The Importance of Being Idle

Awake Is The New Sleep

I feel like crap today.
My throat is rough as hell, and I'm coughing and spluttering and just generally feeling unwell and run-down. And I'm tired, which is ridiculous cos its not like I dragged myself out of bed early or anything, quite the reverse, I forced myself to go back to sleep when I DID wake up early.
I hate being sick.
I'm starting to hate weekends too.
It's not that I'm less isolated during the week, cos I don't really think it makes any difference, its just that I seem to find it harder to occupy myself over the weekend, and they seem to stretch on endlessly and pointlessly, a bit like my life as a whole really. See, I told you I was feeling pitiful, didn't I? I just wish I could go to sleep and wake up when there's something worth being awake for.
Jaysus, when did I get to be such a miserable c#*t?
On the plus side I watched Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement today, his second movie with Audrey Tautou, and it is just as marvelous as all his other films have been (well, maybe not Alien Resurrection, but the funny, quirky one's in french anyway). Despite being based on a novel (by Sebastian Japrisot) it still feels very Jeunet, almost like Amelie Goes To War in fact, but that doesn't weaken it in anyway. It's more visually stunning than anything you're ever seen from Hollywood (as is always the way with Jeunet), and packed with incidental detail, in both the sets, settings and the supporting characters. Just go watch it, I promise you everybody will love it. Unless you for some unfathomable reason didn't like Amelie, in which case I suggest a visit to your physician, cos you're heart has clearly turned to stone. The subtitles seemed to play pretty fast and loose with the translation though, even my limited french could spot some occasions when the subtitles were more a summary than an actual translation of what was said, but I guess translation is as much an art as anything, so who can say? We should count ourselves lucky it's never been dubbed into english...

posted by BadMonkey @ 7:18 PM