Lucky Number Slevin

I was in Blockbuster last night, looking (predictably) for a movie to watch, when I came across Night at the Museum. This is a movie in which I've never had much interest. I'm not offended by Ben Stiller's existence - I loves me some Zoolander and all that good shit - but I'm never particularly compelled to see a movie strictly because he's in it. Night at the Museum looked dumb when it came out, and it still looks dumb, sitting on the shelf in the middle of the store. But Damala loves it. He quotes from NATM almost as often as he does, say, The Muse or that cinematic classic A Knight's Tale. He's so consistently entertained (and occasionally entertaining) by that movie, that when I saw it last night, I picked it up and considered it for a moment before retiring it to the shelf and banishing it from my mind. I just couldn't do it. But then I came across Lucky Number Slevin, another of his favorites. People have recommended this to me in the past, but I've never been all that interested. Still, the cast is pretty great (except... Josh Hartnett? Really?) and so I rented it. The beginning was good, but still I stopped about a quarter of the way in and put on something else. I wasn't done with it, I just wasn't into it. I finished it this morning, and so I am now in a position to say that Lucky Number Slevin is an outstanding movie. Truly. It could be that most of you already know this - and I hope so, because that would mean that you've seen it, and you should. I loved it. It was better than Cats. Even with Josh Hartnett.

I'm watching it again tonight. Why not?

And, as if it weren't enough to be an awesome movie, the closing credits roll to a song called "The Kansas City Shuffle" by J. Ralph, which is also pretty great (a disco-y version of a twenties folk-y piece by someone whose name escapes me). And when I plugged it into Pandora I got an endless stream of also very excellent songs. (Strangely, none that were particularly reminiscent of that first though.)

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, watch the movie if you haven't seen it; listen to the song if you haven't heard it; and thanks to Mae-Mae for the tip.

I'll be in NC for a few more days, then I'm moving south.

That's all for now.