St. Lawrence Market Sundays III and more

So I went to the St. Lawrence Antiques Market again today. It was a nice day, so they had it outside the building (assuming that the Toronto Book Fair took up the interior space).

Got a lot of stuff. Pink Floyd's The Wall. Siouxie and The Banshees' Once Upon A Time (which I'm listening to as I type this). The very first Psychedelic Furs album. Some more Johnny Cash. Bruce Springsteen's first album. The Who's Tommy. And I also picked up Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, but, disappointingly, I'm going to have to pitch that one. The first record has a warp in it, that I missed upon my inspection of it.

Other news: I went to the Jays game at the Rogers Center yesterday. Had a good time. The game went into extra innings so I got an extra bang for my $11. And we won. Again. How about those Jays this year?

On Friday, I went out and saw the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. I was quite disappointed by it; it's maybe on par with last year's The Incredible Hulk reboot. Some of the CGI looked half-finished, particularly on Wolverine's claws in one scene in a bathroom. It just looked cartoony. Hugh Jackman does a good job, but he doesn't have much of a script to work with. I knew we might be in trouble when the first credit announced that it was taking place in Canada in 1845. Um, Canada didn't exist as a country until 1867. Obviously dumbing it down for the American audience. Either that, or someone in the script writing department didn't do their homework. And we're meant to believe that Wolverine has been around for some 160 years, but still manages to look like a buff 40-year-old guy. I know all about suspension of disbelief, but that was a little too much. And the ending is rather anti-climatic, with two extra post-credits scenes just tacked on to tie up loose ends and point in the direction of another sequel. I was not impressed. Oh well. Maybe next week's Star Trek movie will fare better.