to keep going after 10 minutes, do so. If you don't, stop. At least you worked at it for a little while.

7) In 2015, when this week's song was popular, Leonard Nimoy died. Without looking it up, do you know why he was famous?

A. He played Mr. Spock in Star Trek. I know it wasn't because of this video, although it's quite cute and who'd have thought there was a connection between Star Trek and The Hobbit?

8) Also in 2015, NASA announced that water had been found on Mars. Do you follow news about science and space?

A. I do. I went outside the other day in very windy weather to see if I could catch a glimpse of a SpaceX liftoff from Wallops Island, but I could not see it. I'd rather follow news about space and science than anything else - it's real news. Not opinion.

9) Random question: What was the best year of your life?

A. I'm still waiting on that to happen. I have had years where good things have happened: my marriage, college graduations, etc., but not really a single year. That said, I have recently noted I'd like to go back to the period of about 2004-2006; I was relatively healthy, working hard at my writing with the newspaper, we hadn't had the 2007 recession yet, and the nation wasn't so divided that I could feel the hands at my throat choking me every time I looked in the eyes of someone at the grocery store.

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