The Importance of Being Idle

Must Resist Dark Side!

The thing that is being hardest about today is the certain knowledge that I'm not going to interact with another human being for the next four days.
Some days I'm okay with that, I'm not hugely gregarious or anything and I enjoy doing my own thing. But other days, like today, it seems a terrible burden. I'm sorely tempted to do something stupid, but I also know I won't cos that would complicate life too much, and hurt people (well, one person) I don't ever want to hurt. Also I'm not really the 'doing something stupid' sort. Still, I really don't want to sleep alone tonight... Guess I'll have to take Bagpuss with me, eh?
So what have I actually done today apart from moping about?
Ermmmm...
Looked for jobs, obviously. That went well I think, found another couple of interesting things to apply for (one of them is for a visual merchandiser, which'd be great, I love that stuff). I killed a lot of spiders that were stupid enough to be in places where I could find them. Then I watched a movie, in fact I finally forced myself to watch Alien 3 on DVD. I bought the whole Alien quadrilogy (as Fox calls it - I doubt that quadrilogy is an actual word) ages ago when they were on sale, and I watched Alien and Aliens straight off, cos they both rock. But Alien 3 had been a roadblock for me, cos I remember seeing it when it first came out, and it being shit. But the cool thing about all the Alien DVDs is that they have directors cuts on them in addition to the theatrical cut (although Fincher won't let anyone call the Alien 3 one the directors cut, he insists it be called the directors work print), and damn me if the extended version doesn't make it a radically better film. Its over half and hour longer, and as is always the case with these things, it expands on character (oddly the first thing the studios cut, cos apparently we, the viewing public, just like to see 90 minutes of things exploding for no reason) and actually makes the story coherent. Admittedly its still nothing like the original story that Vincent Ward wrote (I personally would have loved to see Alien versus monks on a low tech world with no metal and covered in massive trees), but its actually not the embarrasing train-wreck that the original release was, and might even be a worthy addition to the series.
I'll be fucked if I know what I'm going to do for the rest of the evening though. I started to watch The Empire Strikes Back, but shockingly wasn't in the mood (see, thats how seroious this is). I think there's gonna be a Rufus show on later, so I'll probably watch that. He's oddly ubiquitous at the moment, cos I saw him on TV last night doing a little documentary about Verdi and out-lining why he's the coolest composer of classic music ever (apparently because he actually got better as he got older, and still enjoyed his work even as a 70 year old), and also why Rufus is going to write a symphony (because he's always wanted to).
I just feel very blah and listless, and I hate this.

posted by BadMonkey @ 10:11 PM