Thursday, July 06, 2006
Current mood: lethargic
I have a migraine. I get them from time to time. So its probably not a good idea to be listening to Emerson, Lake & Palmer's incredible album TARKUS. I feel like I am plummeting into some strange otherworldly place, where giant Armadillo tanks and Manticores do battle... I should go lay down...
But before then.
My wife went out earlier to buy a new snow shovel. "Its the middle of summer!" I said.
"Yeh well, what will we do if it suddenly snows and we can't get to the shop to buy a snow shovel because the snow has blocked in the automobile and we can't get out because we haven't got a snow shovel..." she replied at length.
I think this was the start of my migraine. So anyway off she went and I was left with a couple of options as to how I could spend my time. Gardening, reading, watch a movie, fix that hole in the roof where the rain comes in and stops my mind from wandering... None of them really appealed so I decided to give Simon Lotrans a call. Simon played Chen in the Baxter Investigates... Again! TV movie. He's a great guy.
Anyway, I asked him how he is getting on now. He told me that he's been offered quite a few acting roles recently. But he had turned them down as he didn't feel he could effectively play an aged African American woman, a ladybug trapped in a mans body mutilated into a giant mollusk, or a box of cereal.
I suggested he come over and have a drink but he declined so I was forced to watch a movie. The first thing I picked up off the shelf was a movie called Hawk the Slayer. So I put it on and do you know who was in it? John Terry! You know... John Terry. Trust me you do!
He was in a James Bond movie once playing Felix Leiter but now he's in that Lost program playing the dad of the Doctor fella with the G.I. Joe haircut. Yeh, yeh thats really him!
Well in the movie he played this guy who battles his brother played by Jack Pallance. It was a great film with the most amazing special effects I had seen since Space Sentinel 4. There were a load of Brit actors in the movie too. Some I recognized and others I didn't. Victor Meldrew's wife, Magenta out of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Declan Mullholland who originally played Jabba the Hut and loads more really cool people like that.
And you know what I really loved about this movie? The soundtrack! Wowsers. I'd never heard anything like it. Well not since I last listened to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. If you get the chance watch this film its incredible. I wish I would get asked to do stuff like this. Why don't they make them like this anymore?
My Wife got home as the credits were rolling, carrying a carpet sweeper and a Remington Fuzz-away. "Where's the shovel?" I asked, "Did you forget it?"
She looked at me dumfounded, "Oh hells bells!" And thats not really what she said but I gotta say that incase you're offended by words like Fu...
Currently listening : Tarkus By Emerson Lake & Palmer. Release date: By 21 May, 1996
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Current mood: lethargic
I have a migraine. I get them from time to time. So its probably not a good idea to be listening to Emerson, Lake & Palmer's incredible album TARKUS. I feel like I am plummeting into some strange otherworldly place, where giant Armadillo tanks and Manticores do battle... I should go lay down...
But before then.
My wife went out earlier to buy a new snow shovel. "Its the middle of summer!" I said.
"Yeh well, what will we do if it suddenly snows and we can't get to the shop to buy a snow shovel because the snow has blocked in the automobile and we can't get out because we haven't got a snow shovel..." she replied at length.
I think this was the start of my migraine. So anyway off she went and I was left with a couple of options as to how I could spend my time. Gardening, reading, watch a movie, fix that hole in the roof where the rain comes in and stops my mind from wandering... None of them really appealed so I decided to give Simon Lotrans a call. Simon played Chen in the Baxter Investigates... Again! TV movie. He's a great guy.
Anyway, I asked him how he is getting on now. He told me that he's been offered quite a few acting roles recently. But he had turned them down as he didn't feel he could effectively play an aged African American woman, a ladybug trapped in a mans body mutilated into a giant mollusk, or a box of cereal.
I suggested he come over and have a drink but he declined so I was forced to watch a movie. The first thing I picked up off the shelf was a movie called Hawk the Slayer. So I put it on and do you know who was in it? John Terry! You know... John Terry. Trust me you do!
He was in a James Bond movie once playing Felix Leiter but now he's in that Lost program playing the dad of the Doctor fella with the G.I. Joe haircut. Yeh, yeh thats really him!
Well in the movie he played this guy who battles his brother played by Jack Pallance. It was a great film with the most amazing special effects I had seen since Space Sentinel 4. There were a load of Brit actors in the movie too. Some I recognized and others I didn't. Victor Meldrew's wife, Magenta out of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Declan Mullholland who originally played Jabba the Hut and loads more really cool people like that.
And you know what I really loved about this movie? The soundtrack! Wowsers. I'd never heard anything like it. Well not since I last listened to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. If you get the chance watch this film its incredible. I wish I would get asked to do stuff like this. Why don't they make them like this anymore?
My Wife got home as the credits were rolling, carrying a carpet sweeper and a Remington Fuzz-away. "Where's the shovel?" I asked, "Did you forget it?"
She looked at me dumfounded, "Oh hells bells!" And thats not really what she said but I gotta say that incase you're offended by words like Fu...
Currently listening : Tarkus By Emerson Lake & Palmer. Release date: By 21 May, 1996
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