The Importance of Being Idle

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

Even the day after the Marvel panel at Comic-Con there's no stolen/leaked/official Iron Man footage online. I can only imagine that there's been a massive increase in security this year, either that or con goers are getting really lazy...
Yesterday on the stall was... well it just was really. It was a lovely sunny day, just after pay day, and yet we had remarkably few visitors, even from amongst our regular crowd. Luckily (well, not really luckily, we'd been working on her for weeks) we had one pretty big sale in the morning, so it was another reasonable but not great day. I'm starting to wonder if all the people who say they love the stall and appreciate it being there understand that they need to BUY stuff every now and then, or the whole thing will just fall apart...
Saturday evening was kinda fun; we pottered about and did stuff, then came home and I watched a vaguely disappointing documentary on British thrillers (which I'd been looking forward to all week!). It didn't seem to offer any real insight though, there was little about the creative process, the social mores of the time that produced these particular movies, and there was no real through arc to the whole thing. It was pretty much a chronological catalogue of movies, with the occasional talking head saying "wow, isn't that a great movie?". I don't even remember if I watched the end... I know I was deeply annoyed by their desire to spoil each and every one of these films. I'm sure it's possible to, for instance, discuss the Long Good Friday without actually spoiling the end, just by saying it has a killer ending! Equally you could argue that the movie is 25 years old now and if you were gonna see it you would have by now, but I remember seeing that movie for the first time and NOT knowing what was going on, and the ending was immensely powerful as a result. To have somebody just come up to you and spoil it like that just seems... well, wasteful.
And now it's Sunday morning, the first real morning of what was to be our little holiday. I hope that even with the events of the past week, we'll still be able to have a bit of fun, 'cos that'd be nice, to just relax and footle about for a bit.

posted by BadMonkey @ 9:47 AM