Weekend! Friday evening I saw the Kingdom in Falkoner-biografen (or whatever its name is, new cinema at Frederiksberg) with Sven, Per, Erik, and Christian. I had expected a lot, since the Kingdom is produced by Michael Mann, who also produced Miami Vice (both the original series from the 1980's as well as the recent movie), Heat, and Collateral, all of which are fantastic movies with respect to atmosphere, filming (digitally filmed, fantastic night/low light scenes) and sound. The Kingdom is somewhat OK, and if nothing else I left the cinema with the clear understanding that Saudi Arabia is not a place I want to visit in the near future. But it is far from being another Michael Mann masterpiece. Good action flick, though.
Saturday I did laundry and surfed the Internet, and finished Jose Saramago's Seeing, which is the sequel to Blindness. Highly recommened. See my book page for a bit more info, or read this review from the Guardian.
Sunday I slept till 11, had a quick breakfast, and then went to check out the last day of BogForum2007, the large Annual Book Expo in Copenhagen, with the participants of 550 authors, 180 different publishers, and an estimated number of 25-30.000 visitors over the weekend. There was quite a number of interesting things, fx new titles by Jonathan Franzen, Nick Hornby, Ib Michael (the sequel to Blå Bror, I forgot its name), and tons of stuff I would never even consider buying. And except for the fact that I like to hang out with other elite literate book lovers ;-) I actually prefer to go book browsing in book shops instead - the noise/signal ratio at an expo like this is simply too high. On the way home I stopped by Illum at Strøget and did some quick grocery shopping in their very nice Irma - the first time I'm there. It's actually compareable in both size and quality to the one in Amager Centret.