It's funny that I'm booked up next weekned but that this past weekend with its extra day, there were no advanced plans, so everything was on the fly. I saw two films: Junebug and The Constant Gardner. Both are worth a see. Junebug is your quirky family dramedy set mostly in North Carolina but with a Chicago connection in the story. This'll be particularly funny for people who know my friend Jennie Wood because she is from NC and this film will give everyone a little notion as to why she fled from there. There's also a great Henry Darger knock-off character, who plays an outsider artist that paints civil war pictures of soldiers with big dicks shooting bullets. Oh yeah!
The Constant Gardner is way more somber but a fantastic story about a diplomat (Ray Fiennes) and his activist wife (Rachel Weiz) living in Kenya. I won't give it all away but in the film's credits there is a dedication to "All the United Way workers and others who died giving a damn."
I also had Thai food with my friend Tamara followed by the best margarita's this side of Mexico. I went to the Lincoln Park Zoo and exhausted myself following my friend Christina and her six year old daughter around. Although, I also ran into an old friend who I thought was living in Germany but has since moved back to Chicago. Incidentally, I also have another friend from Chicago who is living in Germany still.
Saturday morning I had coffee with my downstairs neighbor while I was waiting for my wash to finish and met some of my other neighbors too. I found out one of them had been in the building as long as I have (5 years) and neither of us had seen the other before. The building isn't that big.
I've also been going through the Xena series. I'm up to season three. There's a lot more to that show than I ever realized. I hadn't really watched when it was on and I am surprised by the quality of the show.
