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Pursuit of Happyness

On my way to grab lunch today on my work at home day I figured out what they’re filming in Duboce park. Its a movie called ‘Pursuit of Happyniess‘. They were out there stopping traffic today as 70s vintage cars were driving up and down Duboce and Steiner.. According to IMDB its some film with Will Smith… So if ya feel like checkin it out they’re out filming all day today! :):)

Just Couldn’t resist

I’m sorry.. I know these things are silly.. But I just couldn’t resist… So while I was sitting here waiting for my carpool this morning (and after reading a bunch of work email) this is what I found out:

You scored as Buffy Summers. You are a very strong individual. You do, however, have some trouble admitting how you truly feel. You’ve experienced a lot during your life, but you more than manage. Always willing to help, you’re a great friend. Which Buffy The Vampire Slayer Character Are You Most Like!? created with QuizFarm.com

Love / Hate

I know they buy the products that pay my salary but I’ve gotta say that some times the movie production companies make me a little nuts… Two examples of why came up just this weekend. First, Kevin and I went downtown last night to meet Randy and Rick for dinner at Blupointe (which was very good). Unfortunately, after letting Kevin off at the restaurant, I made the mistake of turning down California Street which landed me right in the middle of traffic caused by some production having streets in downtown SF closed off. It took me a good 20 minutes just to get myself back out of the snarled traffect and parked. Dinner was great after that but I did need a couple of cocktails after dealing with traffic saturday..

The other is this cool new BART station that suddenly appeared in Duboce Park this week.. We were all excited that they had some how quietly dug bart tunnels that would come by our house and maybe through the city – it would make getting to the airport and down town SO EASY from home. Unfortunately I spent a while this morning googling bart to see what the plans were to no avail which lead me to walk down to see if there was info on the site.. No such thing – but I did see the signs saying that there would be filming in the park on Wednesday… Dohh… So t hey built a big concrete fake subway exit in the middle of our neighborhood park for a film shoot… Long as they put the grass back the way it was (or better) I suppose its OK but still kinda odd..

I suppose its one of the costs of living in a pretty city like this one .. but I’ve learned to cringe when I see the star wagons..

Burning Man ’05

So Kevin is off at Burning man until Monday… I’m jealous but unfortunately I have stuff I have to deal with here that kept me from going… Sad I know… But since I can’t go I’ve been reading all sorts of stuff about it. The Burning Man site has all SORTS of interesting stuff on it including a live webcast of the event so I can watch and see whats going on. I logged in last night and saw the man glowing in the night and random lit things go by the camera.. .Today you can see the man surrounded by a LOT of sand and people bustling by on bicycles and stuff – you can even hear the wind blowing and the music.. Matt also pointed me at a Google maps view of burning man from space. SUPER COOL…

Anyway.. had to share… go back to your business! :):)

Six Feet and a Walk

This weekend was pretty low key… Out for beers friday night followed by kevin and I curling up on the couch catching up on 2 weeks of Six Feet Under episodes that we’d missed (so we were caught up for the final episode)… Saturday was pretty uneventful. Worked some.. Dinner with Matt, Brian, Audrey, and Kyle who was up from San Diego..

Sunday was really nice. We spent the morning shopping for Kevin’s trip to Burning Man. He needed to buy supplies for the trip including a bicycle, tent spikes, a bike horn, and a water bottle – among other things… After that we met up with Jason and headed over to Rick and Randy’s for the 6th in a series of photo Walks that they host.. We’ve done these before and they’ve been a really cool event and this one was no different.. And this one was also handy cuz it was in the neighborhood. We walked from their house up past Kite Hill, Liberty Hill, down through Dolores park, over to Mission Dolores, and Back.. It was a lot of fun and I got a lot of good pictures (which I’ve posted here)…

After all that we went out for a drink at the Metro with Louis and Jason after which Kevin and I came back home and watched the final Episode of Six Feet Under… OH… MY… GOD… It was SO WELL done… If you haven’t seen it see it… you kind of have to have been following the show but if you have been I think you’ll LOVE it… it was SO GOOD..

oh.. and it looks like they have posted obituaries for the characters on HBOs site… So good.. (Thanks to MJ for the pointer)

now back to reality.. work time… happy monday

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Rent

I hate to say it but i’m really excited to see this when it comes out… In general I’m not a big fan of musicals turned into Movies but I really love this show and the music from it… Hope they did a good job.. I like the trailer at least! 🙂