Dance Ten Looks Three

or rather we should say looks ten, dance three... yesterday we went to go see Marie Antionette with CMoss and Duane Reade. We loved the first hour or so of what started out as pure eye candy with a kickass soundtrack, then we got confused and aren't really sure of the point of the movie. The film itself was pretty, really really pretty - the food, the clothes, the shoes , oh my god the shoes! But frankly, we're not really sure that the cast (who were all very good, even though there wasn't nearly enough schwartzman for our personal liking, and that does include kiki who was surprisingly unwhiny!) had a script at all - there certainly wasn't a plot, or any character development or well, anything besides pretty. but sometimes pretty is good. i give this one a solid - eh. worth maybe a afternoon matinee ticket price (if they still do that where you live), but not the full 11.50...

we then snuck into The Illusionist. Totally the theater's fault - it was playing right next door and the start time was FIVE minutes after we walked out of our movie. they were just asking for people to do that. and they did - there were at least 15 people that walked right out of marie antionette and directly into the illusionist. We also felt just kind of blah about this one, with an ending we easily predicted (although that might have had something to do with the fact that we had just finished watching season 4 of 24 not two nights before, so staging death was on our minds), and drab, downer Austria as the background, we left, well, just kind of tired.

in other news:

• our softball team did in fact win! Go Bea Arthur's Kids! (yep, thats the name of our team). Playoffs here we come! (I mean is it really important that we won because the other team had to forfeit due to lack of players? We played them in a scrimmage when the rest of their team did finally show, and we won anyway)
• went out with the HFT late saturday night... still wondering whether or not having her around is a good idea. if nothing else, the lies are always interesting.
  
• didn't make it to art brut on thursday night due to the mets game! the mets game??? we're uncertain who we've become, but weren't really all that sad that they lost - its actually nice to watch a team play a game seven when you're not that invested... we've gotten ill too many times watching our boys play in do or die games.
• heading to beantown this weekend with RJL, ESL and ESL's love to watch RJL's old school go head to head with mine... of course there's a 37 1/2 point spread on this one, so we're going to say GO EAGLES, obvs, but hopefully RJL's boys'll at least make a game out of it.