A Clean Kitchen [pmsumner]

A clean kitchen is a happy kitchen. Washing up is now almost all done, 2 glasses to do and whatever I'm using to cook right now. What is supposed to be stir fry is in the oven because I can't be arsed to give it the attention it would require to become stir fry, so it's become slow-fry.

I guess all told, today has been quite pleasant. It took a turn for the better after nipping out to the local shop at about 4pm. My cable TV's been a bit on the dodgy side so after Ice Station Zebra finished, started to do stuff, only interrupted by those damn Orange marchers. What is it with whistles and drums that make them so annoying?

It's weird being home on a weekend with nobody to email without thinking I could be disturbing them - I don't mind if people are at work. Lessee, the usual suspects are

pipsytip,

ruthytoothy and

kundrun, and they're all apparently otherwise engaged.

s'my own fault for being home on a Saturday night *smiles*

k, time to cook off the remaining turkey and do something to it.

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Orange marchers?! Don't they do enough trouble with their racist nonsense in Northern Ireland without bringing it to Scotland too?

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In case you hadn't noticed, there's quite a sizeable catholic vs protestant thing in Scotland too!

Rangers / Celtic are a good start for example.

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no, I know about Protestant/Catholic issues in Scotland, and Rangers/Celtic... I was just surprised that the Orangemen went to the trouble of marching. They can't menace Catholics the way they do in Ireland--Scottish Catholics didn't suffer the same kind of institutional discrimination as Irish ones.

:P

Well, I went to the video shop...currently being bored by 28 Days Later. It's basically a really shit, predictable version of The Stand, without even the religious mania to keep it interesting. We've spent most of the film complaing about how we could survive so much better than the characters cos we're roleplayers ;)

We've got Dr Strangelove and Memento for later...mmm, tasty paranoia.

You know the others are away from PCs this weekend though, right?

*rofl* I haven't seen that nor the stand.

Dr Strangelove is the best film, evar :) If you have it on DVD, be sure to watch some of the extras! Memento means nothing to me...

Yeah, I know they're all away, hence me bitching about it, and I'm trying to keep my phone bill at a decent level this month, rather than the £60 (wellllll, technically £230 including upgrade, which I get back in my salary) it was last month! ;)

*nods* We hire DVDs now, it's just easier to say video shop. :)

Haven't seen Dr Strangelove, kinda looking forward to it. The Stand is a Stephen King book, btw...dunno if it was made into a film but it's worth a read if you're into apocalyptica. Ruthy said Memento was very scary.

It's always gonna be the video shop. DVD shop sounds wrong!

The Stand, yeah it is definitely a film, was on today on one of my random channel surfing moments.

One of my favourite things from the Dr Strangelove film is the war room, you'll know what I'm talking about. I remember hearing that the director got them to cover the enormous table in the war room with green velvet, to make it look like the people in there were at a betting table, gambling with the power they had. Even though the entire film is B&W :)

That sounds groovy. I love little touches like that...that's why 28DL was disappointing because it starts off fantastically with a completely deserted London, beautifully filmed. You could really see the director's influence (he did Shallow Grave). Then the writer takes over and it's bloody Alex Garland (The Beach) so it goes completely lame. The end is so Hollywood, too.

Yeah, looking on IMBD The Stand was a made for TV - shame really. I wish they wouldn't do that with a good book.

'slways a shame when movie production staff seem to have "problems" like that, where they obviously have differing views on how a film should go.

Yep. It's as though the director (who's British) shot the first half an hour and then had to go cap in hand to the US studios for cash, whereupon they said "yeah, fine, but you have to do it our way"; and inevitabley ended up with the usual Hollywood trashy ending.

In which case, one has to ask "why a US studio"? :)

Anyhow, it's bedtime. Watching Glastonbury 2003 on BBC is tiring, all that singing along ;)

Not like we have a booming film industry here, is it? Loads of talent, no cash, cos it's all about the box office not the art.

*muttermutter, wombles off into the distance in search of a pipe and slippers...*

They made The Stand into an 8hr miniseries for ABC (that's with commercials, so it's really shorter than that, probably 6½ hrs). I think I've seen it on video, and it's been re-shown on cable.

The book's better, especially the uncut edition that was released in the '90s (they made King cut a few hundred pages to keep the price down).

28 Days Later just came out in the cinema here yesterday. Memento was great, though I wouldn't call it scary.

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