Sunday, March 21, 2004

Sushi hangovers are fun.
Sorry I haven't updated in a while, everyone. I've had a very busy weekend.

Well, honestly, I didn't do too much on Friday. I just came home, watched some TV and fell asleep. I would have updated my myOtaku, but there wasn't anything too meaningful to write about at the time.

Saturday, however, was much more interesting. My dad woke me up at 7:30 to get ready to drive to Bakersfield.. His brother's Harley Davidson Dealership was having its grand opening that day. I really, really didn't want to go, but I put on the Harley Davidson shirt I was basically force-fed (with a pullover on top of it), and sat in the car for two hours to get there.

I was surprised at how many relatives were there. I only expected my uncle, his girlfriend and maybe my great-uncle to be there, but practically my dad's entire family was helping out in Bakersfield. Even a family friend of ours, who does a lot of CG work for major films (He worked on Star Wars Episode I and II) was there. I would have liked to have talked to him more, considering his field of work, but all he basically said was that unless you're working in a foreign company the job is not glamorous, and you end up fat.

He might go work on Pixar's last Disney movie, but he's leaning towards something in England.. He didn't go into detail, and I wasn't too surprised. Perhaps people are supposed to be kept tight-lipped about their current projects.

Wouldn't that be funny if he ended up working on WETA's Evangelion film, though?

Anyway, we came back and went to the mall for a while. At Suncoast my brother bought the FLCL soundtrack legitimately (I paid him back later) and I got my mom to buy Evangelion: Genesis Reborn, which we have had reserved for months. I haven't had a chance to watch it, outside of the Live-Action Eva preview, which really let me down. All it showed was zoomed-in parts of the concept art they showed on the other Eva Director's Cut DVD. It was quite the let-down.

However, the FLCL soundtrack is sweet. I own a burned version, but I felt that I should legitimately own the real deal, seeing as I can't find any decent translations of Pillows music on the internet.

After that, we went to a local Benihana-esque Japanese restaurant for my parents' birthdays (They're three days apart). Our chef seemed to be rather.. New to the job. He didn't do too many tricks, and he only lit the hibachi on fire one time. The actual fod, however, was amazing. I didn't get to eat as much sushi as I wanted, but on the bright side I didn't get such an extreme sushi headache as usual..

Today we went back to the mall, and I didn't play a thing at the arcade, but we did join Suncoast's rewards program thing. We already have 5000 points, which could probably get us at least two anime DVDs. I'm going to definitely splurge next time they have a members-only sale. Whee.
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