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| Been sneezing like a fucker this morning. Honestly, it was about 50 sneezes this morning. Can't work out if I'm allergic to my mousturiser or if I've suddenly developed intense hayfever. I've always had allergies to certain beauty products, often perfumes and the like, so I'm hoping it's just the mousturiser so I'll try a different one tomorrow (yes, I own more than one mousturiser). Makes you feel like absolute shite when you sneeze that much, and my nose is now fucking red raw. Finally finished texturing blokeys skin, managed to find some nice adjustments to give a slight impression of veins beneath the surface, very pleasing. I am now texturing a sock. Working out the stiches and painting them in, it's more like maths than art. but, it shouldn't take too long at least. It's nice at least having some work to do, even if it is mostly dull. Just had another one of those egg wrap things, corking, and stuck with some tropicana today, I wasn't about to repeat my vegetable juice error of yesterday. Found the 'Thin Red Line' soundtrack on my Ipod. i'm not normally one of those movie soundtrack type person but the Thin Red Line one is superb. I absolutely love the film, My eyes are pissing tears each time I watch it. Not your average war film by any margin, the war i smore of a backdrop to how they felt. The book of it is superb, quite different from the film in some ways (wish they hadn't cut out some of the side stories from the film) but a great read. I don't normally read novels but James Jones trilogy of books are corking, the stand out being 'from here to eternity' which I thought that, although long, was a fucking amazing book. It's the same characters in the thin red line (which is a loose sequel to 'from here to eternity') but named differently. Always remeber a scene in the book where they are watching new troops coming in on landing craft while being attacked by japanese bombers. they see a bloke climbing down the netting into the boat just as a stick of bombs are released from plane, he screams as they fly down, destroying the boat but because of the delay in sound travel they see the boat being destroyed while still hearing his scream. his scream lived longer than he did, one of them thinks to himself. I think they are especially good books because Jones was a veteran of the pacific war and based in hawaii before pearl harbour (when 'from here to eternity' is set). I read a little book he did about the war in general and recalling some of the things he saw was really moving. there's a scene in the film where a sergeant pulls the pin out of the grenade on his belt instead of pulling the grenade away from the pin, he throws himself against the embankment as the grenade takes half his arse off. He dies not long after, realising his almost comical error. Jones actually saw this happen to someone, hence why it is included. I think the worst bit was where he had to back to the supply line. He came to a rock face and was being targeted by japanese snipers, so was up there pretty quick smart. he noticed a stretcher at the top with a lad in and assumed it was someone who had been ditched, maybe he could help him out. he got to the top, while bullets are pinging around him, and looks down to see the lad in the stretcher, he'd been hit in the head by a sniper bullet and the blood had flowed down and filled his eye sockets up with blood, which had gone all dry and dark. The stretcher was cradled up at the sides and the blood had pooled up his sides as well, flies everywhere. the way he describes it it is clear that the image haunted him so much. buy this, honest http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/034071753X/qid=1150977828/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_2_10/026-9923347-0116434 | ||
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