Saturday, January 03, 2004
So I haven't blogged in a couple of days mainly due to a verment that has single handedly guided me into a depression over the last two days. I arrived home new years day evening to find a mouse in the flat. The little fucker is annoying the hell out of me. I'd spotted him somedays earlier. As I was sitting on the couch I saw something dart down the hallway at the corner of my eye but put it down to a piece of fluff or something. The second time I saw it I got up but saw nothing. I thought I was going mad until I heard a rustle at the bin and saw the fucker. Small as my thumb but nasty none-the-less. So yesterday morning I bought four traps only for one of them to later either
a)break or
b) snap and just miss the wee shite
My paranoia began to grow and grow and I suspected we had a rat and that the trap was unable to hold him. Orlagh says this theory is nonsense. Maybe so. I'd imagine a rat has more balls when it comes to roaming about and also is not as good at fitting into confined spaces? I dunno. Anyone who has advice email me.
Anyhow I set the four traps on fri mor and left the house for the day. I returned mid-day to find one of the traps as I described earlier. The traps were pre-baited so in a bid to lure him out I placed a bit of cheese on one of the traps and left again. That night I returned and the cunt had somehow managed to get the cheese without snapping the trap! I bought 5 more traps!! laid them last night and once again he managed to rescue the cheese without getting "guillitined" as the bloke in the hardware shop put it.
I'm hoping now the fucker will die tonight. I've given him ample opportunity. I've spent a tenner on traps and forked out a fiver today on poison in the event that he fails to meet his maker tonight.
There can only be one winner.
Aside from being made near homeless and sleepless by a diseased little bastard, all has been reasonably ok. I went to see The Lord Of The Rings yesterday in soho. Not the version I had expected but entertaining none the less. Some of the 'action' scenes were unreal.
No really. I saw the third installment, (oh how tempted I was to say turd installment!). Its quite good. Actually its excellent stuff, though I think the second was my favourite overall. It carries on from the two towers immediately that its advisable to re-watch that segment of the trilogy in a bid to refresh the memory. The ending of the film is somewhat cluttered. Jackson ties up every loose end but he does so in breaks or segments. He fades out at times when you think that's it, only to drift back in. The ending is good but too broken and feels at times cobbled together or spliced in to please fans of the books. The theme of wars destruction of innocence is paramount to the conclusion yet hangs sullenly when it should be nailed down for the viewer. At 3 hours 40 minutes the film flys by and maybe the added 40 minutes to the other 2 films three hour durations meant that Jackson was under pressure to wrap things up at the end hastily. He couldn't have cut the war scenes too much as they fit just right. Not too long, not too short. One gets the feeling that the extended version will be bogged down by war footage but hopefully it will lay more depth to the concluding parts. In looking back it has to be noted how overall satisfying the three movies were. It is a moment of cinematic history that will perhaps never be attempted again. The imagination of Tolkin brought to life is sublime. All three movies bore their individual merits and Jackson forged each storyline neatly together. It was a mammoth undertaking, but a successful one. We will never see its like again, and pressure will be put on Jackson to make a version of The Hobbit. Lets hope he accepts as the film looks likely to be made and anyone else then Jackson at the helm would be a sin.
So that was New Years Day. On its eve we drank and watched Jools on TV which delivered a priceless tv moment,
Jools: "Sharleen(from Texas) have you any predictions for the new year"?
Sharleen: " Well hopefully success for all and a peaceful year.No real predictions but I think it'll be a good year. Maybe we'll get another number one!! (giggles)
Jools: Shane (MacGowan) have you any predictions for the year ahead?
Shane: (Looking puzzled) Judgement day (laughs like a chain saw)
On that note,
take care and I'll see you soon
Steve
a)break or
b) snap and just miss the wee shite
My paranoia began to grow and grow and I suspected we had a rat and that the trap was unable to hold him. Orlagh says this theory is nonsense. Maybe so. I'd imagine a rat has more balls when it comes to roaming about and also is not as good at fitting into confined spaces? I dunno. Anyone who has advice email me.
Anyhow I set the four traps on fri mor and left the house for the day. I returned mid-day to find one of the traps as I described earlier. The traps were pre-baited so in a bid to lure him out I placed a bit of cheese on one of the traps and left again. That night I returned and the cunt had somehow managed to get the cheese without snapping the trap! I bought 5 more traps!! laid them last night and once again he managed to rescue the cheese without getting "guillitined" as the bloke in the hardware shop put it.
I'm hoping now the fucker will die tonight. I've given him ample opportunity. I've spent a tenner on traps and forked out a fiver today on poison in the event that he fails to meet his maker tonight.
There can only be one winner.
Aside from being made near homeless and sleepless by a diseased little bastard, all has been reasonably ok. I went to see The Lord Of The Rings yesterday in soho. Not the version I had expected but entertaining none the less. Some of the 'action' scenes were unreal.
No really. I saw the third installment, (oh how tempted I was to say turd installment!). Its quite good. Actually its excellent stuff, though I think the second was my favourite overall. It carries on from the two towers immediately that its advisable to re-watch that segment of the trilogy in a bid to refresh the memory. The ending of the film is somewhat cluttered. Jackson ties up every loose end but he does so in breaks or segments. He fades out at times when you think that's it, only to drift back in. The ending is good but too broken and feels at times cobbled together or spliced in to please fans of the books. The theme of wars destruction of innocence is paramount to the conclusion yet hangs sullenly when it should be nailed down for the viewer. At 3 hours 40 minutes the film flys by and maybe the added 40 minutes to the other 2 films three hour durations meant that Jackson was under pressure to wrap things up at the end hastily. He couldn't have cut the war scenes too much as they fit just right. Not too long, not too short. One gets the feeling that the extended version will be bogged down by war footage but hopefully it will lay more depth to the concluding parts. In looking back it has to be noted how overall satisfying the three movies were. It is a moment of cinematic history that will perhaps never be attempted again. The imagination of Tolkin brought to life is sublime. All three movies bore their individual merits and Jackson forged each storyline neatly together. It was a mammoth undertaking, but a successful one. We will never see its like again, and pressure will be put on Jackson to make a version of The Hobbit. Lets hope he accepts as the film looks likely to be made and anyone else then Jackson at the helm would be a sin.
So that was New Years Day. On its eve we drank and watched Jools on TV which delivered a priceless tv moment,
Jools: "Sharleen(from Texas) have you any predictions for the new year"?
Sharleen: " Well hopefully success for all and a peaceful year.No real predictions but I think it'll be a good year. Maybe we'll get another number one!! (giggles)
Jools: Shane (MacGowan) have you any predictions for the year ahead?
Shane: (Looking puzzled) Judgement day (laughs like a chain saw)
On that note,
take care and I'll see you soon
Steve
