Happy Harrowing

[alexsarll]

May have mentioned this before, but I'd have a lot more time for christianity if they made something of today. At present it's the awkward, slightly embarrassed non-Bank-Holiday of the weekend, in spite of marking the best bit of the story - the Harrowing of Hell. Where Jesus goes down to the Inferno, and busts out all the righteous men who lived before he came. I mean, sod Mel Gibson's SM epic, this is the Jesus film I'd watch. Think the prison break from Watchmen, but with Jesus as Nite Owl, the Holy Ghost as Silk Spectre and Moses as Rorschach. Plus demons.
Today also marks 383 years since Sir Francis 'Not That One' Bacon caught his death of cold by stuffing a chicken with snow - which I now discover took place on a journey between Gray's Inn and Highgate, ie very possibly along the Holloway Road. Last night I too faced a bathetic yet appalling incident on the Holloway Road, to wit, a Brummie ZZ Top covers band polluting Big Red, and not even playing the good songs. So we pissed off to another pub where the only distraction was the BBC showing of The Others, which we loudly spoilered before realising that some of the patrons in the other room were properly watching it. However, when the end was reached, they appeared not to have registered our unwitting intrusion. Possibly they were in fact ghosts. Possibly we were. Or possibly they were just drunk.

This evening: Doctor Who, The Indelicates and Mr Solo. Which between them are keeping me going though the morning oppresses with a quite supernal greyness.

Comments

[amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's really possible to spoil The Others since you can see that "twist" coming a mile off.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

At least one punter didn't understand the twist even after it had happened.

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

The barman had to explain it to him!

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

I didn't! Sixth Sense though, that was obvious.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4)

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

I do really like The Others but it's not the sort of film you watch in the pub (though I suppose it isn't the customers' fault the pub had it on). Unless it's an atmosphericly empty, haunted pub, I suppose.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

More so than most urban pubs, certainly. We were the only customers *not* giving it our full attention - and even I got caught up in it at some of the eerier moments.

[returntosender.livejournal.com]

Moses as Rorschach! Incrediable.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The Israelites will look up from their fornication and their golden calf and cry, Save us! And I will whisper, No.