Man, it was a lazy weekend.
It’s not like I usually have jam-packed weekends anyways, but this past Valentine’s Day weekend was especially sloth-like. Besides running to town Friday afternoon for a few things, I never left the homestead. Friday night I had a couple beers and started the Stephen King miniseries Rose Red. It’s from 2002 and I’d never watched it before. There were a handful of those TV adaptations of King’s work from around the same time, like Salem’s Lot with Rob Lowe and The Shining with Steven Weber. There was also Storm of the Century with Tim Daly. Storm of the Century was by far the best of the lot, and that Salem’s Lot was definitely the worst.
Rose Red isn’t bad so far. It’s loosely based on Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. In fact, it was supposed to be a full adaptation with Steven Spielberg directing King’s script. But 1999s The Haunting came out so they scrapped the idea of a theatrical film and instead landed on a TV miniseries and just have it loosely based on the book. So it’s basically researchers investigating a cursed/haunted house with lots of deaths in its rich history, and they bring in a girl with telekinetic powers(much like King’s own Carrie White.)
Saturday my dad came over for coffee. I made my wife and I a late breakfast, then afterwards we watched the new episode of Severance and two new episodes of Yellowjackets. We then watched a movie called Significant Other. Sci-fi/horror flick about a couple that goes hiking and one of them gets copied by an alien shapeshifter. Wasn’t too bad. We watched The Gorge with our daughter, then I watched the movie Monkey Man with Dev Patel.
It was a pretty solid weekend for movies.
Sunday morning I watched a new documentary on Sly Stone. If you’ve got Hulu I highly recommend it. Very good and informative, plus some great music. It reminded me I need to get some more Sly and the Family Stone. I’ve got Fresh and that’s it. But that album is plenty. So good. Did a little doodle in the sketch book and my wife rearranged some things in our bedroom. Ended up finishing out the afternoon/evening watching the rest of Dexter : Original Sin. If you’re a fan of the Dexter series, definitely give this series a watch. It’s set in the early 90s and shows Dexter as an intern with the Miami Metro Police Dept. Excellent series, and the actors they got to play youner versions of the original characters are spot-on. After that, I read more in Geddy Lee’s autobiography My Effin’ Life. Nearly done with it. Great book.
I know that sometimes you need to just unplug and do nothing. Reboot your mind and body. I think that’s what this weekend was all about, though after one of these weekends I almost feel more tired. I will usually at least get a bunch of writing done, or work on music downstairs. Or at the very least do some painting. But not this weekend. I’m not really wired for doing nothing. I watched a lot of stuff, but I don’t feel Iike I accomplished anything. That’s the part I don’t like about lazy weekends. No exercise, no finishing projects,…just in the chair watching TV. I’m glad I’m not like that all the time, otherwise our house would be in disarray and I’d be 30 lbs heavier for sure. And despite no exercise I still feel beat up. It’s the lazy muscle aches, I guess.
Maybe I’ve got a little bit of those winter blues going on. I didn’t necessarily feel depressed, but just a little listless I guess; untethered and unable to commit to anything. Like some random balloon you see floating in the sky on some clear, sunny day. You think, “Oh, some little kid lost his balloon.” And there it goes, floating along aimlessly not knowing or caring where it’s headed. It’ll float until it loses air and decompresses. Or it hits some electrical lines and blows up. I guess the weekend kind of felt like.
Did a doodle, listened to some music, and watched a hell of a lot of TV and movies. And I guess had a low-key existential crisis.
So that was my weekend.
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