A switch of venues today.  Moving from Japan Town to the Castro District I was on my way to see Francis Ford Coppola‘s latest movie, Twixt, but first I had some time to kill.

What better way to kill time than at the library?  The Movie doesn’t start until 7:30pm, and my watch, I mean cellphone – who wears a watch anymore? – read 5:00pm.  Going to the Library, which is located just a few blocks away from the theatre and is in a supposed non-violent and peaceful neighborhood, was an interesting experience on its own.  Peaceful at this library means people arguing in their outside mountaintop voices, sticky stuff on the keyboard resembling the ectoplasm from Ghostbusters, and 3 consecutive minutes of a blaring car horn as a result of somebody’s roidrage.  As soon as a little boy and his mother decided to sit next to me and start whining and bickering over how he didn’t want to read the book she picked out for him I was done.  Not wanting to stay in this “sanctuary” that is the public library anymore I made way to one of my real sanctuaries, the DVD store, particularly, Streetlight.

After talking to my buddy Art, who works at the store, about various cinematic topics including his love for Andrezej Zulawski films I made my way to The Castro Theatre.  Art, sorry I didn’t buy anything today.  I’m on a budget, and besides, you didn’t seem to have a copy of Francis Ford Coppola‘s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which for some reason I was in the mood to buy.  Having killed enough time – my watch now read 6:30pm – I finally made my way to The Castro Theatre to grab my ticket for FFC’s latest stab at the Vampire genre. Read More…