Having nothing to do for a month has started to take its toll. It’s quite amazing how having no daily purpose disrupts the psyche. It works wonders for the self-esteem – that is, in unforgivingly grabbing it by the collar, knocking it down, kicking it on the guts, and flattening it to the ground, and – just for fun – helping it back up again to its feet only to push it back onto a bottomless cliff.
I’m getting impatient. I got called for a part-time job for office IT guy, which isn’t exactly a challenge. But I think I’ll take it, just to add some mundaneity into my otherwise free-floating world. (Now I realize that life is harder when in sandbox mode – you have too many choices you end up getting crippled. The routine boringness of a day job solves that, helping you move around that preset framework, and actually enjoy life in the process.)
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Now that I have all the time in the world, I try to do something creative, like make a new song, whatever. For some reason, inspiration comes really, really slow. I believe it is connected to my current self-deprecating feelings such as Useless and Terrible Waste of Space. But for what it’s worth, I will pursue. Sometimes you just have to keep poking on your muse until it stands up and says, “okay! okay! for godssakes and shut the hell up already!”
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So I just go and watch stuff. TV shows… all favorites now on new seasons, plus exploring more potentially interesting ones. And watching movies. I just finished Hot Fuzz, made by the same team who did Shaun of the Dead. This time, the guys poke fun at Big Budget Hollywood movies, with Michael Bay flicks taking most of the brunt.
Most of the movie proceeds with only small traces of parody – such as the unusually frequent insertions of quick-cut montages and exaggerated sound effects and slow-motions – but otherwise goes through with its own voice. Thrown in is also a rather interesting murder mystery. But somewhere during the last third something happens, where it starts getting outrageous. From then on, moment by moment the absurdity of everything just keeps piling up, “homages” appear in increasing frequency, and just when you think it couldn’t get any more over-the-top, it actually does! And this happens some five times throughout!
The effect is absolutely hilarious. That whole stretch was quite a romp that is worth a review many times.
