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Elbowing Around Down
Feb. 7th, 2005 10:56 amSaturday - what the hell happened on Saturday... I can't remember. I woke, I ate, I packed some... oh yeah, I remember, I went walking to University Heights Mall with Aki to get some groceries, and we stopped at Tim Horton's on the way back. There was freezing rain, not quite hail. The Zeller's is all shut down now, completely empty except for guys dismantling shelving units. And though there were large well-designed notices on each and every door that the store was "permanently closed, kthxbye" we saw one deluded old lady after another walk up to the doors, rap on the very notice itself, and ask whether there wasn't something in the obviously empty store she could still buy. I suppose they were drawn to the lights, like moths with wallets.
Saturday night Aki and I watched some DVDs I got the other day -
The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price (The Coolest Dead Guy On Earth), much better than The Omega Man. Also
A Bucket of Blood, a gret Roger Corman skewering of beatniks. Finally,
My Son the Vampire, a really awful Bela Lugosi movie, must have been one of his last ones. Made in Britain where it is known as Old Mother Riley Meets The Vampire, this one was retitled for US distribution so they could dub this awful song (by Allan Sherman, he of "Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah" fame) over the opening titles, has lyrics like "he'll bite your neck 'cause he don't like grapefruit juice" or something like that - awful, awful.
Sunday I went to Capital Iron to get a replacement stem for the cold-water kitchen sink faucet that has been leaking for some time. Replacing it took a moment, but first I had to crawl under the house, to the very furthest corner, to shut off the water - for some reason the sink was not built with local shut-off taps. There are spiders the size of Cadillacs down there. Had to do the Low Crawl several times because Someone couldn't get off the couch long enough to see if the water was all the way off or not. Might as well ask Hammy Hamster for help.
Sunday night Aki and I played Nobunaga's Ambition, an old stategy game about uniting Japan. I was pretty stiff and tired and slept most of the night, something I haven't don for quite a while.
LJ sure is hiccupy today.
Saturday night Aki and I watched some DVDs I got the other day -
The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price (The Coolest Dead Guy On Earth), much better than The Omega Man. Also
A Bucket of Blood, a gret Roger Corman skewering of beatniks. Finally,
My Son the Vampire, a really awful Bela Lugosi movie, must have been one of his last ones. Made in Britain where it is known as Old Mother Riley Meets The Vampire, this one was retitled for US distribution so they could dub this awful song (by Allan Sherman, he of "Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah" fame) over the opening titles, has lyrics like "he'll bite your neck 'cause he don't like grapefruit juice" or something like that - awful, awful.
Sunday I went to Capital Iron to get a replacement stem for the cold-water kitchen sink faucet that has been leaking for some time. Replacing it took a moment, but first I had to crawl under the house, to the very furthest corner, to shut off the water - for some reason the sink was not built with local shut-off taps. There are spiders the size of Cadillacs down there. Had to do the Low Crawl several times because Someone couldn't get off the couch long enough to see if the water was all the way off or not. Might as well ask Hammy Hamster for help.
Sunday night Aki and I played Nobunaga's Ambition, an old stategy game about uniting Japan. I was pretty stiff and tired and slept most of the night, something I haven't don for quite a while.
LJ sure is hiccupy today.
