Landscape of Virginia

I just finished watching the film "Before the Devil Knows Your Dead" with Phillip S. Hoffman as the protagonist, wow what a performance, he's always putting on such a powerful performance when he plays a part. No matter what it is you can almost always count on him being complex and not ambiguous at all in his role. This character he plays is no different, besides that the movie unravels in a rather nouveau manner. Beginning with the center of the problem being presented at the start of the action then working the story both back in time and forward in time from that event and moving back and forth to "fill in the blanks" more or less. I really liked that manner of storytelling, it lent to me keeping up on just where the film was in the story, moreso than if it just had a set start and ending and it was told chronologically. I would suggest seeing it for yourself.

We rode up the Shenandoah valley hugging the eastern side northward from Afton and Waynesboro, when we came upon an old railroad stopover town that was pretty much deserted. The town is just south of Luray and it's called "Shenandoah". The town was a layover town on the railroad line that went up and down the valley and the engineers and many workers of the trains would stop in here for there nighttime rest spot. Since the trains no longer spend time on an overnight layover here the small town has died out. It's deserted and lay barren but some trains do hang out on the tracks which still run between it's "First St." and the river nearby. It's got a nice feel to it, it's got a wide not so long lay of the land, and it's gott'n a grant that improved the streets and facades of it's remaining buildings. It just doesn't have any people save a few holdouts. We ran into one man who had simply bought