So.
Last night, Matt and I went out and saw
Everything is Illuminated. It is the story of a young man named Jonathan Safran Foer who's grandmother, right before she dies, gives him a picture of his grandfather and another woman, named Augustine. Jonathan goes to the Ukraine and hires a Jewish Heritage touring company (consisting of an old "blind" man, his "officious seeing eye bitch" Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., and his grandson, Alexander "but my friends call me Alex, as that is much more flaccid to say"). Everything is Illuminated is an excellent film, with beautiful photography of the Ukrainian country-side, and a thought provoking story.
Unfortunately, in order to go see it, you'll have to go to the Landmark independent theater at the Embarcadero Center. This is what begins our tale of adventure. I will present this story as somewhat of a timeline:
4:00 Matt arrives at my house. We looked at the new iMac for a couple of minutes. We soon leave for the BART station.
4:15 We arrive at the BART station and catch a train.
4:25 After a largely uneventful subterranean trek, which was peppered with conversation, we emerge on Market Street. We proceed to walk a couple of blocks over to the Embarcadero Center. After pointing out the restaurant we would have patronized had my mother come with us as previously planned, we moved upstairs into the theater. The theater lobby felt very much like a theater I had been to with Nathan in Singapore.
5:00 We enter the screening room, sit, and discuss the music playing before the picture. It is interesting to note that at any moment, we can suddenly shift our conversation to technology. For an example, the likes of which are FAR too common in our conversations across the ages, we began talking about girls and the spring Banquet. Matt said something to the effect of,
"Girls, right after the banquet, are already thinking about the boy they're going to go with next year. Its crazy, just like Apple products. Right after something is announced, people go 'Wow. Okay whats next?' Intel Macs thats whats next! But they're always waiting, because right around the corner, there's going to be something new."
To which, instead of steering the conversation back toward girls, I replied
"Yeah, I wouldn't get in on the ground floor of the Intel Macs though. The first generation of a technology is always plagued with problems."
We really do have a problem.
5:15 The trailers start. We saw a trailer for a
gay cowboy movie. I'm not making this up. It is about homosexual cowboys. The cowboys are played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhal.
5:30 The movie starts. We watch it.
6:55 We leave the theater. We start walking along these bridges connecting the buildings. I know that this is how the Embarcadero center is built, and assume that we are going in the right direction. After passing a comedy club, we find ourselves in the midst of apartments. We then decide that instead of turning around and walking back past those people we passed, we'd "have an adventure" and go down some steps that were right there. We found our way back to the Embarcadero center and walked through, looking at the closed shops. We also checked out the Hyatt Regency, because I wanted to show Matt their cool lobby/atrium fountain and sculpture. All throughout this time we were actively looking for some place to eat. Unfortunately, everything in that area is closed, because it is a business area. I wondered if we should head toward the Metreon and eat something there, and that's when Matt suggested that we eat at the Chevy's near the Moscone Center. So, we walked all the way over there.
7:30 We ate.
8:25 We started walking toward the Montgomery BART station. On the way, we went through Yerba Buena Gardens right next to the Metreon. Matt mentioned that at the Sony Store they have a life sized Snake, from Metal Gear Solid (not the "
on a plane" variety of snakes), so we went inside to check it out. We looked around the store for a little while, watched a SOCOM 3 trailer, tried to play with the demo PSP units they had, but the ones we tried weren't working ("Man, this screen isn't as bright as I thought it would be!"), found
Katamari Damacy on the wall of games, then we egressed from the building and walked over to BART.
9:05 We arrive at the Balboa Station, wait outside for one minute, and Mom picks us up. We then drive Matt home, because he wasn't feeling well (ate too much). I got home and crashed.
So, that was fun. Matt and I both agreed that next time maybe we should do that with girls.
