This was a pretty relaxing weekend. On Saturday we stayed in most of the day, and in the evening went to Pentagon City for dinner and shopping. I got a pair of pants at Gap, and a shirt at Express.
Yesterday Thom wasn’t feeling well when we awoke around noon, so as the afternoon progressed, we kind of lost the momentum to go downtown for the D.C. Pride festival. Instead we lazed about (I did some reading and napping), and then curled up with a good movie, Sideways. Back when I saw previews for this in the theater, I didn’t think much of it, but after all the critical acclaim, I had to see it for myself. It was pretty good. Taut story and good acting. Aside: before seeing it, I had assumed the movie, being a road trip through wine country, took place in Napa or Sonoma, but in fact most of it is set among the wineries and restaurants of Santa Barbara County, in Solvang, Buellton, etc.
I just saw Sideways myself. What an amusing movie. Though while watching, I did not think of it as I do now. Odd how sometimes an opinion of a movie can improve in hindsight.
Miles: [while tasting wine] It tastes like the back of a fucking L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn’t de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bullshit. Fuckin’ Raid.
Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.