Well, I finally saw it

[bessie_smith]

"Sin City" that is, and while I liked the movie, it doesn't take much familiarity with Frank Miller's rather overblown and repetitive dialogue to know it was based on stories he wrote. It's great in comic book form, silly a lot of the time when spoken out loud by real people. There were times when I could gag with how overblown it was, though I suppose that was the point, or one of them, anyway. That being said, the story with Clive Owen and Benecio Del Toro was my favorite, even though the dialogue/voiceover in that segment were the worst offenders.

Dwight: "My warrior woman. My Valkyrie. You'll always be mine, always and never. Never. The Fire, baby. It'll burn us both. It'll kill us both. there's no place in this world for our kind of fire. Always and never. If I have to die for you tonight, I will."

Oh-my-God! I can't even type that without choking on a laugh.

Pure crap in any other movie, typical Frank Miller hyperbole. I almost laughed out loud when I heard it. Anyway, despite it's faults and my complaints, I enjoyed it well enough.

I also swallowed the Kool-Aid and got an iPod on Friday. I already have almost 800 songs on it. Now to decide just how much of the John Coltrane box set I want to put on there.

Comments

[drewfansler.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the order of the white earbuds.

[bessie-smith.livejournal.com]

I really don't like the earbuds that came with the iPod. I have a pair of Maxell buds that are much more comfortable to wear that I prfer.

[drewfansler.livejournal.com]

That's why I upgraded to the in-ear headphones, which I really like.

But c'mon Bessie, only 800 songs and you've had the thing a couple of days now. You can do better than that.

[bessie-smith.livejournal.com]

Okay, most of the 800 come from the 2 books of CDs I had at work to listen to. I had just finished importing that into iTunes so I could take my CDs home and play music from my work computer when I made what was kinda a snap decision to just go out and get the damn iPod already. The first thing I did was put all that music onto the iPod, then I went home and added Robert Randolph, Jimi Hendrix, some U2 and the new Pink Martini. I could probably just randomly pull from the stacks another 20-30 CDs of stuff I'd like to add not including the box sets. It's just a matter of me taking an hour or so a day to do it.

Then, of course, there's taking time to organize things.