weekend update

By anders pearson 26 Nov 2001

lani was up for the weekend :)

<p>on friday night we went out for indian food with obert, clayton and clayton&#8217;s girlfriend. then obert and lani and i went to see <b>Am&eacute;lie</b>. beautiful movie. highly recommended. Jeunet really has a way with colour and always seems to present an array of fascinatingly idiosyncratic characters. if you&#8217;ve seen <b><a href="http://www.geocities.com/falling_for_faye/chungking/">Chungking Express</a></b> by Wong Kar-Wai, take a moment after you&#8217;ve seen <b>Am&eacute;lie</b> to compare and contrast plots. should be interesting.</p>

<p>after seeing <b>Am&eacute;lie</b>, i discovered that lani hadn&#8217;t seen <b><a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118583">Alien: Resurrection</a></b> (another Jeunet film) so that went on the agenda for saturday night. then i find out that lani hadn&#8217;t seen <em>any</em> of the Alien series so some education was in order. it turned into a 6 hour Alien marathon (we skipped the third movie due to time constraints) for which gerard <a href="node.pl?nid=2673">joined us</a> for part of.</p>

<p>today lani  and i (well, lani mostly) pulled the trigger on some cheap tickets to berlin. just a quick whirlwind weekend trip the weekend after next (dec. 14th &#8211; 17th). we were both feeling a need to get the fuck off the continent for a little while. my plans are to visit <a href="http://www.miromi.org/">mimi</a>, drink some good german beer and otherwise just enjoy my first trip to europe. anyone else going to be in berlin that weekend and want to get together for a drink? any recommendations on places in berlin that should be visited at all costs?</p>