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Music and Lyrics and stuff
Mar. 7th, 2007 02:15 amCarl and I went to see the movie "Music and Lyrics" tonight. It was awesome! Seriously, they did a great job creating Hugh Grant's character as a has-been 80's singer (complete with cheesy 80's hits he has to sing at reunions and amusement parks -- I really want to find the soundtrack), and the "Cora" pop diva was also fairly dead-on -- and in the end, she even proved to be beneficial to the plot rather than the other way around. I think that's the thing about this, that even though all of the main characters are so utterly unbelievable in the abstract, they were done well enough that they WERE believable. Also, the dialogue in the movie is really witty. Hugh Grant always delivers his brit-deadpan so well, and Drew Barrymore is, well, Drew Barrymore.
We ended up seeing the movie right after work rather than getting dinner first, so we found ourselves wandering around Ballard at 9:30 looking for food, and almost everything closes at 9:30 (and the Matador had been closed for the evening for some event). So we ended up at the People's Pub, which was only serving their late-night menu by then, but it's still got some reasonable food, and I even got a Strongbow cider and Carl got some weird dark german beer, which is uncharacteristic since neither of us really drink.
I got home, was watching this week's episode of Himitsu no Hanazono (I've given up on waiting for subtitles for it, unlike the other shows I'm watching it doesn't have any complex hospital or business Japanese to understand), and the work pager went off (I am on-call this week). Doh! I ended up having to call Jack, and Jack said that the problem was NOT a pager-worthy issue, and to make things dumber, the guy who had the issue emailed someone else and solved it while I was trying to talk to Jack about it. I'm sort of disappointed in myself for bothering Jack and for not knowing it was a dumb problem. Oh well.
As for HnH, man, it's funny how a show that I had such worries early on about whether it'd have enough plot to last an entire season is now so completely brimming with plot that I'm wondering if they'll have time to resolve it all before the show ends.
We ended up seeing the movie right after work rather than getting dinner first, so we found ourselves wandering around Ballard at 9:30 looking for food, and almost everything closes at 9:30 (and the Matador had been closed for the evening for some event). So we ended up at the People's Pub, which was only serving their late-night menu by then, but it's still got some reasonable food, and I even got a Strongbow cider and Carl got some weird dark german beer, which is uncharacteristic since neither of us really drink.
I got home, was watching this week's episode of Himitsu no Hanazono (I've given up on waiting for subtitles for it, unlike the other shows I'm watching it doesn't have any complex hospital or business Japanese to understand), and the work pager went off (I am on-call this week). Doh! I ended up having to call Jack, and Jack said that the problem was NOT a pager-worthy issue, and to make things dumber, the guy who had the issue emailed someone else and solved it while I was trying to talk to Jack about it. I'm sort of disappointed in myself for bothering Jack and for not knowing it was a dumb problem. Oh well.
As for HnH, man, it's funny how a show that I had such worries early on about whether it'd have enough plot to last an entire season is now so completely brimming with plot that I'm wondering if they'll have time to resolve it all before the show ends.
