packed

Camping this weekend with friends.

I'm just so excited to get away. From school, finals, grad stuff. Even internet and the use of my phone (which won't work where we're going). I really need this right now, time to be with friends and in nature. Then when I get back I'll focus on school.

Woke up early to take Stacy to SFO. She's flying to Cannes to work at the film festival there. She's been a really great friend to me, and I'm so happy for her. She has this drive that I really lack sometimes, and she's great at networking. She wants to be a film promoter and be in charge of film festivals. Asian film festivals, specifically. She's going to be really great.

Went to some screenings at the SF International Film Festival: An Evening with Robert Redford where Redford appeared and talked about his body of work and they showed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
and the west coast premiere of Moon, which I can't recommend enough. If you like sci-fi space thrillers, you'll dig this. And Sam Rockwell was great.

Funny thing that happened at Moon: I was sitting by myself looking very pathetic while people were either in groups or in couples. I must've really stood out because I sat at the far left of the theater alone. This bearded guy up front kind of facing the audience was staring at me. Oh God, I thought, how embarrassing. It's weird, back in Paris I was alright going to a film alone, but this time felt different. Anyway, this bearded guy ended up being Duncan Jones who is the writer and director and there to talk about the film--also he's David Bowie's son.

It was just hilarious in hindsight because the film deals with loneliness in space, and here I was, you know, loneliness on earth. Like you didn't even need the idea of space and its environment to really convey loneliness. Hah.