More Texas...

Just as a follow up to my last Blog I gotta mention that I am continuously amazed at the number of huge battleship-like pick-up trucks in the state of Texas. Just about every vehicle on the road is either a pick-up or an SUV. The Houston show went pretty well. Super Happy Funland is a very strange but cool place. I just left Dallas and am now in Denton. What is with Houston and Dallas. These are huge cities which have almost no music scene. Dallas especially. That should be a thriving city but even the one little area that used to have stuff going on (Deep Ellum) is pretty much close to disappearing. There is hardly any place to play anymore and those places that do exist aren't that exciting. I did take the opportunity to catch up on some movies. What else is there to do but go to the mall and do a little theatre hopping (please don't turn me in!). I saw Darjeeling limited which I thought was excellent. For some reason it's gotten lots of negative criticism but I thought it looked beautiful and had the kind of characters with whom I was happy to spend my time. I also saw Gone Baby, Gone which had some potential but was kind of flawed. Strangely enough I thought the flaws had little to do with the direction and acting (Gotta give some props to the Afflecks) but more to do with the story. For something that was trying to be super realistic I thought there were a few leaps of stupidity I wasn't sure I could buy. Spoiler alert! When they go alone to the quarry I just wasn't buying it and the whole thing with the kid being alive was a little too obvious and I just wasn't buying the number of sacrifices these guys were making. In any case it was entertaining. I also watched Eastern Promises which was pretty mediocre. If you've got absolutely nothing else to do it was ok but it doesn't go too far and didn't really feel like a full length movie.