El Laberinto del Fauno and other fancies
Well I watched Pan's Labyrinth last night. The spanish title sounds so much better though, El Laberinto del Fauno. It's based in Spain in 1944 and is entirely in Spanish with English subtitles. It's was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, who for those of you who don't know he also directed Hell Boy (another movie that I love) and Blade II (which I also like). I really love these types of stories in movies, on tv, books, or any medium really. I love real fairy tales. Not to mention the scenery and the magical creatures look real. For example the fairies are greenish brown and they disguise themselves as bugs, as opposed to other fairy stories where the fairies all sparkly and pretty. The faun looked amazingly cool. You almost couldn't tell if he was suppose to be the bad guy because of how he looked. The overall story was good and the actors were awesome. Although I expected something a little different from what I saw of the previews (I expected more fairy tale/imaginary world submersion), I still loved it.

The movie reminded me a of game I wanted to run after I read the sample of the rpg "Don't Rest Your Head". I was thinking about buying the book, but after reading the demo I didn't really like/understand the rolling and the rules. I did however like the premise of the world and I thought of running a game in a world similar to that would be cool and watching this movie made me want to do that even more.

I did run my first game (well first game with people around the same age as me and not library kids) on Tuesday. It went okay, the first game is usually slow, even slower when you have 6 players. Hopefully the next game in two weeks will go a alot smoother because character introductions are over and little stories have begun. I think I'll post more about my game, so I can keep track of what's going on, but it'll probably be where the people playing it can't see, just in case I give anything away.

Also just a overview of what's filling up my dvr since a couple new series and episodes started up last week. New episodes of Heroes started Monday, if you didn't know that or have never heard of Heroes, you have to educate yourself, now. The same goes for Psych because new episodes started last friday. I've also started watching the new FX series DIRT, which is also very good. And another thing Sci-Fi has a new show "The Dresdon Files", which I assume is based on the book series by Jim Butcher because of the name and description, although I never got a chance to read it I just think it would be an awfully big coincidence if it wasn't. The first episode was last sunday, which I haven't watched yet, but I plan to. Of course I'm still watching new Mythbusters, catching reruns of House on two different stations, and new Family Guy and American Dad on Fox Sunday nights. So I guess you could say I'm successfully rotting my brain with tv.

And one more thing, I really want to catch up on all the new books I have. I'm still reading the Hitchhiker's Guide the the Universe Series, the Dead Witch Walking series, a couple books I borrowed/bought a months ago, and some new books for christmas. Not to mention the tons of graphic novels I have to read, including 4 new Petshop of Horrors and all the Marvel ones that I've borrowed/given (Including Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic 4, and tons more).

So wish me luck, and sorry for the long entry, but it was just building up. And for those people I haven't commented to in awhile, I promise I've been reading, I just haven't had time to comment, hopefully I will soon.