The Holiday Weekend

The missus was in town for the long weekend and we had a blast. Lots of checking out the new nabe, drove out to the beach and went for a stroll, saw some movies and had some brunch. A great couple of days...too short.

Pics will be posted shortly, to share some views of the new place and locale.

The abbreviated movie review:
'Match Point' - other than the rich white people living in a bubble of privilege and erudite cocktail chatter, not your typical Woody Allen movie - very enjoyable.
'Brokeback Mountain' - Loved the movie. Cowboys are frequently, secretly fond of each other, sez Willie. However, the movie's constant musical refrain, a few bars of country guitar, are still scraping the inside of my skull. Please make it stop, Ang Lee, please make it stop.
'Night Watch' - Russian vampire movie. (Thanks, Wifey...I owe you Mark Ruffalo's next 3 movies) Derivative of everything cool from the last 20 years...Ghostbusters, Underworld, Blade, LOTR, etc...and yet still kinda fun.

Two random star sightings, to boot:
1. Some boybander...not sure if he was a Backstreet Boy or from NSync, but his distinctive facial hair rang a bell, metaphorically speaking/1 point/Mexican joint
2. Jeremy 'Droz' Piven nee 'Ari' from Entourage/3/Local tea house

M

PS- It was 59 degrees here. Local news covered it as though a blizzard had struck. Gotta love the Southwest.