I just got home from seeing Sweeney Todd. While not as good as seeing the musical live (when the MIT Theater Guild ran the movie it had a overly architected wall of blood). This version was a bit gorier than most musical renditions, and a bit darker. The humor wasn't removed, but it just wasn't quite as prevalent as in the other rendition I have seen.
I need to remember to buy the CD at some point (of the Broadway musical). I can add it to the other Sondheim I have on my iPod.
Of course, Sweeney isn't the only thing that has been keeping me away from the knitting. We received our laptop from the Give One Get One project. I love the little machine, despite the learning curve. It runs Linux, and I am exploring the programs that come with the little alien machine (it is bright green and has 'ears' when you unlock the monitor) as well as figuring out how I can get into the background a bit to practice programming in Java. I know it has something called "Pippy" which is an area (vocabulary is failing me) for writing programs in Python. Of course, like any machine the first things I tried to do included accessing the internet and finding a game. This mostly means playing Sim City and realizing that there are some connection issues I need to figure out. But hey, it has Logo! Turtle Art, which is more fun than it probably should be. Maybe I'm just simple.
