House Arrest

Since I am essentially under house arrest there's not much to tell. No visitors, playing the same video games again, surfing the net, walking outside weather permitting, DVD watching, television watching...doodling and scribbling...

I did get taken to the cinema on Monday though and saw 'King Kong'. (I have essentially become an old man or a small child again...if I want to go anywhere I have to be taken there) I thought the performances were all very good. Interesting casting in Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody in that they're both very lanky actors...which was quite refreshing.

I blame Ahnuld and Sylvester for turning Hollywood and societal body archetypes into ridiculous ones and thus spawning the gym explosion worldwide. Case in point in 1984 in 'The Karate Kid'...Elizabeth Shue was a normal healthy looking blonde now she's super thin...our hero Daniel (Ralph Macchio) was slight of build with skinny arms...then along came 'The Terminator' and thus was born the notion of 'the body beautiful...'

Ok rant over back to 'King Kong'...some of the special (de)effects were a bit defective in my opinion and the film was way too long. I thought the ending was common knowledge like 'Titanic' but evidently not judging by the sobs in the back of the theatre at the end of the film!

Seems like everywhere the weather has turned cold judging by reports on assorted blogs and we've all found it hard to find inspiration or anything of amusement or of note to write about.