Saturday, April 02, 2005
So, last night (Thursday night) I opted to work overnight to take care of some storage issues we were having at work and I came home nice and tired, but I slept on the couch because Mike was going to wake me in an hour and a half so that we could catch an early showing of Sin City. Well, he woke me up, but decided not to go. I wasn't going to let that stop me. Their car was in the shop, though, so I had to wait until they had to go to work @ 2:00, so they could drop me off at the theater and I could pick up my car at work afterwards. I went and saw the movie, which was excellent, and then walked to work. As I was crossing the street from the theater I ran into a few friends from work as they were dispersing from a small get together. I cut through the mall and ran into another co-worker who'd been on vacation all week and I talked to her for a bit. Eventually, I made it to the store and got my keys from Mike. I stopped by my side of the building because it was a friend of mine's last day and I wanted to catch her before she left. She asked if I wanted to go see a movie (guess which one...) and I told her that I had just seen it, but I'd love to see it again. While she finished her out-processing paperwork I grabbed some Panda Express at the mall, met up with her and then we caught the movie. Before the movie started a pretty big guy was trying to get some last minutes seats for himself and two friends a few seats down from us. It was Isaac Singleton Jr. from Pirates of the Caribbean. When it got out, it was too close to the time for Mike to get out of work, so I headed right back to the store. Mike decided to stay later, so I just waited around for an hour until they were both done. We got home and they started packing for a short bike trip they were making the next day. After a LOT of back-and-forth, we all decided to go down the Arclight to catch a late showing of (what else?) Sin City. Movies are always better at the Arclight. Well by this time I was just plum tuckered-out, but I had no problem watching the movie. It wasn't until after the movie got out that we realized that Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire were sitting there with us. As we walked out, Mike exclaimed, "Spider-Man is right behind us!" I turned around and sure enough, there was Tobey Maguire in a red cap and completely unshaven leaving behind us with some friends. He spent, like, two minutes burrowing though his duffel bag to try to find his parking stub for parking validation (The guy made 26 million on the Spider-Man movies alone and he's struggling to save $3.00?). Actually, I thought that was kind of cool. Once we were outside, Mike spotted Leo standing in the same small group. Apparently, they've been buds since they were young. It's funny - You see a person sitting next to you in a dark theater wearing a cap over his eyes and you never think, "I wonder if that's...", you just pay attention to the people your with and you watch the movie. As an added bonus, Patrick Renna (The Sandlot, Son in Law) was also there puffing on a cigarette with some friends out front. I found it kind of ironic that he was there, since Carla Gugino, who played his sister in Son in Law, was in the movie and spent most of her time pretty naked. It seems almost incestuous. He's actually the first "celebrity" that Mike and Amanda saw when they got to California and he went to high school with the girl that I had talked to earlier in the mall. Coincidence? Well, yeah probably, but whatever. And to top of the day, on the way out of downtown Hollywood we got to enjoy the spectacle of a poor, young blonde throwing her guts up out the passenger window of a white sports car all the way up until we hit the highway. What fun! From there, we went home and now I will basically be passed out for the night, but I did get a chance to catch Sin City.
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