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Showing posts with label Messiah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Messiah. Show all posts

Friday, January 25, 2008

Eeeeeeeek!

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a week since I've been on here to do anything more than post the daily music video, but it's been a busy week - but here I am with a potted summary of the past 7 days....

Sunday night & Monday night I watched cop drama "Messiah: The Rapture", without the yummy Ken Stott this time - but with the just-as-yummy Marc Warren. Didn't enjoy it quite so much as previous ones, but I think your gritty detectives are always better played by Scots... Think about it - Taggart, Cracker, Red Metcalfe (Ken Stott's copper) and Mike Walker (David Hayman) from "Trial & Retribution" are surely 4 of the best cops on telly (okay, Cracker's not strictly a copper, but still...). *

* Yes, the fact that I fancy 3 of those 4 may cloud my judgement just a teensy tiny bit, I guess....

Tuesday was at my Counsellor after work... She's given me a book that we're going to work through now - "Mind Over Mood" - which is part of this cognitive behaviour therapy or whatever it's called. So now I get homework from her as well!

I was a doofus on Tuesday and Wednesday night too... Tuesday night I put on the heater when I came home, but the place just didn't warm up any. Wednesday night, I turned on the heater, and turned it up a bit - and noticed with shock that there was no heat at all coming out of it! I cursed my boss up hill and down dale for buying cheap shit heaters, and sent him a text complaining that it had stopped working after only a few months and that I'd be bringing the damn thing back the next day!

Well, Thursday morning I went to unplug the heater... only to discover that the plug was about 4mm out of the socket! Then I remembered - when I came home on Tuesday night, I'd been going through to the kitchen, and I'd tripped over the cable... and it must have pulled it out just far enough to cut the power! I pushed the plug in again, and was met with a blast of hot air! So I had to go to work and confess my dingusity to my boss!

So, what else has happened this week? Not a lot really... just work, college, bad weather, and the usual shit.

Working tomorrow from 8am (yuk), and I'm all on my own up at the office.

Well, I guess that's about it, so I'll end now coz my brother's coming to get me soon to go shopping - and then I'm going down to his for haggis and clapshot... Yummy!

Probably see you the morn at some stage!

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Great Moments In Cinema...

And TV - Part 24

Short clip of the opening to one of the parts of "Messiah 3: The Promise"...


I wish I had a longer and better clip to show you, but this is all that YouTube has to offer from this fantastically gritty and violent crime drama.

Let's see... there have been, I think, 4 so far... each done in 2 parts. Starring Ken Stott, who is one of my favourite actors (very under-rated in my opinion) as D.C.I. Red Metcalfe. You've got to wonder how the writer of this drama manages to come up with the really horrifying and brutal stuff that goes on, but it does make for real edge-of-your-seat viewing. I'm not normally into blood and guts and gore, but the writer really gets a grip of you and just doesn't let go.

IMDb Pages:
Messiah: The First Killings -
www.imdb.com/title/tt0249301/
Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine - www.imdb.com/title/tt0323236/
Messiah 3: The Promise - www.imdb.com/title/tt0422744/
Messiah 4: The Harrowing - www.imdb.com/title/tt0468515/

Why Should You Watch This?: Dark, grizzly, well-written and acted, it grabs you by the throat and takes you on a journey into Hell (literally, in the 4th one). Just don't eat when it's on, and have a cushion at hand for the graphic bits!