Surprise Movie

I was up at half past seven this morning and had my breakfast of porridge and coffee. I got into work at about half past nine. The seemingly endless pay dispute is hotting up again so there was a lot of talk about that, as well as who is likely to die in the season finale of Doctor Who and whether anyone hadn't heard of the Bee-Gees.

I left work at around half past five and headed up to the Cineworld cinema to see the Surprise Movie at the Film Festival. I was there about forty minutes early so I had time for a bottle of beer before the show. The Surprise Movie was a preview of a comedy film called The Rocker, directed by Paul Cattaneo. The movie opens in 1986 with the drummer in a heavy-metal band being fired just before the band make it famous. Twenty years later, the drummer (played by Rainn Wilson) is working a load of dull, ordinary jobs, while the band have gone on to become huge worldwide superstars. The drummer is still so bitter about this that he freaks out anytime he is reminded of them, which, on the day that the band release their latest album, causes him to lose his job and get thrown out by his girlfriend. So he winds up living with his sister and her family, where he discovers that his teenage nephew is in a band who, reluctantly, allow him to join them as a drummer. The movies also features Christina Applegate and Jeff Garlin (from Curb Your Enthusiasm), and a cameo from Pete Best, who was fired from The Beatles. I enjoyed it a lot. There's not much really original in it, but I thought it was very funny.

Before the film started while people were still coming into the cinema I noticed they were playing the song "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer, which I have on my iPod, and I had actually been listening to at work. It's a song that I really like a lot because it reminds me of a) Rachael Leigh Cook (it was like the theme for her film She's All That) and b) the Summer of 1999, when the song was really big, and I was still at college (I really miss those days a lot because I miss that feeling like my whole life was ahead of me, and during that Summer I was getting interested in different things like writing poetry and so on also we went to New York City on holiday which was great fun).

On my way home I was going to get some take-out but the place was shutting up. I'm going to watch an Imagine... documentary about the author Haruki Murakami.