Friday, 19 December 2008

quite like you before

Something different.

Two nights before I made my move to Germany I was in a fury of downloading films to fill a lovely new hard drive which has kept me company over here. After catching a snatch of the Kermode on Radio Five I thought I trust this slick haired lothario, he was reviewing an American film which turns out to be a remake of a Spanish film. I could tell he was waving his arms about in annoyance of the remake and waving his arms in praise of the original version.



Of course I downloaded the Spanish version of REC.

In a few words, set from the point of view of people locked in the building which is ground zero for a virus which causes zombification, none of them knowing what is going on, all filmed from the point of view of a news reporting team. Where this film starts is obvious, where it ends is the beauty of it. Shocking, scary and most importantly freshly executed.

Suffice to say I had to phone Lily up and tell her how scared I was.

Sometimes the past whispers in your ear, if you listen too hard you won't be able to tell the truth from all the lies. A girl I was once in love with told me she missed me a few days ago, in my heart there is always a place for her, but that place sank a few feet and pushed me to want to smoke again.

I could feel it now, I running my tongue between my teeth and lips, the taste of nicotine freshness is all that coats my tongue. If I spent all my life wishing we were together, I would have put a noose around my neck a long time ago. I miss her too, but then I miss that time in my life, I'm not allowed to have it back, instead I decided that we should all make our own life in the present.

musik
  • Eli The Barrow Boy- The Decemberists
  • This Sporting Life- The Decemberists
  • California Dreaming- Mamas and Papas
  • Hurt- Johnny Cash
  • Bitter Sweet Symphony- The Verve
  • Girl From Mars- Ash
  • Best Of You- The Foo Fighters
buch
  • Blind Willow Sleeping Woman- Haruki Murakami
sport
  • HSV vs Aston Villa (Deutschland gegen England)

vershieden
  • the new land lord seeing all the coincidences.
  • Seeing the prettiest German girl sitting opposite me on the U3, she was so angelic I felt almost paedophilic.
  • feeling all Chungking Express again, I wonder if there is a Muenchen equivalent that I could try and live.
  • Impressing Roisin with a stolen lyric.
  • German Hip Hop is so fuckin gangsta is unreal tourno
  • Missing Baker, not having tea with him in almost 5 weeks is soul destroying.
  • Reading a book on the tube and ignoring all the people around me.
  • Old Man James asking if I was all right in my office.
  • You could have it all, my empire of dirt.

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