Today I rode back from work alone. It should have taken me 20 minutes, but instead it took me about an hour, because, honestly, I had no idea where I was going. I tried to find the way I've taken in the morning with Matt. At one point I came to a familiar place and felt relieved. Then I realized that it was only familiar because I had passed it no less than fifteen minutes ago, and had somehow gone in a big loop. This woke me up and I started paying attention to the sun.
After an hour on it I decided to christen the bike the "infertilizer" for obvious reasons.
It's time to admit I was wrong: Episode II was good. Though there are still fake plastic acting jobs (Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson), there was no counterpart to Episode I's young turd Anakin, the kid prompted Micah Weaver and I to start MST3K'ing the thing inside of the first half hour. No, this time around some good performances were turned in, notably those of Ewan McGregor and Christopher Lee. And Hayden Christensen as the teenage Anakin also did a respectable job.
The German movie theater was (surprise!) much different from an American cinemaplex. The "kinos" were the size of a high school classroom, about ten seats wide I'd say and a little deeper. I drank a Helles Bier (an original Munich beer) during the show and it was one of the best beers I've ever had. I guess it's no surprise that I enjoyed the movie so much. With a Helles Bier in hand, how could I have failed to?
After the show, I rushed over the the S-Bahn, which for the most part stops running between the hours of 1 and 4 am. Barely missed it. I wasn't about to wait around till 2 am to catch the singleton train back so I ended up taking a taxi, which cost me an arm and a leg. Between the show and transportation I spent way too much for one night.
And now on top of that I'm tired.
"So tired."
"I'm tired of having..."
Posted by Alan at April 23, 2002 08:20 PM