Was meant to be more of an even mind/body, indoor/outdoor split to the weekend. And we did get out to the Raleigh farmer's market yesterday. Bought some plants, but only had time to get one planted and do the smallest amount of weeding in the afternoon before the rain started. Then it got cold and windy and that's pretty much continued thru today. So I spent the morning reading the Sunday Times online, drinking coffee and reviewing another Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan CD for the station. This afternoon it was the usual thrill-packed excitement that is the semi-annual XDU all DJ meeting. Then off to Southpointy with Sarah and Lisa to watch Sin City. Yowza. Not, I would have to agree, a movie for everyone. Hyper-hyper-violent but, esp. given the censorious and blue-nosed nature of the times, I really admire Rodriguez for his willingness to just go all the way with Miller's stories. I've never read any of the Sin City graphic novels, but they seemed instantly familiar to me from what I do know of Miller's work (mostly Dark Knight and Ronin) only more extreme and brutalist. Critics seem to be split, altho I'm still not quite sure what the NYTimes didn't like about the movie. Reading between the lines, my guess is that they found it either too graphic or too CGI and thus never engaged with the story, but what they ended up saying was that the movie was boring. Many things I think you could say about Sin City (I frequently found myself thinking "oh, I can't believe I just saw that" after something truly grotesque happened) but boring wouldn't be one of them.