Monday, August 01, 2005
File Under "Weekend Getaways, Magical"
Went to Indianapolis to visit my friend Jeanne on Saturday. I don't know if you've ever been, but it's a delight. They have an honest-to-God monorail (it's very Epcot) and about ten million chain restaurants. Plus there are monuments to wars I'm not sure I've ever even heard of. It's a very cultural city -- they even have an IMAX movie about country music ("for country music fans and folks who just don't know it yet"). Yup, it's a city on the grow.
The main highlight of the trip, however, had to be our decision to rent the movie version of Phantom of the Opera solely to make fun of it. It did not disappoint. Emmy Rossum played Christine as though she had just been hit by a tazer, and Gerard Butler's singing sounded like a slightly less tuneful Meat Loaf. Joel Schumacher's idea of direction appears to have been to cover everything in velvet and film his stars walking excruciatingly slowly while badly lip syncing. Plus, Jeanne and I had a little theme party -- I dressed up as the Phantom, and she was, well, someone in a mask; we never quite decided. But the whole thing was simply decadent. Photos follow.
The majestic Indianapolis skyline, as viewed from the canals. Yes, they have canals. They have to import the sleeveless t-shirts somehow.
Went to Indianapolis to visit my friend Jeanne on Saturday. I don't know if you've ever been, but it's a delight. They have an honest-to-God monorail (it's very Epcot) and about ten million chain restaurants. Plus there are monuments to wars I'm not sure I've ever even heard of. It's a very cultural city -- they even have an IMAX movie about country music ("for country music fans and folks who just don't know it yet"). Yup, it's a city on the grow.
The main highlight of the trip, however, had to be our decision to rent the movie version of Phantom of the Opera solely to make fun of it. It did not disappoint. Emmy Rossum played Christine as though she had just been hit by a tazer, and Gerard Butler's singing sounded like a slightly less tuneful Meat Loaf. Joel Schumacher's idea of direction appears to have been to cover everything in velvet and film his stars walking excruciatingly slowly while badly lip syncing. Plus, Jeanne and I had a little theme party -- I dressed up as the Phantom, and she was, well, someone in a mask; we never quite decided. But the whole thing was simply decadent. Photos follow.
The majestic Indianapolis skyline, as viewed from the canals. Yes, they have canals. They have to import the sleeveless t-shirts somehow.
