Late last week I decided to jump on the bandwagon and joined twitter. I'm not 100% sure if I like it, but it's kinda cool. I figure since I'm a popculture whore, I'd thoroughly enjoy it; that remains to be seen. It kind of creeps me out that people can start following you and you don't even know who they are, so I decided to change my settings so that I approve who follows me. Take that anonymous stalkers. Miss Alison Hay sent me this amazing twitter video, which everyone should watch. tweet! tweet!
The past 2 weeks have been restaurant week in Boston where, in essence, you go to fancy restaurants, and have a great, 3 course meal for half the price. Thursday I pulled double duty, went to L'Espalier for lunch (in the Mandarin Hotel) with some folks from work and Todd English's Kingfish Hall for a bromantic dinner with Nick, Val and Kramer. Friday night, the family came in and we had dinner at Davio's, which was amazing. I've always wanted to go there but the menu is fairly pricey. The food was excellent, and I don't remember what I had for wine, but it too, was excellent. After dinner, mom and Jess went and saw Dirty Dancing (BLECH) and dad and I went and saw Duplicity. Well, we were supposed to see Duplicity, but we also ended up seeing the first reel of Sunshine Cleaning. The projectionist started the wrong movie, and I'm pretty sure someone got fired.
Anyways, I was looking forward to seeing the film, it as written and directed by Tony Gi
lroy, the man behind Michael Clayton, and it had the uber-attractive leads of Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Basic premise? An incredibly sexy version of Spy vs. Spy, with Ray and Claire working for dueling pharmaceutical companies trying to get their hands on the next revolution in personal cosmetic projects. The script consisted of razor sharp banter (albeit a little predictable), and delivery relied heavily on it's two stars; it would fallen pretty flat if there were other leads. It had a very slick look to it, and in addition to the super high wattage of Roberts and Owen, the supporting players were quite good, among them Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson. The last 20 minutes seemed a little labored, but overall it was a great, fluff of a film and a good way to spend 2 hours. GRADE: BMy uncle Eddie passed away last Thursday, so we ended up going to Baltimore for the weekend. More on that in a second....I'm watching Around the Horn and a geico commercial was just on, and I have to smile every time I see the dollar bill with the google eyes, haha...Sunday we left for Baltimore for Uncle Eddie's wake and funeral. Sunday night we went out to dinner with Aunt Marybeth and Uncle Bill and had great crab cakes (my favorite part of going to Maryland). The only bad part about going to MD was it threw off my training plans for the half-marathon, but I was determined to try and stay on track. Sunday night I checked out the gym at the hotel, but wasn't successful. The equipment was terrible, and I lasted about 2 miles on the treadmill. When I got back to the room, I found out that there was a Planet Fitness about a mile away, so I decided that I would venture there the next morning. And I did. I got up at about 7:30 and paid a visit to Planet Fitness in Lutherville and ran 5 miles on the treadmill. The PF was awesome, a little better than the one in Somerville even! Later, I needed a haircut, so I ventured over to the Towson Town Center and tried to find a SuperCuts or something, but all I could find was Salon Cielo and $35 later I had a haircut...it doesn't really look any different than my normal $12 haircut, but I digress...the funeral was on Tuesday morning and my dad and I were pallbearers, and it was a sobering experience....we had a small gathering at my aunt's house after, and then we hit the road back to MA and I was back in Somerville by 9:30 on Tuesday night. Having those two days off has kind of thrown my week off, I keep forgetting that tomorrow is Friday.
In other news, West Side Story opened to reviews that were all over the place, some pure elation others absolutely dreadful. God of Carnage opened to unanimously positive reviews - hooray for going to see it in May. The Where the Wild Things Are trailer has been released, I ran 2 miles in the rain today, heading to New York City this weekend with the family with tickets to Hair and Next to Normal and I'm going to Morton's for dinner tomorrow night....could this week get any better?!
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