Start the Carnival without me!

I'm just getting over a cold or the flu or something. The result was giving up the usual pre-Lenten revelry. What's more, my need to be in class early tomorrow morning is the main reason I won't be at the Cat's Eye Pub in Baltimore tonight, for the ultimate local Mardi Gras thing.

But a new movie opens this weekend, a film by Michael Schorr entitled Schultze Gets The Blues. It seems that...

"Schultze has spent his whole life in a small town in Saxon-Anhalt near the river Saale. Schultze's life, divided between work and the pub, the allotment, folk music and fishing, is rudely interrupted when he and his mates Manfred and J?rgen are made redundant. As entropy sets in and maintaining the daily routine deteriorates into a farce, Schultze discovers a life on the other side of the hill."

Check out the trailer. It's the next best thing to being there.