I don't know how it is that I've never seen this film before tonight. Totally hilarious, with just the right bit of touching. This will definitely be taking a place in my top 10 movies of all time, which are (in no particular order):
Harold and Maude
Barbarella
The Ice Storm
Brokeback Mountain
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Lilo and Stitch
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
LOTR Trilogy Director's Cut (I totally get a 3-fer here...)
Scent of Green Papaya
Like Water for Chocolate
Recent Flicks I've really enjoyed:
Children of Men
Little Children
Pan's Labyrinth
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
My Perfect Day
My perfect day starts bright and early on a late spring morning. Bunny and I wake up at the same time and when Lola feels us shifting around she starts snorting up from the foot of the bed. Manny climbs up for a big love fest before we start the day. After 15 minutes or so we make a break for it and I head straight for the garden. Bunny brings me tea and joins me there. He does the weeding and I do some pruning and planting. On our perfect day we spend an hour or two in the garden before we do anything else.
By 8 or 8:30 we're starving, so we jump on our bikes and ride down to the Hartford Coffee Company for bagels and lox - and another cup of tea for me, of course. After breakfast we relax on the patio for a little while. Bunny's reading and I'm knitting the softest, lovliest thing I can think of. We get restless pretty quickly - we don't want to waste one second of our perfect day, after all, so we ride over to the farmers' market in Tower Grove park. There we get tons of local, organic produce to get us through the week - just until our own little garden is in fuller swing. We also pick up some yummy things for the grill later.
On the way home from the market, we notice a couple fantastic estate sales in the neighborhood, so we drop off the groceries and grab the truck - never know what we'll find on our perfect day! Turns out we find 2 gorgeous, antique, hand-knotted, Afghan or Turkish rugs - just like we've been looking for, and they're dirt cheap! We rush home to roll them out in the living room and library and then just lay on them and relax for a while.
On our perfect day we visit Star Clipper Comics and get something we haven't seen by Joe Sacco and another R. Crumb sketchbook for Bunny - and some toys, of course! After we go to Star Clipper we're starving again, so we go to our most absolute favoritist falafel shack, Al Tarboush market. After falafel we high-tail it out of the loop, cameras in hand, and head for the most blown-out abandoned stretches of Old North we can find. When we've shot 'til our hearts are content, we head home to spend some time with the pups, perhaps we'll have a walk.
Late in the afternoon of our perfect day, we head for my parents' house. It's a hot spring day and the water in the pool has just gotten to the perfect temperature. We hang out with my family in the pool, splashing around with Finn and having a good time. When we all start to get hungry Bunny will go get the grill started and we'll make a fabulous dinner for everyone. On our perfect day everyone's in a great mood and making jokes. After dinner we might play some poker with my family.
On the way home from my folks' house, some of our friends call and insist that we join them at Mangia for a drink. On our perfect day, our regular table at Mangia is filled with all our friends drinking and being silly and having a good time. We stop in for a drink or two, then steal away home to spend the last, precious moments of our perfect day right where it started.
By 8 or 8:30 we're starving, so we jump on our bikes and ride down to the Hartford Coffee Company for bagels and lox - and another cup of tea for me, of course. After breakfast we relax on the patio for a little while. Bunny's reading and I'm knitting the softest, lovliest thing I can think of. We get restless pretty quickly - we don't want to waste one second of our perfect day, after all, so we ride over to the farmers' market in Tower Grove park. There we get tons of local, organic produce to get us through the week - just until our own little garden is in fuller swing. We also pick up some yummy things for the grill later.
On the way home from the market, we notice a couple fantastic estate sales in the neighborhood, so we drop off the groceries and grab the truck - never know what we'll find on our perfect day! Turns out we find 2 gorgeous, antique, hand-knotted, Afghan or Turkish rugs - just like we've been looking for, and they're dirt cheap! We rush home to roll them out in the living room and library and then just lay on them and relax for a while.
On our perfect day we visit Star Clipper Comics and get something we haven't seen by Joe Sacco and another R. Crumb sketchbook for Bunny - and some toys, of course! After we go to Star Clipper we're starving again, so we go to our most absolute favoritist falafel shack, Al Tarboush market. After falafel we high-tail it out of the loop, cameras in hand, and head for the most blown-out abandoned stretches of Old North we can find. When we've shot 'til our hearts are content, we head home to spend some time with the pups, perhaps we'll have a walk.
Late in the afternoon of our perfect day, we head for my parents' house. It's a hot spring day and the water in the pool has just gotten to the perfect temperature. We hang out with my family in the pool, splashing around with Finn and having a good time. When we all start to get hungry Bunny will go get the grill started and we'll make a fabulous dinner for everyone. On our perfect day everyone's in a great mood and making jokes. After dinner we might play some poker with my family.
On the way home from my folks' house, some of our friends call and insist that we join them at Mangia for a drink. On our perfect day, our regular table at Mangia is filled with all our friends drinking and being silly and having a good time. We stop in for a drink or two, then steal away home to spend the last, precious moments of our perfect day right where it started.
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