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September 06, 2004

And I'm Spent...

I'm going to try to keep this short, but that may be an impossible task given this weekend's events. After having spent about a week in bed (just because I could), I actually left the house for a number of outings. Below is the recap:

Oh, but first, I got my camera!!!!! This means pictures, kids.

Chapter 1: The Birthday (Phase I)
I spend all day Friday with L's sister in preparation for the family gathering. This, of course, involved the consumption of an immesurable quantity of wine, a cake that overflowed in the oven, and a number of other incidents involving smoke and fire. Luckily we did not burn the house down, but we came close. I have proof.

Note the flames. That's the stove.

But really, what's more fun than accidentally smoking out a party.

P.S. Even given the "stove on fire twice" incident, the shrimp came out fine.

Chapter 2: Oakland Art & Soul Festival
This was so great. Although, at some points you could hardly see past the mushroom clouds of smoke from all the doobs in the crowd. Now, I'm only complaining because a) nobody gave any to me, and b) I thought you could get arrested for doing that in public. And when I say public, I mean in the middle of a crowd of hundreds of people. One guy even had a bong.

It wasn't even like it was a hippy show either. It was Patty Griffin (another one on my list of musical goddesses) and then Los Lobos... Los Lobos really brought out the over-50-male-pot-smoking-hippie-crowd. Who knew.

But seriously, see how cool Patty Griffin is?

And Oakland... it was a beautiful day out... a little too hot (like, Boston hot)... and we all know how I hate to be hot, but it was well worth it.

And I can't forget the big-booty hos. If you look real close you can see their off-the-shoulder flashdance tops, underwear length skirts, and kneesocks. Awwwwwwww yeahhhhh.

Chapter 3: The Movie
Holy mother of god and a half. We saw Mean Creek this afternoon, and it was so intense that I literally had to pick my jaw off the movie theater floor after it ended. This one just about did me in. Surprisingly enough, there was no crying involved on my end, just a flabbergasted gaping mouth the whole time. Usually I cry at everything (including that movie What About Bob, with Bill Murray), so I don't know which is worse. But it was incredible. You gotta see it.

Next on my list is I Heart Huckabees. I almost peed my pants just watching the trailer. I have since watched it three times on the computer. It's a sickness, I tell you. But damn, it looks great.

And this was more than enough for me.....

Posted by missfitsandstarts at September 6, 2004 09:01 PM

Comments

Don't forget to put "The Life Aquatic" on your list!
http://lifeaquatic.movies.go.com/main.html

Posted by: Casey at September 9, 2004 04:43 AM