An amazing film...

I watched over the Memorial day weekend a film called: Into Great Silence. It is a film about the Grande Chartreuse monastery. It showed how the monks who live there go through their prayers, rituals, and their basic life. There is no commentary as the film goes along, no music. At times there is dialogue such as when a blind monk is being interviewed. I never thought a monastery would allow a person to film within their walls. Apparently when the director asked them if he could film in 1984, they said "Not now... maybe 10, 15 years. Well it took 16 years. I believe it was worth it. Not every person might like it though. There are moments when you are waiting fora sound, but there is only silence. Myself I enjoy the solitude of life, so it was not boring for me to watch. It is almost three hours in length. Like I said, you may or may not like the film

Good Vaca

I went to a couple of cool markets during my restful period. I went to the marukai in West Covina. It has lots of cool stuff to eat. The seafood they had there was amazing. They had different types of sashimi,soups,candy drinks...Man, I was a kid in a candy store. I got a membership too. It's only $10 for a year. The prices were good, and it looks like they had daily specials on certain items. I also went to Seafood city in Eagle Rock. I finally had Balut!!!(which is basically a duck egg that has the nearly developed embryo in it) It was good. I don't think its for everyone but I always wanted to try it since I saw it on Bizarre foods. The market was at the bottom floor of a mall which I thought was funny. You can have some duck embryo on one floor and go up to Macy's to buy a bottle of cologne(which I did by the way. Two in fact) I stopped here after I went to Emir's Garden at Griffith Park. The garden is a real peaceful place. It is up a hill which you go up to through a fire trail. When you get up top, there are benches where you can sit and its really nice and tranquil. Ah, memories.

Goodbye Litter...

Well that didn't take long. I deleted my Twitter account. The whole "phenomena" was getting annoying. I mean EVERYONE has to do it? No, thanks. Maybe I should have tried it a little longer, but I don't care. If there are people out there who are into it,so be it.