clocks go forward 1 hr today,avatar

london

It's that time of year again.Clocks go forward today. 
What is different this time is that i had no warning. usually the day before the tv would be saying look out for it and warn us of the clock change.


So it was a surprise when i saw the time in my laptop to see what i thought was 7.30am was really 8.30am and i thought simon's little travelling clock which i keep on top of the tv is having a weak battery and it needs changing.


Its not a good alarm clock as it makes a loud ticking sound. Good for the living room to let me know the time. I used to use the clock on my old video recorder to tell the time; but now i switch everything off when i am not using it so that is not on nowadays. Recently, I switched the leads  around and found that the clock which comes on when i switch the recorder on now do not come on automatically. 




Come the digital change in april, (they said it will change in 4th april and again on 19april, dont understand why it takes two different days).
Not long now before my recorder and tv will not be able to take the digital broadcast. 
I am not going to do anything about it till it actually happens.


Most probably, simon will get a setup box he has lying around in his mother's house and we shall use it. I hope so, as i dont intend to waste any money on anything more sophisticated.And i hope the video recorder will still record and be able to show the films. 


Now and then, i see a tv program that i want to tape, usually one that comes on at about 2am or so. but then, i dont actually see it even if i tape it, or it is so boring, i stop the tape; so it is not much point really. 


Nowadays very few films interest me. 
I see from the tv program that avatar will be showing today... sunday. 
well it was made in 2009 and here is its premier on tv , in 2012. so finally i shall see it to figure out why it was so popular. And immediately following it is the new titanic series by julien fellowes, the chap who wrote downton abbey. 
such a glut of programs about the titanic.it is its 100th anniversary of its sinking and the final 4th episode will fall on the day it sank 100 yrs ago. 


Added. 9.27pm. So i finally saw avatar, the movie. Granted i did not see it in 3D and it is on my small screen tv at home. but i can see why people enthused about it. the photography and graphics are really something and for those who see it wide screen and 3D it must be fantastic. 
without the graphics it would be a ordinary film, as the story line is simple and the characters a one dimensional. but of course one do not expect anything else, after all, the emphasis was to present a visual feast. nothing is left to the imagination. 


i wonder now whether we have a generation of film goers who expect everything to be spelt out and laid out and they never had to use their imagination. 


because that is what the modern film makers are doing these days. Ah well, I am of the old school who like books because i am free to imagine it. 


now , the titanic soap opera is showing on the other channel, but i am not watching it, instead i am watching a program about satellites and how they are built. I am tired of doom and gloom sinking of ships. it is just too saddening to watch. And i am tired of the human interactions that are being acted out. I am suffering from period drama fatigue, and specifically titanic drama fatigue.