As I sit here eating my poor polish farmer lunch of lentils and vodka it makes me nostalgic for the "fraud" dinner I prepared last night. Trader Joe's has solidified itself (at least for me) as the "Best way to Fool your Boyfriend Into Thinking You Are An Awesome Cook" standby. The food chain has fooled many people into thinking that their friends actually know what an appetizer is or that "gluten free bread is the new bubble tea."
As my sig other sits on the couch uttering phrases such as "smells delightful" I can't help but snicker as I pour a bunch of frozen vegetables and rip open a sauce packet with my bare teeth.
"How did you create such a good sauce?" My boyfriend asks.
" Trader Ming secret dude."
I can't give all the credit to Trader Joe's for a successful meal last night...we must also thank beer NOT from Trader Joe's (Sorry Trader Jose)and the accompanied viewing of a movie titled "Hesher."
Within the first fifteen minutes I made the assumption that this was going to be one of those slow paced movies where the characters never really say anything that someone would say in real life and you just want to punch them threw the TV when all they say is "okay" after after another persons goes off on a heartfelt rant.
Turns out I was a little pre-mature with my "hatin'" and it was a movie with believable characters who were truly defined by their unremarkability and Joseph Gorden-Levitt's character Hesher exsisitng only to make them visible to each other. This profound speech comes as a metaphor about a missing nut which if you ask me, metaphors don't get any better than that!
The movie has a controlled chaos with likable performances from Natalie Portman as the "nerdy cute stranger" and Rainn Wilson as the "depressed bearded dad."
Every scene in the movie is inhibited by the main character T.J. a boy of about 12. Normally this would piss me off as in many zombie movies when 5 adults "go back to get the kid" like a half of one of them comes back.Loosing 5 characters for 1? Stupid.
T.J. is angsty and has his rights to be that way. But it is his interactions with Hesher that bring him down to a bottom that he needs to be at to see what needs to happen to improve his progress in life.
Best Scene: Hesher has a "pool party."
Back to my lentils.....
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