Let there be snot.
by phill
photo credit: zombizi
I’ve been sick,
though that doesn’t completely account for the lack of updates, as it was only for the last four days, not the full week. So I guess I should apologies for the lack of updates. I had a good reason though; I’m a lazy bastard. Plain and simple.
In any case, I did a bit of movie watching in the couple of days while I was out of it and couldn’t do much more than cough up chunky bits of opaque orange jelly, and blow out what looked like yoghurt water from my nose. I finally, much to Zoe’s delight, watched ‘The Proposition’, which is a brilliant movie and well worth the wait of the year or so that I’ve been borrowing the DVD. Honestly, I’m not usually this bad when it comes to watching or reading things that I’ve been given, but after the first few months or so it just became an ongoing joke. I’ve given it back to her now and she screamed a bit, but was otherwise okay. The movie itself is a brutal, but very well-crafted story of revenge and brotherhood and justice. Like a wild west would be if it was about five-thousand times more wild, verging on the rabid. Highly recommended.
The other movie was ‘Rear Window’ which was incredible, as any Hitchcock fan will no doubt agree with. Grace Kelly is gorgeous and the interplay between characters is splendid. the camera work is fantastic, given we never leave the same room it’s amazing how they shot it so as not to make it overly noticeable. And of course, the suspense is just about palpable by the time it reaches its climax. A.R. can probably back me up on this one, let me check:
“I suppose it was the memory of thing, because my reintroduction through Rear Window last year changed my mind. Like with Vertigo and Psycho, something about his work just clicked with me. It’s a tremendously brilliant movie that entreats the viewer to take part in the same game Stewart’s character plays, which is part of Hitchcock’s brilliance.”
Yeap, she sure can. :)
Anyway, I’ll leave you with my usual selection of links, this time with a theme of cheering you up if you’re stuck in bed sick (or bored at your office wondering how your day could get worse). Enjoy!
Links
If you think your teenage years were bad, perhaps you should spare a thought for the poor kid whose acne, already at epic proportions, decided to spell out the word ‘ARSE’ on his forehead. (via Arbroath)
Or imagine if you’re the author nearing the final chapter of this book, which only uses each word in its 192 pages once. (via J-Walk)
Or hell, you could be this poor kid. (via J-Walk)
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Comments
Dude. Seriously, you take far too much delight in describing the fluids that come out of your body. While I accept that you’re sick and therefore must make everyone feel your pain, there’s no need to do it using adjectives like yoghurt (which is really a noun and should be left as such).
Also, you haven’t finished your Europe doodlings.
It’s my pleasure and I’ll take it where I can, damn it.
Yeah, I’m going to get back to that once we print off all the photos so I can remember all the stuff that happened :P Probably get it done this Thurs at late night shopping. Last time we went the machines were shit, you had to have all your photos in the top directory of your USB and no other folders there, or else they got confused and spat it out. :/ Gotta love this modern teknologies!!1
Also the ‘yoghurt’ in ‘yoghurt water’ isn’t being used as an adjective, I mean to describe the watery substance you get on natural yoghurt (not the sweet stuff) when you open it up (:
Aww, thanks for quoting me!
Yeah, Rear Window is a truly awesome movie. All 3 of the ones I mentioned are integral to building today’s cinematic language. Very few filmmakers can claim to have made so many important films or to have developed the medium so much. Offhand, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Bergman, and Ford are maybe as important.
The Proposition is quite good, though I have to say I’m partial to anything written *and* scored by Nick Cave.