Quiet Weekend

This last was a relatively quiet weekend for us here in Awesome Brooklyn.

Friday night My Better Half and i got together with friends Keith & Beth and Brian & Lindsay at our go-to Enduro, the reliable Mexican place than opened late last year in our neighborhood (and vastly improved the variety of available food options). Good times as always with that crew. And at that place, for that matter.

Saturday night we stayed in and watched "Brazil", which is even better than i remembered. (I think MBH might have preferred "Time Bandits", though.) "Brazil's" treatment of the banality of evil (among other things) is superb without even being explicit, which alone makes it far and away better than contemporary movies of its type that tend to be shrill, preachy, or explanatory to the point of narrativicide. Michael Palin's Jack illustrates everything we have to look forward to if we continue to allow the party of torture to infect our government and our culture -- a bureaucratic apparatus of smiling functionaries whose only purpose is to perpetuate institutionalized cruelty, and whose only effect is to transform tax dollars into grief and citizens into mutilated corpses.

And yet on top of all that, it's a fantastically fun movie to watch! And, it's got a great musical theme and score -- MBH finally got to hear the music i'm constantly humming. And, what a cast! Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm... Terry Gilliam is awesome, even if he does come off as an utter goofball in interviews and DVD commentaries.

Sunday morning found us at Fred's in Little Connecticut brunching with friend Heather, who we hadn't seen in a while. It was nice to catch up. Then we each spent a lazy Sunday avoiding doing our taxes and scraping caulk from a tub. We wrapped the weekend up with "Drugstore Cowboy", which still holds its weight. I had forgotten Heather Graham was in that; it was pretty easy to do.