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delgaBaby Cousin turned eight on Sunday, and so - to accommodate her birthday plans - she came to stay on Friday night. I picked up some pizza, and there have been a slate of animated films on the BBC recently, so we watched Bolt which was about a dog that stars in a TV series but doesn't realise he doesn't have superpowers until he's thrown into the real world. Frankly I would have watched the TV series; the scenes where the dog is doing his super bark or whatever were brilliant.
On Saturday, Baby Cousin and I made cupcakes, watched Tangled (which we bought her for Christmas), and then went into town. We went to this new cake shop to see what it was like, then I took her to this massive Antiques place that has been in town for decades. She's never been! It's more of a bric-a-brac, and it's more specialised now than it used to be. There are whole sections for card marking, scrap booking, knitting, vinyl records, jewellery making and so on. We spent a significant amount of time looking at the insane number of beads this place had. Amazing.
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Yesterday I started many, many things (Borgen, Die Tür, Nikita, The Brothers Bloom) and failed to get very far with any of them. My concentration was shot. I have been feeling randomly anxious recently, too. It's freaking me out.
Watched Sherlock, and was pleased to see Amelia Bullmore, whom I adore. I don't really have a lot to say about it. I did like the mind palace thing visually because I think that's one of the better graphical representations they've done, and it's something that I enjoy. It felt less like they were re-running an old gimmick and more like they were doing something different with it.
I did feel that 90 minutes was way too long for this episode, though, and there was a lot of filler. Twenty minutes of Holmes freaking out over his cigarettes, and being an ass for no reason other than no-one else can stop him? I think it's a good example of how irritating it must be for John to live with him constantly, and it fleshes out their interactions, but it felt forced to me, like we were supposed to laugh at this bit, no, really, HAR-HAR THIS BIT IS HILARIOUS. The rest of it I enjoyed, especially John in the labs. I sort of wish I could just unwind and just watch it instead of being conscious that there was probably something there that I was going to miss that would be relevant later. Or that I could just watch for Sherlock and John, which I cannot. I was really into the Major's beard, though.
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Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, I saw the second film, and loved Jared Harris as Moriarty. The perfect cruel balance to Downey Jnr's manic Holmes.
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I'm at home today because I am going to the dentist. I have needed a dental appointment since 2007 at the least, but haven't had one since my very first when I was about 7? Yeah. The guy is going to be really confused when he sees me, I just know it. And I'm going with The Dad. Oh. Yes. Great.
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Okay, I want to finish watching Borgen today. Sidse Babett Knudsen is lovely as Birgitte Nyborg.
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Date: 2012-01-09 11:26 am (UTC)Good luck at the dentist, it's on my list of things to do as well and I am even worse as I'm not even registered somewhere at the moment and have been putting it off out of fear. :/
Sad to hear about Brothers Bloom- I've been wanting to see it for ages as it looks so fun!
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Date: 2012-01-09 11:30 am (UTC)Thank you! I can't remember having ever gone before, so...this will be interesting.
I enjoyed what I watched, but had to stop when I felt myself drifting! Planning to watch it some time this week. Have been waiting ever since I heard it was made because I loved Brick. Rian Johnson has a new film out this year, too, which looks amazing.
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Date: 2012-01-09 12:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-09 03:37 pm (UTC)