Mordant's Need: Mirror of her Dreams

The magic is very nice. Imagers craft mirrors which show scenes from alternate worlds, and with appropriate ritual can have things called through, or put in. Some mirrors are powerful weapons if they can call destructive forces, lava, or vicious magical animals, etc, and others can provide endless fresh water, etc. So with a lot of time and skilled work, you can do an awful lot. But also what mirrors you have can be improvised into use for other things if you've ingenuity.

And I quite like the characters and the world and the politics and the plot.

However, I feel like I ought to empathise with Terisa, who is forcing herself to believe in herself and be effective. But in fact I feel annoyed because I felt as if the entire book were people keeping secrets from each other and whining. I understand not knowing who you can trust, but it seems like if everyone suspected of being a traitor was followed round by a guard for a few weeks it'd all get sorted out.

Tenacious D

The Tenacious D film was cool. I probably should have known anything about them before going, but it worked very well anyway. I had thought it looked promising, despite most of Jack Black's films seeming just annoying, and indeed it worked quite well. He (and Cage) were still a similar sort of character, but had an energy and drive that made me like them, like Bill and Ted

I don't think it's the same classic, but it was reminiscent, and actually had guitar music in :) There were a couple of great funny moments, and film-to-music worked surprisingly well.