December 25
I have so far celebrated the holiday as such:
- played Battlefield 2 from 2 to 4am
- immediately after waking up, re-watched what is officially my Christmas 2006 movie, Bad Santa
What better way to spend Christmas than to frag opponents and see a potty-mouthed Santa? For many people, the day is for giving and seeing your loved ones. Well, I’m all for the giving part, but this day I just want to spend by my lone self. Christmas is my respite from the human race – today it’s just me, my room, and everything within it.
Not being antisocial or anything, though. It’s just my way of rest. Phone calls, e-mails and text messages are still welcome. ;)
In other news, I just discovered a bunch of new movies that gave me the expectation tingles. Letters From Iwo Jima is Clint Eastwood’s follow-up to Flags of Our Fathers, this time telling the war tale from the perspective of the Japanese. Haven’t seen either, so watching both in succession should prove an immersing experience. Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men looks like an introspective science fiction film, and I am just a sucker for those kind of stuff.
I also discovered a movie called Overlord that tells of a soldier’s story during D-Day (the title refers to Operation: Overlord, the Allies’ campaign that begins their reclamation of Europe). And there’s Fateless, from a book Nobel Prize-winning author, about a boy’s life in a German concentration camp. More WWII movies to satisfy my WWII-buffness (insert pleasant sensations here).
Since the awards are coming, I’ve taken to seeing as many movies in the nominees list as I can. So the next order of my Christmas day: Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.