So my weekend started on Thursday night...went and saw xmen-3 at midnite. Disappointingly no one dressed up, and the theatre wasn't especially crowded. It's not really a movie town. Watched xmen 2 and 1 the next few days. I saw the series in reverse order...3 - 2 - 1. I'd say two was the best, three messed up the dark phoenix saga and just plain didn't make sense.

I spent Memorial Day weekend in Los Angeles.

On Saturday we went to South Coast Plaza. It's this super expensive absolutely huge mall in Irvine. I've never heard of half the stores, because normal people don't shop in those places. We had lunch at the wolfgang puck cafe. I still don't like his restaurants. Next we went shopping on Melrose St. I wore my Japan goth uniform, but everyone else dressed in Cali ultra casual crazy layering. I tried on a $400 dress at the used clothing store. They discounted it to $50, but it was peach and I'm kinda peach =\ All the stores are owned by Chinese people, and all the clothes kinda look like failed experiments from sweatshops. Nonetheless people buy the clothes. I got this cat ring and necklace. It's just beads...cheap shiny jewelry.

On Sunday I got a tour of chinatown and japantown. We went to a store that sold live chickens and rabbits, you ordered and they killed. I also saw a pet store that sold baby chicks for $2.50/each. Chinatown has so many restaurants, but it's kinda ghetto, I wonder if the restaurants actually serve as gang headquarters. Tokyotown is ok, but the new tokyotown near crispin's house is a lot better. We got shabushabu for dinner one night, and it was super good. We also got this really smooth sake. It was called....bishonen, or pretty boy. We've also had yakitori and sushi there, eventually I hope to get ramen store.

Got to take the LA subway, and went to Hollywood again. Hot + crowded. They built a mall there too, attached to the Kodak theatre which is where they hold american idol. That mall, also totally crowded.

On Monday attended a memorial day party at crispin's parents' house. Crispin got stuck grilling the sausages and making us midori margaritas. He's the family cook. That left me to talk to people I didn't know. Most were either really old. A few were wannabe european we're better than you I wont talk to you types. And the rest liked to focus on my non-whiteness. It fascinated them. Most people stayed about 2hrs, got food, and left. Kinda like the parties we have, except they didn't have a table cloth. Our parties there's either a million kids or a bunch of people who only speak chinese. I guess the only good parties exist in my mind.

Some flowers in Tokyo town...crispin's walking away.


a jewelry store named for me.


in the hollywood mall, looking up.


fruit vendor in mexico town, near the mission of los angeles.


right outside the hollywood mall, packed!


crispin's new tshirt pattern. from the giant robot store.