A Good Saturday February 14, 2011

2+ feet of snow in two weeks has made for strange times in Northwest Arkansas lately. So after nearly two weeks of hibernation my husband and I decided to dig the car out and venture into the world! Our agenda was fuzzy: 1. Gym 2. Get presentable 3. Starbucks 4. Go to Fayetteville 5. ?

It was a wonderful, balmy 38 degrees outside and we were ready to play. We went to Collier Drugstore and Josh ogled vintage camera equipment. Then we went to Dickson Street Bookstore (or Labyrinth, as my dad says) and shopped. I love that place! They had rearranged the kids books and I found loads of books to take home with me…but only bought one for me and one for a friend (this time). I also got to show Josh around most of the store…he had never made it past the photography books up front! I had a blast. After that we headed over to Mellow Mushroom and ate some delicious pizza.

We made it home and watched the movie Josh rented: The Social Network. Though I believe it should really be called: The Social (Justin Timberlake!) Network. Seriously. There was altogether too much of him in that movie. I think my opinion is partially shaped by the fact that the character he played was a smarmy, money-grubbing sleaze-bucket. There was one scene where Guy-who-looks-like-Michael-Cera and New Spiderman were having an intense conversation and Justin Timberlake kept popping up– he was completely unnecessary to the scene at that point. I half expected them to cut to him and he’d be dressed in a cup-o-soup costume singing, “Give it on up to Homelessville.” But I liked: 1. New British Spiderman, Andrew Garfield. He did a very good job and played the most sympathetic character in the bunch. 2. The dialogue, which was paced like a Gilmore Girls episode. I think that is Aaron Sorkin’s style.  3.  That they made a Karate Kid joke about the twin blonde crew rowers who were whiny villains, and had the whiny villains make it themselves.  That was my favorite of several witty, fun jokes.  4. The psycho girlfriend was on the Disney channel.   Over all it was an enjoyable movie. I’m not betting on the story to be reliably true and I didn’t find it inspirational or uplifting but I wasn’t expecting  Stand and Deliver.  This was more like Summer School (plus Gilmore Girls and now with more depositions! I couldn’t find the video for that one but it’s still fun. Not included, “EMILY: Hang on a second, Lorelai. I just want to skip to the Ben Hur reference.”)

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