Weekend activities for a change
I went to see Stephen King’s 1408 on Saturday. I don’t particularly like John Cusack but he was good in this — playing a man going crazy inside a hotel room. The movie had its scary parts; there was a woman sitting next to me and my sister who screamed and jumped on her seat. Annoying. At first I was worried about the hordes of teenagers that filled the theatre but the most noisy and obnoxious people turned out to be the oldest of the bunch. The woman was accompanied by a man — a tall, wide, black-clothed, long-haired giant — who said after the movie, “That wasn’t scary at all! The scary horror movies are much better!” I thought, “scary horror movies? Which are those?”
I also did some shopping: a couple of Christmas presents (gets harder every year to think of presents for everyone) and I also found two shirts.
Quite lovely I must say. I’m saving the purple one for our office Christmas party (“festive dress”), then I can start wearing it on normal workdays. 
lol, yay, you finally watched it! Yes, I felt suspense all the way lol.. and some parts as I’ve mentioned before, was particularly confusing.. where he woke up on the shore and all that.. lol..
yeah, i wonder too.. ‘which are those scary movies’? lol.. haha.. ‘giant’…
yes, i must agree.. Christmas presents are getting harder and harder every year.. lol.. but very nice shirts you’ve bought! I really love it! Nice purple(s) :P..
PS: the book must have been a lot better than the movie? Usually its like that lol.. simply cause books can put more detail into it lol.. while movies have time constraints..
You know, the book was originally a sample story King published in his “On Writing” non-fiction book. He explains the writing process. It is also published as an audio book, read by King himself. And eventually it was published in the compilation, “Everything’s Eventual.”
I don’t remember much about the story, I read it 4 years ago… I’m currently listening to the audio book.
It starts off much quicker. Oh, here’s the great quote I remember! “Purple sold scary books better than any other colour.”
I did like the movie for the spooky woman.