Day 157

Still feeling unwell/unsettled (after I retried the betahistine yesterday, I still felt unwell, so have stopped it again), but did manage to pop into town today to do my weekly food shop and to pick up the new Little Barrie album, Death Express.

  

As I was feeling unwell, I spent most of the rest of the day watching season one of Castlevania and a couple of and Rick and Morty episodes on Netflix, Robert Newman’s From Caliban To The Taliban and Manic Cop:

Castlevania – is based on the old computer games and is written by Warren Ellis. In a nutshell Dracula is taking revenge on the “people of Wallachia”, who burnt his at the stake and in response “the disgraced demon hunter Trevor Belmont takes up arms against Dracula's forces, aided by the magician Sypha Belnades and Dracula's son Alucard”. I really enjoyed season one, lots of action and lots of Warren’s patented one-liners, but at only four episodes it flies by too quickly.

Rick and Morty – when I first started watching Rick and Morty I thought it would be like The Simpsons, where each episode is self-contained and when the nest episode starts everything has been reset back to normal. But, on each re-watching I see more interconnectedness between the episodes, which makes for a better viewing experience.   

From Caliban To The Taliban – watching this and Resistance Is Fertile is a little weird given how long ago they were recorded, but they’re still fun to watch. And good reminders that those power need to be challenged and we should be questioning everything. I would highly recommend both these shows.

Manic Cop – is a nice little b-movie about a coop back from the dead, who is dispensing his own form of justice. From the packaging, I had expected the film to be very gory and in the ‘80’s slasher mould, but it isn’t, it’s pretty restrained in gory terms (I think there’s more blood and murders in the first 15 minutes of John Wick 2 than Manic Cop) and it feels more like a supernatural version of The Equaliser (the TV show not the movie).