Rebecca and my best friend Matt are watching 28 Weeks Later. I'm trying to tune it out. I like horror movies, but I hate scary movies. Does that make sense? Like I could watch Evil Dead or Friday the 13th all day long, but good horror movies that are actually tense and scary really get to me.
I do know one thing, if I ever wrote a horror movie it would have zero characters who did completely stupid, counter-intuitive things that basically made them deserve to die. Like in this movie, "HAY GUYZ there's a strange kid outside banging on the door, we better let him in!" or "I saw my wife get bitten and she's under quarantine but HAY GIMME SOME TONGUE" or even "DURRRR that plague that wiped everyone out less than six months ago really sucked, but let's GO BACK TO LONDON." Every time I try to watch a good horror movie I get pissed off by shit like that.
So yesterday the wife and I were talking about whether we'd missed anything in life by not ever being interested in or following a particular sport or team. We talked about what sport we would watch if we wanted to follow something. We settled on soccer, declaring American football, baseball, and basketball fucking dull and mundane. So that left what team to support. For some reason I was drawn to Manchester United, sortof the NY Yankees of British football. Anyway so we downloaded and watched the 3/15 game between MUFC and Derby, and that was almost certainly the first professional sports game I've ever watched in its entirety, voluntarily at least. I quite enjoyed it, a good game. I like soccer because there's no downtime and the athleticism is just insane. The wife likes MUFC because she thinks Cristiano Ronaldo and Ben Foster are cute. Her and the roommate decided they wanted the job where they rub the player's inner thighs when they hurt themselves, ha.
I do know one thing, if I ever wrote a horror movie it would have zero characters who did completely stupid, counter-intuitive things that basically made them deserve to die. Like in this movie, "HAY GUYZ there's a strange kid outside banging on the door, we better let him in!" or "I saw my wife get bitten and she's under quarantine but HAY GIMME SOME TONGUE" or even "DURRRR that plague that wiped everyone out less than six months ago really sucked, but let's GO BACK TO LONDON." Every time I try to watch a good horror movie I get pissed off by shit like that.
So yesterday the wife and I were talking about whether we'd missed anything in life by not ever being interested in or following a particular sport or team. We talked about what sport we would watch if we wanted to follow something. We settled on soccer, declaring American football, baseball, and basketball fucking dull and mundane. So that left what team to support. For some reason I was drawn to Manchester United, sortof the NY Yankees of British football. Anyway so we downloaded and watched the 3/15 game between MUFC and Derby, and that was almost certainly the first professional sports game I've ever watched in its entirety, voluntarily at least. I quite enjoyed it, a good game. I like soccer because there's no downtime and the athleticism is just insane. The wife likes MUFC because she thinks Cristiano Ronaldo and Ben Foster are cute. Her and the roommate decided they wanted the job where they rub the player's inner thighs when they hurt themselves, ha.
Good game, though. Not as important as the upcoming Arsenal and Chelsea games, but important.