I’ve never actually read Wuthering Heights. I think I tried to back in high school but found the characters a bit too melodramatic. Also Catherine seemed like a real bitch, at least in the movies, which I never saw the point of. From what I gather, the story has these two kids who grow up and fall in love and then for some reason they’re suddenly hating each other and at the very end they’re loving each other again when it’s too late and one of them’s nearly dead. I probably missed out some stuff, but if I don’t see the point in a movie I don’t tend to pay full attention to it.
So I don’t really think about that book much but somehow it ended up in my head today because when I got to work I had a sudden desire to listen to Kate Bush.
I don’t tend to get this urge much as her voice lives in that ethereal realm of being both beautiful and really fucking annoying sometimes, so I prefer to avoid listening to her in case I can only hear the annoying bits that day. Although I will admit that this doesn’t apply to Running Up That Hill, which I can listen to on repeat (but not the inferior Placebo version they seem to like playing in vampire movie trailers), and often do.
Later in the day I brought up semaphore flags in conversation for some reason I’ve since forgotten, and the other person thought I was talking about those found in operating systems and I had to correct him that I actually meant real flags. Monty Python fans might realize where I then went with this: to demonstrate the concept, I sent him this educational Youtube video (please ignore the subtitles):
So I’ve now spent more time today thinking about that book than I really ever wanted to in my life, but there you go. Mind you, it was really wuthering today in Kelowna, enough to riggwelt a sheep. Or something.