To Sleep, Perchance To Dream - Electrically

I'm in a rather happy mood at the moment, which is always nice! Especially at this time of the year, I'll take any happiness I can get :)

Sunday was spent just chilling out on my own - the original plan was to get some stuff sorted which needed it, but it was dull and rainy outside and so I ended up just hibernating for most of the day - and that did annoy and disappoint me a bit, but to be honest I think it still did me good. The issues in my life are still there (and I'm sure I don't have to go into details - we know what the issues are) but I'm feeling like I can handle them more now I've had some time out to rest and recharge my emotional batteries, if you like.

And I did have some fun in the evening...all computer based now I come to think about it :) As I mentioned a while back I've been trying Tweetdeck as my Twitter client, but I've kept my former choice Twitterific because they both have strengths and weaknesses. So I wrote an Automator script in Mac OS X to make it easier to switch between them both - now I can swap from one to the other with just one click of the mouse. I'd never used Automator before - but I know this isn't going to be the last script I'm going to write for it. It was so easy to do, and now I'm thinking what else I could automate with it...

Once I'd done that, I chilled out with a fabulous movie from my childhood - namely "Electric Dreams". I must admit I'd never seen the film before, and I suppose that's my credibility shot to hell again... but while successful in the USA, the film flopped over here on release and I don't think it was even shown by the cinema in my nearest town back then. I'd only heard about it from the theme to the film (which did much better over here than the film itself) and advertising in computer magazines (yes, I was a computer fan, even in 1984...) But it was shown on one of the satellite channels a while back and I recorded it on my Sky+. It's been there for a while, but I finally got round to watching it last night, and I really enjoyed it!!

The term "rom-com" didn't exist in 1984, but this would have been described as one if it had. And I don't really watch a lot of films in that genre...but I loved this one (and probably would have loved to have seen it in '84 if the opportunity arose) I would have loved all the computery scenes, and probably would have gone home wishing I could do all that with my ZX Spectrum which I had in my bedroom back then. And being 11, I may have just been old enough to have said "wow!" to myself when the (attractive) leading lady appeared in what looked like a little silk slip at one point... Seeing it in 2009 is a different experience of course, not least because of how far we've come with technology in a quarter century - but still enjoyable.

No spoilers...although I'm told the film's never been released on DVD, so it may be hard to get for yourself...but there's a scene where the two main characters kiss for the first time, and it made me feel all loved up inside. I felt like hugging someone - but as there was no-one else there with me, I sent a virtual hug to my twitter followers instead! The film was probably just what I needed for a little lift, and I went to bed happy (eventually - spent a couple hours websurfing and watching QVC first...)

PHILIP OAKEY/GIORGIO MORODER - TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS
(from the film soundtrack "Electric Dreams", 1984)