Drivel

Once again it's late at night and once again sleep eludes me, so, as is becoming customary, I turn to the vast facelessness of the internet and to posting my inane drivel on my pointless blogs... Oddly I find that it helps, even though I know that I have a following of only 1 person, that person being myself. I find it a comfort to just be able to say what's on my mind and that, if they care to look, it is available for like minded indivuals to share and hopefully take some pleasure in the sharing of my trivial thoughts and feelings.

I am completely aware that anything I have to say is of no great value. In all honesty almost everything I chose to share actually gives no real insight into the type of person that I am or how I chose to live my life. Now I'm not scared of people knowing me, far from it infact, I just know myself and I know that I am not a person that would ever hold much interest for the general population or, in fact, almost anyone at all. As such I make the choice to share just the barest of information with the world and to share it in places that it will, almost certainly, go unnoticed and not cared about.

I am, the self styled, Dani Grim, I am "The Refined Savage". A man born out of time and out of sync with the world around him. A walking contradiction, entirely uncouth with little concept of social decency or protocal, yet  extremly sensitive, gentle and emotional. A giant of a man to which brute force and physicality comes entirely naturally, yet, would rather spend his time shut away from the world reading one of a vast collection of books, writing or gently strumming his acoustic guitar. I will not understand you and you can not understand me, however, it can't hurt to try... Goodnight

TFIF - Thank Fuck It's Friday

It's almost Friday, thank the gods, it's been a long week and I am glad the weekend is almost upon us. Not that I've got a lot planned for the weekend, and what I do have planned revolves largely around decorating and continuing to get our house in order. We've been in for more or less a month now and things are getting towards where we want them to be, obviously it'll be months, maybe even years, before the house and gardens are exactly how we want them but things like that are always a work in progress. We're hoping to actually move into our bedroom this weekend, we've currently been living in, what will become, the spare room while we get the living and master bedroom cleared out and redecorated. I say 'we' I mostly mean Kelly, I am still only at the house over the weekends due to my job being too far away for me to realistically commute. I am in the process of finding a new job closer to home but unfortunately in the current climate that's something that is easier said than done. Well I don't really have a whole heap to write about on here (see prior work related rants, I really don't feel like rehashing it right now), I just really wanted to leave an update and seeing as it is actually Friday now it seems like a good time to sign off... Night all.

The Woman In Black

Me and my girlfriend didn't do anything on Valentines, mostly due to me being at work. We did, however, decide that we would make Wednesday night our date night. So Wednesday came around and we went out to see a film, after some debate we chose to see The Woman In Black. This film is excellent and by a classic name like Hammer you would expect it to be so, it's well written, well directed and, for the most part, well acted. It's rated 12 so there's no use of modern gore shocks or over the top violence, in fact nearly all the scares come from the general atmosphere of the film, which really pulls you into the story, keeps you focused and then when you're right there "boom" it gets you, it even succeeded in making me jump on several occasions, not an easy feat.

Now don't get me wrong I really enjoyed this film and, as you can see from the previous paragraph, I rate it highly, but it is far from perfect and by far the worst thing in the film is, unfortunately, Daniel Radcliffe. I really wanted to like him, I grew up with Harry Potter and have very fond memories of the films, but in this his acting was just out of place, out of time and, quite frankly, wooden. He was completely unbelievable in this role and right from the start I felt he was out of place and let the film down. He never really did anything wrong, he just stuck out like a sore thumb. My second, and pretty much only other, major gripe with the film is the last 15 minutes or so, it just seemed completely disconnected from the rest of the film and the explanations present throughout the rest of story seemed to be completely lacking in the last final portion. The story wasn't really wrapped up, it wasn't really left open either, it just kind of ran out. I felt as if the ending was just an after thought, rushed almost and after such a refreshing and enjoyable film I came away feeling slightly disappointed.

Unfortunately I have noticed that it is a common issue with recent films, for the last few years it seems that film makers have forgotten that the most important part of the film is the ending. It's the ending that makes a film believable, a good, well written ending will leave the audience feeling convinced of even the most fantastical subject matters and they will leave the film feeling satisfied and with a much deeper appreciation for the story and characters in it. Hopefully this will be a passing trend, speaking of bad endings this is where I am chosing to end my post... goodnight