Boxing Day Thoughts! (Blog 412)
- deftonesaresuper
- Dec 26, 2023
- 4 min read

On Christmas, I watched the second half of The Wizard of Oz. It was trippy how everyone in the film died ages ago now, it was like staring into a time machine! Yes, a time machine largely aimed at young children, mostly girls or maybe men like me trying to escape reality in a way that’s perhaps odd, but I did actually find the story to be reasonable. Apart from when the witch was killed by being accidentally splashed with water, that was really dumb. Imagine playing an end boss in a video game, and everything being over the moment you get your hands on just one household item: A hose. Even small children would realise the game designer either got bored with his project or didn’t know what to do. Maybe, just maybe he thought he was being unique, by that I mean think of one single creature, person or whatever on EARTH that gets killed by water, but such uniqueness would be his his downfall. It wouldn’t make sense, you need to drink it and 60% of your body is water. You can’t be allergic to yourself.
It’s also trippy how Liza Minelli is the daughter of the teenage star of the movie and the former is 77 now! It’s like visiting a graveyard, the older the grave the better. However, the end of the film sucked. After all the action and adventure, it was just like… ‘and it was all a dream!’ Yeah, film ruined in just a few seconds. The memory of the book the film is based on was simultaneously ruined too, in the written version it wasn’t a dream at all. What was the point of that? If someone said to me they were going to make a film of my novel The Danger of Proverbs, but it will all turn out to be a dream, I’d say no you’re not allowed. Also, I have to say the dream the actor was experiencing was unusually creative. I do have super wacky and epic dreams when I forget to take my medication, did the star have schizophrenia, maybe? If so she, handled things pretty well, I usually wake up screaming.
Now to talk about boxing day. It has to be one of the worst days of the year, doesn’t it? What is there to look forward to now? (Apart from a pizza this Saturday). I might go for a walk in Richmond Park and blog about that soon, I guess. I’ll also be going back to the gym tomorrow which is also SOMETHING. Ahhh, I had three days off exercising, I definitely needed that. I’m sure when I do go back to working out, I’ll be going like a rocket, then everyone would get jealous of me and stop going, leaving all the machines to me. Then I won’t ever need to queue for them. A good plan for me, but let’s keep it to myself as those running the gym wouldn’t be having it, obviously. That would tick them off. It would be a particularly selfish thing for me to do, as I hardly ever queue for the equipment. I’d genuinely have to be one of the most awful people of all time. But I’m not. At least yet.
Talking of walks, you know how I said I needed to pee whilst strolling in Chobham Common but didn’t by the time I got back to the car? This is an interesting theory but maybe subconsciously, I wanted to claim Chobham Common as my own, like a cat would for example. I’m just saying at the time I was thinking how cool it would be to own all that land, so yeah, that made me want to pee on it, maybe. Who knows? I didn’t want to pee in my car, because I already own it don’t I? Having said that, it’s not a perfect theory as I don’t get jealous of other people’s pizzas, pee on them, steal them and eat them. Similarly, even if me peeing all over the gym stopped others from going, which it might, you have to think about how that would make me look. Not good.
Now what to say? I’m almost annoyed I got so much music for Christmas, as the stuff I’ve checked out so far is pretty good and needs to stay in my CD player longer. It’s going to take a while for me to truly appreciate my 12 albums. That’s a good way to annoy someone. You could find a homeless person in your nearby city and explain how low you’ve been feeling. You’d be like ‘How am I supposed to get through so much music? Things have just been really hard… Sorry, I don’t have any change.’ Then you walk away. THAT’S an awful person. What music did I get? I got a range of stuff, from emo to rock, to metal, to kind of jazz! I love my guitar music too, so I bought a solo album by Gus G. Allmusic.com seems to hate guitar albums, most of the instrumental CDs I own get around 2 stars if that, which I think is very unfair. What rating did the Gus album get? No one bothered to review it. If you heard of an upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean style blockbuster coming up, that no film critic even bothered to talk about, (in comparison, Gus G is actually rather famous) would that be a good sign or would you give it a miss? To make the situation happier, I’ll review the release: Epic! Bye!
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