The Importance of Being Idle

Sex Nuts and Retard Strong (I Wish)

Well that's the end of my holiday. Which sucks 'cos all I've done for the past week is be ill, lie down, lie down and be ill. I called to tell the boss today, and he took it with surprising good humour, so I've got at least a couple more days off, or I suppose realistically as many as it takes to get me better again. Still, it's good to have a nice boss.
I've watched a few movies in the past few days, most notably Clerks 2 and V for Vendetta (again). V for Vendetta was as awesome as ever, and filled my head with revolutionary glee and the peculiar need to learn V's introductory speech (y'know the bit following "Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask" with all the lovely alliteration). Clerks 2 was the real surprise though, not that I didn't expect it to be good, because I did, I just didn't expect it to be so... grown up. In particular the bit with the go-karts is a feeling I have myself, but I don't think I've ever seen expressed by a fictional character before. Now maybe it has and I'm just not looking in the right places, and maybe there just aren't that many slacker characters in popular fiction, and maybe it isn't that unusual but there you have it. I don't know, but the feeling that life can just leave you in a lay-by because of choices you made when you were a kid, when you didn't even know you were making choices is pretty familiar to me and all too unpleasant. And you know what? It's not really something I've had while I've been driving. for years in retail, the brief time at Diligenta, I felt hopeless and lost and left behind, but somehow out on the road, no matter how trivial the job, I don't feel that. Sure I wonder where the job goes (career wise, jack ass) but I don't feel my life is pointless. Maybe that's just because I'm too tired to notice the pointlessness, and maybe it's just because it fulfills something in me that makes it all worth while. I dunno, all I was trying to say was that Clerks 2 hit on those issues in a way that surprised and moved me.

posted by BadMonkey @ 8:20 PM