A History of Pants

Ahh, weekends. Such fun. You really do appreciate your days off when you have to be at work 5 days a week. This weekend past was a good deal of fun, and was fairly relaxing too. Friday night started with some delicious Thai food, an amusing performance from Jon (pitching his film idea to us, then talking about his fantasy character's 'issue' being that he wants to get into a prestige class in d20, or that he's torn between wearing armour or being sneaky), and one of the worst films I've seen in a long time, A History of Violence. The premise is simple - a regular guy is working in a diner when some psycho criminals try to rob it. He kills them. He turns out to be a badass with a secret past. It's not an original premise, but the clever twist here was, instead of making the film with the muscles from Brussels or Dolph Lundgren or some other muscle-bound extra-killer, they got an 'artsy' director to make an emotional drama version of an action film. Badly. There was about 25 minutes worth of story in this film, and the rest was boring, unengaging nonsense. Seriously, this film would have been better with Jean Claude Van Damme in it. Saturday we played Travel Settlers (so tiny!), went to a lovely party, and saw family. Very nice. Did I mention that you should never watch a History of Violence? We had a pretty quiet Sunday, though I did buy some new boots. I insisted on going for a walk around the block in them, and scared Debbie with my acute and optimistic attention to random details around us. I also managed to do a 360 degree jump for the first time in my life (having been talking about kicking things with my new boots, I decided to test their jumping-bounciness). Jumping an spinning around is not a difficult thing, but for some reason I could never manage to turn more than 180 degrees when I was younger. Yesterday I managed the complete spin. It must be the new boots :) Lastly, A History of Violence is a bad, bad movie, and you should never watch it under any circumstances. If you have to watch it, be sure to get Jon round to dub over all the little girl's lines with Gimli quotes from LotR. It makes some scenes watchable ;)