Commentary

Last night I listened to another episode of Classic Tales of Horror on the radio. This one was called "The Mezzotint" by M. R. James, in which a university professor who buys art works on behalf of his college and is annoyed to be sent an average print of an unknown country house by an anonymous artist, however he is shocked that night when the print begins to move and reveal a gruesome secret.

Later on I was watching an episode of The Twilight Zone on DVD. The episode I watched was the original pilot of the show from 1959 called "Where is Everybody?" In which a man arrives in a small town and is disturbed to discover that he is apparently the only living thing around. I listened to the audio commentary by actor Earl Holliman, which was pretty interesting, with lots of interesting bits of trivia about the show (the set they used for the town was later used for the 1950s scenes in Back to the Future, and the scene where the guy finds himself trapped in a telephone booth was based on something that happened to writer Rod Serling in an airport where he thought he was trapped in a telephone booth only to eventually realise that he was opening the door the wrong way). Audio commentaries on DVDs can sometimes be really bad, but they can often be really interesting.

It was another really dull day at work today, but at least it is Friday and time for the weekend.