When I Grow Up I'll Be Stable
Jan. 24th, 2010 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magictreehouseI forgot to mention in my last entry that I watched a fascinating documentary on Scrabble the other day. It was part of the Imagine series presented by Alan Yentob and looked into the history of it. However, it mostly concentrated on the current championship games that take place. It was a little distressing to know that most of the World Champions are mathematicians who don't have an appreciation of the words they play. Hell, some of them don't even speak English! One of the British players said that he'd been challenged on the word 'legend'. It was still very interesting to see that the large tournaments feature a wide variety of players, not just geeks!
During the week we've been working through all of the stuff from Xmas that we'd taped so we watched the making of Victoria Wood's Xmas show, which was much better than the actual show. Go figure. We also watched Call Me Claus which we'd mostly taped due to the Whoopi factor but it still wasn't as funny as it should have been.
Face/Off was a little better, even if it was the most ludicrous thing I've seen since The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And despite it's ridiculous science, stupid action shots, general stupidity and John Travolta's insanely skinny wife, I couldn't help but be sucked in hook, line and sinker. You don't get body counts like that anymore do you? Stupidness aside (and ignoring the fact that even I, the most unobservant person ever could see stunt cords on show for most of the movie), I quite liked the structure of it and there's a good idea in there waiting to get out too, it's just executed in the craziest manor possible.
In a bid to actually leave the house (and which thankfully gives me something to write about apart from what I've watched) we went for a wander. We wanted to explore Leeds a little more so we walked up past the Uni, through Hyde Park and stopped at the shops just past there. I got my hair cut there. I don't think that there's anything I hate more than getting my hair cut. I hate everything about it. It's done now though and it's nice and short. Hurrah. We than bought something for dinner, got wonderfully undercharged and had a walk back home.
Honestly, my life could not be more thrilling could it? I hate January. We've been looking at holidays. Thinking Cyprus might be good. Otherwise I've just been listening to artists from 1998, Garbage and Cardigans Best Ofs and Pulp Deluxe editions. Yawn.
During the week we've been working through all of the stuff from Xmas that we'd taped so we watched the making of Victoria Wood's Xmas show, which was much better than the actual show. Go figure. We also watched Call Me Claus which we'd mostly taped due to the Whoopi factor but it still wasn't as funny as it should have been.
Face/Off was a little better, even if it was the most ludicrous thing I've seen since The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And despite it's ridiculous science, stupid action shots, general stupidity and John Travolta's insanely skinny wife, I couldn't help but be sucked in hook, line and sinker. You don't get body counts like that anymore do you? Stupidness aside (and ignoring the fact that even I, the most unobservant person ever could see stunt cords on show for most of the movie), I quite liked the structure of it and there's a good idea in there waiting to get out too, it's just executed in the craziest manor possible.
In a bid to actually leave the house (and which thankfully gives me something to write about apart from what I've watched) we went for a wander. We wanted to explore Leeds a little more so we walked up past the Uni, through Hyde Park and stopped at the shops just past there. I got my hair cut there. I don't think that there's anything I hate more than getting my hair cut. I hate everything about it. It's done now though and it's nice and short. Hurrah. We than bought something for dinner, got wonderfully undercharged and had a walk back home.
Honestly, my life could not be more thrilling could it? I hate January. We've been looking at holidays. Thinking Cyprus might be good. Otherwise I've just been listening to artists from 1998, Garbage and Cardigans Best Ofs and Pulp Deluxe editions. Yawn.
