Mattress Assault

I think I promised a Darjeeling Limited review for today. Here it is in a sentence: it's really, quite, pretty good.

Okay, here's a little more. The only problem I had with the movie was that some of the characters were unforgivably creepy/weird; I'm looking at you here, Jason Schwartzman. This may be one of those moveis I need to see a few times, though. I did like everything besides ol' Creepy Pants Schwartzman.

I know I'm an old and lame now because I can hurt myself just by sleeping. I know for a fact that I don't flail around in my sleep or anything like that, but when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I've been savagely beaten with a shovel. This leads to two different hypotheses.

First, I am being beaten savagely with a shovel. Somehow, I'm sleeping through this attack.

Second, my mattress is dying and it no longer accommodates all of my weird sleeping positions.

The pain's always in my back and shoulders, and that's definitely NOT where I'd attack someone with a blunt instrument while they slept. (I'd definitely go for the shins.) For that reason alone, I'm thinking it's the mattress.

If it were up to me, I would use this to go to a hammock-only arrangement. Really, why do we need mattresses? Do the Posturepedic people manufacture demand like have a deal like DeBeers? Unfortunately, it's not just my bed. As much as I'd like to live like a jungle man in my hammock-oriented room, and perhaps fire a few blowdarts out the bedroom window on occasion, I don't see that happening. We'll probably just get a new mattress.

Posted by Cody at October 15, 2007 7:30 PM