Last Sunday I started to re-watch Prison Break (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Break) ahead of the
new season starting in a couple of weeks (not sure when it’ll be on in the UK,
but assume that it’ll be a day or so after it airs in the States). Although I’d
watched seasons 2 – 4 I’d never seen the first season (except for the first and
last episode) as this was before the age of Tivo and when I had a social life 😊and
it’s really good. The body tattoo/map doesn’t seem to play as big a role as I
remember it, yeah there are regular mentions/references, but I remember it
almost being a character of its own.
This Sunday is Mother’s Day and we had a special lunch for
Mum, on top of Saturday’s special Mother’s day lunch, which has got me slightly
panicky about putting on to much weight and not doing enough exercise to
balance it all out.
Saturday also started the Buffy 20th Anniversary
rewatch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer). Two thirds of the way through season one and it is as good as I
remember. One thing that I had forgotten was how dark the show went. It’ll be
interesting to compare Xander’s attempted rape of Buffy, when he was taken over
by a hyena spirit and Spike’s attempted rape in season six (although the show
had grown a lot over the seasons and was up for exploring things in more
detail/keep things dark), e.g. why the former has been forgotten/forgiven and the latter hasn't when both Xander and Spike were not completely whole/'in control' (one having been taken over and one not having a soul).
On Monday I listened to the special edition of Pink Floyd's
Ummagumma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummagumma), which in theory I should have liked. Trippy, spacey, ambienty head
music is right up my alley, but it doesn’t hit the mark. I like the separate
elements but together they just make a dull album, too dull even to fall asleep
to! I think ebay will be in its very near future!
We also played, and won, our Hassra Bowling League match. It
was good to get out of the house and catch up with how everyone is doing in the
new DH/retirement. Seems like things are settling down, but with people having
a heavier workload.
I finally watched Drive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(2011_film)) on Tuesday and it’s pretty good
(but not quite as good as the hype says it is). It’s a lean film, every
character is fleshed out and every scene keeps the story moving forward (I’m
tempted to say that each scene drives the story to its conclusion!). I liked
Drive so much that I saw The Driver on Thursday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Driver), which from its synopsis sounds
like the 70s version of Drive, but the characters in The Driver are completely
one-dimensional, and not in a good way, and the driving scenes aren’t that
dramatic (and some don’t make any sense – at one point the driver has dodged
the police cars, but hides in a darkened alley for them to come back so that
they can play chicken, instead of driving away). So, I had to watch Southern
Comfort (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Comfort_(1981_film)) on Friday to get rid of the ‘taste’ of a bad Walter Hill film, which
still stands up to how well I remember it. With the tension building as the
characters are wilted down one by one.
Wednesday was New Comic Book Day and there was plenty of
good comics to pick up:
It wasn’t till I was on the train home that I saw the news
alerts about the attack on Westminster Bridge and Parliament, so there were a
few frantic emails/texts to friends still working in Westminster to make sure
that they were ok (which they were), but (like 7/7) it was weird to be so close
to such a terrible event, but far away enough to not know that it was happening
when it was going on. At least the authorities reacted quickly and kept it to a
‘small’ event, compared to similar attacks on other countries (it’s also
weird/disconcerting to think that one can qualify four deaths as a ‘small’
attack, when the families and friends of those people will be affected for the
rest of their lives).
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