(EDIT: Hooray! Problem seems to be fixed. Apologies to everyone who just got a blank screen instead of an entry).

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to stop by. I am Plume I'll be your pink bunny for the evening.

Let me start of with a couple of pictures. For Dylan specifically. I know she'll appreciate them. number one and number two. You can thank me later. potato.

Today was a very DVD day. But I'll get back to that. First there was work. It was a tired morning. It almost felt like Monday was pissed off that I hadn't had a bad Monday morning and it decided to hijack Tuesday morning and make me suffer for it. Or maybe all the days are in it together, a conspiracy. I can just imagine Monday whispering to Tuesday: "Okay, I'll go easy on him and then when he's not expecting it you hit him like a ton of bricks!". And then Tuesday nods and smiles innocently. Because no one ever suspects Tuesday. Hmmm, no one ever suspects Wednesday either. Should I be worried?

But work went okay. Cafer wasn't there. He was taking his daughter to the hospital. So I was left on my own. Went and bought vegetables on my own. I did a good job. Instead of giving some guy the list and waiting for them to get all our stuff I went and got it all myself. Much quicker. I have optimized our shopping by several percentage points. The consumer captain would be proud of me. I know he's looking down on me and smiling. That's what makes the stars twinkle, you know.

On my way home I stopped at the gas station and rented a couple of DVDs to cheer me up. Midsommer and Hunted.

I got Hunted because it had Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro. And those are two cool cats. I imagined it would be quite intense between them. And it was. But not really a very good movie. Pity that. The best part by far was Tommy Lee Jones with a wicked beard in the snowy wilderness. That was both cool and cold at the same time.

Midsommer is a Danish movie. Midsummer in English. A site I was looking at called it "The Blair Witch Project meets I Know What You Did Last Summer". I guess that's pretty accurate. If you imagine it in a Scandinavian setting.

Most of the movie is set in Sweden. And there really is something sinister about Sweden. No offense to you Swedes. It's just that Sweden has those big forests and lakes and everything. There's bound to be evil hiding in there. Haven't you watched Twin Peaks? The owls are not what they seem.

I remember Sweden very well from my intro trip when I started High School. I remember the huge forest. Lying in a tent in the middle of nowhere. Of course I was a high school boy sleeping in a tent with 3 girls so I wasn't worrying about evil things. I was preoccupied with other things. But it is sort of scary. At least when you're not used to the great wildernesses. Sessesses.

I remember sitting in a kayak or canoe or whatever it's called. In the middle of a Swedish lake. Man I miss that now. That was a beautiful moment. The water so quiet and serene. Sailing through it. That wasn't sinister, that was beautiful. I Wanna go canoeing now. Hey, I looked it up, that's how you spell it.

I also remember sitting on a rock in the middle of nowhere. Alone in the rain. Because it was too hard to go inside and be with all the others. I just sat there in the rain instead. And it wasn't just rain, it was monster rain. Maybe the hardest rain I have ever experienced. Thundering down. One of the camp site people came over to me and asked if I was alrite, if I didn't want to go inside. I just said I was fine and sat there.

I remember walking home from the high school with my dad carrying some of my baggage. In the middle of the night. Seeing the others going home with their families.

I remember a lot of things. Then how come my short term memory is so bad?

Oh well.

Right, the movie. Midsommer. Pretty decent movie. The ghost story part isn't amazingly original but it did keep me guessing most of the time. The best part is just the young people interaction. Solid performances. Especially Laura Christensen. She's gorgeous. I knew I'd seen her somewhere before. I had to look it up, turns out she was Mona the ghost kid in Lars von Trier's Riget. Kingdom. I wonder when Stephen King's version comes out. Danskjävla.

And a righteous soundtrack with Carpark North. Transparent & Glasslike has a brilliant chorus, it's just riveting. I should get their CD some time. It was actually their video to Transparent & Glasslike that made me want to watch Midsommer. Because it has scenes from the movie. What a brilliant marketing ploy.

All in all one decent movie and one mediocre. And time well spent away from real life. I'm feeling much better, thank you.

And then I got the Simpsons 3rd season DVD in the mail. That's cool. Of course I had to pony up the money for it. If I had known I was going to buy a new computer I probably wouldn't have ordered those DVDs when I did. But oh well. Cash is just money in the bank under a different name. We can't always get what we want, so why not just buy it. I'm trying to come up with philosophical ways to justift my materialism. It's not quite working.

Speaking of animated shows, I watched the "Jurassic Bark" episode of Futurama yesterday. Wasn't that the most heartbreaking ending ever in a cartoon? The poor doggie waiting there year after year faithfully. Until it died. And Fry thought it hadn't remembered him. Aw. It almost made me cry. Poor dog. Poor Fry. But what a beautiful ending.

I will wait for you

You can run away. But you should look back twice just to be on the safe side. Don't you just love goodbyes? 156. Don't you just love goodbyes?

Goodbye. Hooray.

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