Buffalo Grill

Yesterday evening my parents, along with my younger brother and his girlfriend who are up from London, came over to pick me up and we went along to a restaurant called the Buffalo Grill. It was like a steak-house place with a Wild West theme. The place was packed when we got there and we had to wait for awhile to get seated. To start I had a shrimp tempura (which was large shrimp in batter and a pot of sweet and sour sauce), for my main course I had a medium cooked chargrilled steak with a thick garlic and jalapeno sauce, salad and a side order of french fries, and for dessert I had a California Suite (which was like orage and mint and chocolate chip ice-cream topped with whipped cream, almonds and chocolate sauce with two wafers). It was a really nice meal. I had a can of Budweiser beer for my drink. The Buffalo Grill doesn't have a license to sell alcohol and so my brother had to go to the nearest shop and get some beer, mainly because he was the only one that could get out easily. However I was the only one that had any and so my brother said I could just have the rest of the beer to take home with me, so that was nice of him.

Back home I watched the second half of the second of a three part series called Comics Britannia which was about the history of British comic-books. It was quite entertaining and interesting.

This morning I went along to my parent's house as usual for my lunch, which today was salmon, peas and mashed potato witha kind of fruit dessert. It was really nice. My brother and his girlfriend had left before I arrived. The DVD of Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, which I ordered a couple of weeks ago had arrived, so that was good. The film was made in 1972 and based on a science-fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem. It's about a planet called Solaris which is almost entirely covered by a strange ocean, which is in fact a vast living "liquid brain". The story concerns a psychologist who arrives on a spacestation orbiting the planet and finds the place wrecked, one of the crew dead and the remaining three completely demoralised. It turns out that the planet has been sending them "visions" of people from their deepest dreams and memories, however the visions are entirely real and physical. The first night the psycholocgist is visited by his dead wife who comitted suicide several years earlier. It was remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh with George Clooney in the main role. The film is very good, if slow (it's about twice the length of the 2002 film).I'm off work tomorrow as well, so that should be good.