SIFF Wednesday 2
Jun. 4th, 2009 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenat the Egyptian for Sweet Crude.
had happy hour dinner at the Can-Can and saw my first bar absinthe service. they have a glass water container on a pedastal full of chilled water with two taps. they set a glass of absinthe with the slotted spoon and a sugar cube under the tap and turn on a drip of water until the sugar cube melts. very theatrical and cool to watch. i was busy having a delicious negroni and salad. it looks like they have five or six different absinthes, including the local one, so it might be a good place to try them.
the bus ride up included a pet rabbit and a longsword. dude had the rabbit on top of the carrier and the lady across the aisle was feeding it bits of her salad. awesome. the guy with the longsword appeared to be on his way to or from some kind of practice because it was in a scabbard and he had on gym clothes and a big gym bag. there was also a huge dog that looked like it might be a wolf cross, but it was well-trained enough to make no move toward the bunny.
local film, so the theater is hopping and i got a free coffee card on the way in. my local coffee shop helped to finance the film. iiirc the filmmakers were detained by the Nigerian government, so i have reasonably high hopes for the content, if no expectations for actual quality based on my previous experience with local films at the festival...yet i still keep trying them.
film was good, but people clapping at every name in the credits and hissing when they saw Dubya on screen (our long national nightmare is over - so grow up) got on my nerves. i was fighting a headache, so i was not in the right frame of mind for the crowd. also, subject matter not suited to jubilant cheerings. it is, essentially, a message in a bottle from a group of people who have been treated criminally by their government and big business, and ignored or painted as savages or terrorists by the American media. the filmmaker is working on getting a screening done for Congress. i hope it happens.
because of the headache i headed home after and crashed.
had happy hour dinner at the Can-Can and saw my first bar absinthe service. they have a glass water container on a pedastal full of chilled water with two taps. they set a glass of absinthe with the slotted spoon and a sugar cube under the tap and turn on a drip of water until the sugar cube melts. very theatrical and cool to watch. i was busy having a delicious negroni and salad. it looks like they have five or six different absinthes, including the local one, so it might be a good place to try them.
the bus ride up included a pet rabbit and a longsword. dude had the rabbit on top of the carrier and the lady across the aisle was feeding it bits of her salad. awesome. the guy with the longsword appeared to be on his way to or from some kind of practice because it was in a scabbard and he had on gym clothes and a big gym bag. there was also a huge dog that looked like it might be a wolf cross, but it was well-trained enough to make no move toward the bunny.
local film, so the theater is hopping and i got a free coffee card on the way in. my local coffee shop helped to finance the film. iiirc the filmmakers were detained by the Nigerian government, so i have reasonably high hopes for the content, if no expectations for actual quality based on my previous experience with local films at the festival...yet i still keep trying them.
film was good, but people clapping at every name in the credits and hissing when they saw Dubya on screen (our long national nightmare is over - so grow up) got on my nerves. i was fighting a headache, so i was not in the right frame of mind for the crowd. also, subject matter not suited to jubilant cheerings. it is, essentially, a message in a bottle from a group of people who have been treated criminally by their government and big business, and ignored or painted as savages or terrorists by the American media. the filmmaker is working on getting a screening done for Congress. i hope it happens.
because of the headache i headed home after and crashed.
