Please God, Let This Place Exist on the East Coast
After sleeping off the excitement of Zumanity, I woke up and spent the morning/afternoon with Chris before he had to go to work. We decided to go see The Dark Knight in the afternoon. I wanted to see it again and he hadn't yet so I really wanted him to see it. Before we went he brought me to this place called Yogurtland which he was really excited to take me to. It was a self serve frozen yogurt place that had tons of crazy flavors! I got a mix of mango and green tea! Chris got mango and taro. And they also had all kinds of crazy toppings you could put on it. Way yum.
View From Chris' Community
According to tradition (so sayeth Chris) we had to sneak the frozen yogurt into the movie theater haha. It was fun =) Also, the movie place we went to was called "Rave Theaters" and they were the most immaculate, modern, gorgeous theaters I had ever seen! It was nice to watch The Dark Knight again because the pacing of the whole film felt better.
Winding Sidewalk
After that Chris brought me back to his place and he headed off to work. I sat there for a bit doing not much of anything and then I got really hungry! Luckily for me, Chris lives down the road from a nice shopping center. I walked down in the stupid heat and found a Mexican place called Bajio. It's kind of like a Moe's or Chipotle and it was very good! For only $6 I got a huge burrito and rice and beans on the side. Good bargain! I had a bit of food coma after that but wandered down to Hollywood Video to pick up some movies for us tonight.
Bajio Burrrrrrrito!
I looked around for things and picked up the movie Amelie because Chris hadn't seen it yet and he loves French culture and I knew he'd fall in love with it. (If you're reading this and you haven't seen that movie you should. The end). I looked around for another movie for me to watch while he was away and I found the film Hard Candy with Ellen Page. I had been meaning to see that for a while so I thought why not. I also came across the DVD of all the music videos Michel Gondry had done. He did a lot of Bjork's videos as well as the White Stripes and Daft Punk (Around the World). He's kind of a genius. While I was looking for movies these two teenage girls girls were next to me and I heard the following conversation:
Girl 1: OMG let's get a Cheech and Chong movie!
Girl 2: Cheech and Chong?
Girl 1: What? You don't like Cheech and Chong?
Girl 2: Do I LOOK like I like Cheech and Chong?
If you had seen the white pretty girls they were it would have been funnier =P Damn, I should have taken a picture haha oh well. When I got to the counter I had to open a new account and the guy there totally started asking me all kinds of questions because I wasn't from there. I found out that he was a musician and he was asking me about stage fright and stuff. Kinda funny and kinda held up the line =P But he was nice anyway.
Bajio Has Fun Pictures and Hanging Lanterns
Got home and watched Hard Candy. Wow. It was kinda fucked up and cool at the same time. I used to think of castration on when I thought of Monika but now I will remember this movie too. UGH! It makes me hurt talking about it right now! >< After that interesting film, I watch the first half of Michel Gondry's music videos. They were fascinating. I found out by watching a lot of his stuff all at once that:
a) He loves symmetry
b) He uses long panning shots without editing
c) He likes repetition
My favorite new video of his was Let Forever Be by the Chemical Brothers. I posted it below so you can all enjoy it =) Chris got home later and we started watching Amelie. He loved it! But we had to go to bed before we finished it because we were both nodding off. So tomorrow we shall finish it for sure. I also got to meet his roommate Richard who came home around midnight. Apparently a family friend, he's a quiet guy who stays to himself and Chris says he barely ever sees him. Luckily though he's moving out at the end of the month and some of Chris' friends are moving into his place. It won't be so quiet and lonely for him then. Yay roommates!
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The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
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