a late report on last weekend's long weekend before this weekend officially begins:

i attended 3 films for the pv film fest; little miss sunshine (i know, i know--it was already out in theatres during the summer in canada and it's most likely available on dvd by now--nevertheless, i loved it and i loved the soundtrack); en el hoyo (in the pit), which was cool--it was a documentary about construction workers building a freeway in mexico city, and it was screened for free outdoors at los arcos, the arches on the malecon...they should have free screenings there every weekend...it was an awesome idea; the last film i saw at the fest was a documentary on leonard cohen that kind of made me all misty-eyed about cdn musicians...it was well made; a concert where the likes of the wainwrights (rufus, martha, their mother and aunt), nick cave, beth orton and jarvis cocker singing interpretations of cohen's songs was interspersed w/ interviews w/ the artists as well as cohen himself. at the very end, cohen sang "tower of song" w/ U2 as his backing band. pretty satisfying. the man is a genuine poet w/ a well-timed sense of humour, which in my opinion is one of the best combinations a writer could possibly have.

i still remember when i took that "intro to english lit" course in first year and one of the girls in my class announced that she was leonard cohen's niece while we were studying his song, "suzanne." my prof's eyes almost popped out of his head and he just about kow-towed before her. it was pretty hilarious.

what else...
on thursday, tj, lisa and i attended this avant garde-ish event called intimidad (intimacy)...it was a "sound art" thing where we were blindfolded and led to couches up on the roof of de santos where we sat and listened to different soundscapes (a girl screaming and crying, an underwater "captain nemo"-ish scene, the requisite sex sounds, jungle noise, etc, etc.) for about 30 mins.
my dj friend made some music for it and gave us invitations (that we didn't really need since the waitstaff there totally recognizes us by now and just let us through). the whole night in general was a good diversion--something a little different from the usual mundane nightlife motions we tend to go through.

friday was spent as a zombie recovering from the night before, having the consistently-good 2 p.m. brunch at kit kat in old town, and sleeping sleeping sleeping.

lisa and i spent saturday night checking out the two new resto-lounges in town while everyone else went to yelapa. our conclusions: azul is perfect for decent sushi (available 'til 4 a.m.!) that is consumed on a rooftop with a gorgeous view...the design of that place is quite impressive--lots of nice little details.
z-tai is a breath of fresh air when it comes to options directly on the malecon...we met the manager as well as the chef that night and everybody seemed very friendly and accommodating.
the music at both venues could be improved (some of it was random as anything--new order's "blue monday" followed immediately afterwards by REM's "losing my religion"? weird!), but at least now we have a couple of options other than freakin' de santos.

we have a week and a half left before christmas holidays begin...i think tj and i are gonna travel to places like cuernavaca, puebla and finally mexico city...back to the centre of this country!
it's gonna be my first christmas and new year's away from home. without snow. it's pretty trippy staring at palm trees here, fully knowing that it's december.