Sleepypete's Pillow

Been noticing lately, cinema doesn’t seem quite as good as it should be, as if the cinema operators aren’t putting the effort in to really please their customers.

There’s things like blurriness on the screen, so for action films like Transformers it gets difficult to see what’s going on. Compare that to dvd and things are much, much sharper. Except I’m not sure if it’s the sharpness or the ability of the screen/projector to keep up with the image. A bit like when LCD screens were first coming in with computers, they needed a lot of development before they could show a moving image like the traditional Cathode Ray Tubes could.

It’s not just that though, I used to be comprehensively addicted to Warner Village’s (local cinema!) popcorn but since the cinema changed hands, it’s changed to something that tastes just like cardboard would if you had a cardboard eating fetish. I still like their hotdogs but I’ll only have one of those if I’ve not been able to grab something more healthy to keep my tummy happy. And that’s from someone who normally runs from anything resembling healthfood.

So – cinema with its screens that are clapped out and not able to keep up or DVD shown on a half decent telly supported by surround sound speakers. Dvd lets you bring your own popcorn, drinks that don’t cost 3 times the amount you’d pay for a coke bottle and you can keep other people’s obnoxious kids out of the room. It also has a pause button too so you don’t miss any of that 3 and a bit hour King Kong.

It needs decent speakers though. I’m a lot fussier about sound than vision and decent sound can make a difference with film. Surround sound gets you appreciating the atmosphere in a film, placing all those little noises in such a way that you feel in the scene instead of watching from afar. Not just bangs, whooshes and clangs, also things like birdsong and crowds.

Still, I like heading to the cinema as it’s a chance to get out of the house with the Crazies.

Cinema’s got it’s advantages, just as dvd&telly also have their advantages. Time to get back to more catching up with Voyager (Star Trek) but before that … my chair is creaking again so I’m gonna take a hammer to it 🙂

Forgot how much I liked them 🙂 Their two albums were for far too long not included in my iTunes collection … Currently listening to Que Sera off Chris Rea’s Dancing With Strangers. That’s only just been added to the collection too.

TBB – I might well see a sunshine this coming morning … Cos the baseball’s on and I’m not working tomorrow 🙂 (late night coming 😉

Oh I like the River City People!!

I need to see more sunrises, too.

Great answers! I especially loved your answer to #1! Have a great wkend!

I Liked It, A Lot!!!

Thanks for the visit and the Birthday Wishes…It is much appreciated!
I actually liked The Mamas & Poppas version of that song, but I am not familiar with the group you mention. I will go and take-a-listen, Right Now!

Almost missed this one again ! Find the original Friday Fill-ins post here for links to more people.

1. A smile is something to be gladly given, returned with interest and treasured.
2. D&D, (although it can only loosely be called a board game!) is my favorite board or card game.
3. I would love to have more companionship in my life and less of the old bones telling me what I can’t do.
4. When I think of the Summer Solstice, I think of how many times I’ve missed the sunrise due to being dead to the world 🙂.
5. I just remembered I need to acquire a personal slave to do my washing up and other cleaning for me.
6. One of my favorite song lyrics goes like this: “All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey … I went for a walk, on a winter’s day … I’d be safe and warm, if I was in LA … California Dreamin’, on such a winter’s day” – but sung by Siobhan Maher of River City People.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to watching telly cricket ! (well – watched one game with close finish, other one was rained off, so I watched Narnia instead), tomorrow my plans include watching more cricket ! (and Doctor Who) and Sunday, I want to chill out, relax, recharge, eat a proper meal !

In case you’re wondering why I say River City People instead of the more well known Beach Boys version of the Mamas and the Papas song, here’s a Youtube link to the River City People version. The band is great and Siobhan Maher looks fantastic as the glamour as well as having an amazing voice. There’s two albums, Say Something Good has California Dreamin’ on it which isn’t actually the best song on the album. The second album is This Is The World.

PS Their “Act Like A Child” song from This Is The World is the current song to be running around in my head. Tis Great ! I love that song.

You should have seen the West Indian fellas who were at the Bristol ground a few years ago. They were sitting in front of us, enjoying the game too. They’d come prepared, with what would have looked to the gate people like coke bottles … However we got the feeling there was more rum in them there bottles than coke 🙂

They were excellent value too those boys 🙂

Not quite a fruit smoothie 😉

I don’t suppose a healthy fruit smoothie goes well with the games eh?