engagement

hello folks. how are things? i'm fine. absolutely tickety-boo. well, almost, as i am suffering a stiff shoulder. i may have slept badly upon it. i do not know, but it aches and i have tried to stretch it out via the media of a doorframe and a sofa up to now but to no avail. i can only hope that in my slumbers tonight i sleep badly upon it again and realign it. perhaps it is indicative of something else. i am on this detox process still so perhaps it is something being released. hopefully it will return to it's natural habitat and leave me in peace.
so what have i done today? i watched some football earlier. liverpool narrowly beat tottenham. it was pretty tight, clammy even, but harry kewell nicked it for the reds. good to see. for some of us at least. anyway, perhaps you have zero interest in football. and quite right too.
this evening i watched two movies; american psycho and spiderman 2. now i was a big fan of the book american psycho, and the movie was pretty good in places, but it was always going to be nigh on impossible to really do it justice on film. one, because of the content of the book and two, because of the length a movie 'should' be. the book goes into much more detail, on the outrageous stuff and on the mundane stuff, though these become blurred, and this is what makes the book, the whole way he goes into as much detail about his musical taste or people's suits or facecare regimes as he does about his appalling crimes. the film makes a good effort of trying to cope with this by having him talk about his musical choices whilst he's doing other things but i felt it just didn't quite go far enough with that. but as i say, in the constraints of film-making i guess they were up against it. though the end was a bit flat too. in the film that is. not enough peaks and troughs for me.
spiderman 2 was a lot of fun though. he was never my favourite marvel character. that honour goes to the ex-norrin radd. but i always liked spidey, for various reasons. anyway, the film was a good mix of adventure, love story and comedy and it worked well.
god, am i that vain that i sit here writing about the minutiae of my life and expect people to spend time reading it? looks like i am.
well, people, what else is happening in the world?
the americans have killed 18 people in a botched attempt to get bin laden's right hand man. not sure what a right-hand man does but hey i'm open-minded. even if he's not. so yeah, more people die. all these people dying and for what? to keep the world the way it is? no thanks. how about we don't give people reasons to commit terrorist acts in the first place? is that so difficult? probably, if you make a lot of money out of oil/weapons/etc. so we do stuff that makes people want revenge, probably we kill some of their people or something. then they attack us, this is terrorism, not when we do it. then we try to get them and people get killed in the crossfire. all the people dying. when are we going to say 'hang on, why don't we stop putting these shitbags in power? why don't we take back what's ours?'.
some day soon, i truly hope it will be some day soon.
well, that's all from me. good night. and may you realise your dreams.