Whew, we had a full weekend here. Friday night was a bit quiet. I opened the first bottles of my Fire in the Hole brew, an intense, hoppy, big red ale. It tasted great. I alternated between in and the Frank Ellis recipe, which is also pretty big and hoppy, though pale. The two went well together, and I finished the evening with a smooth bottle of my stout. While doing this, I watched two pretty crappy movies: Welcome to Mooseport, which wasted the efforts of five pretty good actors (plus Ray Romano) with a totally predictable script. Next up was Anchorman, which could have been OK had it either been anchored more in reality, or anchored less in reality; different characters seemed to come from different dimenstions.
Saturday afternoon, Margaret and I saw Fêtes de la Nuit, at Berkeley Rep. The play was a lot of fun -- a feast for the eyes, and quite funny. I'm one who approves of onstage nudity, however brief! It's a series of skits, all set in Paris, and supposedly meant as a love letter to the city. It worked, for the most part, but at the end it didn't really add up to the sum of its parts; there being n real story and few characters that appeared throughout the play. Still, many of the segments were fun (Le Petomane is always good for laughs, and as I say I do approve of onstage nudity, especially when the nudes are as attractive as these were!
Saturday night was the monthly poker game. I lasted from 7 until 1, and ended up finishing fifth. I seem to make the final table quite a bit, but can't close the eal to end up in the money.
Finally, last night we saw Pacifica Quartet at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco. Margaret has a friend who is a big fan of this quartet, so we've seen them three times. Last night was an unusual program -- they performed the complete Quartets (five of them) of Elliott Carter. (Here's sheet music for the Quartets; more Carter sheet music is here.) It was a long evening, pretty fascinating, though I don't have the vocabulary to discuss the music, though it was fun to listen to, and a definite workout for the performers! Earlier in the day at the Jewish Community Center there was a 3-hour lecture on Carter; that would have been fascinating, but would have meant 6 hours on Elliott Carter!
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