Incessant Expressions

This weekend turned out to be rather fruitful in that we actually got out of the house to do something other than buy cleaning supplies or similar! We saw 30 Days of Night yesterday, after waiting months for it to come out. It was gory and gruesome, I loved that aspect of the movie. I also liked the way it was directed in ways similar to how the graphic novel has its art direction going (long ground-sky pans, lots of overhead action). I really liked the movie and thought it was an above average role for Josh Hartnett. However, I do have one big problem: why were all of the Vampires Eurotrash birds? And by birds, I don’t mean women but their thoughtless gazes and movements mirrored that of a bird or a velociraptor from Jurassic Park. Not to mention they all looked like Bat Boy from the gossip rags (giant black eyes, piranha-esque teeth). I think that’s my only issue with the movie. These vampires were supposedly from a long line of vampires that have roamed the planet, brutally murdering entire towns at a time (that seems kind of silly in the vampire ethos, I know guess they’re gypsies), and apparently only spoke some language that sounds like Jewish Klingon with some Russian here and there. They weren’t this dumbed down in the novel, at least from what I remember. I still give it 8/10.

I also bought two books: The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs and The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. I’ve heard good things about both and I can attest to Jacobs’ book being quite hilarious. I’ve only gotten two chapters into it but it’s written, at least from the start, by an agnostic Jew so that can only mean laughs abound.

This was a great weekend since it was both Gaby’s birthday and the BR561 meeting. Both Stankdawg *and* Dr^ZigMan showed up! At the same time! Needless to say, it was a very long night at Holloways/ZaZen. Fun none the less though.

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