Sleepy Hollow

In the Halloween spirit, my book club has decided to read the Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Fortunately, it's super short so I'm done early. In fact, I just found it online and read it in about an hour.

I'm surprised I've never actually read it before. There's some lingo from ancient times that wasn't too clear but I got the gist of it. It's a pretty cool little story. Because of my little vocab speed-bumps I wanted to watch a video of it (kind of to make sure I read it right). I remembered Disney did an animated version of it, and once I found it online, I realized I don't think I've seen that whole thing either. Where have I been? It was adorable. I love how Bing Crosby narrates it, and all those little Disney songs really brought me back to the good ol' early days of Disney cartoons (you know, because I watched them back in '58). Also, the cartoon was the exact same story that I read.

Can't say the same for Sleepy Hollow the movie, starring Johnny Depp. It's haaardly the same story at all. Again, where have I been and why haven't I seen this movie until now? Well, I'm literally watching it as I type this. This movie is gruesome. This movie is dark. This movie is pretty awesome. Can't wait for the ending, but things are slowing down due to my internet connection and the Chinese (?) site it's playing from. Yep, third time I found the Legend for free online.

This has been my life the last two evenings, so I figured I'd share. Better get back to the film!