Week update - emphasis on food

[jack]

Friday - "The Island" film outing. One of my friends assured me it *was* good. We agreed to argue tonight. After the film we went to Chilli's and had small variations on our usual dishes, which were scrummy. We managed to forgo pudding! and had Irish Coffee instead. Never have, and was nice, but mightn't make a habit of it. Sonicdrift is lovely: there are very few friends we can talk happily for fifteen minutes without an awkward silence, and she falls into the small group we can talk animatedly for hours.

Weekend - Sleep, Quorn with Sharwood's sauce on rice, some classic films, some writing. Ask me about how the honorary toad bands together with the other garden animals to steal the peaches, and ends up double-crossing them at the last minute.

Monday - "Excaliber" at Mobbsy's. He described it best as what Monty Python and the Holy Grail would have been a spoof of, if it came first. Except they didn't cover the sex-in-plate-armour bit.

Thursday - Vanessa's moving out dinner. Stuffed peppers (peppers cut open, filled with rice cooked with salsa, onions, mushrooms, olives and maybe halapenos) and garlic corgettes (slice into strips, marinate overnight in olive oil, vinegar, oregano and garlic and bake) and grasshopper pie (not literally -- marshmallow, creme de menth and chocolate!). I was very pleased, because it was simple but good. And I've really been inspired by courgette before, but these were lovely in both taste and texture.

Comments

[blue-jenny.livejournal.com]

hi, so do you recomend "The island"? So much week movies and I feel so unhappy when spend my time for it:)) Usually I feel it in 9 (from)10 movies;)
By the way some years ago I visited Spain and I've seen "Happiness". Did you see it? Nobody from my friends saw it. And no disk in Russia! Maybe it was an ilussion?:))

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I posted a long review of "The Island" last week here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/cartesiandaemon/91573.html

In summary. It was acceptable. It was very enjoyable in places, but half the film was very annoying because it was bad plot and bad science and cliche.

I'm afraid I haven't heard of 'Happiness'. Have you tried looking on imdb.com? Is it in this list: http://imdb.com/find?q=hapiness;s=all ?

[sonicdrift.livejournal.com]

*blush*
But of course that could be a nice way of saying I never shut up :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Don't get too carried away, you score lowly on other friend-test scales, such as "trusting that if I left a baby with you you wouldn't make it into barbecue ribs" :)

But of course that could be a nice way of saying I never shut up :)

You are more garrulous than average, but not to the exclusion of other people; i think more it's that there happens to be a style of conversation we both fall into... I need to blog about "different sorts of conversation" and "different sorts of friends" too for that matter...