Great Day
Posted by Joel Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:55:02 GMT
Today was a really great day and it was something I needed. Last night I was talking to my friend mdl who has also recently left RH and is in dire straights lately. Anyway we talked about Mind Game and I watched it again. What an inspirational movie; I really think I can call it my favorite anime ever.
Got up around noon again (I stayed up late) and went to the de Young museum. It was my first time there but I was pretty in awe by Golden Gate Park. The art was some really great stuff, a few pictures in particular really struck me, and the aboriginal section was a trip too.
Afterwards I went to the Japanese Tea Garden next door and it wasn't very good. It charged admission, which I thought was lame, and it was just full of kids and people and felt like a Disneyland rendition of a Japanese tea garden. Still it had some neat parts, like a really steep bridge which I crossed.
I was walking by the Roman building thing on the way back to the parking lot and a normal looking guy with an iPod was dancing and singing Frank Sinatra. As I passed he commented that nobody wanted to have fun anymore, that everyone was so uptight. I agreed with him and urged him to keep singing.
When I got back to my apartment Eric was gone and his friend Jimmy was here using his laptop in our living room. I talked to him a bit and he is a financial advisor from New York and is moving here in three weeks, at the edge of Nob Hill and Pac Heights. He went to college with Eric.
I asked him if he wanted to go for a walk and get some coffee and so we did. We walked through Chinatown down to North Beach (just a few blocks away really) and got some espressos and talked about all sorts of things.
Anyway now I've got a six pack of Anchor Steam and I'm going to watch Scarface, and enjoy the luxury that is watching classic mob films in my own apartment.
