I truly don’t try to let something like a cold knock me out, but this one kicked my ass. The only small upside to it is that there were hundreds of dvd’s to keep me company.

9:30am… Get out of bed, walk up to the drug store to top up on cold meds and orange juice.


10:00am…Upon returning, the day starts with BRICK. Almost forgot as I fired it up that I’d be witness to a slight INCEPTION reunion with Jo-Go Levitt and Lukas Haas. The flick is a good starter since it’s the dialogue in it I love so much, which allows me to close my eyes and listen. Inevitably, I sleep through 80% of it.

 

 


12:30pm… Having watched KILL BILL volume 1 on Sunday, I decide to reach for volume two. I also drift in and out of sleepiness with this one (I’m gone through the entire Pai Mei sequence), however watching the gusto with which David Carradine makes a sandwich rekindles my appetite and sends me to the kitchen finally. (I forget – is it feed a fever, starve a cold?).

 

3:00pm… I decide that it’s been ages since I’ve watched ROCKNROLLA, so that goes on next. The INCEPTION reunion continues as I’d completely forgotten that Tom Hardy plays Handsome Bob in this film. Quick show of hands, who thinks my ‘sick day movies’ so far are an odd bunch?

 

 

 

4:45pm…I’m finally out of bed and into the living room. I’ve decided to move to Lindsay’s dvd shelf, which as we all know is a veryscaryplace. But there are treasures to be found there – such as THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS. Admittedly, the early bunch of gritty and tough movies might not have been the best idea today, as this one seems much more of an appropriate tempo. So far, it’s the only one I’ve been awake for all the way through.

 

 

8:30pm…Much of the cold seems to be leaving my system. My patient wife has returned home, and there’s some semblance of dinner in my stomach. But a slight state of melancholy is soaking in, thus the evening’s choice is ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. My left eye has suddenly decided to act up, blurring my vision nicely (I can only tell Winslet and Carrey apart by the blue hair).

 

 

10:45… Time to take one last dose of meds and try to sleep the last of this bugger off. My earlier Wes Anderson film seemed to mellow me out nicely, so hopefully another one will work to knock me out for the night.

 

 

 

(Thanks for endulging my sick day activities – your regularly scheduled Matinee will resume this time tomorrow)