The Importance of Being Idle

A Game You Can't Win, Only Play

Thursday was a good day; I painted and cooked and was generally a happy and creative person, which is how I wish it would always be. I cooked a dish for Ronnie that I'd seen on TV the night before, which is the first time I've ever cooked anything I've seen on TV. In fact it's probably the first time I've really paid that much attention to a cookery programme ever, even though I've always sort of semi-watched them right from when I was a kid and used to watch Ken Hom's Hot Wok. I still think Ken Hom is awesome, no matter what.
So yeah, that was a good day, and I actually finished painting a miniature! I know, I was shocked too, but I have. I've taken some photos, so if I feel like blowing my own trumpet another day I'll post them and you can inspect my work. I was very pleased with it though, one of the best pieces of work I've ever done, which is just as well as it's a gift for a friend.
Today however was not as good. I applied for a few jobs, but I was starting to feel down and lost again (not to mention hungry; we don't exactly have a lot of money for food at the moment, in fact we don't really have any money for anything very much, and if you can't afford food which is pretty much essential then you know it's serious), when by good fortune there was a film on to cheer me up, The Legend of Bagger Vance. Now I know it's not everybody's cup of tea, what with the (obviously) heavy golfing metaphor (although for what it's worth I can only think of two golf movies, this and Tin Cup, and I love them both) and southern 1920s setting, but it's basically just Buddhist teachings in a nice sunny film world, and always manages to cheer me up and make me feel better about myself, which is especially odd as the narrator dies pretty much right at the beginning. So after that I felt a bit better, which is good. It also added another item to my list of things I want to do, which currently looks like this (in no particular order);

Ride a horse
Learn to play guitar
Learn to surf
Learn to play golf (or at least the version of golf found in movies such as Bagger Vance)

I'm sure there are plenty of other things that should be on there, but for some reason those are the ones that seem to stick in my head.
Something I should've mentioned earlier is that Mike Wieringo passed this Sunday. He was a young man of 44, and one of my favourite artists (especially after his run on the Flash with Mark Waid), and I'm deeply saddened to see him go.

posted by BadMonkey @ 8:49 PM