Holidaze
Last night I watched this movie called “River” its a time warp comedy thriller with a romantic twist – very enjoyable and I recommend watching it on the channel 4 player if you have it – having said that, I did fall asleep a few times during the film, very uncharacteristic of me, though I have been doing that a bit lately, earlier we watched 3/4 of the film Terminator Dark Fate, it was so juvenile and pointless I think it wore me out! Fuck me the script was moronic!
River
I did enjoy this, I’m tempted to watch it again just to see the parts I slept through, but really I think I got the point of it. The young Japanese girl in the lead role was very alluring, so girly and fun, she played her part very well. I don’t know much about Japanese culture apart from what I see on TV movies and books, this film showed a side which I found unusually fun and endearing.
All this got me thinking back to when we went on holiday to Kotor in Montenegro. Huh? What? Where? Well just bare with me and I’ll explain – Montenegro is a small country in former Yugoslavia, they have the most southerly fjords, (or fjord like mountains and sea inlets) Very beautiful place, but inevitably when on holiday, I get bored, all the activities you have to do, oh sure its good to go on holiday and create new memories and all that, but I always find myself looking for trouble, I don’t know why.
Anyhow, there were these cruise ships in the bay, this was just before Covid and all that, the cruise scene was buzzing, so you got a few thousand people on a boat, cruising around, all these guided tours you get, you see them come ashore and get herded onto busses or other boats, its a different holiday from mine, I’m there like wandering about with my hands in my pockets, going oh yeah, that’s nice, yeah, it is nice, etc, etc, I’m not going to sign up for a $230. Dollar trip to taste the local vino or whatever, I don’t have that kind of cash, its a different kind of holiday, these people are all inclusive, they may be wealthy, or they maybe having a once in a lifetime experience, who knows? You’d have to ask them, individually, I don’t have time for that, and anyway, they’re from the other side of the world, in Montenegro, its east meets west, its a bit like Istanbul in my mind, our hotel had a picture of Putin on the wall – there’s a lot of Russian tourists here, this was before the Ukraine war kicked off.
So anyway, there we are in Kotor having our holiday, and you keep seeing these groups of American tourists, or Russians, or Chinese or whatever, in their own little worlds, you see them when you go to Rome, there will be someone up front with a pole with a flag on it – and they’re all following it, like they think they’ll get lost and be kidnapped and butchered, it makes me laugh, sometimes they have headsets on, so they can listen to the history lessons, they look like they are on remote controll!
We was in the cathedral in Seville one time, they got this huge tomb for Christopher Columbus there, and this American couple were looking at it, and the woman goes its 400 years old or something, and the guy goes “I feel emotional” LOL It just made me laugh how he said it! What on earth did he mean?
I digress, so back in Montenegro we went off on this trip to see this island with an old church on it, its a tiny man made island, there’s all this stuff about how there was a fishing disaster and the people prayed to the Virgin Mary or whatever, so you’re trying to take that in and wondering if there’s going to be some nice food coming or some booze or whatever and then all these Japanese people turned up with their cameras, (they would be from the cruise ship) and they bustle into the small space, I noticed they were all about retired age, except for one pretty girl, probably aged about 30, so I thought I wonder if she’s bored with that lot? So we clamber all over this church and island,
and I keep bumping into her, well not literally bumping into, but its a small island with about 150 people, and she’s the only good looking one there, (apart from myself of course) so I can’t help noticing her – so anyhow, I pretty much seen everything there after 1/2 hour or so, and I notice they’re herded into this room and they’re being instructed in something probably in Japanese, and I find myself stood right next to her, so I pretend to be interested in the architecture or whatever, and I look round and she’s like a foot away, staring right at me! I look back at her, cos I’m the king of the blank stare, I study her features, but it feels rude, cos she’s not smiling – she’s not frowning, she’s not in the least bit curious even, she’s not looking through me, its like she’s saying “go on, make your move or piss off” So I’m thinking what did I do? Why am I like this? I was just bored and looking, and now I have to get married, or have my fingers chopped off by some yakuza uncle of hers, I got to ship these drugs over the border, for them every Friday or something, I can’t remember, it reminds me of that time I went into an Irish pub and . . .