Elizabethtown

Two Friday the Thirteenth's in a row.
March 13, 2009. A good day. Maybe even lucky depending on your P.O.V.

Beautiful pre-Spring day in Chico. Day off from work and I chose to make it a real day off. (i.e. I only ran two errands for work and only did one load of laundry).

Don and I went to lunch at a (new to us) restaurant, El Patron on Notre Dame Blvd. Really very good. Glad I only ordered their mini-burrito because it was very un-mini and very tasty. We ran our errands at Office Depot and Bed, Bath, Beyond and the post office. Then we went to Fusion T-Bar. Luckily, it turned out to be Happy Hour and we got our tea beverages for 1/2 off the usual price. The place was filled with young people spilling out onto the patio sipping their iced tea drinks and chatting happily on their cell phones with each other.
(I am eager to bring Dharlene Fahl-Brittain up here to see this store dedicated to unique teas).

Perhaps the luckiest piece of the day is having rented a film called, "Elizabethtown." released in 2005. I don't know how we missed it but happily, I caught a trailer for it and added it to my Netflix queue. It is now one of my favorite quirky slice o' life films of all-time.

Cameron Crowe is really a wonderful director who has a unique way with his characters, his dialogue and how he uses music. And to me, you could see that his fabulous ensemble of actors agree.

The other iteresting little tidbit about seeing this film tonight is that I had just spent a long conversation with my friend Jessi who lives in Louisville, Kentucky about taking a trip to see her later this year. And also within the film, there was a clip from "Roman Holiday"--which we had just seen; and, the music "Moon River" from the film, "Breakfast Tiffany's" that we had also just watched. Both Audrey Hepburn films within the past two weeks before seeing this one. Okay, so maybe I am stretching the little synchroquirks but after all, it is Friday the 13th.