boys on the side movie

 this morning i watched a DVD movie, 'boys on the side'. i recognized whoopi goldberg, drew barrymore, and matt mcconaughey in it. this was a road movie, for a while. they start out in new york city, pick up drew's character in pittsburgh, and then they get to tucson. much of the movie takes place in tucson, after one of the ladies gets sick. the music in it was good, liked seeing 'dreams' by the cranberries in it. other notables were seeing the indigo girls performing in it, a music act i have seen in concert at the minnesota zoo in apple valley. and there was 2 versions of 'you got it', whoopi sang one of them and the other was in the closing credits and sang by bonnie raitt. i liked finding out how roy orbison co-wrote it, i knew he had performed his own version of it. at times it felt like the movie was too long, i am aware the running time was nearly 2 hours. part of the storyline was how one character was trying to re-create this road trip from her childhood, and there was flashbacks to it. the movie was all right but i have seen better road movies than this one. it was just as much a 'chick flick' as it is a road movie. 

i got some things ordered this morning before starting the movie, one of them was an amazon order of a charlie brown DVD. i am still narrowing the list of those specials that i don't have yet, but now i am basically down to the hardest to find once this one arrives. either only on VHS or australian editions. the other was a ticket to get to 'the state's museum', minnesota history center in st. paul, in october to see the exhibit about the music venue known as first avenue. i did watch some pro football in the afternoon, first game was bears-falcons, bears came from behind to win it 30-26. then i went on a walk and found 48 cents, cowboys-seahawks was the second game but i didn't watch much of it. i did see 'the simpsons' episode in the evening, mr. burns goes under-cover at the nuclear plant. it was nice finishing up the popcorn left over from attending opera the previous day, as it reminded me of my family having this snack on sunday when i was young. i am still trying to finalize plans for attending oktoberfest in new ulm, checking their schedules and having some numbers to call.