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Yesterday, my father and I hiked around the Fells Forest (it's probably called something else) in Winchester. The weather was great, and the exercise was badly needed. The top of the hill offers a scenic vista of Boston and the Blue Hill further to the south. I even drank from a run-off stream from Winchester's reservoir and survived.
Later, we saw A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest's latest "mocumentary"). It's like This is Spinal Tap for folk music, but "Spinal Tap" was definitely a better movie. There was a total of about 10 people in the theater, and a couple left halfway through the movie. "A Mighty Wind" features the same cast as Best in Show, which explains why the movie seems a bit derivative. It's very similar to "Best in Show" in the humor and character development. I had the feeling that I had seen the movie before, only with dogs instead of folk singers. But either way, it's not a bad movie. Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest are underrated comedians, if you ask me. If you want to pass the time before The Matrix Reloaded premieres, go see "A Mighty Wind".
(How's that for a review?)Comments
By: prospect on May 14, 2003 at 10:39 a.m.
I also spent about 4 hours walking around the fells on saturday with my wife and my mother's dog (a simple gesture for mother's day).
spent about an hour on a small hill looking over long pond, reading books.
I grew up in the area and I'm glad to see that the fells is mostly intact. I'm a little disappointed with the mountain bike crowd though. some of them act like it's their trail (when often it's clearly marked as 'no bikes').
By: Dave on May 14, 2003 at 12:41 p.m.
Ha. It's funny you should mention mountain bikers. We saw a few who were "downhill only" bikers -- they struggled to make it up any hill. You can laugh to yourself as you casually walk past the panting bikers with their fancy suspension and 47 gears.