Musings of an Idiot

League Extraordinaire

What a hectic weekend - transfer of houses is complete but now have to get the new place into shape. I carry too much shit - I tried chucking things away but I can't as I am down to the minimum. So now just trying to see where I can fit the stuff in.

The kitchen is fully functional now. Darryn helped me on Sunday morning to pick up a cheap second hand fridge and later in the day Benji bought an old microwave for a bargain. Both the appliances work like a charm even though they are old. I did heaps of utensils shopping to make sure that we have everything we need for the kitchen - the only thing which is now missing from the kitchen is a wok but other than that we are all good.

The Lounge area is still a mess with all my stuff lying around and nothing else there. It now has my bike in one corner, which I decided to ride from the old place to the new place- it was a pleasent but painful ride. There is this really steep hill, so steep that even the car struggles to climb up and I tried my best not to stop biking but it was a bit much. I managed to go up probably half of it before I got down from my bike and pushed it up for the rest of the hill. I will have to find an alternative route incase I want to bike from work (getting to work will be relatively simple).

The first night sleep's was troubled as it would be when you move into a new house - I was in some sort of a quasi-sleep/dream state the whole time and too top it all, the whole thing was a nightmare. The place is really quite here and suddenly your ears are open to all kinds of sounds. In the morning, I could hear a car's stereo parked about 10-15 meters from my bedroom and I could clearly hear the bed creak in the next room, amongst various other sounds. Talking of which - yesterday night I thought that my room was haunted or something because I woke up 2.15 at night because of this constant creaking sound. I rang up Benji and asked him to come over into my room to check out the sound. It so happened that Benji had put his bed against the wall and that noise was him turning in his bed, so now he has pushed the bed off the wall and miraculously the ghost is no more.

In between the shifting process, I managed to have read both the volumes of 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' and it was an awesome comic. The art work as fabulous as the story itself. It was sad to see it end. And now I can see why all the fans were pissed off at the movie. Whoever made it into a movie completely forgot to adapt the tone and the characterizations of the graphic novel. They made it into a caricature and an action-packed hollywood adventure when what it really demanded was a different treatment and adaptation. Pity that people who haven't read the comic will think that it will be crap because the movie was bad.

I watched a couple of trailers on Saturday - 'Black Dahlia' ; 'The Departed' ; and 'The O in Ohio'. Black Dahlia looks like it is going to be an interesting movie while the trailer for 'The Departed' was average but it captures the essence of 'Infernal Affairs' and hopefully the movie would be better than the trailer. 'The O in Ohio' was funny and offbeat - it will definitely have a limited release and will most probabaly find a small faithful audience.

On Saturday, I also went for a location reccee for Angelique's short film, on which I will be doing lighting. It was fun - and I am excited about this project as it gives me a chance to work on another skill set I know that I have but never spent any time exploring. It really is a lucky chance.

I don't know how to end this post so I will just sign off with something I have been thinking about: Life can be simple yet so complex. I think eventually it shapes up into what you want it to be - maybe not to the exact detail but still somewhere close in the vicinity of what you want it to be. So it is good to take risks - follow your heart and the mind will follow.

Good night,
Amit

Labels: Graphic Novels, Introspection, Random

posted by Amit @ 6:12 PM