Bit of a theme

Yesterday, K was pretty sick, so the plans to go out were scrapped in favour of lounging about in front of the tv watching movies.

At one point, she fell asleep, and I stuck on Ip Man, but she woke up part way through it, and asked if we could watch it later, as she liked the look of it, but couldn't concentrate on the subtitles.  That's a result, as I've been raving about this movie, but she never fancied it, so hasn't seen it yet.

So what did we watch?  Well, before she woke up, I watched Avengers Assemble, which is just awesome.  I even liked Thor in it, which surprised me, as I wasn't too taken with the Thor movie.  Loved Downey as Iron Man again.  He's just brilliant in that role.

After Avengers, and the Ip Man false start, it was Kill Bill Vol 2, followed by Killing Zoe, and to top it all off, I recorded Kill List on the pvr.  If you've never seen Kill List, it's a rather brilliant and rather brutal movie, starring Michael Smiley who played tyres in Spaced.  Let me say, this ain't no comedy people, so if you're going to watch it, buckle up, as there may be some turbulence.

Bleurgh

Since getting back from holiday, I've missed the Motorhead gig, by forgetting to buy a ticket before I went away, and coming back and thinking I HAD bought a ticket.  Result?  No gig for me.

I've also been laid out the the last five days with the flu.  The downside was well, I had the flu.  There was a plus side though.  I had ten Star Trek movies on the PVR (every one bar the re-boot movie), and they are now all on dvd, so the time spent off work, wasn't a total waste.

Now though, it's a case of normal service has been resumed, with me back at work.  I still need that bloody lottery win :-)

Tired tired tired

Birthday done and dusted a couple of days ago and I'm still tired dammit.  I don't feel like I've got ANY energy at the moment, which makes concentrating on anything a pain.

On a lighter note, earlier this week I went to see Inception, and damn, that an excellent movie.  Came out, and just wanted to head back in and see it again.  If you haven't seen it, think what The Sting would have been like if it had been written by Philip K Dick. Immense move.  Utterly brilliant.

Forthcoming attractions

I picked up a brochure for the GFT the other day, and there's some good and some downright weird movies coming soon.  There's a documentary about The Doors, that I'd like to check out, and a complete weird-0-rama called Trash Humpers, that could be worth a watch.

They've also got a horror/cult movie discussion group on a Wednesday evening, that I might start going to.

I've got a couple of days holiday on Wednesday and Thursday.  K doesn't work on Wednesday, so if the weather is nice, I'd like the two of us to jump in the car and head off for the afternoon.  If it's dry on Thursday, I might head up the cycle path to Loch Lomond, and if not, I'll checkout a couple of movies.

Back on the bike

Last year I mostly cycled to work.  It's cheaper than the bus/train, it's excercise, and it's faster than the bus.  I can take a route through a local park, and along the side of the River Clyde, that avoids LOTS of traffic lights, and as a result is faster than the bus.
When I get into work I can grab a shower in the gym, then there's still time to get a coffee before I have to start work, so it's win - win.

At the weekend, we had some friends round on Saturday for dinner, which was pretty good.  Sunday was a long lazy morning followed by a trip to the movies in the afternoon to see Shutter Island, which I liked, but K was a bit dissapointed in.  She liked it, but had thought from the trailers that it was a horror movie.

So, that was the weekend.  Short and sweet, and now it's back to work and as long as there's no horrible weather backlash, that's the bike now until December again.

9

Finally got round to seeing 9 last night.  I'd got a loan of it from a neighbour, but I think this is one that might get picked up, as it really is worthy of repeat viewing.
Superb animation, a great story, just really really good.  You could totally empathise with these little rag dolls struggling to survive in a a world destroyed by man.

Can't recommend this highly enough.