Sin City

I don't think there's any spoilers here...

Lots of blood, even more violence.

And lots of T'n'A

Some of the story lines didn't grab me (especially the Bruce Willis ones) but overall I was very impressed. Mickey Rourke as Marv? Outstanding! I was thinking of lot of Hell Boy during that segment, though.

Heh, it did run into comic time-line continuity issues (Kevin, at the end).

I've never read any of the comics, but I thought it was very well done; stylistically clearly comic book in nature.

Enjoyable film!

Drunk

This weekend...

Friday night: Sin City with Tori, Steve, Julie, Eli, Ethan. Fun film! But then we needed to hit a place for food and drink and Friday night was so so crowded we ended up in Fiddlesticks which was very loud and my half-deafness meant that I was out of the conversation... didn't put me in a good mood, and then leaving the pub Tori started to stride off without saying goodnight... OK, when I called out, she rushed back... probably she forget that we were heading in different directions at that point, but after an unhappy hour or so... *sigh*

Saturday: home alone... Beth was gonna go to a party and then come back to my place to crash, but she called cancelling because the rain was too bad for her to come out. Oh well. I did lots of washing and ironing and cleaning. Joy, my Roomba has died. What a waste of money that was. *sigh* Transferred my backup system from a PII-550 to a PIII-800, since that was sitting around idle. I'll try to use UML to transfer "bastion host" functions from the Ppro-200 to a virtual machine. Turn off another unneeded machine. Watched lots of DVDs. At too much. Ate all the Creme Eggs, even though 2 were meant to be saved for Tori.

Sunday: Ugh, almost forgot the clocks went forward. Tried to go out shopping but the local store didn't have fuck all in it, and it had started to rain so I didn't want to head out to larger stores. So all day I've been sitting around watching Buffy Season 4 (well, I'd been running behind; I have all 7 seasons of Buffy and 4 of Angel - will buy 5 after I've got my house)... and feeling pretty miserable for myself. Not sure why. Sad, depressed. Maybe I've been this way for the past week or two since I've been overeating and underexercising and overdrinking... put on 3lbs in 2 weeks. Wheee... Around 5pm I opened a bottle of wine that I'd bought for Tori. Drunk it all. Opened the second. Umm, 1liter of wine in 2 hours and still going strong. I'm getting drunk.

On the plus side, Buffy is very very very funny while drunk!

Chaos

Sometimes I get tired of being the straight guy; the dependable guy; the honest guy; the guy that everyone can depend on to do the right thing.

Sometimes I just want to say "fuck the world" and drop all the balls I'm jugglng. Fuck work, fuck fiscal responsibility, fuck INS, fuck the world. I just wanna laze around and do whatever the hell I like. Maybe this is just my "stiff upper lip" playing up; what happens when too much stuff is on my shoulder... or maybe what happens when I _THINK_ there is too much on my shoulder.

I can't not go to work tomorrow because there's a project depending on me. I can't goof off. But I so want to!

Buffy Quote

"What you have is really complicated... but it's worth it"
(Jonathan to Buffy; 4.17 "Superstar")

Well, that's my life!