It's been a surreal two days for me, it all started yesterday. Tara went off to work, leaving me sipping a cup of tea on the couch, I was flicking through the channels, (the basic NTL package) and as I started to go through all the channels for the third time, I realised there was nothing on. It was unreal, I grew up in a gaf with about 13 or 14 channels and there always seemed to be something on, anything to watch when you were in between shows, you could always find something to entertain you for a half hour until your show started, but now I must have 60 channels and I am finding it hard to be even remotely interested in anything. . . . ever
One of the saving graces amongst all the crap are those History, Biography and Discovery channels when they are not showing that show about those guys who fish for those crabs in the Bering Strait, I cannot bear that show and I hate people love it. It seems to be the same show every time I pass it. But there on the History Channel was 'Hitler - A Profile'. Right, the show was just about to get starting and it began at his birth, his oul'pair, his mates and was going to tell the whole story of his life. I said to myself, 'Lets learn about good old Dolfy, try and learn something about the most horrible guy to walk the planet as I sit here in my boxers, scratching my ball bag.
I was hooked after about 5 minutes, it went right through his teenaged years, him trying to get into art college, then his time on the street and it delved into his character as a person. I had never really watched anything in this great depth about him before and for the rest of the day I went on a Nazi, Holocaust, Second World War Bender. Right after 'The Profile' show I was onto a savage documentary about the 'Battle for Berlin', it completely hooked me, I was about 4 hours sitting there in total. I was supposed to be cleaning my gaf after the weekend and supposed to be ringing my landlord about the fact that our electricity bill was over 200 euro for the first month, but fuck that. I went straight over to my computer and looked up as many films on this subject as I could. I sat there and watched Downfall, a German film about the last couple of days of Hitler's life, in that bunker. To say it was fucked up was an understatement. If you haven't seen it get your ass out there and get it. The dude who plays the Hitmiester is unbelievable. Who the fuck directed that and was it mentioned in the foreign language category, criminal if it wasn't?
I then started the clean up in the gaf but after watching that much shit about the fucking Nazis, it was all I could think about. How fucked up it must have been. Like was there no one, in there head, going, 'Eh, what the fuck are we at? I really don't think this is a good buzz.' The level of paranoia and fear must have been fucking insane. A total of 60 million people were killed in the Second World War between 1939 and 1945. How mental is that?
After the clean up, I was told by this film site to take a look at the HBO television movie called 'Conspiracy', starring Kenneth Branagh & Stanley Tucci. I had a bit of trouble finding it but low and behold there it was in 12 bits on You Tube. It was all about the meeting to discuss the last solution. The meeting where 12 mad basterds sit, eating dinner and have the discussion about what is the best and most efficient way to cleanse the Jews. Amazing, shocking and tense movie if ever there was one but a must see.
Anyway, Tara, eventually, got home, I cooked her up some dinner and we watched Arsenal vs Porto. After my food, at about half time, I dozed off on the couch and, let me tell you, I had the most fucked up dreams about the whole fucking thing. I woke up shitting myself. I had a cup of tea and I went to bed. I swear to god, I was having the most outrageous dreams right through the night, I was at the frontline, I was in a concentration camp, I was Hitler. I was even the kid in the photo at the top, it was strange. Lesson of the Day - When you want to stay in all day watching films, remember, mix up the subject matter.
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