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I managed to get today off which was good because I was out late last night. Instead of going to see "Hostel", like I had planned, I went to the cinema for eleven o'clock and met up with my friend Malcolm and his girlfriend for a soecial late night screening in a 'Cinema/Art' season that the cinema are running: Basically a season of 'art' films. The main feature was something called "Cremaster 2", which even after seeing it I haven't a clue what it was about. It had something to do with a real-life killer named Gary Gilmore, and featured Norman Mailer (who wrote a book about Gilmore called "The Executioner's Song") as Harry Houdini, along with a rodeo being held in the middle of a lake (in a kind of small island arena), cowboys, Canadian Mounties, cars at a service station attached to each other by some kind of tunnel, and endless shots of lakes and deserts. Malcolm loved it, but I was pretty much falling asleep. Judging by the conversation outside most people found it pretentious and dull. The main reason i was there was for the supporting program of three short films by David Lynch. The first one was called "Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)", it was four minutes long, and featured cartoon heads throwing up white paint, basically, on a loop while a siren played constantly on the soundtrack. The second film was called "The Alphabet", which Lynch once described as a "nightmare of learning", in which a girl recites the alphabet over and over again, while animated letters appear all over the screen, and in the end vomits blood. The third one was called "The Grandmother" in which a mother, father and boy grow out of the ground, and the son is alternately harrassed or ignored by his parents, and so the boy grows his own grandmother from a pile of dirt on a bed. They were all very weird! The Lynch films were interesting because you could see themes and techniques appear that would resurface in his later works. I was home at around two in the morning.

Today I went out and bought a couple of DVDs in the sales: The special edition of "Wild at Heart", which is one of my favourite David Lynch films, and "Spider-Man".