The Importance of Being Idle

Choose Your Own Adventure

Ahhh so it was clearly "none of the above". Firstly I started re-re-re-re-reading American Psycho, which is never entirely indicative of a healthy state of mind, but whaddaya gonna do?
For my evening movie I opted for Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, an absolutely awesome spanish ghost story which everyone should see (well, if they want to see a ghost story set in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War anyway - if you're looking for a romantic comedy you'll probably need to be looking elsewhere). I don't know why Del Toro's Hollywood output isn't up to this standard, whether its the scripts, the studios or just the challenge of directing in a second language I don't know, but frankly nothing he's done in America has been even close to this standard. Luckily his next film is also Spanish, so we can have high hopes for that too.
I wish I hadn't used "Choose Your Own Adventure" as the title for this most unadventurous post, I shoulda saved it for when I did something remotely interesting. Mind you, if I had to save it THAT long... ;p
And so to bed, said Zebedee.
(yeah, that's another 'on target' reference for all those of you who grew up in England during the 70's and have even the first fucking clue what the Magic Roundabout IS)

posted by BadMonkey @ 11:57 PM