Distorted DVDs
Last night I was watching my new Peep Show DVDs, but halfway through the fifth season DVD the picture was completely wrecked by distortion, which I was really annoyed about.
Later on last night I was watching a 1971 "Hammer Horror" film called Countess Dracula, directed by Peter Sasdy. In seventeenth century Hungary, an elderly countess (played by Ingrid Pitt) discovers that bathing in the blood of young women can temporarily restore her youth and beauty. She ends up becoming a serial killer, murdering countless victims so she can romance a young soldier, by pretending to be her own daughter (who she arranges to have kidnapped by bandits). The film was loosely based on the legends surrounding real life Countess Elizabeth Bathory (the so-called "Blood Countess") who was one of the inspirations for the story of Dracula. Like most of the Hammer Studios films it was very lavishly designed, if on a low-budget. It was quite fun.
I was up quite sharp this morning because, before going to my parent's house (as usual for a Sunday), I went along to the Cameo Cinema with my mum to see a preview of a French film called I've Loved You So Long, directed by Philippe Claudel. The film stars Kristen Scott Thomas as a woman who is released after fifteen years in prison for murder, and moves in with her younger sister and her family, as she tries to start a new life. It's very well-made, if not hugely original, and is very well-acted.
I stopped off afterwards and exchanged the Peep Show DVDs, before heading back to my parent's house. Sunday lunch was chicken, peas, potatoes and white wine sauce, followed by rhubarb and gooseberry crumble. The new issue of Fortean Times (the Journal of Strange Phenomena) had arrived during the week, and it was pretty entertaining. It was warm and dry enough to sit outside, which made a nice change.
When I got home I checked the Peep Show DVDs, and this time there was distortion on the fourth season disc! Luckily it seemed to only be effecting the main menus rather than the episodes, but I won't know until I've checked them all the way through. I was really, really annoyed! It's not the first time I've had to replace Peep Show DVDs, I don't know if there is a problem with the company that manufactures them or something.
One thing I noticed while transcribing my old paper journals onto the computer, is how little things have changed since 1999. If you substitute "college" for "work" it's pretty much exactly the same. Things never really seem to change that much. I suppose they can, but it's very difficult. I've got about thirty-seven volumes of diaries and journals that I've been keeping for about nineteen years. There is probably something very odd about my need to document every aspect of my pointless, dull life.
Later on last night I was watching a 1971 "Hammer Horror" film called Countess Dracula, directed by Peter Sasdy. In seventeenth century Hungary, an elderly countess (played by Ingrid Pitt) discovers that bathing in the blood of young women can temporarily restore her youth and beauty. She ends up becoming a serial killer, murdering countless victims so she can romance a young soldier, by pretending to be her own daughter (who she arranges to have kidnapped by bandits). The film was loosely based on the legends surrounding real life Countess Elizabeth Bathory (the so-called "Blood Countess") who was one of the inspirations for the story of Dracula. Like most of the Hammer Studios films it was very lavishly designed, if on a low-budget. It was quite fun.
I was up quite sharp this morning because, before going to my parent's house (as usual for a Sunday), I went along to the Cameo Cinema with my mum to see a preview of a French film called I've Loved You So Long, directed by Philippe Claudel. The film stars Kristen Scott Thomas as a woman who is released after fifteen years in prison for murder, and moves in with her younger sister and her family, as she tries to start a new life. It's very well-made, if not hugely original, and is very well-acted.
I stopped off afterwards and exchanged the Peep Show DVDs, before heading back to my parent's house. Sunday lunch was chicken, peas, potatoes and white wine sauce, followed by rhubarb and gooseberry crumble. The new issue of Fortean Times (the Journal of Strange Phenomena) had arrived during the week, and it was pretty entertaining. It was warm and dry enough to sit outside, which made a nice change.
When I got home I checked the Peep Show DVDs, and this time there was distortion on the fourth season disc! Luckily it seemed to only be effecting the main menus rather than the episodes, but I won't know until I've checked them all the way through. I was really, really annoyed! It's not the first time I've had to replace Peep Show DVDs, I don't know if there is a problem with the company that manufactures them or something.
One thing I noticed while transcribing my old paper journals onto the computer, is how little things have changed since 1999. If you substitute "college" for "work" it's pretty much exactly the same. Things never really seem to change that much. I suppose they can, but it's very difficult. I've got about thirty-seven volumes of diaries and journals that I've been keeping for about nineteen years. There is probably something very odd about my need to document every aspect of my pointless, dull life.
Labels: cinema, diaries, DVDs, Fortean Times, Hammer Films, life, lunch, movie, parent's house
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