Setting up Shop

I did a whole lot of work today, mixed in with some fun stuff.

First, I slept in late. Later than I meant to, granted, but most weeks I only get one shot at staying in bed until 10 AM, so what the heck. Might as well make the most of it once in a while.

Then I watched Planet Terror on dvd. That movie makes up half of last spring's Grindhouse double-feature, along with Death Proof (which I watched last week), which still holds the top spot on my 2007 list of favorite movies.

After that I drove over to Ocean State Job Lot, which is like a mile from here, so I could pick up some things I need. I found a little trash basket for the bathroom and a dish drainer for the sink. There's like 20,000 things I don't have, so I'm filling in the gaps little by little. Next door at the hardware store I bought some sticky pads so I can finally put up my posters, so as to add some flavor to the place.

I was going to head to Claremont's Wal-Mart, and actually started in that direction, when I figured I might as well head to Lebanon, since a stop at the ATM in Hanover was probably going to be necessary to make it through the week. So I flipped a bitch and went to Leb instead.

At that Wal-Mart I found a nice larger size trash bucket for the kitchen, so that I can stop having a trash bag piled in the corner, and a little hook to hang my small angel from. I'm trying to do all this without puncturing the walls at all with thumbtacks. At the old place there happened to be a few nails sticking out of the wall near the ceiling, so that's where the little angel was, but there's nothing like that here.

I made it back to Claremont in time to catch 30 Days of Night at the theater, figuring this weekend would probably be my last shot at seeing it before dvd. It was pretty great, really tense, and even scary. Those were probably the scariest vampires I've ever seen in a movie, even beating out the ones from Salem's Lot, which scared the living fuck out of me as a kid. These beasts are just fast and ferocious, and the situation was pretty clever, too. Interesting fact: I first bought the graphic novel this movie is based on at the comic shop in Bryn Mawr the last time I was at that store.

Then I came home and got to work. I put on the commentary track for Planet Terror, and listened to Robert Rodriquez talk about his work while I went around hanging posters. The sticky pads were a success. I only had one poster fall down (the heavy South St. poster), but that was mainly because I pulled it off the wall to straighten it, but it's up there now thanks to double the sticky pads I used on the other posters. The hook was not a success. It fell down after about 20 minutes. Luckily, the little angel didn't break or get otherwise damaged, because that would have really upset me. I have a lot of sentimental value attached to it, for reasons you could probably surmise if you thought about it. I also did some work in the kitchen and bathroom, placing more stuff where it needs to go.

Oh, but I wasn't done yet. When the movie was over I turned on the laptop and wrote an entire scene between Kelly and Laurel, which as it happens is her actual in person debut, since the last time the two of them had a scene together she was on the phone. This is a really fun scene for me because I get to play around with about five different things while they're talking, partly thanks to Milo, and partly thanks to the little girl that Laurel shows up with (who isn't based on any actual little girl; I just thought it would be interesting). That little girl has what may be my favorite line in the whole book. It's only one word, but it makes me laugh everytime I get to it in a rewrite.

And then I had a bowl of ice cream and watched a Seinfeld episode out of the new season 9 box set.

Following which, I decided I ought to blog something.

So it was a whole day packed full of good stuff.