Pynchon

My stomach is feeling a bit dicky. It is my own fault. Last night I cooked M&S jalapeno burgers. We ate them even though they looked a little bit raw in the middle. (I hadn't actually read the cooking instructions, but Lorraine doesn't know that.) Lorraine is OK, but I have been having problems on and off all day. Still, gives me another reason to clean the toilet I suppose.

Where was I? Oh, yes. Keep up. It's Thursday morning. (Bear with me. Not much more to write.)

I cooked sausages, bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast. I think that Hen and Oz really enjoyed that. I know that I did. We went into town. Someone (not me!) suggested that we have a look to see what was on the cinema. While Oz purchased a chocolate milkshakey thing from Coffee Republic, we checked the cinema times at the Cineworld on Broad Street. We chose "The Omen" at 11am.

There was time, so we wandered down to Nostalgia and Comics. Hen purchased a Jack Skellington T-shirt and I bought Oz the "Watchmen" graphic novel. Spreading culture and all that. Then, after checking out the height of the Radission hotel by standing at the very bottom and looking up (Oz and Hen were not impressed - Australia has taller buildings), we walked up to Broad Street and got the bus to the cinema.

We saw "The Omen" starring the Goddess Julia Stiles.



"The Omen" has had pretty bad reviews. I thought it was OK and a perfectly adequate horror film. Not great, but I have seen worse films this year. There are some good jump out of seat moments. I would say though that as far as remakes go making the film was pretty pointless as it seems to follow the plot, and structure of the scenes of the original film (and it has been years since I saw the original "The Omen", so correct me if I am wrong), almost exactly. But, I don't agree that the leads were miscast and it was also nice to see the cream of British character actors (Michael Gambon, Pete Posthewaite and David Thewlis) getting the opportunity to pay their mortgages this year.

After the film we went home. I cooked the remaining sausages, bacon and eggs and we had them as sandwiches. Afterwards we watched the remaining "Extras" episodes and Hen finished packing while Oz and I watched the first half of England versus Trinidad and Tobago. Lorraine phoned and had a goodbye chat with Oz and Hen and recommended that they visit Betty's Tea Rooms in York. Apparently it is a fine establishment. I saw Oz and Hen to their jeep. (Was it a jeep? No idea, but it was a big bastard!) I shook Oz's hand. I got a hug from Hen. They got into their car. The car started up. There was waving. They were gone.

... And immediately I felt deflated. Back to being a recluse, I suppose. They were wonderful people. Really nice people. I hope that somehow, somewhere outside of the Internet we can meet up again. I think that I would like that very much.

Friday morning I went to see "Hard Candy". It was very good, but I will write about that tomorrow. The toilet calls.