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Atmospheric Rivers & Slushing Outside
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It snowed last week, or the week before, and for a brief time the town was like a Hallmark Movie.
Then it stopped and all disappeared.
Since when it has rained and rained and the clouds have hung lowering in the sky. Tuesday, a blue sky, not a cloud to be seen, but I'm working a double and so my vantage is only from the pavement in front of the restaurant when I'm smoking a cigarette. It would have been a mighty fine day to have off. I didn't.
Wednesday, it snowed/Slushed the entire day, by boots filled with slush, shoes, everything wet, grey and dismal weather. The snow, it just turns to slush on the ground, there is no snow.
And Thursday, the same, a little bit hungover - then a lot, too much of a good thing, went to the Royal to see a customer play, the place is packed, the music, good, but there's a drummer in my head and it's doing me no favours.
Then today, a text early in the morning, waitress sick, so I'm on a double, and still a little under the weather, lunch is busy, a 5, another 5, a six ,a four top, deuce, deuce, deuce and take-out orders out my a**...bloody hell. Way too much running for a called in shift...
But in the evening, quiet, and I'm out by 7:15, and glad I worked the lunch because otherwise my ring-out would have been zilch. And - the added benefit, the sick waitress is now obliged to work Saturday, meaning I have a proper week-end off, what to do? What to do? What's on at the theatre, about town, man about town on a Saturday off, l'm gonna start with a shower...
The Snow Ghost - Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
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This was a much needed read, perfectly suited to the short days and long dark nights.
Classic Japanese Ghost Stories, most dating from the late 19th Century and early 20th, they demonstrate the hold the dead have over the living, the power to kill, vindictive, violent, vengeful, no pale shades half-seen in a graveyard, or ghosts walking in abandoned temples, these are full-on malevolent demons, fairies, spirits, that can interact in ways with the living that the Western Tradition generally doesn't allow.
So worthwhile....
(My other books, I mean Shopenhauer, Jack Kerouac, US Anderson, too many more to list, they've rather stalled on me)
Wrath of Man - Guy Ritchie
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Guy Ritchie has lost his touch in a big way. A silly gangsta movie (all his movies are), but this one without style or substance.
The success of "John Wick" has brought everyone on board the revenge fantasies; only some do it better than others. This was a rather style-less interpretation and even the wooden performance by Jason Statham didn't save it.
Bad Sequels - Drishyam 2 & Nobody 2
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These were both a complete and utter waste of time. "Drishyam 2" was about the cops reopening the investigation into events 7 years prior. Again, portrayed as corrupt and bungling, but a clever Inspector General thinks he has Vijay only to discover that Vijay, yet again, for an uneducated theatre owner has picked up a surprising number of tricks from the movies he watches.
Funny, how they break from speaking in Hindi to sarcastically utter in perfect English a phrase that obviously everyone knows.
And "Nobody 2" - I mean, if you went to see it you probably enjoyed it, but - again, a pretty hard "NO", just a little too silly. 1 was 1 too many, two is two too many.
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