of days off and doing stuff
Today was a national holiday - a holiday to celebrate the founding of Japan. Not quite sure when that was, as today is different to Constitution Day, apparently.
So, as the weather was rubbish, and I needed a rest, I decided not to go out. Well, I went out on my bike to Shintakashima and bought some baked beans from Tesco. It was freezing cold and raining. When I got back, I had a fit of the grumps, lay about in bed for a bit and then after feeding myself beans on toast (suspect the grumps were brought on by not eating), got down to typing up a little story I've been working on, and then re-writing a poem that's been kicking about for almost a year now. The story needs to not be a first person narration, so I have to reword the whole thing, but it's only 1100 words so far, so nothing too strenuous.
I watched "The Lovely Bones." I haven't read the book. People were raving about it when I worked at the bookshop in Slough, and I had a policy or avoiding reading anything that was recommended to me more than twice in one day, because back then I was an idiot. It was a pretty good movie - very tense in parts, very sad in others. I liked the whole fantasy-heaven part as well, particularly the ships in bottles smashing up on the beach. The music was good too, and made even better by the fact that I recognized Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil in there. Go me with the music knowledge.
So, an update on movies and books is due I guess...
So, as the weather was rubbish, and I needed a rest, I decided not to go out. Well, I went out on my bike to Shintakashima and bought some baked beans from Tesco. It was freezing cold and raining. When I got back, I had a fit of the grumps, lay about in bed for a bit and then after feeding myself beans on toast (suspect the grumps were brought on by not eating), got down to typing up a little story I've been working on, and then re-writing a poem that's been kicking about for almost a year now. The story needs to not be a first person narration, so I have to reword the whole thing, but it's only 1100 words so far, so nothing too strenuous.
I watched "The Lovely Bones." I haven't read the book. People were raving about it when I worked at the bookshop in Slough, and I had a policy or avoiding reading anything that was recommended to me more than twice in one day, because back then I was an idiot. It was a pretty good movie - very tense in parts, very sad in others. I liked the whole fantasy-heaven part as well, particularly the ships in bottles smashing up on the beach. The music was good too, and made even better by the fact that I recognized Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil in there. Go me with the music knowledge.
So, an update on movies and books is due I guess...