Yesterday afternoon, David and I enjoyed a nice brunch together at Mauro Cafe at Fred Segal in West Hollywood, CA … it was the first time we had been out on a “date” in a while. David has been sick all week long and we’ve been pretty much holed up in our apartment for days. [...]
Yesterday afternoon, David and I enjoyed a nice brunch together at Mauro Cafe at Fred Segal in West Hollywood, CA … it was the first time we had been out on a “date” in a while. David has been sick all week long and we’ve been pretty much holed up in our apartment for days. It was nice to get out of the house and enjoy the beautifully warm SoCal weather:
We were seated by an amazing photograph of Audrey Hepburn which I took an iPhone photo of and manipulated/destroyed with a photo app called Satromizer. I’ve been playing with a few new photo iPhone apps like this one this week including Decim8 and the new Salvador Dalí photopack for Hipstamatic (plus, I’m newly obsessed with Instagram). It’s amazing how many more fun photos I take with just these few photo apps. I don’t even carry around a camera anymore cuz all I need is my iPhone. But, I’m digressing.
After brunch, David wanted to see the new Danny Boyle film 127 Hours which is based on the true story of Aron Ralston who was forced to cut off his own arm to free himself from being trapped under a rock in the wilderness. The film is mostly fantastic if a wee bit heavy-handed (pardon the pun):
While I LOVED the movie, I do feel that the fantasy scenes that Boyle uses way too much in the film took away from my overall enjoyment of the movie. James Franco is fantastic as Ralston and much of the film looked great (a credit to Boyle) but I honestly feel the movie would be so much better if had less fantasy scenes (which, I’m guessing, is meant to convey the stuff going on in Rolston‘s mind in those 127 hours he was trapped) and focused more on Ralston in the moment. Buried is movie that I loved very much and is similar in the way the story of 127 Hours is told … and I personally feel that that movie did a better job of making the audience feel like they were in the movie more successfully. When the movie focused on Ralston trapped in the canyon, I found it entirely gripping and really compelling. There is a moment of realization where Franco as Ralston determines that the rock pinning his arm spent millions of years waiting for the moment he would be trapped … that he was fated to endure this particular situation. I don’t know … something about that part of the film really struck me as profound. Once the actual arm cutting off takes place, the story gets frantic and intense (as you can well imagine) and really finishes off the movie very well. Again, I really loved the best parts of the movie … but really could’ve done with a lot less over-the-top fantasy scenes thruout.
After the movie, we met up with Josh and Emma for dinner and then made our way to Hamburger Mary’s for a drag show called Stunning:
‘Twas a fun and crazy night. It was really great getting out of the house … we may even do it again today!
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