Tonight Steph and Pete both slept at friends' houses, and Julie goes to bed very early, so Andy and I got to revisit our beloved old habit of making a grownup dinner and watching a grownup movie. We made our favorite duck and parsnip stew and then watched "Desperado." The DVD said that "El Mariachi" was on Side A, but it seemed to be all a Robert Rodriguez director's cut thingy, so we flipped it and watched "Desperado." Andy thought it seemed familiar, but it turns out that we had already seen "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," which features the same Antonio Banderas character (vigilante mariachi dude). This one had some excellent cartoon-style gratuitous violence (à la Tarantino) but was otherwise laughably dumb and predictable. We will try to watch "El Mariachi" next; apparently we didn't fast-forward far enough. In any event, it was a pleasure to once again open a bottle of wine, eat food that our kids don't like, and watch an inappropriate movie. Just like the old days.
(Update 11/22/09: Tried again this morning, but still could not find "El Mariachi" on this disc, aside from the muted version with Rodriguez narrating. Bummer! That was supposed to be the best of the three.)
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