Weddings, Vampires and Beer... OH MY!

The Happy Newlyweds, Clark and Kim CONGRATS CLARK AND KIM!
It was another fun filled and activitiy packed weekend and like all good weekends it flew by. It was also a weekend filled with wedding news and parties. Friday night we had dinner at the Panda Buffet (surprise), Jenne had a girls' night out with our neighbors, Laureen and Hansa. I drank Sake and watched Anime. Saturday I received a phone call from my long time friend, Tom. We spent a good hour catching up and he told me that he and his partner Don were married in Canada during the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto a few weeks back. Congrats guys. Now they are a legally recognized married couple in both the Great White North and Vermont. Unfortunately it still doesn’t do them any good in Maryland.
Saturday afternoon and into the evening we attended a reception for our friends Clark and Kim to celebrate their wedding in St. Lucia six months ago. I was the official photographer for the party. We had a great time and they sure put out the spread. Great food, great drinks and most importantly great company. We heard many amusing stories and Clark was telling a honeymoon story of something being "this big". Maybe it was a fish. Whatever it was I am sure he was exaggerating and I couldn't get any confirmation from Kim. Oh well. At the party I met a great, great nephew of Confederate General James Longstreet. That was kind of special.

After the party Jenne returned to her studies and I headed out to do some night photography. I was thwarted in my attempts by the weather. When I found some interesting subjects the weather decided to pour rain on me. I bagged the idea and went home. A late Saturday night turned into Sunday morning and I crawled into bed around 2:00 AM. Slept in late, got up and had brunch with God at the 11:00 AM service. Getting home from that it was back on the road to Silver Spring to meet Larry for a matinee of Underworld. Okay, I know it is cliche to say that a vampire movie sucks or that a werewolf movie is for the dogs, but I am going to say it anyway. Oh, I already did. I would love to be able to say that this movie was like a blending of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Matrix, but to be quite honest it's not. The vamps in this film are all Goth-kid rejects from high school. I wish that Spike, Angel and Buffy had shown up in this flea-ridden flick to add some life and a decent plot to it. I had heard conflicting reviews of this film from friends and others. Some said it sucked and others said it was good. To those who said it was good I have one question? What in the hell were smoking or shooting up when you saw this piece of vampire bat guano?! This is the kind of film my dad would rave about as being a fine piece of cinema. The creators of Underworld totally rewrote and recreated vampire and werewolf lore to fit their own very weak gun tooting vamp lady meets and falls in love with wolf tramp Romeo and Juliet story. The vampires in this flick all have reflections in every bit of glass in the film. Mirrors, windows, PC monitors. In this "story" vamps can also mate and have babies and they can mate with the werewolves. Can you say doggie style!? I knew you could. OH and vampires can also be killed with bullets now thanks to the new science of encapsulated ultraviolet radiation. In other words the bullets contain bits of sunshine! They take a brief minute to explain that these bullets are a new weapons technology developed by the military!!! Who's military and for what purpose? Oh yeah, the purpose of moving this weak ass story along and giving them an excuse to have raging gun fight after raging gun fight and avoiding any martial arts, wodden spikes, garlic, wolves bane or any other traditional vamp and wolf killing. Did I mention that the CGI sucked and that they shot the entire flick through a blue filter? No. Well it did and they did. This film didn't need a flea color it needed a flea bath. This puppy should be put to sleep. It put the guy in front of us to sleep. He snored. Larry and I could not help but laugh through this entire movie. We had to laugh to cover up the snoring and the cell phones. If you are in Silver Spring and want to see a movie go somewhere else, as the AMC theatres on Colesville Road in the heart of Silver Spring suck worse than the vampires in this flick. In spite of it all Larry and I had a great time making fun of a bad film so we do not feel that the cost of a matinee ticket was wasted. My advice is to wait for it to be available as a rental and then rent something else, unless you really do want to see a bad vamp/wolf action flick. Oh it's not even worth seeing for the chick in the tight vinyl outfit. You see all of her tight butt you're going to see in the trailer as they keep it covered up with a cape. Honestly she's not that hot to begin with and she couldn't act her way out of a paper coffin. There's also no good cleavage shots in this flick. The one vamp chick that does wear low cut outfits doesn't have even a modest balcony, let alone a balcony that you could do Shakespeare from. The skin factor in this flick is ZERO! So if you're looking for tits and 'splosions you can forget it. By the way all of the better FX shots are in the trailer. After the film we tried to find a bar to have a drink and talk about the film. If you're in Silver Spring on a Sunday and you want a drink go somewhere else. All the bars were closed even the Irish Pub! Well I headed home to watch the Baltimore Ravens beat themselves in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Very sad. I went to the fridge to grab a beer and guess what... NO BEER!!! ARGH!!! Well that's the weekend. Now it's back to the SLJ and then after work a quick stop at the liquor store. Happy, happy, joy, joy.