This past weekend I headed down to Washington DC to visit my two best friends from college. It was a welcome getaway following what was an otherwise rather stressful week. This is also the first time that I decided to head down to DC not for some work/conference related reason, but instead purely to visit friends and have fun.
In addition to significant amounts of imbibing, reveling, and board games (Forbidden Island, Dixit, Small World), one big highlight was our trip to the National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia, where we caught the new James Bond movie, "Skyfall", in the museum's imax theatre. This was exciting for me not only because I had never seen a regular movie in imax (I've only seen Planetarium-type films), but also because I believe I've only ever seen one Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, which has a rather tame Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. Now Bond is played by the much more convincingly-badass Daniel Craig. Despite the need to suspend your disbelief in order to ignore many plot loopholes, the movie was incredibly entertaining.
On Tuesday night, a couple of friends and I headed down to the Paradise Rock Club to catch Dan Deacon. He puts on a terrific show, including creating a human tunnel out the front door and back in a side door, as well as the use of a smart phone app that makes your phone flash certain colors based upon (presumably) certain frequencies that the microphone receives as input. The result was a song where the audience was lighting up with all sorts of crazy colors as they danced and the band played. What a fantastic idea.
In addition to significant amounts of imbibing, reveling, and board games (Forbidden Island, Dixit, Small World), one big highlight was our trip to the National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia, where we caught the new James Bond movie, "Skyfall", in the museum's imax theatre. This was exciting for me not only because I had never seen a regular movie in imax (I've only seen Planetarium-type films), but also because I believe I've only ever seen one Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, which has a rather tame Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. Now Bond is played by the much more convincingly-badass Daniel Craig. Despite the need to suspend your disbelief in order to ignore many plot loopholes, the movie was incredibly entertaining.
On Tuesday night, a couple of friends and I headed down to the Paradise Rock Club to catch Dan Deacon. He puts on a terrific show, including creating a human tunnel out the front door and back in a side door, as well as the use of a smart phone app that makes your phone flash certain colors based upon (presumably) certain frequencies that the microphone receives as input. The result was a song where the audience was lighting up with all sorts of crazy colors as they danced and the band played. What a fantastic idea.
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