That was a long afternoon. Headed into town around 3ish to do some shopping. Went to Forbidden Planet for the first time in a while, picked up a few comics, notables Bulletproof Monk by Michael Avon Oeming and Badlands by Steven Grant. Hit Comic showcase and the notables there were A Contract with God which is actually going to be my first introduction to Will Eisner so I’m looking forward to that. I also broke down and picked up the Powers Scriptbook by Brian Michael Bendis and art by the aforementioned Michael Avon Oeming. The rest is pretty much pure candy and popcorn reading, a JLA collection, the first Nightwing trade, some X-Men and Batman: Haunted Knight by the usually top team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.
Hit Virgin Megastores music sale aswell for a very eclectic selection, older albums from David Gray, Guns N’ Roses, Bon Jovi (x2), Tina Arena, Tori Amos, Bob Dylan and the recent Jimi Hendrix special Voodoo Child. That lot should keep me going for a while and was a total of 8 albums for fifty odd quid.
Met up with Pat in Starbucks and we went to see about a movie. There was nothing in the main cinemas we wanted to see so we checked the PCC on chance. They are running a bank holiday weekend special of horror/thriller movies and one later that night sounded interesting. So we went to see One Hour Photo. Staring Robin Williams as a photo technician at a Wal Mart type shop who becomes a little too involved with the family of one of the customers of his shop. Its a pretty tense thriller with a real standout performance from Robin Willaims. It’s worth remembering he has been nominated at the Oscars on four occasions and won on one of those. All in all a pretty solid movie with a decent ending.
As part of this festival, they are showing Dark Water, a movie from the director and the author of Ring a smash hit from Japan a couple of years ago. I’ve still not seen this but I have heard many good things about it and am indeed heading over to Play to order it now. So that is the plan for tomorrow night with a couple of the lads.