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Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Deserving Selfish

Saturday, I went to LA to meet up with a bunch of soapboxers. Lon of Tornado Films had a screening of his movie Deserving Selfish at a film festival earlier in the week, and the whole group got together because he (and another ‘boxer, Michelle, for unrelated reasons) were in southern California. We met at a bowling alley, and of course, bowled. There were somewhere around twenty of us there, and it was very cool. I didn’t bowl particularly well (164, 162), but it was fun.

After bowling, we went to eat at Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles. Well, we went there to put our name down to wait for a table, first. Then we walked around LA a bit, saw some war protestors, and went to Amoeba. On the way there, I saw the Hollywood sign for the first time since moving to California. I almost bought a (used, of course) CD there, but didn’t feel like waiting in line. I’m in no rush to get any more music right now, though, so I don’t really care all that much. We walked back to Roscoe’s to find out that they had called our names about 10 minutes earlier, and missed our table. Turns out it wouldn’t have mattered, because they thought we wanted a table for 5 not a table for 15. We waited a few more minutes, and they were able to put the remaning 10 of us (5 people had to leave) at two different tables. The food was good. Waffles and chicken is an interesting combination. I got far too much food, and took some home with me.

After dinner, some of us (the group I was with continually got smaller) headed to Miriam’s to watch Lon’s movie. We ended up watching a bunch of his older movies as well. I liked a few of them quite a bit. I can’t wait for his next one. When we were done there, five of us went to Andrew’s to just hang out for a while. We started watching the Stargate director’s cut, but I left before it was over because I had to drive back to Santa Barbara. So I did.

Sunday night I saw Daredevil. It was alright, not great. The CG annoyed me a bit, because it was rather obvious. I’m still glad I saw it. Tonight I went bowling, and bowled badly. Consistent, though. 158-158-152. My average dropped to an even 170. That’s about it, for now, I guess. More when theres more to say.