Yes, I know- juvenile humor at its finest. Well, it's Saturday at the barracks, so don't expect too much snappy intellectual humor out of your humble narrator. Apart from that, a pretty quiet night, and morning. It was hot, no surprise there. But the sun was shining, and it was a pretty nice day. There was a formation going on by the side of the road when I ran past, and on the way back (about two miles' distance), they had a huge tent set up. If there's one thing we learn to do on field exercises, it's learn to get the shelter put up.
Apart from that, I watched yet another in an endless stream of horror movies last night, (I should just break down and buy a TV- or not). At any rate, the title of this little gem was Open Graves, and seems to spend more time on the annoying lead characters than on any actual rationale for why stuff happens. There's a board game, supposedly made from human skin and bones, (okay, that part was kind of cool) which falls into the hands of a group of none-too-bright, obnoxious and self-centered twenty-somethings who, predictably, play the game. Turns out winning the game will give you one wish- anything you want. Losing the game means you get killed in any number of creative ways. Not that anyone's really that sorry to see them go. So on it goes, people getting killed, until the ending ,which continues the film's tradition of not making sense- a woman, apparently a witch, perhaps even the same witch whose body was used to create the game, walks out of the ocean (again, no reason why this is, it just is) and sprouts a set of dragonfly wings! (Okay, again, that part was pretty badass). Then our erstwhile hero wishes for the past week to be undone, and thus his friends back to life. The only problem is, along with the week goes everyone's memories of that week. So the whole thing begins again- luckily, we don't have to sit through the movie twice.
Which makes me wonder- if I had one wish, what would I do with it? Change the world? Make myself immortal? Well, while immortality would be kind of cool, I'd have to opt for a better world for my family, and a better world for everyone around me. Apart from that, no earthly idea.
But fortunately, there are a lot of good movies being put out there, many on the Ghost House Pictures label- one of my favorites was Babysitter Wanted, where the kid turns out to be sporting two small goat horns, and is the son of the Devil, or some such thing. Kind of messes with the whole babysitter in the house alone with creepy stalker guy premise- very amusing, if not actually that scary. Well, the point being, go out and see the world around you. There's a lot out there, despite a lot of this little green and blue ball being kind of a rough room. There are many things worth seeing out there- don't eat stuff off the sidewalk, though. On that somewhat Zen note, hope all is well, and stay chilly, everyone!
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