Digging on this CLINT MARIO IS EVERYWHERE street art poster that he slipped into the bus station advertising cabinet (based on the THEY LIVE movie poster)
Caught some funny references to other Shakespeare works in the background. Like this ad for Prospero brand Whiskey. Such stuff as dreams are made on! (Taken from my favorite scene in The Tempest!)
Then later that night, I went to the Landmark to see the outstanding Norwegian movie, Headhunters with Grant, Clayton and Katie. Definitely worth seeing. The movie got out just in time to...
Spa Palace is this huge Korean spa in Queens. They do all sorts of things differently there. Like, uh, publicly shame the people who leave without paying. Yes!
Sarah proudly showing off the BLING BLING circus portrait poster she romerced Charles into posing for. (BTW, Romerce = portmanteau of "romance + coerce"!)
On Saturday I was at a store and they had a poster advertising a forthcoming book signing by Adrian Tomine and I took this photo of it so that I'd remember to tell Vin about it!
On Sunday afternoon, Meredith and I met up with her parents in the West Village to see The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. This movie is amazing. If you haven't seen it, see it soon. There is no way you will not love it.
...head back to the movie theater that we went to the previous night except this time to see a Thai "odd couple cop" movie. It was basically Lethal Weapon except that the Mel Gibson "wacky cop" character was played by a famous Thai kathoey (ladyboy). It was as awesome as it was ridiculous.
After we finished eating, we went and saw The Bourne Ultimatum. It was good, but nothing like the book (which I'd just finished reading a couple of days prior in anticipation of the movie because I am a nerd like that).
...the 11pm showing of Hairspray. (Which was HUGE in Thailand because all Thai movies feature ladyboys and cross-dressing men and Hairspray features John Travolta as a cross-dressing fat lady, so all the Thais loved it).
Walking back from the grocery store, I saw this poster hanging up in the Two Boots theatre for a movie that was a huge cult-classic all through NJ back when I was in high school! Night of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror of the Attack...and on and on. You get the idea. We used to pretty much watch a VHS copy of this movie that I had stolen from a local video STORE every weekend back in the early 90s! I recently managed to track down a DVD version and bought it! It's almost as funny as I remember it being.
I got up early on Saturday morning and while strolling through Chinatown was suprised to learn that one of The Twins (I'm not sure if that's Jenny or Lauren) is a spiritual healer that goes by the pseudonym Supreme Master Ching Hai! You learn something new every day!
...we hit the train station and waited to catch a train to Tokyo station so we could check out the Imperial Palace. On the train platform, they had a ton of posters with wanted criminals.
T-minus one day. All packed up and feeling nervous, I opted for a little escapism and went to see an afternoon movie with Grant and Leigh. On the way out, Grant and Leigh both took their turn being the "seed of Chucky."
Ever notice how the Greeks have been kind of quiet on the world scene since inventing modern thought and baklava? Well it turns out that they've been teaching killer fish circus tricks. Unfortunately, the bizarre aquatic piranha circus wasn't happening until after we left. Boo!
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