fast trip to ny
Aug. 2nd, 2022 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davemerrillyesterday was the civic holiday so we took a fast trip across the border to mail a package to Neil Nadelman and to do a little shopping. Target looks like a bomb went off in there; 5 Below has better graphic tees, Tops is still great, we went to an antique mall out in Clarence and didn't find anything, but we got some lunch at a custard stand down the road which was great. The wait at the Rainbow Bridge was a solid hour so we went to the Peace Bridge which was a more manageable 20 minutes.
Sunday we biked downtown to lunch; The Barn diner at Queen & Bathurst is closed permanently, which is a shame. Queen Mother is still open though. Wound up watching CUJO on the cable TV and boy that's a mid 1980s Stephen King movie, it's Petaluma CA trying to be Maine (set-dressed with Olympia and Coors beer) and you spend the entire movie infuriated at the clueless ad exec husband who drives a Jag while sticking the wife and kid with a Pinto. I know that's the point, but still.
Saturday was the first Caribbean Carnival back in the city since 2019 and it pretty much locks our neighborhood down. We had to get out to go to the Oakville Drive-In and it took us an hour to do what usually takes 20 minutes, most of which was trying to get past the traffic pinch points where the lack of left turn signals meets the sewer construction meets the thousands of people trying to get in or out of Liberty Village.
We saw NOPE and THE BLACK PHONE at the drive-in. Both are good! NOPE isn't as "heavy" as Peele's other films, but still demonstrates he's absolutely running where M. Night stumbles along. There's an anime reference in the movie that will bring a smile to your face. THE BLACK PHONE is like IT meets SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets DAZED AND CONFUSED, a period serial-killer movie mixed with supernatural elements that works mostly because of the strong performances of the young cast.
This week: back to work. Next Monday we're seeing Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe!
Sunday we biked downtown to lunch; The Barn diner at Queen & Bathurst is closed permanently, which is a shame. Queen Mother is still open though. Wound up watching CUJO on the cable TV and boy that's a mid 1980s Stephen King movie, it's Petaluma CA trying to be Maine (set-dressed with Olympia and Coors beer) and you spend the entire movie infuriated at the clueless ad exec husband who drives a Jag while sticking the wife and kid with a Pinto. I know that's the point, but still.
Saturday was the first Caribbean Carnival back in the city since 2019 and it pretty much locks our neighborhood down. We had to get out to go to the Oakville Drive-In and it took us an hour to do what usually takes 20 minutes, most of which was trying to get past the traffic pinch points where the lack of left turn signals meets the sewer construction meets the thousands of people trying to get in or out of Liberty Village.
We saw NOPE and THE BLACK PHONE at the drive-in. Both are good! NOPE isn't as "heavy" as Peele's other films, but still demonstrates he's absolutely running where M. Night stumbles along. There's an anime reference in the movie that will bring a smile to your face. THE BLACK PHONE is like IT meets SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets DAZED AND CONFUSED, a period serial-killer movie mixed with supernatural elements that works mostly because of the strong performances of the young cast.
This week: back to work. Next Monday we're seeing Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe!
