national bike to work day
how’d everyone do? I drove because it was raining and because I had my radio show before hand. Not much of an excuse, I know.
I bike 3-4 times a week to work, on average, though. That counts for something, right?
5/19/2005
feber pitch
Andyl and I saw Fever Pitch on Sunday Night. I liked it.
It’s a movie about a fanatical Red Sox fan (Jimmy Fallon) and his priorities with new non-Red Sox fan girlfriend (Drew Barrymore) based on a book about a fanatical soccer fan.
It’s by the Farrelly brothers (Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber), so there is some gratuitous (and funny) bathroom humor, but mostly it’s a love song to the Red Sox and their 2004 season. And something of a love story between Fallon and Barrymore too.
Both Andyl and I came out of the movie, somewhat strangely for a movie about a team and a girl, very nostalgic for Boston. I knew where Drew Barrymore’s character lived (based on the First Baptist Church, at the corner of Comm Ave and Clarendon, you see as Jimmy Fallon leaves her apartment); it’s probably around 93 Marlborough. That was about a five minute walk from tEp; fenway was about a fifteen minute walk. It’s all very familiar.
Caveats to my liking this movie:
- I like the Red Sox.
- I like Boston.
- I like Jimmy Fallon (but even that couldn’t get me to watch Taxi)
- I like Drew Barrymore.