F-F-Finally Friday

Happy Good Friday!!!!

I work at a job where I don't get all the bank/school holidays off (I don't automatically get the major holidays off either) so today doesn't feel like a holiday or anything but an ordinary day. At least it won't until I try to go to the post office.

Ridiculous item of the day: Talk about waking up dead: A woman in British Columbia, Canada woke up in the morgue last weekend. The 87-year old was a resident of an extended care facility and while she was sleeping her roommate passed away. When the driver of the ambulance arrived, he took the woman without checking her wrist bracelet, and it ended up he took the wrong one. When the woman did wake up, imagine her surprise, she was in the hallway of the hospital morgue. Lucky for her the morgue workers had already noticed her legs moving. Needless to say the ambulance driver was immediately fired.

Video pick of the week: I saw a wonderfully written, paced, and directed French film this past week titled Red Lights. Directed by Cedric Kahn, Lights tells the story of a married couple on the way to pick up their children from summer camp. The male has a penchant for whiskey (he can't seem to drink it fast enough) and the female seems to revel in nagging him and picking at him. Fed up and determined to prove that he is the man, he turns off and goes into a bar. His wife threatens to take the bus the rest of the way if he goes in, he does, and she's gone when he comes out; but did she really take the bus? When he stops at yet another bar and gives a ride to a stranger, the nightmare really begins. The suspense builds slowly and it's not right away that we sense there's some real danger. When we finally learn what happened to the wife is when we realize that the night they were separated will resonate with them for a long time. Bonus points for the road shots while the husband is driving. I kept feeling like I was in one of those race car video games and I clenched a few times. Extra bonus for a clever jump-in-the-seat moment near the end (yes, even though I didn't jump). This is how a suspense movie should be made and I'd be surprised if the director wasn't influenced by Hitchcock.

That's all for now. Wherever you are today, have a nice one.

paul