Going For Gold
Aug. 5th, 2012 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magictreehouseWell I never thought I'd say this but I have loved the sport this weekend! I'll be so sad when the Olympics are over. Why can't sport be this exciting all of the time? Maybe it's something to do with this country's obsession with football, the world's most dull sport. Why not pick a national sport, and show more coverage of, a sport we're actually good at?! Tennis, cycling, rowing, sailing, gymnastics, athletics, almost anything but sport! Last night was a definite highlight and I didn't even think I liked athletics. Greg Rutherford winning gold in the long jump, Mo Farrah winning gold in the 10,000m and Jessica Ennis winning gold in the heptathon was all amazing to watch. Jessica Ennis' medal ceremony was the last thing I watched before bed and it was emotional, and I was fine until it cut to Denise Lewis weeping in the commentator's box.
There is a kind of collective positive vibe running through the UK at the moment. All the news is Olympic-based, which is positive of course and especially on the social networking sites, everybody just seems so happy! Which makes a nice change from all of the moaning that you usually get on there! It just feeling like the Olympics has had a unifying impact on a national scale which can only be a good thing.
Today was Leeds Pride which we slacked off for the second time in a row. I just feel that Pride has no relation to my actual life. I read books and go to theatre, my life isn't drinking, dancing and sex. Pride has its good side of course. It's good that the police etc march in the parade, and there are some countries that want to have a Pride and can't, and visability is important but overall gays like me aren't made visible by it at all. I think it's more important to just get on and live my life in the 'normal' world as an out gay man in a monogomous relationship. Here endeth the moan.
Instead we went food shopping, I watched Andy Murray win gold at the tennis finals (an amazing match where he just obliterated Federer), read and played on the PS2. It's a good job we stayed in actually as there was a storm this afternoon. Crazy hail and rain!
Yes, I have fired the PS2 back up. It's been a good few years since I last played on it but I've been hankering for retro games. I finished Discworld Noir and I've been playing Theme Hospital but as that's got quite repetative I've given it a break for a bit. I'm going to play some PS2 games I haven't fully played yet but I've started with one I've just bought, Psychonauts which i pretty good so far. Might play Ico again after that.
We've been watching some films in the week. Two of which are a lesson in how to and how not to do an 'adult' film. Hot Tub Time Machine was just awful. Every second work was 'fuck' which is just lazy, and the whole film just seemed to be pandering to immature, youth humour. The only funny bits were the ones which didn't rely on gross out humour or swearing which is telling. It was homophobic and insultingly sexist. We almost turned the film off.
The flip side to that was our cinema trip with Helina and Vikki on Wednesday. We went to see Magic Mike which was much better than it had any right to be. The plot was pretty by numbers but it was well directed and well acted too, not something you'd expect from Channing Tatum at all. It was also funny without totally camping it up, it had a generally serious(ish) tone and the whole thing just worked! The cinema was full of women and the occassional gay man but I don't think that any of them got the film they were expecting! The other film we watched was Away We Go which I really enjoyed. I guess 'expecting a baby' films have been done before but this was done really sweetly and there were some really good comic turns in it, Alison Janney especially who is hilarious!
We're trying to catch up on old TV stuff we have recorded too. We started Line Of Duty today, have finished Great Expectations and we're working our way through season 2 of The Walking Dead. All good stuff.
I think that that's about it for now! 4 weeks until the wedding. Crazy stuff! Just got to pick vows and pick up the rest of our tablecloths!
There is a kind of collective positive vibe running through the UK at the moment. All the news is Olympic-based, which is positive of course and especially on the social networking sites, everybody just seems so happy! Which makes a nice change from all of the moaning that you usually get on there! It just feeling like the Olympics has had a unifying impact on a national scale which can only be a good thing.
Today was Leeds Pride which we slacked off for the second time in a row. I just feel that Pride has no relation to my actual life. I read books and go to theatre, my life isn't drinking, dancing and sex. Pride has its good side of course. It's good that the police etc march in the parade, and there are some countries that want to have a Pride and can't, and visability is important but overall gays like me aren't made visible by it at all. I think it's more important to just get on and live my life in the 'normal' world as an out gay man in a monogomous relationship. Here endeth the moan.
Instead we went food shopping, I watched Andy Murray win gold at the tennis finals (an amazing match where he just obliterated Federer), read and played on the PS2. It's a good job we stayed in actually as there was a storm this afternoon. Crazy hail and rain!
Yes, I have fired the PS2 back up. It's been a good few years since I last played on it but I've been hankering for retro games. I finished Discworld Noir and I've been playing Theme Hospital but as that's got quite repetative I've given it a break for a bit. I'm going to play some PS2 games I haven't fully played yet but I've started with one I've just bought, Psychonauts which i pretty good so far. Might play Ico again after that.
We've been watching some films in the week. Two of which are a lesson in how to and how not to do an 'adult' film. Hot Tub Time Machine was just awful. Every second work was 'fuck' which is just lazy, and the whole film just seemed to be pandering to immature, youth humour. The only funny bits were the ones which didn't rely on gross out humour or swearing which is telling. It was homophobic and insultingly sexist. We almost turned the film off.
The flip side to that was our cinema trip with Helina and Vikki on Wednesday. We went to see Magic Mike which was much better than it had any right to be. The plot was pretty by numbers but it was well directed and well acted too, not something you'd expect from Channing Tatum at all. It was also funny without totally camping it up, it had a generally serious(ish) tone and the whole thing just worked! The cinema was full of women and the occassional gay man but I don't think that any of them got the film they were expecting! The other film we watched was Away We Go which I really enjoyed. I guess 'expecting a baby' films have been done before but this was done really sweetly and there were some really good comic turns in it, Alison Janney especially who is hilarious!
We're trying to catch up on old TV stuff we have recorded too. We started Line Of Duty today, have finished Great Expectations and we're working our way through season 2 of The Walking Dead. All good stuff.
I think that that's about it for now! 4 weeks until the wedding. Crazy stuff! Just got to pick vows and pick up the rest of our tablecloths!
