Boston's shiggy hash is...

...don't know, didn't make it.
So Saturdee night Monthly Cycle and I went out to see The Dark Knight, which is a damn splendid film. Heath Ledger is (was?) the Joker and made that movie his. I almost feel that without his performance, the movie would have simply been a shell of what it was. Without giving away too much, (if you don't want any spoilers, skip ahead to the next para) the make-up team nailed Loeb's Two-Face style from A Dark Victory and the writers used a very convincing variation of Moore's The Killing Joke story to re-construct some of Two-Face's orgin. I also noticed elements of The Long Halloween and Year One in place. Superb screenplay, done well by the actors. I still feel that Bale grits his teeth a bit too much doing his gruff Batman voice, but I may be picking hares.
Nolan's director style felt like it jumped around a little bit, but his shot placement and certain sequences more than made up for it. In particular, when The Joker was blowing up a building in drag and driving the stolen police car down the streets. Very strongly done.
Cycle is a damn good cook.
So, the next morning we left extremely late for the hash (my fault, admittedly), and on the way figured that it just wasn't going to be worth it. She had schoolwork to do and I needed to get a hold of my bud from Flat4 to hang out. So instead we stopped by a bar called "The Alchemist" and ordered a beer.
While chatting and drinking on the patio it started to drizzle. The waitresses asked if we wanted to come inside, but we figured it was just a little water and we'd be cool.
About 10 or 15 minutes later it went from drizzle to torrential downpour. The umbrellas did little to stop the rain and we were soaked in minutes.
At which point the waitresses asked again if we'd like to come inside.
Silly them, that AC would've frozen us! We were wet anyway and getting a huge kick out of the lightning and thunder going on right over our heads (who said head?). So fuck it, we're just going to order another beer and enjoy this freak weather for all we can!
Meanwhile, random JP Boston dude comes off a bus and comments how kick ass the weather is. We naturally invite him to get a beer and join us outside.
It rains more.
It stops raining.
The sun comes out.
I drive Cycle home where we chill for a couple hours before I leave her to her schoolwork and I take off to Stroughton to meet with a good bud of mine from back in Vegas who lives out here now. A little later today I'm going to meet up with another F4 pal and hit a car show.
Flat4LV FTW!