Getting there
Dec. 21st, 2006 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroYesterday, I didn't manage to leave the house, except to run across the road to the newsagent's for snacks & next week's TV paper. I felt like poo, & the weather was worse - freezing fog is not good for my joints.
Today I didn't start to feel human till about 3 pm. We took a trip to Majestic Wine Warehouse, and are now more than adequately stocked with alcohol. Which I can't drink with my stomach in its current angry state, but I can hope that changes soon.
There's been good stuff too. I've had the first two discs of Carnivale. (I read about it when it came out, but our cable company didn't carry the channel it was on at that time). I had high expectations, which have been more than fulfilled. I am totally loving it.
I've also seen two films that I enjoyed much more than popular opinion would have predicted. One was The Sin Eater (apparently called The Order in the US). It's a secret orders and supernatural stuff within the Catholic church story, and I can never get enough of those, so it's not surprising that I rate it higher than the two stars the Radio Times gave it. It's not The Omen, or even Stigmata, but it's an interesting story with some stunning settings. The underground anti-church was particularly creepily done.
Sahara is a big dumb adventure involving Confederate gold and an outbreak of a new weird disease in Africa. It does have more explosions than are strictly necessary and has difficulty deciding whether it's Indiana Jones or James Bond and goes with "both", but it's an enjoyable lark nonetheless if you can get past the improbability of the ship full of Confederate gold ending up that far into the desert, abnormally high tides that year or no.
I'm also reading the book of The Long Way Round, the series I found so inspiring earlier in the year. It doesn't have the spectacular visuals of the films, but it's still excellent stuff.
Today I didn't start to feel human till about 3 pm. We took a trip to Majestic Wine Warehouse, and are now more than adequately stocked with alcohol. Which I can't drink with my stomach in its current angry state, but I can hope that changes soon.
There's been good stuff too. I've had the first two discs of Carnivale. (I read about it when it came out, but our cable company didn't carry the channel it was on at that time). I had high expectations, which have been more than fulfilled. I am totally loving it.
I've also seen two films that I enjoyed much more than popular opinion would have predicted. One was The Sin Eater (apparently called The Order in the US). It's a secret orders and supernatural stuff within the Catholic church story, and I can never get enough of those, so it's not surprising that I rate it higher than the two stars the Radio Times gave it. It's not The Omen, or even Stigmata, but it's an interesting story with some stunning settings. The underground anti-church was particularly creepily done.
Sahara is a big dumb adventure involving Confederate gold and an outbreak of a new weird disease in Africa. It does have more explosions than are strictly necessary and has difficulty deciding whether it's Indiana Jones or James Bond and goes with "both", but it's an enjoyable lark nonetheless if you can get past the improbability of the ship full of Confederate gold ending up that far into the desert, abnormally high tides that year or no.
I'm also reading the book of The Long Way Round, the series I found so inspiring earlier in the year. It doesn't have the spectacular visuals of the films, but it's still excellent stuff.
