As merry as the days were long

Not too much I'm actually doing lately, so I'll tell you about things I've watched instead.

• Sometime in the nebulous depths of last week, windbourne and I watched Revengers Tragedy, starring Doctor Who's Christopher Eccleston, the always fabulous Eddie Izzard, and Derek Jacobi, and directed by the guy who made Repo Man. The perfect movie if you want to see a dark, funny, and bloody Jacobean tragedy updated for a post-apocalyptic Liverpool setting -- and who wouldn't?
  
  
• Thursday, Ahna and briara and I went out to see Star Wars: Episode III, which was startlingly watchable. I'd hated Episode I so much that I never even bothered with Episode II, but the trailers for this one were good enough to lure me back. While much of the dialogue was cringingly awful, the politics were actually interesting, Palpatine got some good solid material to work with, the film somehow didn't look as cheap as it's predecessors, and it somehow managed to occasionally hit the epic, mythic feel it was aiming for. It's not perfect, by any means, but at some levels, I think I might actually like it better than Return of the Jedi. Worth a matinee.
  
  
• Later that night, Ahna took me to see VNV Nation at the Showbox, for which I am still insanely grateful. kespernorth had told me before that he never liked the band until he saw them live, and since I already did like them, I was expecting a hell of a show, and I wasn't disappointed. Those boys know how to work a crowd.
  
  
• Saturday, I went to Folklife. It was okay. I mainly wandered around and people-watched. Way too hot out.
  
  
• That night, Ahna and I met up with ursako and bhaiku for another concert, featuring KUMA, who turned out to be all kinds of awesome. Ahna wrote a good review of the show, if you want to check that out, and posted some MP3s as well. Really good stuff. I just kept drifiting closer and closer to the stage as the crowd allowed, to be closer to the ROCK. Just transcendent.