Breakdown

Last night I watched a few episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on DVD. The first episode, "Into Thin Air", was set in Paris in the early 1900s where a young Englishwoman (played by Alfred Hitchcock's daughter, Pat Hitchcock) arrives on holiday with her elderly mother, who falls ill at their hotel. The doctor sends the young woman to fetch some medicine, however when she returns her mother appears to have vanished without a trace and the hotel staff claim to have no memory of ever seeing either of them before. In the second episode, "Salvage", a young woman nervously awaits the arrival of a violent gangster who has just been released from prison (the gangster is understandably upset because she was responsible for the death of his brother), however what she does not expect is for him to give her thousands of dollars to start her dream business and for him to encourage her boyfriend to marry her. The third episode, "Breakdown", was directed by Hitchcock himself, and starred Joseph Cotten as a wealthy businessman who is severly injured in a car accident, so severly that all the doctors believe that he is actually dead, while he is very much alive but unable to move or communicate in any way. However he has to persuade them that he is alive before they start the post-mortem. Some of them are really good stories, and because they last less than half an hour, they are really good to just put on when there's a bit of free time.

I watched a pretty fun ice hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins on TV after that.

Today was my first day back at work after the holiday. It was a really long day and I was so glad to be out of there. There is a strike on at work scheduled for Wednesday, which at least will break up the week a little bit.

I was really excited to find out that the second season of Twin Peaks has been released on DVD. I really got into David Lynch films in around 1996 and I have really wanted since then to actually watch the whole of that show and never had an opportunity until now. I don't actually think the whole thing has been repeated, at least not that I've been able to see. I can still remember when it was first shown in 1990, and it was such a huge thing at the time.