1 Restaurant & 2 Films

I had dinner w/ Dawn last night at Izakaya Sanpei, in Canton. She & I have been talking about going there for ages; it's the best Japanese place I've ever been to: the pricing is good, the food is fantastic & the staff is always super-friendly. I've been going there w/ my family for 10 years or so, but this was the first time I ever went w/ just one other person. Here's a little link for you: some family photos my brother apparently up-loaded a while back. You get to see my kids eating there last fall. Going there last night was a great choice. I highly recommend it. After dinner, she went to meet up w/ a friend & I went to Amy's (you know... the person I met at Oberon Day & whose bathroom I puked in a couple weeks ago) to watch a movie.

We watched Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic, which is fucking hilarious. I'd heard mixed things about it, but I think the people who didn't like it just have a hard time w/ her delivery. If you've ever seen her, you'll know she doesn't set up jokes like most comedians; she's much drier & off-handed. That doesn't stop her from making comments that would normally be seen as racist though. However, there's something to her delivery that makes it all seem sarcastic or ironic. Kind of like Colbert's ability to deliver conservative jokes every night, while it's obvious he doesn't believe what he's saying. Now I'll give you a couple of the musical number from the movie, "I Love You More" & "The Porn Song." Be sure to check those out... if I didn't know you all better, I'd warn you that you'll be offended, but I doubt you will.

After Jesus is Magic, we watched Shortbus. Georgina talked about it when it was in theaters last fall, but I'd forgotten about it until yesterday. It's a fantastic postmodern look at sexuality, & it's made w/ all first-time actors. It's directed by John Cameron Mitchell who also made Hedwig and the Angry Inch, & apparently, all the sex scenes, & there are a lot of them, are real, including the guy cumming in his own mouth, which Amy said she thought was just an urban myth. To top it off, he didn't even break his neck like Randell's cousin in Clerks.