Erika's Birthday!
Yesterday was Erika's birthday! Did you all have a good Erika's birthday? I had a good Erika's birthday.
Becky and I went to the screening of the final projects for Adrian's film class; the films were awesome. One project, called "the process", was to make a 90-second movie depicting the process to which you were assigned, and be creative with it. I was impressed by how many great interpretations there were of the activities: one guy was assigned "turning on a faucet," and he started by panning across a kitchen counter on which sat a book called Telekinesis for Beginners . . . you can kind of see where it went from there. There was one on "asking for directions" wherein a guy used a compass to answer his life's problems via having it point to things (which girl to date, which job to take, etc.). And it was set to "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie. And of course Adrian's, "mailing a letter," wherein two guys write love letters to each other and then run into each other trying to mail them at the post office.
We went with a big group of people to Miyako for Erika's birthday. It was great fun! There were too many of us for one of their small one-table rooms, so they put the rest of us at a table just outside of it, within easy seeing/talking distance. Chuckles and I prank-called Erika, but her phone was off. We called Fretz, Adrian, and I think someone else, meaning to tell them to put Erika on, (all with Jimmy's phone, so that they wouldn't have caller ID on the phone), but all their phones were off! (Me: What's with all these people having good restaurant etiquette?) Finally, I called Chuckles' phone, and he went to Erika, acting confused and saying,
"Erika, it's . . . for you?" She answered, and I said,
"BOTHER!" and then hung up. It was awesome. They found me out eventually by the giggling, though.
Also, Miyako's Dragon Maki Roll is great. I really like both eel and avocado in my sushi, and eel sauce, and it has all three of them, besides looking kind of like a dragon (covered in green avocado "scales").
Afterward, we went to Erika's apartment to party. Even more people showed up, and we played with their cat, Spock, and watched "Stardust." (Seanie gets movies that aren't out yet, because he works at Moviescene - oops, correction, Blockbuster - and is a movie genie.) I love that movie.
Me: This is my favorite movie.
Chuckles: Nic . . . "Labyrinth"?
Me: *Pause* You make a good point. But "Stardust" is the best possible movie that could be made without David Bowie.
After all, cinema not containing David Bowie is a valid form of artisic expression in its own special way.
We played "Taboo" and "Apples to Apples," and people who weren't me played "Fluxx." In "Apples to Apples," we played the second game with two adjectives per turn, so we had to match both of them as best we could with one noun - once, the adjectives were "evil" and "virtuous." (I won that one with "The End of the World." Actually, I was a real study in contradiction. My ending words were "sluggish" and "furious," "grueling" and "fun," and "evil" and "virtuous.")
Becky and I went to the screening of the final projects for Adrian's film class; the films were awesome. One project, called "the process", was to make a 90-second movie depicting the process to which you were assigned, and be creative with it. I was impressed by how many great interpretations there were of the activities: one guy was assigned "turning on a faucet," and he started by panning across a kitchen counter on which sat a book called Telekinesis for Beginners . . . you can kind of see where it went from there. There was one on "asking for directions" wherein a guy used a compass to answer his life's problems via having it point to things (which girl to date, which job to take, etc.). And it was set to "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie. And of course Adrian's, "mailing a letter," wherein two guys write love letters to each other and then run into each other trying to mail them at the post office.
We went with a big group of people to Miyako for Erika's birthday. It was great fun! There were too many of us for one of their small one-table rooms, so they put the rest of us at a table just outside of it, within easy seeing/talking distance. Chuckles and I prank-called Erika, but her phone was off. We called Fretz, Adrian, and I think someone else, meaning to tell them to put Erika on, (all with Jimmy's phone, so that they wouldn't have caller ID on the phone), but all their phones were off! (Me: What's with all these people having good restaurant etiquette?) Finally, I called Chuckles' phone, and he went to Erika, acting confused and saying,
"Erika, it's . . . for you?" She answered, and I said,
"BOTHER!" and then hung up. It was awesome. They found me out eventually by the giggling, though.
Also, Miyako's Dragon Maki Roll is great. I really like both eel and avocado in my sushi, and eel sauce, and it has all three of them, besides looking kind of like a dragon (covered in green avocado "scales").
Afterward, we went to Erika's apartment to party. Even more people showed up, and we played with their cat, Spock, and watched "Stardust." (Seanie gets movies that aren't out yet, because he works at Moviescene - oops, correction, Blockbuster - and is a movie genie.) I love that movie.
Me: This is my favorite movie.
Chuckles: Nic . . . "Labyrinth"?
Me: *Pause* You make a good point. But "Stardust" is the best possible movie that could be made without David Bowie.
After all, cinema not containing David Bowie is a valid form of artisic expression in its own special way.
We played "Taboo" and "Apples to Apples," and people who weren't me played "Fluxx." In "Apples to Apples," we played the second game with two adjectives per turn, so we had to match both of them as best we could with one noun - once, the adjectives were "evil" and "virtuous." (I won that one with "The End of the World." Actually, I was a real study in contradiction. My ending words were "sluggish" and "furious," "grueling" and "fun," and "evil" and "virtuous.")