Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Don't wanna see anybody
And hear advice about my job and my life
I'm in a bad mood and I'm so bored today.
- The Peawees
Were I to do a pie-graph of my student loan spending, a decent wedge would be coloured brown with a large ‘L’ to indicate Lovelock’s Sports Bar. And so it was that on Friday night I returned to my old haunt to watch the Hurricanes get beaten and the ‘KeeWee’s’ lose the leeegue to Australia. A winning start to the weekend, but good to be back at the place I had pissed away so much money.
And then, perhaps brought on by those double losses, a realisation of my debt or the sudden arrival of winter, a darkness settled upon Chuxville. It eventually lifted last evening when the sky turned a brilliant kaleidoscope of pink, orange and yellow, but in the meantime, Chuck turned mean.
Well maybe not mean in the cutting fingers off with secateurs, extracting teeth with a hammer or exploding semtex pre-inserted in the victims’ anus kind of mean, but rather a sort of mean mood, selfish maybe, intolerant definitely. Actually those three examples of meanness come from the films I chose to watch this weekend, namely Oldboy and Man on Fire, which perhaps weren’t the best ones to watch in a mood such as mine. Oldboy was a fairly vile film in fact and I’m unsure why it has garnered such acclaim apart from a nifty fight scene in a corridor, and an unsettling premise. The violence though was just a little too much for me, specifically a scene that reminded me of the time I sat alongside Lloyd Scott (the thinking man’s Crumpy) at a one-off Paramount screening of Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma – which I wouldn’t recommend to anyone (neither the film nor sitting alongside L.S.)
Anyhow, enough about the flicks. You’ll be happy to hear that my disposition has improved and wow, that sky last night, you couldn’t help but feel all was right with the world. And so it was that I popped into the supermarket on my way home, only to discover that my much abused Visa card had finally had enough. I had been declined. Perhaps time for another student loan?
And hear advice about my job and my life
I'm in a bad mood and I'm so bored today.
- The Peawees
Were I to do a pie-graph of my student loan spending, a decent wedge would be coloured brown with a large ‘L’ to indicate Lovelock’s Sports Bar. And so it was that on Friday night I returned to my old haunt to watch the Hurricanes get beaten and the ‘KeeWee’s’ lose the leeegue to Australia. A winning start to the weekend, but good to be back at the place I had pissed away so much money.
And then, perhaps brought on by those double losses, a realisation of my debt or the sudden arrival of winter, a darkness settled upon Chuxville. It eventually lifted last evening when the sky turned a brilliant kaleidoscope of pink, orange and yellow, but in the meantime, Chuck turned mean.
Well maybe not mean in the cutting fingers off with secateurs, extracting teeth with a hammer or exploding semtex pre-inserted in the victims’ anus kind of mean, but rather a sort of mean mood, selfish maybe, intolerant definitely. Actually those three examples of meanness come from the films I chose to watch this weekend, namely Oldboy and Man on Fire, which perhaps weren’t the best ones to watch in a mood such as mine. Oldboy was a fairly vile film in fact and I’m unsure why it has garnered such acclaim apart from a nifty fight scene in a corridor, and an unsettling premise. The violence though was just a little too much for me, specifically a scene that reminded me of the time I sat alongside Lloyd Scott (the thinking man’s Crumpy) at a one-off Paramount screening of Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma – which I wouldn’t recommend to anyone (neither the film nor sitting alongside L.S.)
Anyhow, enough about the flicks. You’ll be happy to hear that my disposition has improved and wow, that sky last night, you couldn’t help but feel all was right with the world. And so it was that I popped into the supermarket on my way home, only to discover that my much abused Visa card had finally had enough. I had been declined. Perhaps time for another student loan?
