Recap of the last 3 days
Life in BA:
For the last 3 days I have been trapped in my departamento, not because of any protests or outbreaks; but because of my own doing. Apparently my skills in the kitchen are quite good, in that they invoke vivid hallucinations that leave you bedridden for days. Who would have thought that some undercooked chicken would create such vivid dreams! So, for the most part of the last 3 days I have been ‘resting’ in my bed trying to get over yet another fever. This would be fever #3 since I arrived in S America, all 3 are to be blamed on questionable food choices. The first was lamb in Chile, the second was on our way from BsAs to Santiago to home, and now the (hopefully) final chapter.
In between dreams, I have been catching up on some movies that I just haven’t had time to absorb. Throw this in with some recent celebrity deaths, that are celebrated by replaying the same 3 clips over and over on CNN Espanol and you have a strange few days.
Due to a recent onset of mild food poisoning I am restricted to our departamento to recover. It is my fault after all. Anyways, instead of scouting out the hottest milongas and restobars in this fine city, this week I am committed to delivering you my reviews of the movies watched during my recovery from self-induced food-sickness to, ummm…..health…
I also have some photos, from last weekend when Melissa and I wandered to the Jardin Japones. A beautiful park wedged inside Palermo, it is a peaceful place to visit in an otherwise hectic place. It still doesn’t replace going camping on the weekends but it is still ‘relatively’ peaceful.
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Now onto the movies:
The Spirit: Comic-book based film a la Sin City. The visuals are stunning, story is interesting… but having watched Dark City recently I can’t help but think the sci-fi urban story has been done better before.
Vals Im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir): A great animated account of the Isreali invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s. To really understand what is going on, bone up on the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Another perpective from the Isreali side is offered in the book From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas L. Freidman.
Garbage-The revolution starts at home: by filmmaker Andrew Nisker, this movie gives an average Torontonian family a challenge: how much garbage will you collect in 90 days? The film goes on to explore where our garbage goes, where our power comes from, and given the fact that there is an ongoing garbage strike in Toronto it makes you think what do we do when the Garbage man doesn’t come every week??
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