May The Stars Light Your Way
Today, we attended the lovely wedding of our friends Dan & Margarita. They had a beautiful wedding, despite the attempts of mother nature to dampen the mood, and the reception was very nice as well. Congrats to Dan & Margarita!
Tonight, in true foodie tradition, Wendy & I dined on movie theater popcorn at the movie theater, and decided to call that "dinner". Why?
We went to see THE MATRIX RELOADED, and God help us, it's 2 hours and 18 minutes of our lives we will never get back. It's sad to see the producers of a fun, heavy action flick decide they want to go all cerebral on us and foist the load of crap that is THE MATRIX RELOADED on their public.
Sure, the action sequences were great. Sure, there were several that were WAY too overblown. The 14-minute car chase was cool. For 3 minutes.
Story? Sure, but nothing that makes sense. I mean, if you're in the MATRIX (a computer constructed 'misdirection' of humanity), why do you need to fight with knives, sticks, and pikes? Why not just smack each other with buildings? Why fight at all?
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Tonight, I helped Ted of Falcon Theater move a giant set-piece into the theater. The piece is for their upcoming production of THE BIBLE ABRIDGED, and weighs about 400 pounds. It took seven of us to s-l-o-w-l-y move it into the performance space. I was…
Tonight, Wendy had an after-work appointment and I had a bunch of chores to do around the house (still fighting with one of our front gutters), so it was a really basic dinner of Stouffer’s French Bread Pizzas. They’re quick, easy, tasty, and crunchy. That’s…
