All Work and No Play
Not much time for blogging this week. The work load has got me under the gun and up all night. I finally bugged out last night and had to escape the pixel warfare for a minute. I needed some laughter. I wanted big ass belly laughs for this work break. I turned to the man who is golden in the clutch – Will Farrell. Will Ferrell is damn good medicine. Specifically, I went to The Legend of Ron Burgundy. I spent the entire movie rolling up and down the isle holding my gut from laughter. It was all context. I suspect that on a different day, or in a different mood, I might have laughed a bit and then said something at the end like, “eh, wasn’t as good as Elf”. But damn, you know when you want to laugh and you’re just primed for someone to crack you up? That’s the best time to see a movie like this. I was definitely in that place. I was unquestionaly “A #1 loudest laugher in the theater”. Just the site of Will Ferrell was enough to send me into volcanic eruptions of glee and happiness. I choked on pop corn twice.

I got to the theater, Centennial Lakes – a little place in suburbs, a bit early so I went outside for a cigarette and ended up discovering this insane little man made lake in back of the theater. This was the kinda thing you have to venture into suburbia to witness. Shit was well wicked. It was a decent size lake with a twenty foot geyser in the center. There were intricate trails and immaculate landscaping around the entire body of the lake. Wooden benches and simple hand-made adirondack chairs sat invitingly along the banks, nestled in andamongst a symphony of flora. There were tiny speakers set up every fifty yards, so that everywhere you walked you had an beautiful mozart soundtrack to accompany you. In the fading twilight everything took on this bizarre ‘on golden pond’ kind of vibe. Office parks and ugly looking condos surrounds the entire fake lake. But as far as fake lakes go this was pretty decent. Again, maybe it was more a product of the overworked and dizzy head space I was in but the fake lake really tripped me out.

Also digging: the video for “On your Way” by The Album Leaf (video) . Good record. Cool video. If I had kids I would have them watch this video. Kinda like Alice in Wonderland meets those fucked up little BoohBahs.