- New frontiers in parenting: Simon’s EEG test is tomorrow. So we have to keep him up tonight 3 hours past his normal bedtime (which is ostensibly 8, but in reality is more like 9, so…) and we have to get him up 2 hours early. I am bleary-eyed just thinking about it.
- The babysitter got the first shift keeping Simon up tonight (and Sophia too, of course—she wasn’t about to miss out). She was exhausted when we got back from the movie.
- The movie we went to see was Shaun of the Dead, which was really frickin’ hilarious. Completely funny, with a side order of gore. Great set-ups, equally excellent payoffs. Darin really hadn’t wanted to see this one, but his review was: “I was so wrong!” Great script, great use of music, possible social commentary but easy enough to avoid that bit.
Were all of the newscasters in it real British newscasters? I expect that sort of thing of LA newscasters, but I figure there are so many actors in Britain they wouldn’t need the real thing. - Also frickin’ hilarious a few date nights ago was Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. This was one I hadn’t wanted to see, but I definitely enjoyed it. Except for the bits with the potty humor, which after two kids I still don’t find funny. Kumar’s intro scene should be shown to film school students as the proper way to introduce a character. One of the downer elements of this film is that “lighthearted” revenge, which involves a bag of pot, would probably in the real world lead to prison without parole in many states given our current drug laws. But this movie is still hilarious.
- Our date night one week ago was not a movie at all (couldn’t find one we really wanted to see) so we went a restaurant another mom at the preschool had mentioned to me: Crimson. Oh. Wow. There isn’t enough room in this restaurant to swing a cat—well, maybe a smallish sort of cat, not a big fat one, a slender one—but it is good. Everything we had was simply fabulous and there was too much of it. Beware of going on Wednesday nights though: that’s half-price bottle of wine night, and Darin and I got the bottle of wine. Of course, we could only drink half of it, not being much in the way of drinkers. We got red wine, and the next day I was stuffed up and sick. Doesn’t matter: still a wonderful little bistro.
- I never thought I’d be watching “Blue’s Clues” at 10:43 at night. Oy. And insisting Simon watch it too.
Re: Shaun of the Dead: Yeah, according to IMDB’s trivia, they were all British newscasters, including the uncredited radio voices.
Were all of the newscasters in it real British newscasters?
I haven’t seen the film but, looking at the IMDB entry, the answer is yes.