BRING ON THE WEEKEND >>>
Normally, weekends are cool. I mean, for the average Monday-through-Friday, nine-to-five schmo, weekends are all we have - our glimmer of freedom in an otherwise tortuous, cubicle-filled world.
This weekend, though, IS EVEN BETTER. Not only are we given the usual two days of freedom - there's an extra hour thrown in for good measure! Day Light Savings kicks so much ass in the fall! Thanks George Vernon Hudson!
With that, it's time for The Prefunk - a weekly weekend guide to fun for you and your liver (with a picture of an alcoholic household pet thrown in for good measure).
Saturday & Sunday at the Pantages Theater
Warren Miller skiing (and now snowboarding) movies have been around since what seems like the beginning. As long as there has been fresh powder, it feels like Warren Miller Entertainment has been documenting it with yearly snow-porn like features, regularly drawing the ski-bums out in hordes to the theaters for a hype stirring start to the ski season.
Though Warren Miller sold his company years ago, and has even been sued by it since, the tradition continues. This weekend Warren Miller Entertainment's newest flick, Wintervention, will show Saturday and Sunday at the Pantages Theater in Tacoma. Narrated by ski legend Jonny Mosley, and capturing on film some of the most out-of-the-way ski heavens on earth, Wintervention promises to follow the tracks Warren Miller Entertainment films have been carving since the company's inception.
If you've already got the itch for the chairlifts to start running, find a way to make it to one of three showings this weekend. Saturday Wintervention will show at 6 and 9 p.m., and on Sunday it'll show at 5 p.m.
PREFUNK: Most skiers and snowboarders, or at least most skiers and snowboarders I'd care to take a few runs with, have a time-tested method of sneaking swigs of bourbon or hits from a Proto-Pipe while bundled on a chair lift or tucked behind a tree on the edge of the slope. It's part of the game. Though the professionals captured on Wintervention surely stay clear-headed while rocketing down untouched bowls of orgasmic powder, the skiers and snowboarders I kick it with stay a little cloudy while maintaining the ability to enjoy Washington's crusty, icy, sometimes even rainy slopes. A flask or sneak-a-toke is often key in this pursuit.
But, why wait until the season opens to unleash your sneak-a-buzz technique? Just like your skis need waxed and your muscles need prepped in advance of the coming season, so does your secret-drinking-and/or-pipe-hitting skill. Prior to Warren Miller Entertainment's Wintervention at the Pantages, take a few minutes do work the rust off.