Sunday Happenings
I did nothing all morning. Surfed around the internet.
Completely mesmerized by Craigslist.org .
I ended up in the Discussion Forums .
Playing around in the Word Association Forum is a real hoot.
It was nearly 3 pm when I got up to move from my spot.
Headed over to Arclight Cinemas .
I wanted to see ShopGirl .
And I was already 5 minutes late when I bought I my ticket.
You know what - they let me in anyway !
The ticket seller said to me "Ok, but the film is starting in 3 minutes."
What he basically meant was "Hurry up and get into the theatre before the movie starts."
I stopped off at the concession stand anyway.
Archlight used to have a policy of not selling any tickets after the start time of the movie.
Its cuts down on people crawling over other people to sit, once the movie has started.
But they must have changed their policy.
I bought the ticket 5 minutes after the start time. I had 3 minutes left.
Which means I missed 8 minutes of previews.
ShopGirl was really good. I didn't expect it to be such a great movie, but it was.
Claire Daines is just wonderful in it, and she will probably get an Oscar nomination.
Jason Schwartzman is hysterical.
Steve Martin plays an extremely wealthy man who meets Claire Danes when she works at Saks Fifth Avenue .
Originally, Tom Hanks was supposed to play the Steve Martin role. I would have liked to have seen him in it.
Its a touching story. I had read the Novella, Shopgirl when it first came out - so I was really interested in seeing the movie.
But whats with the Archlight ?
I was in the first row, middle section, to the right.
I looked over and all these people had their stinking feet on the railing thats in front of the second row in the middle. About 3 people had their shoes off.
Yuck....
If you go to the movies, don't take off your shoes and prop your feet up on the railing !
Every time I glanced to my left, there were stinky feet in socks.
I am sure the third row had to look over those stinky feet to see the movie.
It was gross.
What kind of people pay $14 to go out to a really nice upscale movie theatre - and they act like country pumpkins by taking their shoes off, and sticking their feet it the air.
Its just ... Yuck.
After the movie, I decided I would run over to Whole foods and do alittle grocery shopping.
I get down by The Grove and traffic is bumper to bumper.
Complete chaos.
After seeing the traffic mess, I should have turned around and gone home. But no, I wanted my organic veggies.
So I drove through the parking lot of Whole Foods at a snail's pace because that was also crowded.
I noticed people parking their cars at Whole Foods and walking over to The Grove - which is a big No-No.
Finally I heard a 20-something bleach blond talking on her cell phone :
"Oh, yeah, its crazy here. Totally crazy. They are doing the Christmas Tree Lighting at The Grove."
Oh, not the Grove Christmas Tree Lighting - get me out of there !
That big huge tree they light up every year - with all the celebrities. Last year I tried to go. We were packed into the Mall like sardines. And I couldn't even see the tree or hear the music.
No wonder 3rd Street and traffic were such a mess !
I got out of the parking lot, and headed home. I had wasted an entire hour.
I stopped off at Ralphs on La Brea.
No organic veggies for me this week.
Shopping ? Time for a good lentil soup. And a roasted chicken.
By the time I got home, I had wasted way to much time on my grocery shopping.
