OK…so I spent the week in Bordeaux…I thought my flight was last Sunday, but it turned out to be Saturday…
I thought my flight back was Sunday, but it turns out that it’s Saturday…I found this out today on a fluke…Good thing I accidentally checked…
So the week in review…Saturday…leave cold Frankfurt and arrive in semi cold Bordeaux…
Watched Barton Fink…discuss which characters actually existed in the movie…discuss whether writers are really interesting…they think they are, but they just aren’t…some writer also thought this and wrote Barton Fink…there’s got to be some analogy about circular logic at work, but I just can’t come up with it…
The Coen brothers are genius, and I always find that I don’t really like their movies on first viewing, but I always end up watching them a second time and only then do I appreciate them…am I alone with this response…anyone else feel the same?
New Years eve…
go to some Danish restaurant….invent whiskey wine…take advantage of the fact that it’s some guys first night and just decide to serve myself….
good night with a yank, 4 swedes, a brit, a german and an irish…
actually wore a tie for the first time in a while…Had to wear brown shoes though…all I had with me…
Wed…experienced French Cinema for the first time…
I’ve secretly been compiling a pro and con list of “the French” and finally have an item in the pro column…the French love of cinema has caused them to release first run films in English with French subtitles…Thank you France! Unfortunately some of the movies they do this with are absolute crap…I don’t even know the name of the movie I saw, but it had marky mark, Robert Duval and the guy whose last name if of a city in Arizona….yeah the one that didn’t die….and that chick from that other movie that had Denzel washington in it….
if you actually know the name of that movie just pat yourself on the back…No need to actually send me the Title…
OK nevermind…the title is We Own the night…WTF!!!! anyways I had to find this quote from some reivewer via Rotten Tomatoes cuz it sums it up:
It couldn’t have taken seven years to write a screenplay this leaden and uninspired. Surely something like this could be churned out in a weekend.
says it all…if Scorsese had done this it would have been twice as long and 143% as good…but alas it wasn’t…they did have Opera playing in the cinema before the film started. At least that was a plus…
Unfortunately the best pics of the week come from a wicked night of bowling..
Yesterday we went to Saint Emilion…Outside of Bordeaux…It’s your basic wine tourist town…Good for a day though for sure…Played chess in a wine bar/Internet cafe…Kind of strange to find an internet cafe with with an 1800€ bottle of wine though…I should probably be impressed at your wine collection, but I just can’t…
More pics of last week by clicking here…or there or there….
Sometime after this week I will have discovered that my camera has an auto focus…I’m apparently just refusing to use it…
Out of context quotes from the week:
Sanne: You bowl like a unicorn…
Sanne: You’re a hot whitey…
Sanne: You make me wanna pee…
