October 5, 2009 • 7:45 pm 0
I’ve never actually used WiFi on a plane before, so I thought I should try to do as many “internet” things as possible while I’m up here. I’m flying from LA to San Francisco on my way to New Zealand on my to Antarctica. I’ve still got about 20 hours of flying time ahead of me, but Cedar hooked me up with some “sleep-aid” just in case.
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October 4, 2009 • 11:22 pm 0
After the 2nd day of orientation today, I went with Cedar, Michael (the new FEMC GA), Cary Beep Beep, Steve-o (Cargo), and Brandon (Cargo) to Washington Park to throw the frisbee. When Brandon showed up, he busted out his slack-line and we spent about 45 minutes looking for 2 good trees to set it up on. We never found 2 good trees close enough, but we did find a park bench and a tree close enough together.
While we were balancing our asses off, Cedar looked up the availability of Toy Story 3D tickets for Cary and Steve-o on her internet phone, but the only showing it had available was 7pm. It looked like the 8 o’clock showing had already sold out. Bummer. It started to get cold, so Cedar and I took Michael home, leaving Cary, Steve-o, and Brandon at Cary’s house.
We left there and went over to Robin’s parents’ house for dinner & dogs. It was hilarious. Purcy was barking all crazy when we first walked in, then he switched right over to the whimpering and was really excited. He kept climbing on me, and I shot some video for Robin. I storta felt bad that we had to eat dinner so quickly and then run out to catch the movie, but it was awesome and I’m super glad that we went. Robin’s parents are the best.
TOY STORY & TOY STORY 2 3D DOUBLE FEATURE
We showed up at the theater at 7:45 for our 8pm showing, went to the Fandango Robot to print our tickets, and then walked over to the ticket taker. He said, “Hmmm… these don’t have a barcode on them,” and I was like, “but we just got them from the robot over there.” He concedes and lets us through to theater #5. We walk in to find Toy Story had already started, and it was about 45 minutes in.
What was going on?
We walked back to the ticket taker, and he sent us to the box office. I showed them our barcode-free ticket, and she said, “Oh, that showing was canceled.” What?! Canceled!? You can cancel a showing of a movie?!!! She said something happened earlier in the day that shifted things around which bumped the 8pm showing out of the picture. But… we bought tickets that say 8pm right on them, how can you do this? It was strange, but they gave us a full refund and free tickets to the 7pm showing. It wasn’t a big deal, I mean, it’s not like I haven’t seen these movies before. Right? Right? Ahh, you don’t care.
It was truly spectacular: the animation, the characters, the STORY. The FUCKING story. Pixar writes some of the most well written screen plays ever. The visuals are stunning, clever, well articulated, and always a step above the competition. They are masters of their crafts: animation & story telling. Sometimes it feels like they started out being geniuses (Toy Story is still amazing), but I know that the magic is only the result of hundreds (millions?) of thousands work hours.
And the intermission was HILARIOUS! You’ve got to see it.
The drive home was interesting. Somehow I took us exactly where we needed to go, but I hardly had any confidence in my decisions. I didn’t make a single wrong turn, but every turn sure felt like one. It was strange.
It’s starting to feel a bit more real. I’m actually flying to NZ tomorrow. :)!!!!
Also, I have an idea for a series of alternate Pixar movie posters that I’m gonna try to get Pixar to make for me. More to come on that one.
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