The year is new now, but for the last day of the old year, we took the kids over to see the fireworks at 9pm off in the distance down the street from us, down Elm to view at the public zone across Ocean Ave at Elm. Fro there, we went to check out the view of the decorations at the Performing Arts Center.
Their tree was bigger than ours (duh), but of course it wasn't real. In the past we'd walked over here around this time of year for photo ops, but this year we didn't make the journey until after 9pm on the 31st.
Later on that night, after the kids went to bed, Corrie and I watched a pair of movies that were leaving Netflix on 1/1/24. Well, we watched 1.5 movies...
First we watched the Jason Statham brain-melter "Crank," a silly action movie where his character has been poisoned and must keep his adrenaline up in order to not die. It's as bonkers as it sounds.
Then we started the sequel, "Crank 2: High Voltage," in which he somehow survived the end of the previous film (umm, okay), has his heart stolen, replaced by a fake, and the battery pack for it gets destroyed within minutes, meaning he has to regularly find electricity to zap himself with during his pursuit of his old heart. It may be the craziest action movie made in America. At midnight we went outside to ring in the new year, and upon returning to the telly to watch the last half of the film, it was already no longer available. I'd hoped that starting it would have made it possible to finish it, but alas, it didn't happen.
So I bought the double pack on DVD---just to have both for posterity's sake---and it arrived today. Rad. Soon we'll see if Chev Chelios (whatta name for Jason Statham's character!) gets his heart back. Politically incorrect, sure, but both films are wild and stupid in awesomely hilarious ways.
The night ended much later for us, as we heard commotion outside our apartment and eventually joined the fracas, which was just our floor neighbors partying. Corrie even sang karaoke, while I deferred.
Happy New Year!
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