The Importance of Being Idle

The Big Bizang!

Ooooh, today's been pretty interesting really.
Didn't get up early though, despite Ronnie calling me and reminding me how cold she was whilst scraping the ice off her car! I felt guilty, but not guilty enough to stop me rolling over and going back to sleep!
When I did get up an hour or so later, I went for a short run (my first in a good while) and I have to say that, tiring as it was, my body felt more alive afterwards than it has in the same good while! So that was good.
Over my morning cuppa I (somehow) discovered the delight of MC Hawking and his brilliant album A Brief History of Rhyme. And yes, it is someone using a voice box like Stephen Hawking's to rap (usually about physics or maths, but occasionally about what a gangsta theoretician he is) and it is surprisingly awesome. Kinda like Pitman, once you get past the joke part, you're left admiring the actual mic skills involved. Good stuff.
Ronnie booked our hotel for Whitby this Hallowe'en, which is awesome. Well, its not a hotel, its a B'n'B, but whatever, same difference right? And we've got four nights booked, so that'll be excellent! I know it's ages away yet, but it's nice to have it booked already - makes me feel all excited!
This evening I watched The Constant Gardener, which was just... brilliant, mesmerisingly brilliant. I mean, really, really impressive. The story was suitably complex, the characters interesting and superbly well played, the love story heart-breakingly believable, the conspiracy all too credible and the setting and scenery is just stunning. You just get this amazing sense of place (whatever that place may be), and especially you get a real sense of the horrifying ongoing tragedy which is Africa. Really, it's a bloody excellent, adult thriller/love story, and already high on my list of favourite films! I wonder if the original novel could be even a fraction as good: I can't imagine how it'd work, without the raw sense of place of the movie or the very precise way that Ralph Fiennes delivers a line of dialogue... I am however intrigued enough to want to read it and see. But again, top-notch movie, go watch it and be amazed.
And finally, there has been a complaint about me not showing my hair on Friday night, so here it is! I still think it looks cool! What you can't see is the rest of the picture, in which you'd see me rifling through the pay-packet of the woman I love, to make sure we have enough to pay for our night out! Poverty, it makes you do terrible things!

posted by BadMonkey @ 11:35 PM