Seems to have gone ok, if a little plain. I plan on cooking some extra stir fry tonight and using that as the basis for tomorrows lunch.
Spent most of this morning getting my LibraryThing tags up to date and removing the duplicate books that were added as part of the import from Amazon. Not surprisingly Fantasy books make up most of my collection but I was surprised by just how many comic books I own.
I've started reading the Princess Bride and it seems that the film captured the knowing, smug tone of the book perfectly, which is one of the main things I liked about the film. That and it had Andre the Giant in it. Hopefully my next book order will turn up before I finish this one - I've ordered some hard SF books as I've never really read much Clarke or Asimov - something I want to fix before the year end.
Watched two very similar films yesterday, A City of Violence and Dragon Tiger Gate. Neither impressed me as much, the first was better but it looked like it was edited by two different people. The editing started off like Kill Bill and ended up in traditional Hong Kong action movie mode. Still, it had some decent fight sequences and these made up for the short falls in the film's plot as it was your usual best friend betrays everybody but nobody else sees it, complete with the heroes overcoming the the over whelming odds. I've heard that Dragon Tiger Gate is meant to be Asia's answer to X-Men. If that's the case then this is like the 3d X-Men film, rubbish. Its nothing more than a vehicle for Donnie Yen to show off his (impressive) martial arts skills. Plot wise it is more or less the same plot as A City of Violence (or just about any martial arts film to be fair) but it lacks the exposition needed for those unfamiliar with the series.
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