Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

This just in: Akira Kurosawa's RAN is an amazing damn film.

I've already requested The Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress from the library. (You just have to love big, metropolitan library systems where each branch is part of one, giant shared collection, and where you can thus request materials from anywhere in the library system, have them delivered to your local branch, and then take 'em home.