A very Harry weekend

So the new Harry Potter book and movie really snuck up on me this year, I had totally forgotten that this was the last book coming out (I seemed to have it in my head that the Half-Blood Prince was book 5 not book 6). So Liz and I did some catchup this weekend by seeing the movie and buying the book on Friday.

For the movie, I actually liked it quite a bit. Order of the Pheonix was a long book and I thought that the movie did a good job of pulling out the extra content while focusing on the core imporant characters and situations. Plus some things in the movie I acutally saw as improvements over the book, to me JKR doesn't write really compelling fight scenes so I though that the movie actually did the whole confrontation in the Ministry of Magic better then the book did (the book was just running around and yelling "stupify" at each other).

As for the final book I can't comment on it yet as Liz just finished it up and turned it over to me (I chose to go back the re-read the HBP while she read the new one first). And now that book is sitting in my bag next to me at work...taunting me....

~Ian

Decemberists in Grant Park!

Here's a clip of the encore of the Decemberists concert Jon and I went to last week. It wasn't raining by that point. They played with the Orchestra most of the night, and we were so far back on the lawn we couldn't see anything. But once the orchestra left we ran up there for a closer view, and they played 2 fun songs with lots of audience participation! We had a blast, and the crowd was pretty crazy. Most people were on their feet doing gigs around the back of the seating area. It's a long clip, but kind of fun, although it obviously sounded a lot better live! For some reason the last 30 seconds of the song are on another link - I'll put it at the bottom if you're really intrepid. BTW, it's the Mariner's Revenge Song, about a guy who gets swallowed by a whale, and that's why the crowd's really screaming at some points!

Laura



link to the end of the song!

Ninjaaaaaaaaaaa AKteeon!

Check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYsDsEcfG0g

Ayn Rand...Gamer?

So tell me...does anyone else feel that the genre of First Person Shooter videogames with a heavy emphasis on Art Deco architecture and Objectivist philosophy has been rather underpopulated as of late? Good thing Bioshock is here to fill that void...

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/bioshock/805021p1.html



~Ian

My few Colorado pics are up as a web album - click on the link at the top of the photo column (the pic of the cactus) to view and download them. Sorry there's no title to this post - it won't let me click in that field today!

L