I'm reading Koushun Takami's Battle Royale and find it compelling, despite the concept. In an alternate world, Japan's a dictatorship that forces 50 random junior high school classes to go to a remote location and kill each other until one survivor reigns supreme. It was the basis for a movie that'll never get a US release and, apparently, a manga series as well. One of my cohorts has the movie on VCD and I'm debating seeing it.
I got my cheap record fix the other day - I purchased the latest Paul Van Dyk (shut up, Dan), a disc of Billie Holiday's Verve work selected by Shirley Horn, and two Coltrane records I'd yet to buy for $24. I don't think anyone could beat that with a stick, as dad used to say.
I got my cheap record fix the other day - I purchased the latest Paul Van Dyk (shut up, Dan), a disc of Billie Holiday's Verve work selected by Shirley Horn, and two Coltrane records I'd yet to buy for $24. I don't think anyone could beat that with a stick, as dad used to say.
