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Staying In

mylife99 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:46:55 +0000

Last night was really quiet, once I got back. I was reading my new comic books, and they were really good. One comic series that I have been really enjoying is The Unwritten, which is about a shadowy conspiracy which is trying to control the world by controlling fiction and storytelling, some of the issues have nothing to do with the main storyline but are one off stories set throughout history about imagination and storytelling influencing the wider world. It is really imaginative.

Today I went out and got my groceries for the coming week. Aside from that I’ve basically just been staying in today, so it’s been kind of nice.

Feeling Better

mylife99 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:57:02 +0000

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

mylife99 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:51:06 +0000

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

mylife99 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:28:34 +0000

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

mylife99 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:16:44 +0000

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

mylife99 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:49:32 +0000

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

mylife99 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:22:36 +0000

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

mylife99 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:56:43 +0000

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

mylife99 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:19:03 +0000

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

mylife99 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:10:42 +0000

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.