It's a lazy weekend: exactly what I needed, even if I could have done with more of the same. I went to the Gnome after work on Friday with Jenna and Chase (the Rogue Brewery has yet to disappoint) then spent prettymuch the rest of the night reading or playing videogames.

(I finished The Translator this morning: as with Daemonomania, the prose was better than the plot. I was also kind of hoping that I'd be able to describe the book as "Cryptonomicon, but with poetry instead of codes!" In any case, a trip to the library is in order.)

Yesterday was if anything even lazier. Every now and then it's nice to put on a T-shirt you wouldn't wear in public and know that you won't be leaving the house that day.

The main event was watching Mimic 3: Sentinel. Unfortunately I hadn't seen Mimic 2, which this movie seems to have been relying on heavily: I've been looking for it for a few months now and the movie channels always show either Mimic or Mimic 3. Needless to say that makes me very curious about the sequel, but I wanted a horror movie and last night I got sick of waiting.

The opening and closing credits omit the colon for some reason; very strange.

The biggest surprise was how stylish Mimic 3 was. I mean, this is the third installment in a horror movie franchise that basically nobody cares about. But the movie took a Rear Window approach that I wasn't expecting at all. I'm pretty sure there were also some references to Blow Up.

And there was a smart scene in which the main character (a young, hyperallergenic Peeping Tom) hides from one of the giant cockroaches — inside a fridge. So it's attacking him through the door and trying to get it open, and he's trying to keep it shut. And the fridge light keeps turning on and off.

Very cool, like the locked car scene in Scream or the kitchen scene in Jurassic Park. Ah, time well wasted.