Morning

[faustus]

"I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I'm Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. 'What about getting up after five hours sleep?', oh that's Morning Guy's problem. That's not my problem, I'm Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, your alarm, you're exhausted, groggy, oooh you hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There's nothing Morning Guy can do. The only thing Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy looes his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore."

So the solution to fear of oversleeping? Fail to sleep. Or at least sleep very little. I think there was some sleep before 4.30am, but little. At 7.30 it becomes easier. Once the alarms start.

I like the alarms on my new phone. If you don't turn it off properly, it gives you a 9 minute snooze, which works well with five alarms set.

The nurse had fun - at least three attempts to snag a vein. Remind me never to start mainlining heroin. Ow ow ow. Perhaps I don't have enough veins - with the proper amount of blood. Stands to reason that it looks like I've got high blood pressure - it has to go somewhere. Apparently I should have had some water before I left home. Don't eat but drink. Okay, brief me guys.

Meanwhile, yes, let's have that Laurel & Hardy boxset - and place your bets that I spend as much on tracking down the omitted films (Fra Viavolo, Bonnie Scotland, Flying Deuces, Babes in Toyland and I assume Atoll K, The Bullfighters, Nothing But Trouble, The Big Noise, The Dancing Masters, Jitterbugs, Air Raid Wardens, A-Haunting We Will Go and Great Guns - the post Hal Roach Fox and MGM features).

Whilst musing on classic comedies it strikes me that I should price the Harold Lloyd complete set again, and see what other Keaton is out there (not that I've watched the five DVD set I have). I don't want to start on Chaplin. Yet

Came home with a box of Belgian chocolate biscuits which will be transformed into a Useful Tin For Keeping Things In and watched the finale of Seinfeld. I think I need to watch something different before I do season four of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Maybe some of the inexplicably purchased Hitchcock films.

Comments

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Maybe some of the inexplicably purchased Hitchcock films.

I really like Hitchcock, but I haven't seen a boxed set with the films in it that I want. I'm getting sort of annoyed by that.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

It may be that there's Region 1/Region 2 things against you. I've got the films covering the transition to sound (excluding The Lodger which I have a version of which isn't divided into chapters and a couple more), some of the early British sound films, half a dozen from the 1950s, then a complete run from Psycho. That's four boxsets. I'm missing the late British ones and some of the middling US ones, not to mention the rest of the silent ones. Having just seen The Ring some of these are excellent.

The scrapings seem to be either dirt cheap or bloody expensive. Or combined in annoying ways. (I have Skin Game, but maybe have to rebuy it if I want Murder, assuming I didn't have it already (as it happens, I do)).

Looking around I see there is a boxset called Complete but has fifteen films. Arggh.