Days Eighty-Three to One Hundred

Lots of New Comic Book Days and one Free Comic Book Day since my last post:

 

 

 

 

Finally got round to getting a copy of the 'Escape From New York' novel, as a little treat to myself. The novel of 'The Thing' had extra scenes and a different ending (as it was based on an earlier script and not the final script) and really added to the film, it was like having lots of extra deleted or extended scenes, so I'm looking forward to see how the 'Escape...' novel adds to the 'Escape...' film.

Also, caught up with Island:

Sad to see Island finish, it introduced me to lots of new writes, artists and writer artists, who I would never have never have read (either because I couldn’t afford their books or I wouldn’t have been exposed to their books) if they hadn’t been curated in Island. Hopefully this mainstream expose has increased their audience and will help them to produce more work.

Saw the 24: Legacy finale and was mostly happy with the season, keeping it to just twelve episodes definitely helped keep the story (relatively) lean and there weren’t many times when you felt that the story was treading water to make up the running time. Although, there were still plenty of characters making stupid/odd decisions which helped to keep the story moving along 😊

Talking of stupid/odd decisions The PM has called a snap election (after confirming at least six times over the last nine months or so that she wouldn’t) and it’s already gotten boring as heck, with two main themes – ‘strong and stable’ and ‘Corby is a terrorist sympathiser’, hooray for right wing press (which makes up about 80% of the national press).  

There’s also been a bank holiday, which is kinda pointless for me while I’m unemployed as I don’t the benefit of time-off! Although I still don’t seem to have that much spare time either, For example, I’ve brought a few DVDs which I hadn’t had a chance to watch yet, but am looking forward to watching:

But I have had time to listen to the new Moon Duo LP, Occult Architecture Vol. 2, which is very much the Yang to Occult Architecture Vol. 1’s Yin. Vol. 2 has some really nice chilled out, almost Balearic-like songs. The new Kasabian LP, “For Crying Out Loud (2017)”, which is good, but for me lacks the quarks/experimental nature of their earlier work, so for me the LP never really takes off (although this might change with further listens).

I’ve also got the reissue of Leftfield’s Leftfield, a couple of R.E.M. best-of’s (I couldn’t find just one that had all the tracks I wanted, hence the multiple best-of’s) and a Pixies best-of, which I haven’t had time to listen to fully, just a couple of tracks here and there.

I did have time to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, which is as good as the first film, but it did seem to have too much 3D/SFX, there were several times when I had to take off my 3D glasses and look away from the screen to give my eyes a rest!!!

I did have time to notice that I’ve put on more weight and need to do something about it, so I’ve started a diet (kinda, it’s more about cutting down on crisps and chocolate, rather than eating more veggies) and exercising more (free weights, walking and biking). I’ve even downloaded an app to track how much (and where) I work. Getting the morning paper burns off calories equivalent to half a kit-kat finger, happy days!   

And as my first 100 days is up, it's time to redouble my efforts to get a job. Fingers crossed.