It's Winter!

Spent the whole afternoon hanging out at Todd and Sarah's - Todd was taking the day off, or as we used to say, playing hooky. Though, he says he wasn't feeling well - we sat around and talked like we havn't had the chance to do in a while, and i was reminded why he was one of the first new friends i made when i moved to Burlington. We sat around and talked very openly about whatever, this and that, and how crappy (/freakin' beautiful) it was outside, and i felt great sitting around inside a warm house knowing i had nothing better to be doing.
We decided on renting a few movies and inviting some people over, sorta last minute but neither of us wanted to go to band practice, with ben being away, it just doesn't feel right - so we rented this documentary about Guided by Voices and this pseudo-documentary (a la Man bites Dog, repleat with sound guy killing in-humor.) called "Punishment Park".
JB came over and so did Michele, JB brought a 12 pack of Budweiser, and Michele brought 3 glasses and bottle of wine - Sarah brought Orange juice and somekind of thick green kiwi blend - she also let me have some of her homemade mac-and-cheese, that was made with 2 year old aged shelburne farm's x-tra sharp chedda! what cool friends i have.
The movies were all ok - i don't think anyone really liked Punishment park, i can't say i did either but it was interesting at least, though a little heavy handed with the message, yeah i get it, the man is trying to keep us down, i dig, word. But i figure that when it was made, it was right in the middle of all that violence and oppression and i feel like it a deserves a little respect 30 years later, for attempting to do something more than just exploit the youth culture of the times. It's real easy to sit in a cozy room, and watch and judge... it did have suprisingly good production values, though some of the acting was a little over the top... whatever, the GBV documentary was pretty sweet, lots of cigarette smoking and cut-off jean shorts, and at least now i don't hate them so damn much for making all those impossible to listen to b-side/rarity compilations that Herb insists on playing constantly at work - HOT FREAKS!