January 20, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
A four day weekend started today! What a wonderful feeling, especially because I have absolutely nothing planned for the weekend and because I have set myself some strict budget limits I am trying to make this a very austere weekend as well. Funny how you become much more aware of the need to save money once your savings have been wiped out. Especially with likely further maintenance costs on the building it's important to put some money in the piggy bank again. Sure, I'll have a holiday payment coming in in April and hopefully a four digit tax return some time in May... but I wouldn't be surprised if those amounts would vanish into house repairs as well.
What I did do today was treat myself to a film in The Movies film theatre. Next week the International Film Festival Rotterdam will start and as a 'Tiger Friend' I had the advantage of being able to order film tickets for the Festival before the general public was able to buy them (namely last night) but after some consideration, and again for austerity reasons, I decided to give the festival a miss this year. That's too bad, but given the uncertainty of house expenses also quite unavoidable.
I did spend 10 euros to go see J. Edgar today though. It's a film by Clint Eastwood about the life and times of the man who was the FBI's first and longest serving (no less that 48 years) director J. Edgar Hoover. I really enjoyed the film, and got caught up in the story from the first minute basically. To my delight Judi Dench played the role of mother of J. Edgar Hoover. Even in his lifetime there were rumours that J. Edgar Hoover was gay. He never married and his assistant Clyde was always by his side, even on holidays. Of course the film touches on that topic. It also claims J. Edgar loved to cross dress but that "fact" is disputed by many people. An altogether very enjoyable film! Much to my shock I saw afterwards that the title was played by Leonardo DiCaprio. I had completely not recognised him. Then again, Titanic is probably the last film I saw by him, so I sort of lost touch with his career. He played the role very well though, no matter what some of the reviews I read about the film said. The picture, of Brouwersgracht, was taken as I walked back home after the film.
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