Today, Vicki and I went to Beers of the World to spend her Groupon. I got a variety of different beers, and I’m going to be mentioning them here just so I can look them up for next time.
Today’s beer was “Uerige”. I bought it because I was trying to remember a beer a German co-worker brought me from Germany back in the early 1980s when I was working at the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. It was a really nice beer, and I would probably buy it again. But it turns out that what I was remembering was Lohrer Urtyp 1878 beer. And it’s not listed on the Beers of the World web site. Oh well, maybe they’ll have that some day.
The other good thing was the movie “Battle : Los Angeles”. A few months ago, we went to see “Skyline”, and actually to tell you the truth, I’d originally thought “Skyline” was the movie I’d seen the really cool trailer for, but it turns out that “Battle : Los Angeles” (BLA) was that movie. “Skyline” suuuuuuuucked. It was just awful. I kept thinking “these people are horrible and unlikable, why don’t you show us what the Marines are doing?” BLA was the movie I was hoping for in Skyline. It was all about the Marines. And it wasn’t just better than Skyline, it was good. Yeah, it was escapist, yeah it was cliched in places, yeah you spend the first 20 minutes trying to play “match the noble death to the flawed but fundamentally good character”, yeah the scientific principle that aliens would invade for our water was laughable, but it was still engaging and fun.