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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Saturday, October 09, 2004
I think what's bothered me over the last few weeks regarding this blog, is I've had nothing to blog about. NOTHING. My job still sucks (though thankfully should be over in another two/three weeks), and leaves me so busy that I don't have time to do anything else. I'm not writing, which pisses me off, cause I want to write so badly - I have so many sodding ideas at the moment, but picking up a pen seems impossible right now, and I don't know why. Probably extreme tiredness has something to do with it. I'm also home alone and lonely, which never helps. Cheesy is travelling about with the show, which is great for him, but does leave me home alone to contend with spiders and a big paranoid imagination about chain-saw murderers!
Sigh. Self pity is a terrible debilitating thing. Must stop now.
Watched the film "Forces of Nature" and it left me quite interested. Terrible casting choices, but a really interesting story. Typical setup - guy a few days before his wedding day, (Ben Affleck with his one facial expression) getting lots of signs that getting married isn't a good idea - even though his girlfriend is adorable and totally in love with him (played by ER's Abi - the only good piece of main character casting). So doubts start. A series of events put him of his course to his wedding day and constantly collide him with the other girl of the movie (Sandra Bullock - good, but still quite wrong for the part), who's wild and fiesty and everything about life that he's not. So of course he starts to fall for her, and alone at home his fiancee starts to be charmed by an old boyfriend. All typically convenient for the usual romantic comedy, yes? What however immediately is odd, is that Affleck's fiancee is too damn likeable. Very odd. She's gorgeous, sweet and perfect for him - not the usual setup in these things, where the characters current partner is either an arsehole or blatantly not right for them. And she turns down the ex boyfriend and sits waiting faithly and surely for her man to get to the wedding and marry her. These leaves you unsettled for a while when it becomes clear Affleck is gonna choose Bullock over his wife. What happens however, is he sees his fiancee again and suddenly he's in love with her all over again. He doesn't leave her for Bullock, they become stronger because of her - and Bullock's all fine with this too (there's some subplot about her kid, and she's all happily ever after with him). But it was interesting - you see so many romantic comedies where people are trundling along life with one partner and someone better and more brilliant comes along. Not a great message really. This movie just kind of showed that you can be happy with what you have already - you may indeed fancy another person, but you shouldn't forget what you have in the first place. It was also quite beautifully filmed in places. Odd odd film. I've talked a lot about it too. Weird. Wish it had had a better cast. Stupid Forehead Affleck and his acting teeth.
I think I'm gonna go shopping. I need some new boots. And a coat.
Dammit if I don't do some theatre soon I think I'm gonna go crazy.
1:47 pm
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