The Week in Entertainment

Film: Mamoru Oshii's Avalon... Okay, this one is definitely odd. Oshii's style, themes, shot in Poland with a Polish cast ... blurring the line between reality and virtuality - RL and online worlds... Slow and beautiful, but confusing - I have a feeling I'll have to watch this one again, possibly several times again, before I really understand it, but I think it's worth the effort.

Live: La Bohème in Baltimore. Jeffrey Kneebone is rapidly becoming one of my favorite baritones. I must say, though, I can't remember when I've felt the orchestra to be so intrusive as I did during the first act last night!

TV: Dr Who and House, of course, and thanks to local UPN station I caught Veronica Mars tonight (I still can't believe the network moved it opposite House. What, don't they think anybody watches both?).

DVD: I started watching Planetes (thanks to The Tensor for the tip), a sci-fi anime series (or is that an anime sci-fi series? ... I keep telling people at work, 'anime is a medium, not a genre'). It's pretty darned good so far, though I've only seen a couple of episodes so far.

Read: finished Azazel. Read The Turkish Gambit, House of Wax (Kendaichi Case Files #13), and Jonathan Kellerman's latest, Gone. Also - finally got my copy of Colin Mark's revised second edition of Gaelic Verbs! Also, a nice facsimile of Taras Shevchenko's Mar'yana-Chernytsya (Mariana the Nun)