Ach, we won only 1 game out of three tonight. Disappointing because we played pretty well, we could have, should have, won, but we just didn't put it together. We're getting pretty tired of losing. I felt like I played decently most of the night, but often not when it counted most. When I had a chance to really put it away, I missed almost every time. Very disheartening. I served okay, I had a couple blocks, but overall, shyte.
A few beers fixed all that.
Got my new drum machine in the mail today. I got an Alesis SR-16 on eBay for a pretty good price. I really want to get to use all of these new music toys, but lately I've had none. Less than none. Tomorrow morning we're off to Deleware to hang out with Zach, Dave and Cass for the weekend. Monday I'll be home with no work. That's my day to get all of this stuff up and running. And by god, I'll record a song. Part of a song. The cat. Something.
Last night we took a nice walk up the Hudson river to Times Square, picked up tickets for a 9:30 showing of Star Wars II, and then went to eat at Chevy's across the street. Twice in one week we ate at a Chevy's and then saw a blockbuster movie. We briefly considered making it a tradition, but quickly decided there aren't nearly enough movies worth seeing, nor enough tequila in Chevy's margaritas, to make it worthwhile. We can think of better traditions than that.
**If you don't want to hear my opinion of the new Star Wars movie, if it'll ruin it for you, stop reading here.**
So, Star Wars. What can I say. It sucked. I feel sort of bad saying it, and I wish it had been better, but really, when taken as a whole, as a movie-going experience, it was extremely below average. The effects are phenomenal, it looks pretty cool, and there are a few nifty fight sequences, but they really amount to nothing more than short little scenes that are interesting for a few minutes. It lacked almost all of the things you need to have a real movie, let alone a good movie; characters, plot, decent dialogue, some kind of real conflict, suspension of disbelief. It's hard to belive that a movie so expensive makes it into theaters in such a state, with some of the lines and scenes that it had. George Lucas has complete control over these films, so in the end it was really quite a validation for the studio system. Maybe sometimes it's a good idea to have people watch a film, read the script, and have some authority to say, "No, wait a minute. You can't leave that line in. People are going to laugh their asses off at that, and that's not what you're going for. It's just ridiculous." It seems like the film is so wrapped up in being super high tech; all digital, all fancy cutting edge special effects, computer generated characters, that they forgot that it's supposed to be entertaining and interesting. That it should make you think about something, make you feel something besides shock and the desire to have your money back. And that's another problem here; this movie will make half a billion dollars or more even though it's really pretty awful. Too bad.
Anyway, if you want to see something, see Spiderman, an infinitely better movie.
