"Another day, another..." -ahh, whatever...
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Work today seemed so freakin' long. I'm getting so tired...and I'm not just talking about work. I'm really starting to wonder why I'm out here anymore. Lately I've just lost my drive to do anything. I've got some really cool friends out here that are trying to help me work through it, but I just feel like I've hit a brick wall and everything's gone black (or at least a really dark grey). I'm going to give it some time to work itself out, but who knows...
We had a (I 'heart' Huckabees) party last night at the apartment, for some reason. It was actually started by two girls from work and our place just ended up being the forum where the magic would unfold. The party was cool, but why somebody would have a party based on a movie like that seemed a bit odd. I could see if it was 'Breakin' 2: Electic Boogaloo' or something like that. It was actually pretty fun, though. We didn't start the movie until around midnight, so that gave us a few hours to just hang out. We still have quite a bit of alcohol and food left over, so I guess we should have had another one tonight. Oh well.
It was actually a pretty laid back night. I got home around 10:30p.m. from work and just relaxed. After Mike and Amanda got home I decided to do a little reading. I pulled out Frank Miller's "The Hard Goodbye", the first chapter in the Sin City series. I believe it's one of the longer of the graphics novels from the series, hitting at 200 pages on the nose. If I'm not mistaken, I believe The Hard Goodbye is actually a compilation of 13 short serialized chapters that appeared in another book (Dark Horse Presents) instead of as a stand alone piece. That would have driven me crazy to have to wait for the rest of the story the way it's paced. This is basically Marv's story that appears in the movie, just in more detail. If you haven't seen the movie, Marv is one kiss-ass character. If you have seen the movie, then you know what I'm talking about. I had only planned on reading a short bit, to get a taste of how the graphic novel played out, but a couple of hours later and 200 pages behind me, I had read the whole darned thing! It just got away from me. Which is funny because that's what Frank Miller said about his originally 48 page planned story, it just kind of "ran away with itself." It's amazing how true to the book the movie was, and yet the book still had so much of a life of it's own. I can't wait to start on the next book...but I will. When something good has an eventual end you have to pace yourself, because once it's done and there's nothing left, it's s-s-so c-cold, so v-v-ery c-c-cold-d...(single tear drop)
***It's weird, but my heart symbol wouldn't show up in the movie title on the site page, just a "♥", but it shows up on my actual composition and it's still on my review for the Huckabees movie from November. (Huh...strange...)***
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