Ce Weekend: December 12th-14th, 2010
- I went on a brewpub barcrawl in the freezing weather for a friend’s birthday. At one point, I looked around and was like, “Man, this is really great, all these people coming out for the night. Someone should plan a barcrawl for every weekend.” And then I remembered that I used to do this when I was twenty-two, but I just called it “Friday night.”
- I wish more Americans chose to spend their weekend morning holing up at the local watering hole to watch “footy” all day.
- If you ever get a chance to make it to Philadelphia’s Punk Rock Flea Market, you should go. Even if you’re not a flea-market sort of person (which I’m not really; I get overwhelmed), it’s great for people watching.
- Thoughts on Black Swan: Natalie Portman convinced me she actually can act; the movie was visually arresting; I wish there’d been more of a narrative. It was gripping and suspenseful, but I also think it is going to seem ridiculous, melodramatic, and a tad campy in twenty years. See Don’t Look Now or any other high-art horror film from the ’60s and ’70s.
- My sister blew into town from the West Coast, en route to a Birthright trip, so—as on the other two times she came to visit—I led her on yet another gastronomical tour of my city. Perhaps she can hike off all those extra pounds in Israel.
- We also saw Fair Game, which I may have liked just as much as Black Swan; possibly slightly more. Do you guys think that Sean Penn just is picking these types of roles so that, when he inevitably runs for some type of public office, the American populace will not be so jarred?
