Fairly Symmetrical

So this entry probably won't make any sense to anyone who actually reads my blog, but anyway.

Okay, I just checked and apparently I didn't actually blog about Jen and my epic quest to acquire (rental or purchase) the original X-Men, which Jenny had never seen, after we saw X-Men 3. (I swear, I remember posting about this..) Anyway, during one of our stops on this quest, we ended up at one of the local video rental stores. They didn't have X-Men, but they did have a "5 movies for $20" special going, so Jen and I picked up several movies. As the 5th movie, I plucked S1m0ne, which interested me for a variety of reasons.

Fast forward to tonight, when I'm at home by myself on a Friday and bored, and I popped the movie in to watch it. (I'm only about 15 minutes in, but it actually seems promising thus far.) What moved me to post is that, in that first 15 minutes, there's a piece of music that plays which I recognized immediately--the "Adagio for Strings", by Samuel Barber. The reason I recognized this piece is that it is also a part of the soundtrack for the computer game Homeworld, which is one of my all-time favorite games, and a groundbreaking game in terms of both technology (one of the first true 3-D RTS games) and story (one of the few games which actually successfully evokes strong emotions in the player, at least of everyone I know who's played it).

Not that there's any larger significance to it, but I thought all my adoring (and demanding ;)) fans might be interested.

So there, Fiona, that's two updates for me. Your turn! :-P