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Snow again! Augh! It was cold and wet today, very good for staying inside and doing not much. (Aside from when I spent an hour in line at the bottle depot first thing in the morning... Sigh.)

I spent a lot of the day lounging around, watching movies while I tackled the pile of mending that's been sitting around for a couple weeks. Finished most of it! The only piece left that needs to be fixed is a hoodie with extremely frayed cuffs. I'm probably going to end up cutting off the cuffs entirely, then fixing the raw edges with bias tape. The sleeves were way too long to begin with, so this'll (theoretically) leave me with tidy sleeves that are the correct length. ...Hopefully.

Anyway! These are the movies I went through today:

Velvet Goldmine. One of my exes gave me this one back when we were a thing. I disliked it the first time I watched it; didn't care about any of the characters in it at all. You'd think somebody faking his own death would hold my attention for at least a while, but no. Taking another look now, I can appreciate the music at least, but beyond that I feel nothing much. From what I remember, at the time, there wasn't a whole lot out there that was 1. kinda' gay, and 2. easily accessible. So for a while, this title would come up a lot - one of those "if you're anywhere on the rainbow spectrum you have to watch this, no ifs ands or buts, you're contractually required" sort of things. But I just couldn't connect with it. Maybe if I were into glam rock it'd have had some effect.

And also:
City Heat. An '80s film set in the prohibition era in which a private investigator and a police lieutenant team up to solve a murder. Picked this one up over a decade ago when I was going through a weird '30s phase, but I haven't revisited it since. Anyway, it's a buddycop shoot 'em up slugfest. I did remember that; but what I didn't remember about it is that it's actually pretty funny. This isn't a gritty noir; it's solidly on the "action with comedy" side of things. Lots of banter, good comedic timing overall, some great visual gags. I was actually pretty surprised by how fun it was. Might put it on my list of things to rewatch when I need something to lift the mood.

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And so. Since we'll probably get more snow tomorrow, I'm likely to curl up and hibernate with more movies, probably, until winter is over. ;p (Spring is a figment of the imagination, it's made up for television, it doesn't actually exist, we step right from winter to construction season, yadda yadda yadda.)