Deep Dreams

You can always tell when I'm busy, I don't get around to posting or reading LJ, but I had to take time out to share this.

You know it's a good start to the day when you wake from a dream in which you meet and talk to Deep Roy. And if I hadn't woken up, I have no doubt he would have been up for signing some stuff. Mondy was there too. He was the first to speak to Deep.

Anyway, His Majesty is calling for attention (Lex, not Mondy), so must be off.

Sweeney Todd

Watched Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd tonight, based on the Stephen Sondheim musical. This is the sort of movie that is made just for me. Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter (who I'm pretty sure wants to have my babies), Timothy Spall, and Alan Rickman, working together on a dark musical.

As a film it was ok, but as a musical it didn't work. Which means essentially that as a film it didn't work. Now I'm left to wonder whether the musical was always bad, or whether Burton's adaptation of it is rubbish.

For me, if I don't come away humming a single song, or even remembering them, it's a failure. And if Sharon, who is a song-stuck-in-the-head magnet, isn't caught by any of them, then that's badness times two!

I just watched Deep Roy's songs from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to get the taste out of my mouth.