Wednesday, October 31, 2007
@ 12:05 PM
Which is, of course, a quote said by The Kurgan
Is it strange that I am uplifted by The Fountain and utterly depressed by Knocked Up? I'm not sure what this portents but I am feeling very much a tribe of one today.
My parents have left and oddly the house feels quite empty. If they had stayed this long at my old apartment for as long as they stayed here I probably would have jumped through a window. But since I have several spaces I could get some alone time when I needed it, their visit was very nice. While they were here I got to get some of the Seattle touristy stuff out of the way such as Pike Place Market the Seattle Center. While at the Center I saw the following up close and personal:
Of course I'm talking about the costumes
not the actual people. We went to the Science Fiction Museum which was a bit of a let down aside from seeing the above Bladerunner stuff (which was double weird as I had just seen Bladerunner: Final Cut while in LA the weekend before). HOWEVER, next door and included in our admission fee was the Experience Music Project which totally kicked ass. They had a quite extensive history of Hip Hop exhibit where I saw Grandmaster Flash's actual turntables and Run DMC's Addidas and a few promo copies of some Sugar Hill Gang singles (which I would have traded my mother right then and there to have) and other fun stuff. There was a history of the guitar exhibit, a bit on the bands from the NW (which surprised me to learn how many bands come from up here and I'm not talking about grunge), as well as a whole floor with actual musical instruments and jam rooms for kids (and kids at heart) to play and learn including some dj setups to learn beat matching and scratching. I guess people are recognizing that DJing is an actual art and it's about damn time.
Liam is playing the part of TMNT Raphael today, and Ellie, despite having strep throat, is a she devil thingy and carved a wonderful pumpkin of which I shall post some photos tomorrow.
Oh, and if anyone wants to take a 3 day weekend Delta is having $99 each way from LA to Seattle this weekend. Just saying is all.
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