I hap­pened to get some tick­ets to Evil Dead The Musi­cal for last Saturday…that is, the Sat­ur­day that just passed. We were off to the side, and just out­side the “splatter zone”. With a sur­pris­ingly small amount of props (though the ax, the 12 gauge, the chain­saw and the Necro­nom­i­con all make their appear­ances) and almost child­ishly sim­plis­tic sets, Evil Dead The Musi­cal blew me out of the water with wit, energy, and so much homage that it almost hurts.

I’m almost at a loss for words to describe this stage per­for­mance. Fan­tas­tic, B, Sparse, Elec­tri­fy­ing, Camp, Enter­tain­ing, Rude, and I’m sure I could think of more were I will­ing to ded­i­cate more time towards the effort. Suf­fice it to say, it’s a great night out and it’s prob­a­bly the best 40 dol­lars (for two tick­ets) that I’ve ever spent.

I’ve found myself using online music sources when I’m not around my home com­puter or too lazy to plug in my iPod. I’ve found myself going between two dif­fer­ent pro­grams: Last.fm and Deezer.com.

Both have pros and cons, and I felt that it’d make a good arti­cle to com­pare my find­ings and con­trast the two ser­vices. I’m not going to gives scores, because com­par­isons like this are sub­jec­tive. I’ll let the read­ers come to their own conclusions.

So my friend Bart recently pointed me towards a web­site called “Goodreads” which is a social web­site (web 2.0, as the kids call it these days) ded­i­cated to literature.

How could I refuse? The amount of books I read, it makes sense that I should use a system that is built for shar­ing my feel­ings about lit­er­a­ture with others that feel the same!

Last night I had the for­tune to watch I Am Legend star­ing Will Smith. The premise of the movie is that Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last man alive, after a deadly super-​virus lays waste to 90% of the worlds pop­u­la­tion. 1% of man kind had a nat­ural immu­nity to it, and 9%… well that’s some­thing else.

Finally! A new series that actu­ally has a little body to it. I was hon­estly start­ing to lose hope in the new adven­tures. The Last Dodo puts a little bit of that dark­ness, that deep reflec­tion of the Doc­tors that has been until now has been sorely lack­ing from the new books. Though there is only a small moment of it (part of which is quoted in this review) it demon­strates what I’ve been talk­ing about over he past couple books. I know that the authors were prob­a­bly told that they need to ease into it all, what with trying to nail such a wide demo­graphic and so many new read­ers, but have a little com­pas­sion for those who’ve stuck with the series all these years.

Boys Like Girls self-​titled album came out in August of 2006, and I only found out about them in August of 2007 (or was it July…). My friend linked them to me and I got my grubby little hands on the Album as soon as I could. Draw­ing par­al­lels to All-​American Rejects, Accep­tance, and even a hint of Aban­doned Pools I just can’t put my finger on, this album has a weird blend of pop-​punk and rock. I found it really hard to pick favorite on this Album, because to be honest there are only two tracks that I don’t like. I made my choices though, and I stick by them.

Beowulf is the newest adap­ta­tion do the epic poem of yore. It’s rather lib­eral with its inter­pre­ta­tion, and as near as I can tell, also adds new and unre­lated sec­tions to the plot.

I tried to watch this movie, and take it seri­ously. Hon­estly I did, and I am sorry to every­one who was around me who was also trying to watch the movie seri­ously. I didn’t mean to laugh at it so much, I really didn’t! But when a man is naked for over half of the film, has ques­tion­able (at best) dialog, and so much over the top fight­ing that a Die Hard fan would squeel with joy… well it’s just too much for me to try and take seriously.