Not just Good Friday, Really Good Friday
As a non-Christian, I always view Good Friday as something of a challenge. Leaves me thinking, "Oh yeah? I'll show you a Good Friday."
Since I had today off, I decided to do it up right.
I slept in, as much as I'm able now that I'm heading toward 40. (That's not fair how you stop being able to sleep in as you get older. Not ruttin' fair.) I had an apple and two cups of coffee for breakfast. Delish.
I went to lunch with my very best friend, Spucko, at our favorite lunch spot, where I drank three cups of coffee.
I splurged on enough gas to drive to Kansas City, where I went to my favorite Kansas movie theater, the Glenwood Arts, which on a Friday afternoon was full of single middle-aged women and elderly couples. I saw a matinee of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and then because I was there and the gas was already burned, I followed it up with a showing of In Bruges. In between movies, I had a big, delicious, frothy latte and chatted with Troy, the adorable little assistant manager of the Glenwood Arts. We talked about movies in general and my Spoilt t-shirt in particular. (It illustrates the spoilers for about a dozen movies and it's still on sale--only $9, my people.)
Since In Bruges was the last showing of the night, I asked the assistant manager if he liked sushi and he said, "I don't know. Maybe." Now, I wear a wedding ring and Troy looked like he was a good 15 years younger than me, so there wasn't any misunderstanding. We went to my favorite sushi place in KC--sometimes life is so beautiful--which is just about a mile from the Glenwood Arts. Delicious delicious sushi. Don't think Troy enjoyed the fishing bait so much, but at least he had fun listening to me speed-rap about movies for an hour.
Because I don't drink six cups of coffee day. Hell, I don't usually drink one cup of coffee a day. I am still flying, like I snorted a couple lines of coke.
As for the movies--I recommend them both, maybe even one right after the other. Since Frances McDormand is my absolute favorite actress, I'd see her anything, but Miss Pettigrew was delightful and surprisingly substantial for what it appears to be in the trailer. In Bruges is an oddity. It's doing so many different things--comedy, tragedy, romance, action--and it's doing them really well in interesting ways. Also, a reminder of what an amazing actor Ralph Fiennes is. A lot of actors, even good ones, you can see how they work, how they get into a character. Colin Farrell, for instance, is in the movie and he's a decent actor, but you can see through what he's doing. Fiennes plays what could be a one-dimensional character, but inhabits it so completely that you can't even tell how he does it. Good stuff.
Okay, time to go find some downers. Or go wash and wax the truck at midnight.
Comments
Love the shirt!
I am planning on "worshipping" on Easter morning by doing the same thing. I am going to have tea. Make some goodies for the Easter dinner that I am making around noon for our family dinner at my house. Relax and be grateful to God that I am NOT in church.
As for that teeshirt....I just may have to acquire myself one of those.....it's very very cool! :D
Geeeeez, I love how you're married and get to date younger men.
and for downers, I hope you stopped by my blob, hahah.
Happy Easter.
I get: Young, nubile, flexible, and open-minded.
She gets: Pimply, hormonally-smelling, pre-ejaculating dutch-treater.
So yeah, it's off the table.
you don't really think very highly of your wife's capabilities of pulling in a hot young stud, do you?
*runs*
I also studied your shirt, and I recognize most of the references. Except for: who is Dil? Who are the Villagers? And what was Earth all along?
"The Villagers sacrifice the police man" refers to The Wicker Man (although god save us from that wretched Nic Cage remake.)
"It was earth all along" and the Statue of Liberty are from the scene in Planet of the Apes where you realize the planet of the apes is earth.
You know what? My half is zero. 'Cause I ain't Dutch. (And Troy, despite my protests, paid for sushi. Of course, he gets the pay off of leaving work with an older woman who is a complete stranger and going back to work the next day, able to tell his fellow pimply co-workers anything he likes about what happened. Probably worth the $20 in raw fish I ate.)
"The Protagonists are The Others"?
Like the movie The Others with Nicole Kidman? that's a little vague I think, although I suppose that's the easiest way to sum it up. I had that movie figured out in about five minutes except I kept doubting myself because it was just too easy and I'm not that smart.
By the time I saw the Village (only a year or 2 ago) I'd already heard the spoiler. w/the 6th Sense I don't think I knew there was a twist and/or I just didn't think too hard at movies but it was one of those things where I knew something was not right and felt like a dunce for not getting it.
Shamalamadingdong isn't going to surprise anyone till he does a movie with NO twists or woo-woo.
www.savagechickens.com/blog/2008/01/twist-ending.html
Love, love, love those crazy chickens.
- spucko
I love the shirt and need to buy one.
True confession time: Whenever I'm at a movie theatre, I have an overwhelming urge to yell out the ending. Seriously. I think its a possible mental defect, but I have to force myself to sit quietly.