The Importance of Being Idle

Easy Morning Rebel

See, this is why I don't get out of bed early, or even in the mornings at all, if I can help it. 'Cos I'm bored, and miserable and don't have a clue what to do, or why I'd bother to do it even if I could think of anything. There's a whole 'nother long, lonely, pointless hateful day ahead of me and I have to fill it with something or other. Life, don't talk to me about life.
It is entirely possible of course, that all this uncalled for misery is the result of the whisky bender I was on last night as Duck suggested to me at the time. I wasn't really drunk as such, I don't really get drunk (although sometimes I think it'd be a bloody good idea), just drunk enough if you know what I mean. And now this morning my head hurts and I feel depressed and I have to suspect there is a correlation between the two.
Last night, before the drinking began, I watched Oliver Stone's Alexander (the original theatrical cut, I didn't like the sound of the DC, it seemed to be making the film easier and less controversial) and I have to say that I don't really know what everyone's problem with the movie is, which is exactly what I said about Kingdom of Heaven, which may lead one to suspect that I have a bit of a blind spot where the big old historical epic is concerned (after all, I think I'm the only person on the planet to actually enjoy Troy), and you may be right. Still, from (some of) the reviews of Alexander I expected it to be almost comically bad and yet it was nothing of the sort. The characters were well drawn, I actually thought that giving ALL the Macedonians Irish accents was a pretty clever way of making them obviously different from everybody else without them having to adopt a crazy faux Greek accent, and the film looked amazing. Here again, I was almost expecting a movie of confined scale, but got nothing of the sort, Babylon in particular was nothing short of breath-taking and to see the battles unfold was truly stunning. Of course, in some ways I was surprised by the film, no Gordian Knot for one, but then thinking about it, that's not exactly much of an episode is it? Alexander cuts knot with sword, world rejoices even though he's clearly (k)not entered into the spirit of things. Also, its the one thing about Alexander that everybody knows. Of course, you shouldn't mistake any of it (the movie) for actual history, but I thought it was bloody good nonetheless, emphasis on the bloody.
Okay well thats filled up a little bit of my day, time to go find something else to do I guess. My vote is for going back to sleep...

posted by BadMonkey @ 10:48 AM