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HELLO GOOD MORNING
week in review time!
so, monday i think it was, new year's eve, i left for marlborough, MA at about 2pm. listened to my music, and got to linens-n-things at about 6:20 to pick up brenda, we puttsed around her house for a bit and then left to pick up her friend Nicole and then we headed off to Boston. We didn't run into all the traffic we imagined, so to kill some time, and also to fill the gaping hole in my stomach, i grabbed a couple slices at Presto's and then off to 1653. The party wasn't bad, granted, i knew no one outside of the host, todd, and my two lovely dates. Beer was had, a ball was dropped, 30 people or so gathered on the roof for cigarettes and celebration. we saw fireworks and it was nothing like the Plan's "ice of boston," unfortunately. We then sought other arrangements for sleeping, as sharing the floor with 20 some odd people and a lot of spilt beer was very unappealing. A word of advice to all you kids at home: if you're planning on spending an evening in a student office in an academic building on the boston college campus, for the love of god, make sure the door is completely shut when you go to sleep.
The next day, i slept in, then we went to the mall where we ate at a really bad friday's and i bought star wars legos. we then drove around seeing the sights of the hudson/marlborough area, including brenda's high school which reminded me of the one-room schoolhouses of yore. Then it was back to the mall to see Beautiful Mind. I was a little critical at the time, because Ron Howard got all Opie at the end, but the movie was really quite good. For the first 2 acts i was as intrigued as I ever am at a film, russel crowe was great, which makes me angry at gladiator once again. I will never make up with that movie.
Coffee and Conan wrapped up the evening. Next day it was an early rise, and i was taken around Groton, and then various other little notables until Concord Mass. And then a blockbuster night. Dark Crystal was weird and bad and scary and turned off early, say anything was sat through but deemed awful, but luckily i found a winner with you can count on me, but seriously, can anyone watch that movie and not love it?
i learned how to play spit and held my own, and we enjoyed some stolen goods from the party on monday evening.
Next morning, another early rise, a very early rise considering i feel asleep at 5, i dropped brenda off at the LnT, and then headed down to glastonbury, CT to pick up Jude. His directions were terrible. He had me looking for a yellow house number 860. After a few phone calls to Mrs. Paulding, i found my destination, a pink #112 or something. Jude said his goodbyes and we hit the road. Grabbed gas and burger king in new york and made it home to Long Valley at around 3:30.
At which point, we began playing NCAA 2002. We stopped at about 2:30 in the morning.
I woke up at 6 the next day, and we were on the road to morristown listening to howard stern unfunnily bash the french at 7am. Hopped a train and got into Penn Station. We stopped at a dunkin donuts, which was run with nazi-like efficiency, and then grabbed a cab to our first movie theater.
The theatre was, i think, where we saw magnolia, Jude says we saw insider there, and we both agree that we tried to get tickets for O Brother Where art Thou. The movie was Charlotte Gray. Starring Cate Blanchette. Charlotte is a weak-willed scottish woman who goes to france to work for la resistance for the english against the nazis in WWII so she can find her RAF boyfriend. She meets Jesus' Son, Billy Crudup and becomes a french communist and does some stuff. It was a solid movie, one i enjoyed, but nothing spectacular and i'm glad we started with it.
And off to the Paris Theatre for the 11:45 Amelie. Here's a movie that seems to exist just to make you experience joy. I dunno, i loved it. Can't wait to see it again.
Back to theatre #1 for Gosford Park. Loved this as well, murder mystery in the british countryside with a cast of 20-30 fully developed characters. Just a joy, can't wait to see this again. But, whereas i want to see amelie just for the experience of seeing the movie again, gosford park i will probably get a lot more out of now that i have the huge web of characters kind of under my belt.
Cabbed it to umm, the theatre we saw state and main in that sells the toblerone and, as we discovered, is across the street from the world's most expensive houlihans, for In the Bedroom. I feel asleep for maybe 10 minutes in the middle because i was damn tired. the movie was rough. it was so incredibly sad, just left me feeling empty at the end. I was a little critical of this, i mean, it seemed like the movie has no point besides to make the viewer completely drained. even requiem left the window of hope for one or two characters open just a tiny tiny tiny tiny bit. but not here. I've had a day to sit on the movie, and i appreciate it more now that i'm a little removed. Spacek and Wilkinson i think his name is did wonderful jobs, but still, while i'm glad I saw the movie, i'm not sure i'm going to run around reccomending it.
took another cab, this time across town to some shitty furnace of a theatre to close the day with the coen's The Man Who Wasn't There. Black and white, very slow to develop, probably not the best movie to close with due to its incredibly deliberate pacing, but i really enjoyed it. Billy Bob Thorton was just kind of haunting with is completely detached presence, it was really neat.
then back to Penn Station, i got nathan's and a beer, and we took the train home. Got home around 12:30 and played another 3 hours of football.
Woke up the next day and played another few hours before Jude left. Then i played FFX. And then today i slept late and did work for my dad. i wanted to go see the royal tennenbaums today, but i don't think i'll be done with dinner early enough to make our theatres late show of 7:10.