Retail and Russell Crowe therapy
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annathepiperYesterday, in the hopes of relaxation and getting my ass out of the house for a little while, I went out to meet up with the lovely and talented ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mamishka for a viewing of the new Russell Crowe flick, A Good Year. Before I met up with Meems, though, I indulged in a bit of retail therapy on the Ave, since I hadn't been there in ages.
Since Tower Records is going out of business, I stopped in there to see if by any chance they had any Seven Nations discs. They didn't, but I did wind up buying an Afro Celt Sound System disc (Volume 1 Sound Magic) and the second season BSG soundtrack disc (since I do like the music from the show).
At the U Bookstore, I picked up three books: Charlaine Harris' Grave Sight now that it's out in paperback, Yasmine Galenorn's Witchling since she's local and I wanted to have something else of hers (and I wanted to see how she does with something paranormal/fantasyish), and Gina Farago's Ivy Cole and the Moon, which sounded vaguely entertaining and seems to involve a female werewolf.
And last but not least, at Zanadu Comics I finally picked up the graphic novel version of the latest Elfquest story, Discovery. As y'all know I was waffling about whether or not to get that, but after flipping through the soft-bound graphic novel I figured what the hell, I'd give it a shot.
Then I swung down to the Metro Theater to meet up with Meems for the movie. Which turned out to be about what I expected. It's unfortunately not getting very good reviews--I think a lot of people are just really boggled by the whole idea of Russell in a fluffy, comic, romantic movie. I didn't have much of a problem with it, but then, I've also seen him in Mystery Alaska. And I'll be commenting further on the flick in another post!
Wednesday through Sunday miles: 13.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1528.9
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 219.9
Miles to Isengard: 264.1
mamishka for a viewing of the new Russell Crowe flick, A Good Year. Before I met up with Meems, though, I indulged in a bit of retail therapy on the Ave, since I hadn't been there in ages.Since Tower Records is going out of business, I stopped in there to see if by any chance they had any Seven Nations discs. They didn't, but I did wind up buying an Afro Celt Sound System disc (Volume 1 Sound Magic) and the second season BSG soundtrack disc (since I do like the music from the show).
At the U Bookstore, I picked up three books: Charlaine Harris' Grave Sight now that it's out in paperback, Yasmine Galenorn's Witchling since she's local and I wanted to have something else of hers (and I wanted to see how she does with something paranormal/fantasyish), and Gina Farago's Ivy Cole and the Moon, which sounded vaguely entertaining and seems to involve a female werewolf.
And last but not least, at Zanadu Comics I finally picked up the graphic novel version of the latest Elfquest story, Discovery. As y'all know I was waffling about whether or not to get that, but after flipping through the soft-bound graphic novel I figured what the hell, I'd give it a shot.
Then I swung down to the Metro Theater to meet up with Meems for the movie. Which turned out to be about what I expected. It's unfortunately not getting very good reviews--I think a lot of people are just really boggled by the whole idea of Russell in a fluffy, comic, romantic movie. I didn't have much of a problem with it, but then, I've also seen him in Mystery Alaska. And I'll be commenting further on the flick in another post!
Wednesday through Sunday miles: 13.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1528.9
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 219.9
Miles to Isengard: 264.1
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Date: 2006-11-13 06:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-14 03:06 am (UTC)Russell Ruminations
Date: 2006-11-13 07:57 pm (UTC)Re: Russell Ruminations
Date: 2006-11-13 08:32 pm (UTC)Gladiator and Mystery Alaska, though, yum. Also Master and Commander and The Quick and the Dead. :D
And gods, yes, his voice! *thud!* Still makes me swoon. Every. Single. Time.