Loud bouzouki is LOUD!
Today has been a day of across the board awesome, in the following chronological order:
Went to have me a nice chiro appointment, even though I was told by my chiropractor that my warranty had denied me coverage for the orthotics in my shoes
Had a nice little breakfast at Caffe Ladro and started working on the Millicent insigne vignette I'll be doing for this month's Drollerie Blog Tour
Had a nice massage
Scampered downtown to endure ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
mamishka and jennygriffee to see State of Play, the new Russell Crowe movie; more on this below
After the movie, solarbird came to join me so she could drive and I could have a pomegranate margarita with Jen, and we all had a pleasant hanging-out
And after that: Dara and I went and got her a shiny, shiny new BOUZOUKI!
The movie was lofty. Very solidly acted all around; Russell was as usual quite competent, and he was nicely paired off against Ben Affleck and Helen Mirrin, and the mademoiselle playing his young partner at the newspaper was good as well. Nice understated sort of thriller, and if you have any connection to the newspaper effort at all, particularly timely.
I particularly liked the dynamic between Russell's disheveled, crufty print-side reporter honour, and the bright-eyed young blogger girl who teamed up with him on the story. They had good professional chemistry and some friendly potential romantic chemistry as well; nothing's ever stated outright, but there's one amusing bit at the end where he tells her not to tell him how...
In uniting to acoustic and electric guitar, he plays clarinet, piano, saxophone, pedal steel, mandolin, and Greek bouzouki. A cofounder of the Run away from Rose
the wacky instruments, where we were expert to mingle the two roaring guitarists we have with accordion, mandolin, bouzouki, tin whistles and bagpipes.
