Feeling Better

Last night I was playing a bit of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim which was really fun. The graphics were amazing.

I was feeling a lot better today. Tonight I left work about half an hour later than I had planned. However, by sheer luck, I managed to get to the comic book store literally minutes before it shut. I get Superman issue 5, Batman: The Dark Knight issue 5, Justice League issue 5, American Vampire issue 23, The Unwritten issue 33.5 and Creepy issue 7.

Afterwards I went and had a couple of drinks which was nice.

Still Not Feeling Good

I am still not feeling too good. Last night I was watching the movie The Social Network, directed by David Fincher. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg the inventor of Facebook. It is a really good movie, even if you totally hate Facebook. Rooney Mara, who has a small role as Zuckerberg’s girlfriend, went on to star in Fincher’s movie of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, for which she has been Oscar nominated.

I was doing some writing last night. Later on I watched an episode of Boardwalk Empire.

It was a very quiet day at work.

Bad Cold

I really haven’t been feeling good recently. I think it’s a really bad cold. It came on last night and it’s been around all day today.

Aside from that it’s been a fairly average day at work. On my way home I got the latest issue of Empire magazine.

Hopefully the cold will be gone soon.

The Ox-Bow Incident

Last night I was watching the 1943 movie The Ox-Bow Incident which stars Henry Fonda as a cowboy who arrives in a small town where a rumour is going around about a rancher who was murdered by cattle rustlers. A posse is formed by the townsfolk to find the killers, but the newly arrived cowboy soon realises that they aren’t out to bring the suspects in but just out to lynch whoever they come across. It was a really good movie attacking mob rule and vigilanteism. It’s more of a moral drama than a conventional Western action movie.

I was in work all day today. I have decided to focus more on my creativity now (my writing, my drawing and so on) I think that will really help me.

Books Delivered

Last night was pretty quiet.

I got into work for half past eight today and was only in for a half day. After work I went to the Post Office and collected the package that had been misdelivered on Friday. The books that I ordered on Tuesday were there: The Creative License by Danny Gregory and An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Designers and Illustrators by Danny Gregory. They look like they should be really good.

The Ward

Last night I was watching a movie called The Ward, directed by John Carpenter. It stars Amber Heard as a young woman who is sent to a psychiatric hospital after burning down a farmhouse. Sent to a confined ward she is subjected to experimemtal treatments from a sinister doctor (Jared Harris), and discovers that the ward has a history of the patients mysteriously disappearing. She also discovers that there is a hideous, ghostly figure haunting the patients. It wasn’t bad. Nothing really special, but it was okay.

Today I went out with my Dad to the Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre. We had coffee and I had a blueberry muffin at Starbucks. Later we spilt up and did our owen shopping I got a copule of books in the sales: 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die and 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. They were both half price.

After that we went back to my parent’s house and since it is coming up to Burn’s Night (the annual celebration of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet) we had haggis, mashed potato, peas and whiskey.

J. Edgar

Last night was very quiet. I read my new comic books which were really good.

Today I did some cleaning and then went and got my groceries for the week. In the afternoon I went along to the movies and saw J. Edgar the new Clint Eastwood directed movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial director of the FBI. It was interesting, but it was kind of slow. It covers about seven decades so there was a lot that was just skated over or ignored completely. Also some of the make-up for the older versions of the character isn’t very good. It was watchable enough though.

Misdelivered

Last night was quiet and it was a fairly average day at work. I did a six hour day at work today and then went up to the comic book store where I bought John Constantine: Hellblazer issue 287, Fables issue 113, Ultimate Comics: All-New Spider-Man issue 6, Batman isue 5, Batman and Robin issue 5, The Unwritten issue 32.5 and The Unwritten issue 33.

I had some drinks and a Chinese take-out meal. When I got home I discovered that the books which I had ordered on Tuesday had been delivered but, because they were too big for the mail slot in the door, they have been taken away to the depot. I went and arranged for them to be delivered to my local post office on Monday. It’s kind of annoying because I was really lookign forward to them for the weekend and I had specifically stayed later in case they came (usually packages are delivered before half past eight, but this one was delivered at about half past twelve). At least I should still be able to get them, that’s the main thing. I’m thinking I might request a half day on Monday.

Another Day Where Not Much Happened

Last night I was watching another episode of Boardwalk Empire on DVD. I have been really enjoying that show. Mostly I was just trying to keep warm, because it is really cold right now!

Today was a fairly quiet one at work. I got home at around seven.

Yojimbo

Last night I ordered a couple of books: The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to be the Artist You Truly Are and An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers both by Danny Gregory. I thought they would help me with my drawing and feeling better about it.

Later on I was watching the 1961 movie Yojimbo, directed by Akira Kurosawa. The movie opens when a wandering samurai (played by Toshiro Mifune) wanders into a small village which is being torn apart by a vicious, long-running war between rival gangs. Initially the samurai plans to make some money by hiring himself out as a bodyguard (or “yojimbo”) to one of the gangs. However, quickly realsing that they are both as bad as each other, he decides to play the gangs against each other. It’s a really great movie with plenty of tension and dark humour as well exciting action scenes. It was remade as A Fistful of Dollars, the movie which made Clint Eastwood a star.

It was a busy, but fairly quiet day at work. I was happy to get home today.