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January 31, 2006

Mars, Music and The Coffee Contest

So. I have recently admitted to myself that I am able to make one pretty damn good cup of coffee. Actually I can make a whole pot of the good stuff ::sounding unintentionally and annoyingly like Marc Summers from Unwrapped::.

This is a major accomplishment in my life why? I'll tell you - because I come from people that quite possibly make the very worst coffee in the whole entire universe. I am not sure who initiated it, but apparently there was an ongoing contest between my parents: whoever puts the least amount of ground coffee in the filter wins. They didn't give a crap about taste or the fact that it looked like weak iced tea, the rules of the contest were all that mattered. And so it has been as far back as I can remember right up through this past weekend when I went to visit my dad at his house....where he made this coffee...and also won yet another contest trophey. ::shudder::
It really isn't hard to make good coffee, you just have to use the right amount for crying out loud.
So anyway. I am excited to have been able to overcome this legacy of crap coffee*.


In other news, I went and saw the Roving Mars IMAX with the kids last weekend. We also invited kinda eh and he brought his friend and her kids. The way I am describing it (after having read more than half of the book) is: it was not even a Cliffs Notes version of the book. And it is being compared to the book for obvious reasons. Every single thing in the movie is mentioned in the book but in exponentially greater detail. Smoochy Mocker suggested that it should have been 12 hours long. I'm down with that. And I'd be *glued* to the screen for all 12 hours if they did it [well].

Please vote for Drop Trio to perform at Austin City Limits this year.

SXSW 2006 is right around the corner. I'm all tingly.

*okay, to be fair my mom went off and married a coffee drinker that knew how to make coffee, so I have no recent horror stories from her house. I'm just picking on my dad ::smooch to dad::

Pearls of "wisdom" by Jamie at January 31, 2006 09:02 AM

Comments

I'm not sure that it's technically possible to be adhered to an IMAX screen, I don't think it's exactly solid. But you should go back just to try the coffee at the theater, now that you're going all barista on everybody.

Posted by: TheFutureMrs.JuanValdez at February 1, 2006 01:39 AM