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We went to La Jolla, since it looked like the only theatre in town showing the John Malkovich movie "The Great Buck Howard."
We grabbed lunch at BJs (what guy doesn't love going there?Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, mmmm).
Our appetizer was awesome. It was an Italian salsa type thing, with an artichoke dip also. The garlic bread was great, but we both agreed that the tortilla chips sucked (note to self: find out if any food critics ever use the word "sucks" in their reviews).
The chips were black and red (the colors of the Chicago Bulls). But I've found that when they're colored, they don't taste as good. And they're a slightly harder texture. Yet, more and more places are going to this style.
At first, you would just see them on St. Patricks Day at the pubs...green and black ones. Then on Halloween, you'd see orange and black. Enough already! We're not 10. We don't need to see a bunch of colors in our chips. Just make the ones that taste best.
When we got to our movie, I was happy I was stuffed. I figure this would keep me from shelling out the $6 for popcorn. But as you walk in, you smell that stuff cooking. It must be like a heroin addict walking past.....whatever it is heroin addicts walk past.
We both enjoyed the movie. You can pretty much guarantee Malkovich will be good in anything he does. Colin Hanks did an okay job as a law school drop out. Although, it was a bit distracting to see Tom Hanks playing his dad in the film.
And, as I'm enjoying the story of a magician that was once famous, appearing on The Tonight Show (the one with Johnny Carson, he's quick to point out) numerous times, and now religated to small theatres that are half full...my thoughts instead went to my popcorn.
It seemed with every handful I grabbed, a few pieces would fly out of my hand before it got to my mouth. I usually don't care, as I can just brush my shirt off later. And who cares about stepping on it -- it's their mess to clean up.
But as expensive as the popcorn is in theatres, I did the quick math in my head (maybe I was inspired by Steve Zahn, who plays the burned out limo driver...he tries to figure out how Malkovich can perform 400 shows a year as he claimed). I wondered how much money I've spent on popcorn that was wasted. I was figuring each handful has about 8 pieces, with two pieces shooting out and making their escape. I may get lucky once in a while, and the entire handful makes it to my pie hole.
I then thought it might be more productive to instead think of ways to keep the popcorn from going everywhere, instead of figuring how much I've wasted in the past.
I thought I'd grab a smaller amount. And, I got to where I was reaching into the bag with two fingers like a crab, for only two pieces. And even then, sometimes one of them would go flying.
Who knows. Maybe there's a system for eating popcorn. I'm always so engrossed in the movies, I don't usually give it much thought.
Maybe I'll just go back to Raisenettes and Lemon Heads.
We went to La Jolla, since it looked like the only theatre in town showing the John Malkovich movie "The Great Buck Howard."
We grabbed lunch at BJs (what guy doesn't love going there?Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, mmmm).
Our appetizer was awesome. It was an Italian salsa type thing, with an artichoke dip also. The garlic bread was great, but we both agreed that the tortilla chips sucked (note to self: find out if any food critics ever use the word "sucks" in their reviews).
The chips were black and red (the colors of the Chicago Bulls). But I've found that when they're colored, they don't taste as good. And they're a slightly harder texture. Yet, more and more places are going to this style.
At first, you would just see them on St. Patricks Day at the pubs...green and black ones. Then on Halloween, you'd see orange and black. Enough already! We're not 10. We don't need to see a bunch of colors in our chips. Just make the ones that taste best.
When we got to our movie, I was happy I was stuffed. I figure this would keep me from shelling out the $6 for popcorn. But as you walk in, you smell that stuff cooking. It must be like a heroin addict walking past.....whatever it is heroin addicts walk past.
We both enjoyed the movie. You can pretty much guarantee Malkovich will be good in anything he does. Colin Hanks did an okay job as a law school drop out. Although, it was a bit distracting to see Tom Hanks playing his dad in the film.
And, as I'm enjoying the story of a magician that was once famous, appearing on The Tonight Show (the one with Johnny Carson, he's quick to point out) numerous times, and now religated to small theatres that are half full...my thoughts instead went to my popcorn.
It seemed with every handful I grabbed, a few pieces would fly out of my hand before it got to my mouth. I usually don't care, as I can just brush my shirt off later. And who cares about stepping on it -- it's their mess to clean up.
But as expensive as the popcorn is in theatres, I did the quick math in my head (maybe I was inspired by Steve Zahn, who plays the burned out limo driver...he tries to figure out how Malkovich can perform 400 shows a year as he claimed). I wondered how much money I've spent on popcorn that was wasted. I was figuring each handful has about 8 pieces, with two pieces shooting out and making their escape. I may get lucky once in a while, and the entire handful makes it to my pie hole.
I then thought it might be more productive to instead think of ways to keep the popcorn from going everywhere, instead of figuring how much I've wasted in the past.
I thought I'd grab a smaller amount. And, I got to where I was reaching into the bag with two fingers like a crab, for only two pieces. And even then, sometimes one of them would go flying.
Who knows. Maybe there's a system for eating popcorn. I'm always so engrossed in the movies, I don't usually give it much thought.
Maybe I'll just go back to Raisenettes and Lemon Heads.