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Fear and Loathing in Las Edinburgh
Mar. 19th, 2007 09:57 pm11pm this Friday, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Filmhouse.
Whose up for late night drugs and madness?
Whose up for late night drugs and madness?
Mar. 19th, 2007
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Mar. 19th, 2007 11:01 pmMy current MP3 player is fucked. I have to balance something heavy on the headphone jack or I get nothing but treble out of it - and even then it can be dodgy. Oh, and occasionally it decides to fast forward for no good reason.
So, what with a bonus arriving soon, I'm going to replace it. I want an 8GB model - and so I'm considering either an iPod Nano or a Sandisk Sansa. Both get good reviews, with the Sandisk having the twin advantages of not having to use iTunes to put music on it and being £25 cheaper, while having a user interface that's apparently nice, but not quite as nice as the iPod.
Anyone care to make any recommendations?
So, what with a bonus arriving soon, I'm going to replace it. I want an 8GB model - and so I'm considering either an iPod Nano or a Sandisk Sansa. Both get good reviews, with the Sandisk having the twin advantages of not having to use iTunes to put music on it and being £25 cheaper, while having a user interface that's apparently nice, but not quite as nice as the iPod.
Anyone care to make any recommendations?
But you'll never take our freeeedom!
Mar. 19th, 2007 11:38 pmOr "Never Give Up, Never Surrender", as the crew of the NSEA Protector might say.
300 is an amazingly made movie. If nothing else it's an exercise in style that stretches the boundaries of the form. It's also stunningly violent, unashamedly grotesque and determinedly mythic in its style.
What it doesn't do is give you someone to care about. The Spartans are violent bastards, the Persians are twisted bastards and frankly you end up cheering for the Spartans purely because they're the home team, not because you'd actually like to have them round for tea.
If you can get past having to actually _like_ characters, you can admire their determination and idealism instead. And it's well worth seeing - much like Sin City was, because you've never seen anything quite like it before, and people will be ripping it off for the next five years.
300 is an amazingly made movie. If nothing else it's an exercise in style that stretches the boundaries of the form. It's also stunningly violent, unashamedly grotesque and determinedly mythic in its style.
What it doesn't do is give you someone to care about. The Spartans are violent bastards, the Persians are twisted bastards and frankly you end up cheering for the Spartans purely because they're the home team, not because you'd actually like to have them round for tea.
If you can get past having to actually _like_ characters, you can admire their determination and idealism instead. And it's well worth seeing - much like Sin City was, because you've never seen anything quite like it before, and people will be ripping it off for the next five years.