Double Inception
After I overslept this morning I was happy to still be up and about before the Maid turned up, so that worked out sort of okay, thgouh I still felt silly for turning off the alarm and going back to sleep. The bed just felt too good. I swear to God if I could safely take a drug that'd allow me to sleep as little as 5 hours a night without side effects, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I just feel like I'm pissing away time when I'm asleep, I don't know why, but I wake up not refreshed but agitated that I was down for as long as I was.
The wife was wrapping up some rat-killing in the Office in advance of a noon-ish meeting, so I spoke to her in between phone calls, then fired up the PC and poked around to see what was happening in the world.
The wife split and I was listening to a podcast while I wrote on the blog when the doorbell rang and the Yorkie went yapping to greet the Maid. I let her in and she started her routine in the bedroom while I settled the dog back down in the Office to chill with me.
Around noon I called in an order for some food that I planned to pick up, noting with some dismay that the cloudy, foreboding weather outside had now turned into a pissing down drizzle, so I dressed warmly and reluctantly went to pick up my food. I got back to the house a few minutes ahead of the wife, who had brought some pizza leftovers with her from her meeting. She took one look at me unbagging my lunch and said "Well, I timed that perfectly, didn't I?"
We rolled our eyes at each other and then she joined me in the Office while the Maid finished up. I watched an episode of The Cleveland Show via Netfux Instant Watch to pass the time while she worked on stuff on her Mac. I started a movie for the hell of it, as I figured the Maid would be underfoot for about half the afternoon.
Imagine my surprise when she split as I was barely through the credits. The wife was gearing up to print some stuff, and since my computer is immediately adjacent to the printer, I figured I'd get the hell out of there and chill in the bedroom with the rest of my movie via Netfux Streaming. This was not to happen, as the PS3 naturally needed an update, since it hadn't been used in the past month or so, which moved at a glacial pace as it downloaded, then to top it off the wife left her shit printing and came into the bedroom to chill out and possibly nap.
I threw up my hands in frustration and headed into the den to watch the damned thing, popping back in from time to time to see that the PS3 did what it needed to, then was finally able to relax with the movie afterward.
Double Indemnity is another movie to be covered by a Noir themed podcast I'm listening to recently, so I noticed it on Netfux Instant Watch last week and figured I should give it a spin. Fred MacMurray stars as an insurance salesman who gets in thick with Barbara Stanwyck, a woman stuck in a loveless marriage who's looking for a way out, which they reason could be a 'double indemnity' clause, which pays off double in the case of an accidental death. Things progress as you'd expect, as most of these films lean toward a nihilistic ending that you may see coming but want to see play out anyway. It was a great little flick and something I might've rated a tad higher if MacMurray hadn't annoyed me slightly by calling Stanwyck 'baby' every other word, it was really frustrating that the patter wasn't punched up a bit more, as he is a good actor. Anyway, it's nice to mark one of those persistent classics off the list of things to seem, particularly when it lives up to the hype.
The wife and dog joined me in the evening as they normally do, so we eventually settled in for another flick over some steaks and potatoes for dinner.
We watched Inception for the first time tonight, a movie that I had kind of avoided due to the Blu-ray player in the den not having been updated for so long, so I figured we could finally give it a spin and not have the machine be an asshole about it. The film was great, as expected, and I finally got to judge for myself if all the twists and turns are hard to follow (they really aren't if you pay attention) and if it blew my mind as much as everyone who was raving about it last summer. It's a solid movie that I think will hold up to numerous re-watches, and I really enjoyed the film overall, so it's nice to be able to tick it off the list as well.
We called it a night after an episode of The Soup, as the wife was tired and I wanted to get started on this crapola sooner than later.
Be seeing you.
The wife was wrapping up some rat-killing in the Office in advance of a noon-ish meeting, so I spoke to her in between phone calls, then fired up the PC and poked around to see what was happening in the world.
The wife split and I was listening to a podcast while I wrote on the blog when the doorbell rang and the Yorkie went yapping to greet the Maid. I let her in and she started her routine in the bedroom while I settled the dog back down in the Office to chill with me.
Around noon I called in an order for some food that I planned to pick up, noting with some dismay that the cloudy, foreboding weather outside had now turned into a pissing down drizzle, so I dressed warmly and reluctantly went to pick up my food. I got back to the house a few minutes ahead of the wife, who had brought some pizza leftovers with her from her meeting. She took one look at me unbagging my lunch and said "Well, I timed that perfectly, didn't I?"
We rolled our eyes at each other and then she joined me in the Office while the Maid finished up. I watched an episode of The Cleveland Show via Netfux Instant Watch to pass the time while she worked on stuff on her Mac. I started a movie for the hell of it, as I figured the Maid would be underfoot for about half the afternoon.
Imagine my surprise when she split as I was barely through the credits. The wife was gearing up to print some stuff, and since my computer is immediately adjacent to the printer, I figured I'd get the hell out of there and chill in the bedroom with the rest of my movie via Netfux Streaming. This was not to happen, as the PS3 naturally needed an update, since it hadn't been used in the past month or so, which moved at a glacial pace as it downloaded, then to top it off the wife left her shit printing and came into the bedroom to chill out and possibly nap.
I threw up my hands in frustration and headed into the den to watch the damned thing, popping back in from time to time to see that the PS3 did what it needed to, then was finally able to relax with the movie afterward.
Double Indemnity is another movie to be covered by a Noir themed podcast I'm listening to recently, so I noticed it on Netfux Instant Watch last week and figured I should give it a spin. Fred MacMurray stars as an insurance salesman who gets in thick with Barbara Stanwyck, a woman stuck in a loveless marriage who's looking for a way out, which they reason could be a 'double indemnity' clause, which pays off double in the case of an accidental death. Things progress as you'd expect, as most of these films lean toward a nihilistic ending that you may see coming but want to see play out anyway. It was a great little flick and something I might've rated a tad higher if MacMurray hadn't annoyed me slightly by calling Stanwyck 'baby' every other word, it was really frustrating that the patter wasn't punched up a bit more, as he is a good actor. Anyway, it's nice to mark one of those persistent classics off the list of things to seem, particularly when it lives up to the hype.
The wife and dog joined me in the evening as they normally do, so we eventually settled in for another flick over some steaks and potatoes for dinner.
We watched Inception for the first time tonight, a movie that I had kind of avoided due to the Blu-ray player in the den not having been updated for so long, so I figured we could finally give it a spin and not have the machine be an asshole about it. The film was great, as expected, and I finally got to judge for myself if all the twists and turns are hard to follow (they really aren't if you pay attention) and if it blew my mind as much as everyone who was raving about it last summer. It's a solid movie that I think will hold up to numerous re-watches, and I really enjoyed the film overall, so it's nice to be able to tick it off the list as well.We called it a night after an episode of The Soup, as the wife was tired and I wanted to get started on this crapola sooner than later.
Be seeing you.
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