Night Watch, Dragon Skulls and SCA Podcasts, oh my!

Well, I'm experimenting with a new format for my posts. If I've got more than one thing to talk about, I'll break it up into sections like this:
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Movie review - Night Watch (2004) aka Nochnoi Dozor
"A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle." - from IMDB.com

Well, the preview of Night Watch was great. Though the Mayan Theatre was a bit underprepared for the turnout.

After racing to Denver to arrive just in time to make it inside, we watched while every last seat in the house was filled. Then the market researcher made an announcement that if we filled out a short survey after the show, we'd get free movie schwag.

OK, so, the preview was free and now I'm getting free stuff, too? I like this movie already.

I had a couple of small technical issues with the flick, but on the whole I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. But it is NOT your typical vampire story. I guess I've never seen any Vampire pull out his own spine and fight with it, though.

The story was in Russian, subtitled in English. And the text effects on the subtitles were the coolest I'd ever seen. The look and feel of the movie is murky and the CG is great. It's a 'good vs. evil' story, but the distinction between good and evil isn't quite as concrete as we Americans usually go for. I will probably go see it again, and I hope it does well so that the sequels (which are apparently already shot) also have a chance in the theaters.

One of my favorite games when the credits roll is searching out the 'hard to pronounce' names, and saying them in funny accents. Well, this movie has tons of Russian names and the bad Russian accent I was trying out only made me want to drink a NostaRovia. (I've GOT to write about THAT drink soon...)

By the way, they were handing out stickers and posters after the show. I got a sticker, but so far have yet to find a large enough surface for it.

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Dragon Skull on Ebay!

I actually saw this beast in person at Estrella War.

Shane was walking around one night with it on his shoulder, and it very much creeped me out. It felt utterly real.

In the interest of helping a fellow SCA'er, I thought I'd post a link to his auction.

Check out the eBay listing for more photos!
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SCA Podcast

Hey, the modern and medieval are finally getting together and going bowling!
(if that reference is lost on you, sorry, it comes from the 80's)

The Pain Bank is podcasting SCA topics from the Midrealm. You don't need an i-Pod to listen, just click the pod symbol next to his entries and your media player should do the rest. It sounds pretty rough now, but I bet if they get enough listeners, it would inspire them to keep at it.

Makes me almost tempted enough to start my own podcast. Almost. But if you think my writing is bad, wait 'til you hear my voice!
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Enough for now. Time to do my taxes online and commence with the general unhappiness of tax season. Huzzah!