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The Popular Arts Post: Film, Poetry, Roleplaying, Music and Literature
Went to IMAX for the first time last week to see "300". As the thread on RPG.net suggestsit really isn't good at all (my summary is probably on the last page). Also recently saw The Notorious Bettie Page. Visually cute, it included some excellent thematic considerations and then utterly failed to elaborate on them.
Unitarian service last Sunday was poetry, readings and folk music. As is my norm, I selected Unitarian poets and authors, specifically, Horatio Alger, Ambrose Bierce, ee cummings, and Kurt Vonnegut Jnr.
Easter Sunday was spent, as per last year, playing GURPS Bunnies & Burrows. The Fellowship of Talor journeys in the eleventh scene for HeroQuest. Have managed to convince![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
imajica_lj to run Call of Cthulhu in the near future.
Went a bit nuts on the weekend buying music: Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Hawkwind, Gang of Four, Devo, China Crisis, Eels, Elysium. No one can claim I don't have a variety of tastes. Have made a start on the small moutain of books sent to me by Ticonderoga; a seven-part space opera by Kevin J. Anderson. Also should mention that my review of Blackbeard: The real pirate of the Caribbean is available in the latest issue.
Cocktail party for Friday night is shaping up very nicely indeed.
Unitarian service last Sunday was poetry, readings and folk music. As is my norm, I selected Unitarian poets and authors, specifically, Horatio Alger, Ambrose Bierce, ee cummings, and Kurt Vonnegut Jnr.
Easter Sunday was spent, as per last year, playing GURPS Bunnies & Burrows. The Fellowship of Talor journeys in the eleventh scene for HeroQuest. Have managed to convince
imajica_lj to run Call of Cthulhu in the near future.Went a bit nuts on the weekend buying music: Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Hawkwind, Gang of Four, Devo, China Crisis, Eels, Elysium. No one can claim I don't have a variety of tastes. Have made a start on the small moutain of books sent to me by Ticonderoga; a seven-part space opera by Kevin J. Anderson. Also should mention that my review of Blackbeard: The real pirate of the Caribbean is available in the latest issue.
Cocktail party for Friday night is shaping up very nicely indeed.
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Margaret and David:
...Gerard Butler, is one tough dude; he’s got more muscles than a seafood casserole...
...Xerxes looks as if he's going clubbing...
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I think David's 2/5 is about right. Margaret's 3.5/5 seems to based on the claim that it's "robustly funny" - which is OK except that's not what they intended. Maybe it'll make a comeback in the future as a B grade classic.
Another thing which that review reminded me; despite the claims of Leonidas during the film of disinterest in adolscents his wife Gorgo was married to him in her early teens and - by the time of "300" - would have been probably 17-18 if that!
Although to the director's credit she is given a much more significant role than apparently she received in the comic book. However, her acumen of judging character in the film, which apparently was exceptional, seems absent.