Dinner & a Show Post 1: Delpy and Damascus

Blog post #1, here goes.

I am aware that usually it's dinner and a show, but we mixed things up tonight by hitting the show then dinner. It's a good plan, because then we could talk about the movie at dinner. It's genius I tell you!

The show was 2 Days in Paris - Julie Delpy's new film. You'll probably recognize her from Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. The movie played out almost like a Linklater written comedy. Adam Goldberg's character played a great foil to Delpy's neurotic French artist eccentricities. Overall it was enjoyable and quite humorous in parts. In my 10 minute deconstruction following the film I surmised that it was mostly about the truly important things happening in this world (war, racism, Bush's policies, American perceptions abroad) vs. the microcosm of your own life. I'm not sure what the overall thesis was, but this seems to be the ground it was treading. My only complaints are that Delpy didn't interweave some stylistic elements into the film as seamlessly as I'm sure she would have liked and at points her exposition is overdone. Overall it was a good flick , plus Alejandro Jodorowski's son was in it. Can you imagine growing up with Jodorowski as your dad?

Dinner was at Damascus, a Middle Eastern Restaurant which is located just south of 1-25 and Colorado. I hadn't been there before, I've been to a few other Middle Eastern restaurants in the mile high city, but not this one. Damascus was a pleasant surprise. It's located in a pretty beat up strip mall, but getting out of there for $20 after ordering the vegetarian combo platter, a falafel sandwich, and dolmas was a steal. The food is good, I'd say definitely better than Jerusalem, and on par, if not a little bit better, than Shish Kabob Cafe on Colfax. Damascus wins in the baba ghanouj category, but the prize for hummus goes to the reigning champ Shish Kabob Cafe. I'm not sure what they do to their hummus, but it's either a secret you wouldn't want to know or it's illegal. Service -wise Damascus wins, a kind older man that mumbled when he spoke was our wait staff and it was quite endearing.