Hangover recovery today has consisted of watching Something for the Weekend and three films from the sofa, drinking tea and orangeade and eating pancakes and 10p crisps in Manchester.
1) Tremors
2) No Country For Old Men
3) Twelve Monkeys
And will later be watching Stephen Fry's America doco, History of the Guitar doco and MOTD2 if still awake.
Started watching Battlestar Galactica recently. Had not seen a single episode before. Been through the first 2 seasons and half way through the third now. It's rather good. Haven't seen much good Sci-fi for a while.
Also, been watching new episodes of Heroes which are ok so far and that new thing called Fringe. Kinda like a new X files type thing. Not too bad so far but they need some more interesting characters I reckon.
Fry's thing had it's moments, but overall it was a bit rushed. He spent about two seconds talking to that woman about Gulah culture, which sounded really interesting. I don't know how long this series is, but the two episodes so far have felt like three crammed into one. It's otherwise well made and has a great presenter, you'd have thought they could have given it a longer run and gone into a bit more detail. It looks like a highlights reel.
Less use of obscure (to me anyway) slang and less overt yoof culture. Most of the characters are AdULTs now so, I guess that's to be expected. Decent enough storyline (though fairly predictable) and good acting from most of the cast. I quite enjoyed Kidulthood despite not being the obvious target market and think if anything I prefered AdULTHOOD a bit. The overall themes of consequence and choice are more universal and it's less culture/location specific.
I witness CFC win 5-1 against a rather poor aldershot side. considering most folk wanted our manager sacked before the game and some would have prefered us to loose if it meant him getting the sack seeing as we won convincingly they still want him out, infact there was a few chants of rico out at the final whistle!
Documentary about events leading up to and surrounding Tommie Smith and John Carlos' striking of the black power salute on the winners rostrum at the 1968 Olympics. Very interesting. Felt a little short and hurried though. I'm sure there's way more they could have delved in to.
There's a recent documentary just called 'Salute' out too that is mainly about the third guy on the podium (Peter Norman). I'll have to track that down.