the worst pies in london
Jan. 21st, 2008 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolExams remain being over. After a semester of reading and watching stuff for nothing but educational purposes and watching a lot of fairly good TV, I am now revelling in the beautiful and comforting world of fiction.
(Ironically, TV is crap now, but I did have great fun watching Alien vs. Predator despite having never seen any of the Predator films and making bets on who would survive. GOOD FUN.)
Anyway. Saturday night involved going out to the cinema to see an advanced preview of Sweeney Todd, or, as I like to call it, Death Eaters Sing With Bonus Appearance By A Pirate and Borat! Nah, seriously though, it was fab. It's horrifically violent, as a word of warning to the sensitive. Years of zombie films have desensified me, but even I twitched here and there.
Between all that, though, it's brilliant! One bloke on front of me jubiliently exclaimed 'This is the most kick-ass musical ever after a particularly gory scene. It's just... really good. I remember thinking half way through (I have a short attention span) that I was, actually, really enjoying it. Bomham-Carter steals the show, to be honest with you, because Depp is not the world's best vocal talent, but he's, you know, good as always.
It's more London itself that makes it the best; it's dark, it's gothic. People sing and dance a bit, and everything is dark and horrible and miserable. Really, really enjoyable. Go see!
I also schlepped out to the library yesterday and have a big pile of library books to get through, since I have discovered the fiction section which is fairly decent due to the rather liberal approach of the English department. I'm currently in the middle of White Teeth by Zadie Smith which I've always avoided because I mistrust hype about books, despite the fact I then end up loving said books. This can be evidenced by the fact I was up reading it until 2am and was considering just staying awake until it was time to go to work so that I could finish it off.
Still not finished it, but I'm going to dive into it in a bit. I have an apple crumble in the fridge, a pile of fictional books, and busy weekends full of seeing people. Man, I love this time of year.
(Ironically, TV is crap now, but I did have great fun watching Alien vs. Predator despite having never seen any of the Predator films and making bets on who would survive. GOOD FUN.)
Anyway. Saturday night involved going out to the cinema to see an advanced preview of Sweeney Todd, or, as I like to call it, Death Eaters Sing With Bonus Appearance By A Pirate and Borat! Nah, seriously though, it was fab. It's horrifically violent, as a word of warning to the sensitive. Years of zombie films have desensified me, but even I twitched here and there.
Between all that, though, it's brilliant! One bloke on front of me jubiliently exclaimed 'This is the most kick-ass musical ever after a particularly gory scene. It's just... really good. I remember thinking half way through (I have a short attention span) that I was, actually, really enjoying it. Bomham-Carter steals the show, to be honest with you, because Depp is not the world's best vocal talent, but he's, you know, good as always.
It's more London itself that makes it the best; it's dark, it's gothic. People sing and dance a bit, and everything is dark and horrible and miserable. Really, really enjoyable. Go see!
I also schlepped out to the library yesterday and have a big pile of library books to get through, since I have discovered the fiction section which is fairly decent due to the rather liberal approach of the English department. I'm currently in the middle of White Teeth by Zadie Smith which I've always avoided because I mistrust hype about books, despite the fact I then end up loving said books. This can be evidenced by the fact I was up reading it until 2am and was considering just staying awake until it was time to go to work so that I could finish it off.
Still not finished it, but I'm going to dive into it in a bit. I have an apple crumble in the fridge, a pile of fictional books, and busy weekends full of seeing people. Man, I love this time of year.
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Date: 2008-01-21 04:54 pm (UTC)I know nothing about this film and yet that one line makes it sound more awesome than Snakes on a Plane!
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Date: 2008-01-21 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 07:15 pm (UTC)i actually liked white teeth, it's one of the few books i studied for a level that i could bear to look at afterwards. Apart from Measure for Measure of course.
Has anything turned up from Sallies/parentals?
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Date: 2008-01-21 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-26 01:25 am (UTC)i need to send you music so i know you're vaguely in my sound-scape...
ah yes. and somehow i keep finding myself in conversations about various comedy series(es?) which are just so good, they make me want to watch tv again. mayhap i shall list them one day.
loffle you muchly
xxxx