I’ve watched too many G-rated movies this week. I need some adult entertainment. Good thing it’s almost time for my yearly Blockbuster Online frenzy.
I liked this movie about as much as I liked Chicken Run. Coincidentally, both Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit were created by the same person, so that probably explains my equal enjoyment of them. I’m finding that British humor just isn’t my cup of tea. No pun intended.
After Chicken Run was over last night, we watched Dane Cook’s Vicious Circle. I used to watch stand up comedy all of the time, but have gotten away from it in recent years (due to time constraints, I guess), so I was not familiar with any of his routines. Heck, I only just heard of him this year. The show started off kind of slow, but as the show went on, it got funnier and funnier. Anytime I cry not once, but twice, from laughing so hard, it’s well worth the time spent. I’ll definitely be checking out more of his stuff.
Continuing with this week’s chicken theme…we had this for supper tonight. It was so good. I made it once before years ago and I’m not quite sure why I waited so long to make it again. I got to use a bunch of fresh (and some frozen) herbs from my garden in the preparation of this dish, so I guess this isn’t something I’ll be making again this year. My garden cleanup is almost done for the year. All I have left are a few herbs, my pepper plants, and a lone Brussels sprout plant. The herbs have been trimmed back, but they almost always have some growth on them (unless it is snowing); the pepper plants are still producing so I’ll let them go until the frost kills them; and the Brussels sprout plant will continue growing until it gets too cold. I’m sure that will be sooner than I’d like.
It must be family film week. We watched our 2nd G-rated movie tonight, Chicken Run. The movie was fine for the genre, but I was expecting to enjoy it more than I did. Maybe it was because I was trying to do some other things and it didn’t have my full attention. In any case, I liked Chicken Little more. But, this movie did make me hungry for chicken potpie. I guess I’ll have to put that on the menu.
Jake and I watched this movie tonight. It was his second screening of the film–my mom had taken him to see it when it was released. For a kid’s movie, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t anywhere as good as Shrek or The Incredibles, or any other films of that ilk. Still, we had a good time watching it and Jake pointed out all of the “good parts” before they happened, so I didn’t miss anything. I made a big vat of popcorn and he ate a surprisingly large amount of it, but we still managed to save some for Brian, who just arrived home a few minutes ago.