Sunless Sunday

The day started nice after a thick, deep sleep. The kind you get when you don’t have a worry in the world. I had my favourite breakfast, two breakfast bullets and moved into some computer cards. Microsoft Solitaire Collection. I’m working on getting caught back up after falling behind while on vacation. I finished up on that and ordered something on Amazon before cleaning up some files on the desktop. Before lunch I got a tornado warning for my area through the emergency response function of my phone. This was the first time that happened. I shuffled downstairs and warmed up some left over porkchop and grabbed a part sack of chips. As I was doing so the front started across my land. I got a quick video and scuttled down to the basement to heed the warning of a possible tornado. My plan was to try and watch a film while I was hunkered down. As usual, one turned into three. I started with Broken City. It was a thriller with some political intrigue, mystery and a dash of action simmered over a dramatic plot ripe with traditional tropes. It was unpredictable and enjoyable. The next was off the beaten path and back a few years with Layer Cake. A slow burning British thriller starring a pre-Bond Bond. It had some twists and turns and many dangling plot lines that you tried to keep track of in the end. Worth the watch. The finale was the strangest choice. The Catcher was a Spy. A Second World War period film about a much lesser known story. Paul Rudd flavours the protagonist a bit in relation to the look of the actual guy but a very interesting tale that had far reaching impacts on our modern world, assuming Hollyweird didn’t take too many liberties with the details. When it was over, so was the day. It wasn’t a three film marathon, I made a meager dinner of some Stouffer’s bistro thingies after the first flick. A solid afternoon of precautionary film watching is hard to beat. No tornado touched down in my town but further to the NorthWest, some folks had a tougher time of it. Hopefully nobody was hurt.