21st November, 2018.
Yes: I’ve had an interview, today.
And yes: unfortunately, I didn’t get the job.
I’m …
Well, disappointed, obviously.
On the upside … ?
They HAVE told me that they feel I would be more suited to they customer care team: and that, should I still be looking in February, I should re-apply, then.
Hmmm …
Oh, and there’s another job I’ve put in for, that I’m going to have to walk away from …
The want both my birth certificate and a driving license.
I don’t drive.
And adoption papers aren’t good enough.
You can imagine how hard job hunting’s getting, already, can’t you … ?
~≈¥≈~
All that is enough to drive a man to drink.
Something I can’t afford, on so many levels!
Especially if you consider I’ve not drunk since the turn of the century, or there abouts.
There’s possibly a lot of reasons for that: non of which I’ll be telling you about on a public blog!
At any rate?
At any rate, I was definitely feeling a touch sorry for myself …
But have been able to keep myself distracted.
With my movie collection: I’ve a few still, sitting on an external drive on a shelf at my desk.
Quite a lot, as you might be able to guess.
Having that much choice, but also having seen the 1969 Quatermass and the Pit, recently?
I fancied keeping the retro thing going: with the 1950s movie, The Quatermass Xperiment …
Hmmm …
~≈¥≈~
The Quatermass Xperiment opens showing too (unnamed) young lovers just about to make passsionate music in an anonymous field in the heart of the country side …
When the Earth moves.
As a British made rockets lands back on Earth.
Crash lands …
With two of its crew dead, and the third — Victor Carron (Richard Wordsworth) — looking distinctly unwell.
It’s only when the rocket’s designer — Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) — realises there’s only one survivor on board, that things start getting …
Strange …
Especially when the police — in the shape of Inspector Lomax of the yard (Jack Warner) — gets involved.
~≈¥≈~
Now …
Good … ? Bad … ? Indifferent … ?
Hmmm …
I think I can say The Quatermass Xperiment seems OK …
But ALSO seems rather rushed: especially compared to Quatermass and the Pit.
I suspect it would ALSO seem so: compared to the original TV series.
With six half hour episodes, that had running time of some three hours.
Only two episode of that production exist.
So the film version is all we have.
It — with a Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) that comes over as ruthlessly brisk, an Inspector Lomax (Jack Warner) playing to type as a blunt spoken policeman* and a plot that could done with being half an hour longer … — is worth watching …
But one that isn’t quite as good as its follow up, Quatermass and the Pit.
The Quatermass Xperiment.
★★☆☆
* One that got me thinking of Sam Vimes, my favourite Terry Pratchett character.
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