I saw Kill Bill yesterday and will most likely see it again. Some of the visuals in the film are so striking that they demand a second viewing. I also fell in love with the spaghetti western overtones in the soundtrack. And the extended anime sequence was a poetic piece of filmmaking in and of itself. Like some of the critics, I wish there had been more of the verbal fireworks I expect in a Tarantino film, but I’m expecting that Volume 2 will satisfy that wish.
I spent much of the afternoon finishing a novel I’ve been reading. I can read quickly and I think I went through about 150 pages in one sitting. I remember a college class I had on the Victorian novel. If you’re looking for light reading, look elsewhere than the Victorians. We had to read massive tomes like Vanity Fair and Middlemarch. I dreaded the daily reading assignments, which were usually 50-100 pages. I actually faked my way through some of that class because I didn’t always feel like doing the reading. But now, I almost wish I could do the class over
