Easter Weekend: Mexican & Food
4/17/1

I�m just not in the writing mood.

I did write a rather long entry about what I did over the weekend, but it just didn�t seem interesting to me. Not that my weekend wasn�t interesting. It was full of eating out, yard work, buying plants, and playing Top Gear Dare Devil. I also taught the first three chapters of Ecclesiastes in the college age singles class and we had chili at Aisai's mom�s house for Easter.

We also saw the mediocre chick-noir flick The Mexican. The best thing you can say about the movie is that the cinematographer seemed to have a lot of fun and was talented. But the script shows that it was obviously better in a previous revision. Some things don�t fit with the feel that the rest of the movie has. It�s almost two movies: The Mexican movie with Brad Pitt doing a few gestures from 12 Monkeys in a modern mob noir and The Julia Roberts move with self help book jokes, VW Beetle �chase� scenes, and ham fisted pro-gay propaganda.

Why the word chase in quotes? Because sure the Beetle drives very quickly and the footage gets your blood pumping, but they aren�t running from anyone or anything. In fact, the speeding VW footage is on the same interstate that they stop on after a few minutes to talk/barf under an overpass. If anyone was chasing them, they�d catch up. Well, unless they exited.

It was a movie where Julia Roberts brand Star Power ruined another film. Not that she is a bad actress, it�s just that she has the star power to have changes made to films if she�ll sign on. The Beetle�s presence wasn�t a glitch in the noir, nor was the self-help books. But the way that Julia played her character, and the above mentioned awkward lifestyle statement.

The person who wrote the plot and some of the good parts didn�t write the perverted gay mailman who gets off on delivering porn magazines. I joke not. It�s in there.

So, where all did we eat out?

Thursday night Aisai had a Business After Hours so she got home late. We ate at Applebee�s and the waiter primed us for his lousy service by telling us he was a lousy waiter. He did. And he was. They were short on personnel so he, a cook, was sent to wait tables. He still got a $4 tip since I pitied him.

Friday afternoon before the movie we ate at Fazoli�s. Saturday at lunch we ate at Cici�s.

I kept my food intake in check and didn�t gain any weight over the weekend. Good me. Pat pat.

I�ve got the game Top Gear Dare Devil overdue a day from Movie Gallery. I completed it yesterday, but I didn�t get all the little coins and wrenches and keys, so I don�t feel that I�ve really completed it. However, today I�ll return it anyway.

I can�t wait until Gran Turismo 3 comes out.

I just sneezed so hard I almost fell out of my chair.