I hate losing an hour! I was feeling tired all last week (I worked 2 evening shifts, which was a little exhausting) and I taught a bunch of classes too. I always get weary of teaching a couple weeks before I’m all done for the semester. I have a few classes this week and next week and then I’m all done.
One admirable habit of the future Mr. Tangognat is that he sometimes sends me gift cards to bookstores — so today I hit Borders, they were having a buy 2 graphic novels get 1 free sale, and I ended up picking up one of the new Sin City trades, xxxHOLIC #4, Tusbasa #4, and Saikano #1. And I ended up paying .94 cents thanks to the sale and giftcard. Wooooo!
I went to see Sin City, and walked out feeling exhilarated and numb at the same time. Visually it was stunning, I haven’t read any of the comics before but it did seem like Frank Miller’s idea of ‘noir’ was amped up so much it verged into self parody at times. Clive Owen certainly makes being covered in tar look very very very good, Elijah Wood was quite creepy, and Mickey Rourke was great.
4:11 pm on April 4th, 2005 1
It’s really awesome how EVERY SINGLE FRAME is exactly like the comic book. Best comic book adaptation EVER! Even better than Hellboy!
6:15 pm on April 4th, 2005 2
What were you doing, watching an R rated movie, young lady?
It was funny when I bought Sin City at the bookstore, one of the guys said that they’d just gotten in the making of the movie book, and I asked why anyone would put that out, since the comic books were storyboards for the film, and he said that the making of the movie book looked exactly like the comics except there were a ton of photos of actors standing in front of a green screen.
3:59 pm on April 5th, 2005 3
In case you’ve forgotten, I’m 17 now, and legally allowed to go to R rated movies. So I guess Sin City was the first R rated movie I’ve seen, cause it’s not like anyone let me watch Clerks or countless other inappropriate movies when I was 10 or anything. : )
4:01 pm on April 5th, 2005 4
Whoops! I ‘d forgotten you were so aged!!!!!!