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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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It should be no real surprise though to anyone though, we have arguably not Miller's best work (and I'm not a fan of Varley's art either), plus Snyder - a guy who likes the pretty but wouldn't know plot if it took to his leg with a machete.
Its a graphic novel on the big screen. More fun than reading it though (I had a bowl of wedges and lots of popcorn). I'll probably buy the DVD, but I wouldn't go so far as seeing it again in the cinema.
I don't hold high hopes for Watchmen.
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One could be justly scared of it being ruined.
It's such a huge piece of work - and all that backstory in the clippings between the comic strips.
There's two - or three - films in Watchmen.... If he pulls it off it'll be genius. But anything else will be a crying shame.