The Importance of Being Idle

30 Days of Night; Less Time Than I Waited At Ikea

And here we are at the start of the weekend. The week did not end well. I was severely messed about by Ikea (who we deliver for on occasion) and ended up waiting some three and a half hours beyond my allotted loading slot before the van was full and I could go, and that was after the loading slot had been bumped back from by a full four hours! So I spent pretty much an entire working day just hanging around waiting for them to get their shit together. Once finally sorted I then headed off a drop laughingly labelled as Ipswich but which could much more accurately described as Folkestone, and two drops that were of course three. People were annoyed 'cos we were so late, and because Ikea customer service had been telling them complete and utter lies about our arrival time (without ever actually consulting us to see where we were, naturally) and I had a dizzy spell and managed to fall down some very steep stairs and I hurt down pretty much my entire left side now. I was finally home just after nine o'clock. The only up side is that I'll be getting paid for all the hanging about, so my wages next week should be pretty good.
When I was finally home I watched 30 Days of Night, which had arrived earlier in the week, and it didn't disappoint. Admittedly it didn't do the arctic isolation thing as well as The Thing, and the vampires weren't quite as terrifyingly brutal as those in Near Dark, but not quite matching the heights of two of the genres best is nothing to be ashamed of, and I was really impressed. These vampires are far removed from the romantic notion we've become used to in literature, and are savage, animalistic beasts seemingly almost as tortured by their existence as we are, although their motivations are left pleasingly blank beyond the obvious. Hell, even Josh Hartnett seemed to give an acting performance, which is something of a first for him. It even had a suitably bleak, 70s style fighting the monsters destroys your humanity (quite literally in this case) ending.
So now it is the weekend. As I may have mentioned, I ACHE! And have absolutely no idea what we're going to get up to. Time to go find out!

posted by BadMonkey @ 10:42 AM