I've got a lot of blog posts to finish up and make live, but first, I want to brag about what I did today - because to me - it was the kind of day I love having.
G had to leave by 10am this morning to make it to work on time. It was really great hanging out for 5! days straight and we didn't drive each other crazy. That's a good and scary thing. (Desert update post is half written.) Anyway after he left, I had most of the day to do whatever...
I headed over to Hollywood to catch the sequel to Ghost in the Shell called: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. There were 4 people in the theatre, 3 women and 1 guy and we all sat alone. The movie was excellent. Really mind blowing. The story line was good, the techno/robotic/intelligence mind warp was well done, although I couldn't stop thinking of PK Dick and BladeRunner and Hyperion. At the end of the movie an obvious enlightenment hit me - we all have ghosts and our bodies are our shells. It's a movie that questions what makes us human. What is the difference between a AI in a robot and me? The animation was AMAZING. The lights and shadows and movements and transparencies of colors and layers. Yum yum fun for the eyes, ears and cerebral cortex.
I saw the film at Arclight Cinema's on Sunset - which is now my favorite movie theater. Movies are reserved seating, they have a bar and cool stuff for sale. They have big Hollywood films and Independents. It's the best of everything and it's only 1 block from Amoeba. I've been wanting to pick up some new CDs so I finally had my excuse. I went totally crazy buying something like 30 CDs all the way from Al Green, Snoop, MethodMan, Moricheeba, Air, Jega, Stereolab, Chemical Brothers, David Bowie, Prince and Michael Jackson. I drove home via Sunset to the Ocean blasting Michael Jackson's hits. Thriller blasting as I pass through Beverly Hills. Billy Jean, Bad, Smooth Criminal as I lean in Sunsets turns (I like to drive my car like it's my motorcycle). It was completely decadent to drive down sunset listening to Michael Jackson and I loved every moment of it.
Home again, home again to the west side. To my little apartment home for the next month. And tomorrow it's back to the grind. Two weeks of vacation for the next year sucks... but that's what I've got. I've just got to remember all the great things I did the past 10 months.
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