Underworld is not as bad as you'd think. It's actually got a fairly entertaining plot, and it has you bouncing around with twists in the latter part of the film. Sure, it's extremely derivative of Blade and the Matrix, but so what? It's still a fun movie to see, and I caught the Texas Chainsaw remake trailer again - man, when that fucker plays the flashbulb whines, it sends shivers up my spine. Even if the movie sucks, the trailer is fucking awesome. They even keep up with the "inspired by a true story" joke!
Kate Beckinsale is hot in fucking black rubber. Just wanted to say.
After that, I went and bought myself a new guitar! A nice little L'Arrivee D-03, a big old acoustic guitar that sounds incredibly loud and amazingly sweet. I've never played an acoustic guitar before, just classical (wider, shorter fretboard, different body shape, nylon strings) and an electric (a gibson mv2 that weighs a ton, thinner, more easily fretted strings). It's a lot of fun, but the embarassing thing about buying a guitar is that you end up playing it in the shop, and when you suck and aren't yet used to pressing down REALLY HARD on the strings, well, it's embarassing. I whipped out my Air riff (Bird), my Smiths riff (Back to the Old House), and then pretty much strummed chords. Oh yeah, I also tried fingerpicking out a little Caroline No - bad call. But it was great, and I also got to play a 1935 Gibson archtop acoustic, which was very cool.
So now the fingers of my left hand are covered in grime and blackened shards of skin peeling off the tips. And it's pretty gratifying, to tell the truth.
Posted by mattb at October 01, 2003 10:53 PM