Posted

Jul 24th 2008

Mood

ALIVE!

Music

"Selfish Jean" - Travis

COPIED FROM DEVIANTART LOLZ

ABOUT THE TRIP

It was a whole lot of fun. Saw cool stuff, spent some time with some relatives, ate some good food, drove a lot.

First day (not counting the day the plain got in) was mainly spent driving around Tiburon and the Bay Area with my aunt and uncle. My love of salami was rekindled when we went to Whole Foods and got sangwiches.

We (my mom and I) went to Monterey after that and checked all that out. Cannery Row is ENTIRELY commercial, and the Monterey Aquarium is less than impressive. It was cool, though, I guess. We saw some guitarist playing and singing for cash, and he was pretty good. He played "What I Got" by Sublime, "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, and some other stuff.

We went to Yosemite, and that was cool. Saw six mule deer. Three bucks, a doe, and two yearlings of indeterminate gender. No bears, though. Or cougars...

When we got to the city itself, it was chilly. I bought a sweatshirt, which I will now wear when it gets chilly again. I also bought a couple pairs of jeans.

We went to SFMOMA and it kicked some ass. Not as good as the one in New York, but, eh, a MOMA's a MOMA. Had a bit too much old photography for my taste, could've used some more painting and shit. Not that I'm saying photography is inferior, just... Most of the stuff in the museum was from, like, the thirties, and that's not what I think of as modern, y'know?

We also went to the Legion of Honor, but we didn't see the whole thing. Just the ancient art and sculptures. It was big, we were running out of time, and we'd seen plenty of really old paintings elsewhere. Oh, wait! No, we did check out one painting section. I forget what it was, but it was cool. Like, 19th and 20th century painting and whatnot. Cool stuff.

We also checked out a couple schools, one of which I liked very, very much, and the other... Not so much. Ex'pression School was amazing, focusing on the digital arts and only offering four majors. I don't even need a portfolio to get in! I can take a drawing test instead! And the environment was great, and it's better paced and blah blah awesome blah. The Art Institute of California: San Francisco campus was not what I imagined. The featured work was unimpressive for the most part, and the campus was in the "colorful" (read: "full of homeless people") area of San Fran. I don't think I'll apply to that one, heh heh.

Uh, I guess that's enough, eh?

I played GTA IV, by the way. It kicks ass, yo. Niko Bellic is (from what I've played) the best protagonist in the series so far. Graphics just blow away all the previous games, though they could be better; I mean, have you played ES4: Oblivion? Controls were a little glitchy, but better than the previous ones (I think). The game is rather cinematic, and I like that about it. It's very fun.