Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Horrendous day

Today was set to be pretty straight forward; a day off spent packing. For the first half this is what i did and with classic fm playing in the background i was having a great time. Unfortunately the afternoon got complicated and annoying. Firstly I had an apppintment at the doctors becaue ive had really bad pain in the back of my gums for a few days. Turns out its a wisdom tooth that is attempting to protrude at a Jaunty angle thus getting into bother, creating an absess at the back of my mouth. I have to see a dentist to get it sorted which created problems because I don't actually have a dentist with the shortage just now. So I have to phone the NHS early tomorrow morning to try and get an emergency appointment.

More fun was had with BT. Their promise to reconnect our line today was not met so I phoned up. I was informed that they had cancelled the reconnection instead of the transfer which we had requested be cancelled last night in addition to the first attempted cancellation last week. I was fuming and instructed it be sorted immediately where I was told they could have it fixed by friday. Essentially that's three days to press a button. I told them it wasn't a matter of days I wanted it sorred but a matter or hours. So he made some calls and it was sorted this afternoon. Meanwhile dad found out BT had taken the liberty of cancelling our internet with zen and in phoning them about the cock up was told it would cost £130 to have it reconnected on friday. So that's no internet for us, therefore im on my phone again and will be for a while. The last chapter of this saga is when I phoned my dads mobile to ensure the line was fully functional. Sure enough I got through to him without hitch; only problem being that its not our phone number theyve reinstated to our line; its a whole new number. What this means we have no idea but I couldn't handle another half hour on hold with the same ten second loop of music.

This evening i watched the box, directed by Richard Kelly who directed donnie darko, my ravourite movie. It was gripping throughout, completely unpredictable and genrwlly very well made. I loved the was it was filmed to look like an old 35mm movie, being set in the 70s. My. only gripe is that in the third quarter it gets a little bit too high level and doesnt quite pull off the big ideas it introduces. Nonetheless it pulls everyrhing together for a dramatic final quarter that leaves you thinking for a while afterwards. Perfectly acted and mostly well written, it doesn't come close to donnie darko in my estimation but is still a very good film. 9/10.

Due to my non internet having I can't embed songs for a while but ill keep song of the day going. Today its bullet for my valentine - your betrayal. I heard it this morning and immediately adored it. So much so that not being able to go online to hear it again I sky+'d the whole evening of scuzz and fast forwarded through it all unttil finally it came on. Sure enough it did and I think its a really original song with some great ideas in it. Face melting intro, stunning verses and a catchy classic BFMV chorus its a mind blowing song, definitely one of my best of the year so far.

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