Get On, Clip In, Fall Off

Bleh.

San Francisco, CA - 9 April 2004

Well, I don't know what it was that caught up with me today, but it caught up with me in a big way. After a late breakfast of corned beef hash at the recommendable (and open 24 hours) Pinecrest Restaurant I wandered around a bit, bought a couple of DVDs in Borders and headed down to the cinema in the Metreon centre to see Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, which had been recommended to me.

It's a bizarre film from the writer responsible for Being John Malkovich (though slightly weirder even than that) and centres around the possibility of erasing human memories, and in particular memories of relationships. I won't say much about it except that Jim Carrey has shown once again that there's more to him than Dumb and Dumber and dammit it's about time people noticed this, Kate Winslet was wonderful as usual (with blue hair, too) and Elijah Wood looks happy to be finally out of the pointy ears and hairy feet. It's well worth seeing, and probably even carries an important message in its conclusion once you've unravelled the labyrinthine timeline of the movie.

It's also a slightly disorientating film to watch and has lots of wobbly handheld shots in it, so I was thinking that it was this which was making me feel clammy and nauseous after the first half-hour of the film. Having resisted the urge to run out of the cinema and throw up a lot I thought it would pass once the movie ended and I got some fresh air. No such luck - after the credits rolled I felt sufficiently rough that I came straight back to my room and have been alternately napping and groggily watching DVDs since.

No idea what it is, and I'm feeling a lot better now than I was earlier, but I think it might be simple caffeine overdose as a result of living mostly on coffee (albeit anaemic American coffee) for the last week or so combined with the fact that I hadn't really stopped moving since leaving town last week. Hopefully things will be back to normal tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm going to wander out to find a snack with which to stave off starvation and then have an early night.

It's just as well I'd been shopping for DVDs earlier as this meant I had something new to watch - picked up the animated series based on Kevin Smith's Clerks, The Breakfast Club (not available in Europe last time I checked for some reason) and, because it was there, the fantastic Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which I've just finished watching and which is still one of the best movies in history. Shake it up baby now!