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A Girly Day: a movie, lunch, and shopping
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varina8 to go see Rock of Ages, the movie based on the Broadway musical, about two crazy kids who go to LA to find their dreams, a club owner and his faithful sound man who need to save their club, and the rock star who changes everything for all of them. The things that really matter about this movie are Tom Cruise as Stacie Jaxx, the aforementioned rockstar; Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand, the aforementioned club owner and sound man; and the music, completely pulled from 1980s hair bands--Guns 'n' Roses, Metallica, Journey, Bon Jovi, and so on.
The music, of course, was great. It was often deployed to great comic effect (something, I think, that may have been lost on a lot of reviewers who apparently have no sense of humor). Baldwin and Brand were brilliantly--and sometimes wince-inducingly--funny. And Cruise, honestly, just steals the show comedically, physically, and musically. He's the epitome of rock god in this film, but also very funny and remarkably insightful. (It occurred to me later that Jaxx is kind of a victim of his own fame, something about which Cruise probably knows more than a little). It's a great performance. Cruise looks and sounds amazing (his vocal coach probably beamed through every performance), and was just great to watch. (I heard the director talk about working with Cruise in an interview, and he said that he wasn't so sure about Cruise to begin with, but that once the actor stepped in front of the camera, he understood why Cruise is who he is. This guy just delivers.) So I checked my brain at the door and had a great time. Best film ever? No, of course not. But fun.
We then had lunch at Mexicana at Pacific Place, followed by birthday dress shopping.
See, I have this big birthday coming up this month. A small group of friends as I are going to dinner at the Space Needle to celebrate. (After all, the Space Needle and I are celebrating the same birthday landmark.) I decided that it was time for me to buy a party dress to celebrate. Miss V and I spent a couple of hours at Nordstrom trying on dresses, and I found the perfect thing, a flirty, satiny little number in a color...that I shall wear when I am old. I still have to solve the shoe problem--a delightful problem to have.
Miss V, for the record, is wonderful to shop with, and no girl could ask for a better, more supportive friend.
The evening was nothing I had planned or hoped for, and the less said about it, probably, the better. But the day was good, and so that's where I'll plant my flag: a fun movie, a delicious lunch and shopping in excellent company, and a fabulous dress that I can't wait to wear.
varina8 to go see Rock of Ages, the movie based on the Broadway musical, about two crazy kids who go to LA to find their dreams, a club owner and his faithful sound man who need to save their club, and the rock star who changes everything for all of them. The things that really matter about this movie are Tom Cruise as Stacie Jaxx, the aforementioned rockstar; Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand, the aforementioned club owner and sound man; and the music, completely pulled from 1980s hair bands--Guns 'n' Roses, Metallica, Journey, Bon Jovi, and so on.The music, of course, was great. It was often deployed to great comic effect (something, I think, that may have been lost on a lot of reviewers who apparently have no sense of humor). Baldwin and Brand were brilliantly--and sometimes wince-inducingly--funny. And Cruise, honestly, just steals the show comedically, physically, and musically. He's the epitome of rock god in this film, but also very funny and remarkably insightful. (It occurred to me later that Jaxx is kind of a victim of his own fame, something about which Cruise probably knows more than a little). It's a great performance. Cruise looks and sounds amazing (his vocal coach probably beamed through every performance), and was just great to watch. (I heard the director talk about working with Cruise in an interview, and he said that he wasn't so sure about Cruise to begin with, but that once the actor stepped in front of the camera, he understood why Cruise is who he is. This guy just delivers.) So I checked my brain at the door and had a great time. Best film ever? No, of course not. But fun.
We then had lunch at Mexicana at Pacific Place, followed by birthday dress shopping.
See, I have this big birthday coming up this month. A small group of friends as I are going to dinner at the Space Needle to celebrate. (After all, the Space Needle and I are celebrating the same birthday landmark.) I decided that it was time for me to buy a party dress to celebrate. Miss V and I spent a couple of hours at Nordstrom trying on dresses, and I found the perfect thing, a flirty, satiny little number in a color...that I shall wear when I am old. I still have to solve the shoe problem--a delightful problem to have.
Miss V, for the record, is wonderful to shop with, and no girl could ask for a better, more supportive friend.
The evening was nothing I had planned or hoped for, and the less said about it, probably, the better. But the day was good, and so that's where I'll plant my flag: a fun movie, a delicious lunch and shopping in excellent company, and a fabulous dress that I can't wait to wear.