Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Games 'n shows

Playing Timesplitters 2. A first-person shooting game, heavy on the humor and light on the ridiculous macho posturing. Played only briefly, but took on the form of a monkey, which I enjoyed.

Also began watching 24, the much-hyped TV series starring Keifer Sutherland and taking place in real time. Well, as real as time can ever be in a filmed medium. Reminds me of High Noon, another film that supposedly takes place in real time. Of course, if you break it down (as critics with no lives have done), there's no way it actually could work. But by putting clocks onscreen often (a trick used in 24,) one builds chronological belivability.

Otherwise, am drying some clothes now and working on cleaning the grotty apartment. More updates tomorrow.