Posted in BonVivant on 02/22/2005 04:56 am by Queenkv
OK - I’ve been slacking on my personal reviews of DC food and movies…so, time to play catch.
A few weeks ago - I had a craving for Indian food…I asked around at the Press Club for some hints…they sent us towards Dupont Hell…I mean Dupont Circle…we found Indique.
Since it’s lent and it was a Friday - Indian food is always a safe bet for veggie dishes. The main entrees went for anywhere between $12-$20…but the small plates were under $7. I had mussels in curry leaves and coconut soup….yum. The soup was rich, chock fully of veggies and the mussles easily slid off the shells. We also split the calamari ullarthiyathe - tossed with shallots, giner, hot pepper and mustard seeds. I snatched a few patties from Mark’s Aloo Tikki….oh yeah, also good….small potato patties stuffed with spiced lentils. Not as filling as I expected - but the patties made a good side dish.
We also saw Sideways by Alexander Payne (same guy who directed Elections with Resse Witherspoon)….This film made me homesick. The two blokes take a road trip up to Santa Barabra wine country, the weekend before a wedding. They took the 101 up to Solvang and San Luis Obispo….they even passed the Peasoup Andersen’s. Lot’s of good memories…and now I want to follow in these guys’ footsteps to all the vineyards they visited. They had this great conversation about wine, between Miles and his love interest. They talked about wine, pinot noir, like the liquid was human.
[from http://www.tribute.ca/]
We also saw Hotel Rwanda - Don Cheadle is awesome in this film!!!
[from zap2it.com]
It’s a powerful film - not graphic…but it leaves a lot of the genoicde up to the imagination…especially in that one scene when Cheadle’s character is driving through the fog. It’s a great story about the human spirit…and the motivation to help other people. I’m happy they made this film.
Since Oscar Night is around the corner….here are the movies up for consideration….we’ll know more on Sunday night 
Best Motion Picture of the Year
THE AVIATOR (Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group and Warner Bros.)
Nominees are still to be determined.
A Forward Pass/Appian Way/IMF Production
FINDING NEVERLAND (Miramax)
Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower, Producers
A FilmColony Production
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Warner Bros.)
Nominees are still to be determined.
A Warner Bros. Pictures Production
RAY (Universal)
Nominees are still to be determined.
A Universal Pictures/Bristol Bay Production
SIDEWAYS (Fox Searchlight/20th Century Fox)
Michael London, Producer
A SIDEWAYS Productions, Inc. Production
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Posted in dreams on 02/22/2005 04:43 am by Queenkv
we visited Kane and his family in Western PA - for President’s Day Weekend….it snowed a bit, but it was a relaxing trip. We got caught up on our Battlestar Galactica episodes…we missed last Friday because of a party through one of Steph’s artistic friends.
So we played with the kids - I visited my first WalMart Superstore…my God! It’s big…unnecessarily so….and we got a tour of Kane’s brick plant. We learned how to make bricks.
So this weekend…I also had a dream.
I dreamnt I was warming up for another competition - at an outdoor rink. It was a huge rink and it didn’t have as many people on the ice. I didn’t have a coach. I passed my old coach, Sashi, on my way to the railing. He muttered hi and moved on his way. I stepped onto the ice and got my blood pumping with some laps around the rink and waltz jumps.
Then I went through all my jumps. I could still jump. That shocked me. I went over to the board and saw one of my journalism professors. He said he will be my coach for this competition. I told him he didn’t know anything about skating and he agreed. I decided to ignore him and take care of my own warm-up.
I ended up on the far end of the rink. After a while, I realized I couldn’t see anybody on the ice. It was empty. I got off and saw a sign pointing to the competition site. So I jumped off the ice and put some guards on my blades. The competition was held across the street - so I ran over there. It looked like the tiny Ontario rink on Holt Ave. But that was just on the outside….Inside - the ice was Olympic size. I saw my warm-up group. The volunteer was counting the competitors before the competition started. It looked like they were waiting for me.
I was first to skate. I wasn’t scared.
And that’s all…I wonder what it means.
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