A Renewed Interest in Drinking
music: The Stills - Without Feathers
mood: Compositing
So I guess I had a good weekend. I say "guess" because the weekend was filled with ups and downs.
Ups:
1. Nice dinner on Friday with friends at Bossa Nova. Our friend Josh is leaving town to shoot a documentary so it was nice to send him off with good food, excellent company and general hilarity. I had the gnocchi with pink sauce and plaintains, always a favorite.
2. Spent most of the day on Saturday editing my friend Mike's music video. We pretty much hammered out a good portion of the song, considering a lot of important narrative decisions (and song choice) weren't made by the time we started cutting. By the end of the session we were confident about how the cut would turn out as we continue the editing process.
3. For dinner on Saturday night I met up with some old friends from my DC APA Film days - Henry who was in town on vacation and Gene who came up from San Diego. We had all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ and it was the bomb. Juicy, juicy cuts of meat and the kim chi was perfect, in my opinion.
4. Ended the night at Cha Cha Lounge in Silverlake where I met up with another friend. I also unexpectedly ran into a childhood friend, Nick, who was celebrating his 26th birthday. I had around 5 drinks and felt good for the rest of the night.
5. Sunday afternoon I stopped by Nick's BBQ Birthday Bash and had a drink. Despite various amounts of alcohol all weekend, this was the first weekend in a long time where I drank all three days. Good times.
6. Ended the weekend with the season finale of The Sopranos. It's the best show on television, probably because it's one of only two shows I watch (the other being Big Love).
And now the Downs:
1. I get fucking pulled over by a cop on Sunday for: not having my registration stickers on my car, not having proof of insurance, and the worse offense was the fact that my registration had expored. Now, for an Asian, I am not a horrible driver, so I thought it was kind of unwarranted for the cop to pull me over whilst on I-10 going west bound. He was driving next to me, pulled ahead of me for a bit, then decided to fall back behind me and that's when the lights went up. So I'm thinking that he must have had second thoughts about pulling me over, because, quite honestly, he has a lot of better things to do than to waste his time and my time.
Seriously -
a) the reason I don't have registration stickers because some dick stole them off my car and I didn't feel like dealing with the DMV until the renewal process
b) I have not been able to register my car yet because I haven't had time to do the required smog check. The week that I actually had time to do the smog check, my car was in the shop (because it got broken into)
c) my proof of insurance was at home because I was taking care of some paperwork for the break-in.
So now I got a court date in July and have to really get my ass out of bed early to get the smog check done.
2) So the main reason I went to the Cha Cha Lounge was because my friend and I were supposed to meet some girls that we had met at the previous week at the MOCA Night Vision opening. To make an embarrassingly long story short -they bailed. Honestly, I didn't really care for them, but it was more of the fact that they had made these arrangements and did not follow through.
I've never considered a bar a place to meet females and nowadays the pressure coming from friends, family and co-workers for me to meet new people has become obnoxious. It's just like a shark tank at these bars and clubs and I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that the kind of girl I want to date on a serious level is not the kind that goes to bars/clubs seeking to meet guys like me there.
I feel like I could go into a tirade about how dating sucks for me and how it seems impossible for me to meet cool females, but I'll have to save that for a more coherent essay. In the end, the bottom line I keep coming back to is I just need to stay busy, doing my best to keep myself happy by hanging out with great friends, enriching my mind (not as gay as it sounds), being creative and learning to take better care of myself better.
3) Lastly, despite a promise to myself made a year ago, I caved in bought breakfast at McDonalds on Saturday before the editing session. I had even planned on it for Sunday untilthe cop pulled me over and I missed the 10:30 cut-off. I mean - 2 Suasage McMuffins with Egg for $3 - who can resist? Not I.
Ugh, so that was the weekend. Now I have a horribly busy week ahead of me. Wish your boy luck.
terry on 06.05.06 @ 08:23 PM PDT [link]
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