Sorry to all of the emails that I haven't answered since I got home from London. I am still on vacation from work, but I have had to go to work once a day for the past few days... anyway... today was my first totally free day where I could just continue my vacationing.

Brian and I spent the day having a filmfest... well, it was only actually two movies, but still! Two movies in theaters in one day is rad. I love running from one to another... it is so much fun. walking the dog now... will be back to tell you what we saw.

Ok, back. I rushed out of the house at 9:45 this sunny morning to meet Brian for our lovely walk to the new movie theater at Gallery Place. I wore my panda ears, long Buffy jacket ( not with Buffy on it, but Buffy style) and my big white sunglasses that make me look like a rock star. I actually needed the glasses, though, since it was sooo sunny. We decided to meet on 16th street between our apartments, so I did a bit of fast fast walking so that he wouldn't think I was a slow poke. In the course of the fast fast walking, I noticed that my bum was very cold. That was because the faster I walked the more my too big jeans began to slip slip. Haha. Thank god for the long Buffy-style jacket;. I met Brian, who was amazed at my speed. I am speedy.

Before the movie we stopped at the Marvelous Market to get breakfast. Yum. I picked up these two little candies as surprises for later. Surprises because you couldn't tell the flavors from the packages.

So, the new movie theater is soo nice. We got tickets to Finding Neverland, which we had passed on last week for Spongebob. haha. Anyway, there were a total of 3 other people in the theater with us. 11:10 on a Thursday morning will do that. We got nachos and popcorn and Brian promised to let me have some cheese for my popcorn, but he kept his popcorn eating to one piece at a time since he had a cold and didn't want to spread his germs around. I also made sure that I didn't each from his vat of cheese, taking the second one for me. Yeah for eating bad food at the movies. One of the other people at the movie was this teenager, a fat kid with a backpack who looked like he was totally skipping school. Made me remember my days of skipping school to see movies. The best time was when we skipped to go into the city to see Pump up the Volume. What a time. The movie was very very sweet and the themes of imagination and embracing childhood and such were lovely and totally for me. Brian and I kept worrying about how JM Barrie might have really been a pedophile or whatever. But I tried to keep that out of my mind and just enjoy the movie for it's loveliness and not for it's factual errors. Johnny Depp. Amazing accent. I kept thinking of the Scottish acent on that first Looper album which I have listened to so many times. I searched for one wrong note from Depps' performance, but it was flawless. Kate Winslet didn't have much to do as the dying mum, but she was still pretty with her big blue eyes. The kids were all British and good and well... you can't not enjoy British kids. There wasn't a dry eye in the house at the end, which I expected, but that was ok. I don't know. I don't mind being manipulated so much when certain actors are involved. I am becoming a softie.

Next was Godard's 1967 "classic" Weekend for free at the National Gallery of Art. Neither Brian nor I had ever seen it... so it was a good opportunity to get to see it in a theater. I love only one other Godard movie, but I respect his merits and find his stuff charming in a sort of hateful way. haha. He is no Truffaut, but that is kinda the point. If I were Godard in the 60's and friends with Truffaut, I might have been more Godard than Truffaut, too... but hey that was before Prozac.

I am not sure what to say about Weekend. The first 45minutes or so are great... but that is just goes god knows where. At one point, I started to think, this movie is about how Godard hates us. He hates whoever is watching this and wants them to hate him too. Anyway... I don't want to sound stupid about Godard so I won't go on. We did laugh and laugh at some things, though. But the movie was two hours long... and at one point when you think his treatment of the characters and people can't get any worse, he starts slaughtering animals. hhaha. I do love how the characters are totally unlikeable (sp) and keep asking people if they are in a film or reality. Hilarious. When it was over, the French lady behind us let out this huge huge French sigh. Me too, lady, I thought. haha.

So, I enjoyed my day of movies. I love going to more than one movie in a day. Hopefully the next filmfest will be 3 movies...I like the idea of comparing two movies that have nothing to do with one another just because you saw them both on the same day. Reminds me of seeing like Ford Fairlane and Dances with Wolves on the same day in high school... ok that is sorta a stretch, but you know what I mean. Being submersed into two totally different worlds back to back is fun. Fun, what a small word for a big thing. Fun.

So, yeah. sorry if I haven't emailed ya back. I have been running around town watching movies and eating bad food and generally enjoying the rest of my vacation.

Tomorrow is thrift storing in Laurel with my little brother. Will check in again on Saturday.