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December 26, 2007
My Morning Espresso
This Christmas vacation I've been drinking coffee, espresso, and hot chocolate; playing The Avett Brothers with my own brothers; making butterhorns; watching a Michael Jordan highlight DVD, including an entire Celtics-Bulls game from the 1986 playoffs; eating ridiculous amounts of Yorkshire puddings; watching my nephews play with their new iPod shuffles; sitting around the bonfire in the backyard; listening to family give Christmas readings; watching Charlie Brown Christmas; did I mention eating?
I've concluded that I like coffee better than espresso, Yorkshire puddings can't be matched as a Christmas dish, the humor on Charlie Brown is random and quirky, and Michael Jordan is still the greatest living athlete, even though he is retired. Also, women are better at Trivial Pursuit than men.
| By heiders | 10:42 AM
Comments
Have you seen the Golden Compass yet? Sadly that film got knocked down a bit on my list when I realized that there was another Jason Bateman/Michael Cera flick out...plus there's Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street--Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Sasha Baron Conen all singing together and making meat pies?? How I miss it??
Posted by: funke at December 26, 2007 05:09 PM
*could
Posted by: funke at December 26, 2007 05:10 PM
I haven't yet seen the Golden Compass. I saw the Bateman/Cera film - very good. Also saw Charlie Wilson's War yesterday, which I recommend on the basis that Phillip Seymour Hoffman is in it. I badly want to see Sweeney Todd.
Posted by: heiders at December 27, 2007 11:39 AM
Golden Compass = big disappointment,
but Sweeney Todd was good, all singing all dancing all cannibalism. This is how Americans like their Christmas movies, English, Victorian, with lots of poor people. I kept waiting for Ebenezer Scrooge to pop out and bring everyone a goose as big as them.
Posted by: linnea at December 27, 2007 12:32 PM
Hmm...I went to the early bird matinee performance of the Golden Compass so I wouldn't feel badly about spending much money on it. I have to say that drastically toning down endings in favor of some reason I really haven't discovered yet is probably not a good screen-writing move.
Posted by: funke at December 27, 2007 04:58 PM
yeah, I think they have moved the end to the beginning of the next movie . . . possibly, I mean, I don't see how they could get around it.
Posted by: linnea at December 28, 2007 06:27 PM
