Where did October go?

Man, I can't believe it's almost the end of October already. This month has really shot by. I've found that as I've got older, the months and years seem to pass more quickly. And yet, it's been two weeks since my last post, and nothing much has changed. Hmmm...

My Labour weekend was poos. Well, Sunday was pretty good - hanging out with my folks and the cats all day, but Saturday and Monday I worked open to close. I gotta get a job that lets me have public holidays off. Although I guess I get paid like time and a half for Monday, and I get a day in lieu, so it's not all bad.

I've had my new car for, what? Like, three weeks, I think... And I'm still loving cruising around in it. I'm wondering just when the new car coolness will wear off, and it will become just another method of transport...

Hmmm, someone at work said something yesterday that made me fell horribly old. We were talking about scary movies, and Katy, one of the downstairs people, said that she found Resident Evil: Apocalypse quite scary, or shocky at least. She also said that the scariest movie she could remember was Jurassic Park. I found this a little odd, until she explained that she went to see it at the movies when it came out, when she was around four or five. Bloody Hell. I saw that film when it came out, and I was around sixteen. That comparison - four or five to sixteen - made me feel far older that our current ages, nineteen and thirty-one. Although now that I think about it, thirty-one is quite old. It's getting into that growing up, settling down age range... Oh dear...

Lions and Tigers and Zombies, Oh My!

Well, okay not so much lions and tigers, but zombies - today has been a horror movie zombie-licious day. While at work this afternoon I watched Resident Evil: Apocalypse, which I thought was hella cool, and this evening I watched Beyond Reanimator, which I also thoroughly enjoyed. Beyond Reanimator was a cool gore fest, with Jeffrey Combs back as the cool, collected, completely crazy Herbert West, carrying on very much as he did in the first film despite being locked up. Neat. It was apparently made last year, which would explain why I hadn't seen it around before. But while it's a relatively new film, it had old school horror people behind it, which made it fun. I don't entirely like the shift fom slobbery, staggery stupid zombies like from George Romero's Dead trilogy, to angry, fast moving zombies like in the remake of Dawn of the Dead. The thing that made the zombies in older flicks scary was just the numbers. It was like, yeah, they were slow and stupid, but there were so many everywhere that there was very little hope of characters surviving without being just overwhelmed. The new fast Zombies had shock value, but not real chill factor. At least that's what I think.

Anyway, enough about dead folk. Although I wil say that the fast zombie-types in 28 Days Later were cool- because it made sense, given the nature of their state of being. If you know what I mean. And one more thing - I got a $10 DVD from K-Mart the other day, called The Last Man On Earth. It's the first film adaptation of the classic Richard Matheson book, I Am Legend. It stars Vincent Price, and was very good. Definitely far more like the book than The Omega Man, which was a bit crap, and just kinda cool. But then anything with Vincent Price has a touch of cool to it...

Ah, crap, I'm staying up way too late again. Still, I have the day off work tomorrow, which is neat. I had a job interview on Wednesday. It was for a Theatre Technician position at Baycourt Theatre. Basically a bit like being a roadie for Baycourt. Although I suppose the term roadie implies travelling around and setting shit up. So perhaps it would be better to call it... what? a stayie? No, that sounds stupid... But the interview was interesting. Well, the interview was like most job interviews - but they had a practical test, which was kinda fun. I had to set up a sound desk with a couple of amps, speakers and a microphone, and set up some lighting equipment. It was neat, but I coulda done better. The sound desk was huge, covered with sliders and knobs, and I got a little confused, but afterwards I realised that it was just like a bigger version of a 4-track, so I should have been able to figure it out easier than I did.

And again with the much good english. I think I should put an end to this soon - I need to get some sleep. Yep, I think this is the end... for now, anyways...

A long time ago...

Well, it's been quite some time since my last entry. I seem to start things with that statement or something similar quite a bit. Although I don't know that I've made enough entries to say I've done anything here quite a bit. Anyway...

I haven't been up to much in the last two or so weeks. Just working, working and working... Oh, and I got a new car. It is hella cool. It's the first car I've had with all the mod cons- power steering, A/C, CD player (although it's a bit buggered), just snazzy shit. It's not like the greatest car ever, but compared to the last car I was driving, it's pretty damn cool. Although the last car I drove had a certain amount of kinda unique cool, and was pretty darn grunty. I laugh now, at my own silly language. Grunty. Ha ha.

My cats are still horrible little bastards. They keep waking me up between 5 & 6 in the morning. They now attack me at both ends, having worked out that this gets the greatest response. Bernard gets into my bed, crawls right down and claws my feet, while Manny sits near my head and just kinda bats me in the face until I get up. Horrible little monkeys...

I decided to read The Lord of the Rings trilogy again recently. I am now half way through the first book, and it's amazing how different it is from the film, and how little of it I can remember clearly. I read it almost twenty years ago - Parping Heck! That really makes me feel very old. But anyway, there is a sense of familiarity in the story, but I can't entirely recall where it's going at any given time. Hmmm...

So it's now almost two in the morning, so I should probably go and get some sleep. I am planning to do some Spring cleaning tomorrow (well, I guess it's later today), but we shall have to wait and see how far that plan goes.

I keep falling asleep all over the place. Pretty much any time I sit down and relax at work, I drift off to sleep within a minute or two. It's really quite bad...