Movies

For Father’s day, Dave and I left Henry at home to go have dinner and watch Iron Man. It was a nice time, and an awesome movie!!

Thank goodness Henry came early! It meant that Cristin and I got to keep our Labyrinth date at the Colony. Hoooray for popcorn and beer!!!

Cristin was super excited and blogged about her preparations here and here.

We had a terrific time, forgoing our usual dinner at The Bull and Bear for more face time with Henry.

Look how freaking cute we three are.

Cristin has lovingly documented our experience here. Read her post - it’s good stuff.

Here are a few of my fave scenes from the movie:

Yay for Cool Classics movie night at the Colony! And yay for Cristin who is my constant movie companion!

We saw Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

And we very much enjoyed our dinner at the Bull and Bear.

Oh, and then there was the stop at Dunkin’ Donuts. Here are my favorite pics of Cristin getting her sugar fix!

We read in the N&O about how the re-re-cut of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner was being played in original 35-mm format for only a few days, starting on Friday. So we made time this weekend to see it at The Carolina Theatre.

I LOVE Rutger Hauer. And Harrison Ford.
And I love my new camera, because I took these pictures with it.

It was awesome, I’m so glad we went. The movie has always left a lasting impression on me, with its dirtyness and dampness. One of the first times in movies that we don’t see a bright and gleaming future. Perhaps this is what inspired my unquenchable thirst for good dystopian fiction.
I think the movie’s use of the Chinese people as the mainstay population was one of the first times you saw that concept portrayed on the big screen for sci-fi movies, though you’ll read about themes like that in older dystopian novels and of course in current sci-fi like Firefly.

We pranked the Colony!

If you’ve been keeping up, you might know that The Colony is showing LABYRINTH as part of their Cool Classics series. Unfortunately, they picked March 19th, four days after my due date.

So Cristin and I have been lobbying for them to move the date. Sadly, they haven’t budged. On Wednesday, we went to see The Great Muppet Caper and we decided to practice a litle civil disobedience. We took these clever little signs that Cristin made and hung them in the bathroom. Cuz we’re crazy like that!

For more on our little caper, check out Cristin’s much-more detailed post.

Ah, Hal Hartley. I loves me some Hal Hartley. (Thanks to Matt Berube for my obsession!)

This morning I treated Dave to two Hartley short films

• Ambition
• Theory of Achievement

Some of my favorite quotes:

• “‘We’ll get jobs and be happy!’
  ‘No, we’ll get jobs and pay the rent. We’ll get credit cards and be happy.’”
• “I’m only a waitress on the outside.”
• “Young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk.”

CRISTIN IS THE. COOLEST. EVER. EVER. EVER. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave and I decided at the last minute on Friday to go see The Golden Compass. What a good movie - fun, entertaining, creative, scary, sweet, etc. And pretty violent, so think twice before taking the kiddies to see it. There seems to be a lot of controversy surrounding this movie. Being pretty open to new ideas and not being particularly religious, I don’t get it. So I have no opinion to add. Instead I’ll share with you Thomas’s thoughts on the matter - he seems pretty sensible.

Afterwards, we hit the Lynnwood Grill for beers. Can you believe there was a wait? But we didn’t have to wait because Mom and Gene were already there, so we sat down with them! They stayed until they finished their beers, then headed home.

I love hanging out with Kerri and Dave! They’re both such funny people, and they seem to fuel each other’s funny. I don’t ever laugh as hard as when I’m out with these two.

Before we left, the live music started. Here’s my favorite composition of the night.

Cristin came over for dinner on Monday night for a Bowie movie-fest, sort of. I was thinking we’d watch the DVD commentary on Labyrinth, but instead we watched several of the “making of” docs.

And then I ran around for like an hour copying some CDs for her while she played on the computer and entertained the cats. And then we watched the first 30 minutes of The Hunger, which is not really very good, not to mention we watched the ancient VHS copy-of-a-copy I own that is very bad quality. But we got to see cute, young David Bowie in the shower scene, so woo-hoo for us! We were up too late but it was fun indeed!!

I made us dinner, sauteed chicken with a lemon-rosemary sauce served with rice and scalded green beans. Yummers!

And Cristin brought over some awesome and chocolatey ice cream cupcakes from Maggie Moo’s. I ate two because I am unstoppable.

And the cats seemed content to amuse us with their funny sleeping positions.

Currently watching

with Miss Cristin.