Mr. Pitiful

if you can't tell from the date, this is the Dark Knight weekend. I've already seen it twice. and the only other summer movies I've watched are Iron Man and Wanted. it is quite a good movie. arguably the coolest part of the movie is the use of sonar from cell phones and such to create a map for Batman to scope the vicinity. it's fucking echolocation! another way to tie Batman to the bat animal. and yes, Heath Ledger was amazing as the Joker. it's so hard to believe that under all that is an Australian young man!! also extremely underrated was Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two-Face. I know all the attention's been on Batman and the Joker, but AE nearly steals the show with his own transformation

I watched the movie twice. the first time was at the Landmark theatre at the midKNIGHT showing (har har). it was super swanky, and most of the crowd were young hipsters. EVERYONE had an iPhone (seriously? is it really that cool?). I sat in the fourth row from the front, so it was a ridiculous three hours. before the movie even started, they had a movie worker "announce" the movie, which I found utterly pointless. the audience cheered and clapped when HL first appeared on the screen, then whenever there was a new twist, and when his name appeared in the credits. definitely the first time was to get the storyline out of the way, and for me to think about things for a bit. the second time was at the uber-ghetto UV theatre. the people next to me were downright nasty for a no good reason ("we don't have to answer to anyone!") and some idiot family brought their baby, which of course cried through the entire three hours. ugh. but I enjoyed watching the movie both times very much

unfortunately the midnight showing left me with a mere four hours of sleep, so I was very tired the next day at work. but I was able to work through it

the weekend I didn't really have an agenda, so I went to the Glendale Galleria and Americana again. I kept buying frozen lemonades and slurpees. they're cheap and tasty! probably loaded with more sugar than I would need for an entire weekend, but that's the tradeoff you get for such deliciousness. I bought....a lot of clothes. I went back to Melrose Avenue, but this time I hit up the famous Wasteland. Wasteland is a vintage used clothing store where people bring in their old clothes and receive cash back. because it is LA and it is located on Melrose, all the clothing is riduclously trendy and heavily labelled. I found a NEW zip up jacket for eighteen bucks that I had seen at the USC Library (the on campus designer store). I also swooped on a zip up hoodie. I also found some amazing old school style, but I had already made some earlier purchases at other stores, and thus refrained from them. I was extremely impressed though with the clothes because it is very similar to the stuff I am trying to project. I am DEFINITELY going to check out this place again; it's amazingly cheap and you score some seriously good stuff. when I was making my purchase, the hipster cashier kinda sneered at me because I asked if I needed to wash the clothes (how was I supposed to know! I've never bought vintage!), but then he laughed at me when I threw my ID at him. sigh

there was also a huge Urban Outfitters sale of an additional fifty percent off sale items and I found the right shoes of some attractive sandals, but couldn't find their left counterpart, so I was extremely disappointed. and speaking of shoes, I think my beloved gladiators are finally wearing down; I wore them all day Saturday and was hobbling when I made my way upstairs back home. I don't know how I got so addicted to shoes this summer!