Back from holiday...

...to droppage from Amazon. French zombie flick Horde, Big Bang Theory Season 4, and a box set of classic 50's SF B movie gems (including Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Tarantula and This Island Earth).  These wee gems should keep me going for a bit :-)

Things in work are getting....interesting.  Some things changing for the better, but with the merger, there's also been a decided step back in a certain area, pretty much because that's the way some people have "always done it", and they don't seem to want to get up to date with the everyone else.  But hey, it's makes my life easier, even if it creates more work for others.

Currently rocking out to.....

Alex Harvey live at the BBC. And rather excellent it is too.

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Ignorant arse

Got off the train this morning, and when I was walking across the concourse, a guy in front of me just blatantly stopped reading his Metro, and dropped it on the concourse.  I hat idiots like this.  Where the hell were the litter wardens with their £50 fines?   Too busy fining women who's kids in a pushchair have spilt a pack of crisps on the ground (I HAVE seen this happen on more than one occasion).

Aaaargh.

Monsters

Yesterday, after an in-line skating session (fun fun fun), we stuck on the latest movie from LoveFilm, Monsters. It's brilliant.  A sort of SF road movie.  NASA probe crashes with samples of alien life, which then grow, resulting in what's called the "Infected Zone", a huge swathe of land between America and Mexico, which is pretty much a no-go area.

Cue rich American girl who's father is determined that she's getting home, and who tells a photographer who works for his magazine, to make sure she gets home safe.  After missing the last ferry of the season to leave for the US, and having their passports stolen, the only option left is to travel overland through the Infected Zone.

It's a cool movie, and there's a quite touching scene when two of the creatures encounter each other at a gas station our couple are sheltering in.

Monsters is genuinely different to other movies, and is well worth checking out.

Dammit...

.....I'm knackered.  TFIF :D

Plan for tonight - laze in front of telly.
Plan for tomorrow - take Rosie to vet to get weighed.  Grand Ole Opry at night
Sunday - in-line skating.

But for now, I'm outa here.

WIDATW

Friday after work, fellow zombie nut Ed came over to drop off a stack of dvds he'd borrowed.  Think he might have pulled a girl at work, as she was constantly texting him.  He's worse than me at picking up on signs.

On Saturday morning, there was an extra karate class which was good fun.  Especially as there was bo and jo staffs involved, and we were going over basai dai, which is a kata I've just started learning.  So there was plenty to take in.  Really need to pick up staffs for me and K.

On Sunday, we went in-line skating.  There's a class at the gym at my work on a Sunday morning, and it was a blast.  The instructor managed to get me to do things that I couldn't do when I was ice skating, so I was really chuffed.

Good fun weekend.  Only two weeks now till the holiday :-)

That was awesome

As you may or may not know, I'm a huge horror fan.  I'm especially a fan of all things Lovecraftian and zombie.  For a fan of zombies, the last week and a bit has been amazing, as I was working as an extra on WWZ.  The experience of spending a week working on a film was incredible, but the cherry on the cake was the fact it was not only a horror, but a zombie flick.

I'm so happy I got the oppertunity, and I'm gutted it's over.  I'm also relieved it's over, as I don't have to get up at 5am every morning now, so there's a silver lining.

Really looking forward to seeing the movie when it comes out.