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July 12, 2005
Le Weekend
Have I mentioned how awesome my weekend was?
Friday night, Christopher and I went to a movie with my oldest pal John. We had Cottage Pie and pints at The Pig and Whistle in the fog-bound and blustery Inner Richmond, then crossed the street to the Bridge Theatre to see a fantastic new movie, Me and You and Everyone We Know. The movie itself was really wonderful, and unbeknownst to us, the writer, director and star Miranda July was there, and did a Q & A after the screening. "I turned to C'pher and said, "I love this city!" for what wouldn't be the last time that weekend.
Saturday afternoon I met some of my fellow gay comics fans at Metreon for the opening weekend screening of Fantastic Four. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either. At least it wasn't as bad as Daredevil! And there was plenty of eye candy... not the least of which was an almost embarrassing amount of beefcake, courtesy Chris Evans, who was playing Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch.
At one point, he bursts into flame while snowboarding, lands in a huge snowdrift which instantly melts into an ad hoc bubbling mountainside hot tub. His clothes having burned off, he is naked and wet in the water. He spends the next SEVERAL scenes running around wearing his female skiing partner's teeny weenie ski jacket wrapped around his waist. The plot may have been thin, but that movie earned my $10 with the Chris Evans scenes alone.
::sigh:: Now... where was I? Oh yes...
After the movie, I had an hour or so to kill, so I picked up a comic to read at the shop in Metreon, and headed to the top floor of the nearby Virgin Megastore and Citizen Cupcake, a very nice new offshoot of the Hayes Valley Citizen Cake. I ordered a few of my favorite cookies, a cup of coffee, and settled in for a visit to Kurt Busiek's Astro City. I stared a little at the passing throng of Market Street shoppers below and all was right with the world. Great city!
Before long it was time to collect Mary and get to the car where C'pher was waiting to whisk us to the Indigo Girls concert. Though I could go on about that more, I won't. You're welcome.
Sunday we slept late, and then I spent a bustling four hours at work. I left at 7, and Muni'd up to the Castro to meet C'pher and Miss Kay, who is back working and staying in SF for a while before she has to leave us for Philadelphia again. I knew we were going to see a silent film at the Castro Theater, but I didn't realize it was going to be the finale of the 10th Anniversary San Francisco Silent Film Festival!
The place was packed, and the mood was quite jubilant. Many folks were in 20's and 30's costume. After some speechifying and screening of rare clips, we were treated to Clara Bow starring in "IT," the story of the 20's "it" girl that would define all quirky movie gals for years to come. This movie was fantastic! If you've never had a chance to see it live with organ accompaniment, at least rent it. It's pretty racy, and Clara Bow's character is a pre-pre-pre Women's Libber like you've never seen.
At one point during the movie, I scanned the crowd, and landed on Christopher beside me. "This city is so great!" he said.
Yep. He's right.
Posted by kyle at July 12, 2005 12:21 PM
Comments
We were at IT, too! Loved it. Loved the Wurlitzer. Love SF. That's me. Full of love.
Posted by: Nicole at July 12, 2005 4:14 PM