At the Drive-In (a.k.a. “Galaxy Night”) Thursday, Aug 16 2007 

dippin' dots and drive-in and galaxy and life and mosquitos and movies and shooting stars and summer and the simpsons and transformers and Uncategorized sleepypasture 5:08 pm

Four friends and I finally stopped talking about it and went to the Galaxy Drive-In Theater in Ennis, TX this past Sunday. I got to cross off “go to a drive-in” off my summer to-do list. It’s only about 20/25 minutes South of me, which is closer than much worse options like Studio Movie Grill. It rocked my socks off. Well, I wasn’t wearing socks to start with, but you get my drift. They have 4 screens, each showing a different double-feature, and it is always just $6 per person! AND they have Dippin’ Dots, the “ice cream of the future” (but somehow available today)! Since the movie studios take most of their box office profits, they rely on the concession stand for their main profit, so don’t eat before you go. It is very affordable (think cheesy fries and a coke for $3.50). This is my new favorite thing to do in DFW for sure, so let me know if you want to go on a Sunday or Monday! We saw the double feature Simpsons/Transformers.

During the ten minute “intermission” they show old fashioned ads and graphics and stuff, so it’s cool that they have kept up the vintage flair and didn’t try to modernize it. they still have the metal speakers that you can hang on your window, and you will probably need to use your car radio (the sound broadcasts over different frequencies for different screens) to hear well, but we didn’t have a problem with this wearing down the car battery.

Here are some things to remember about the drive-in:
- CASH ONLY!
- Um, they have Dippin’ Dots now – how awesome is that?
- Bring plenty of bugspray and chairs/blankets
- If you get there after dark don’t forget basic drive-in etiquette, such as turning off your lights ASAP and driving slowly through the aisles.

ben at the drive-in

carly and me

After the movies were over we headed a bit further into Ennis on a small road and pulled into a field to watch the meteor shower, and I finally saw shooting stars (I had never seen one before…yes, really, never). I must’ve seen about 10 at least. i don’t have any pics of this so you will have to take my word for it. This concluded our “Galaxy Night.”

 

whevever I start feeling alone in this world… Saturday, Aug 11 2007 

bites and itchy and life and loft and mosquitos and summer sleepypasture 4:08 pm

…i just remember the mosquitoes, and their never ending love (for my flesh and blood).

 

commando much? Thursday, Jul 19 2007 

Calvins and commando and funny and loft and underwear sleepypasture 6:00 pm

To Whom It May Concern:

Please remove your faded black Calvins from the stairwell.

Thank you,
#217

 

everything’s better in vinyl Monday, Jun 11 2007 

design and donovan and elvis costello and jan & dean and life and records and ricky nelson and talking heads and the beach boys and Uncategorized and vintage and vinyl sleepypasture 6:57 pm

So my friend Scott and I went to VooDoo Chile last night, a.k.a. “Jimmy’s.” If you are not familiar with VooDoo Chile, it’s, well, amazing. It’s this shop in Deep Ellum owned and run by Jimmy. Jimmy is this stick thin Japanese hippie who is always wearing skin tight bell bottoms and has long hair. He is super nice and always friendly and always serving wine. His shop is sort of a vintage shop but there is newer stuff too…everything from records and record players to VHS tapes to books to clothes to art to Halloween costumes. He told me last night that he’s moving the shop to Lower Greenville in August, which is probably smart on his part because he will get a LOT more foot traffic, but stinks for me because he will no longer be right around the corner.

Last night I picked up some good vinyl:
Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food produced by Brian Eno ($3)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Armed Forces ($7)
Donovan’s Greatest Hits ($1)
Jan & Dean Golden Hits Volume 2 ($3)
Ricky Nelson Ricky ($3)
The Beach Boys Surfin’ Safari ($7)

Today is my Saturday so I am going to do laundry and swim! Hopefully also do some freelance work. Ok, now it’s time for that swimming part….

 

Self Served Sunday, Jun 10 2007 

errands and home depot and life and phone trees and self check-out and sprint and thoughts and Uncategorized sleepypasture 11:55 pm

I loathe the self check-out line. And the place that irritates me the most as far as the self check-out line goes is Home Depot because 90% of the time they don’t give you another option. Checking out at Home Depot would be about 5 times faster if someone did it for me in a regular old check out line. And I hate that the call it the “express lane.” There is nothing express about some calm machine lady voice chirping at me that there is an “unknown item in bagging area” when she was the one who just told me to “place item in bagging area.” Besides, it was a friggin’ shelf that wouldn’t fit in the stupid bagging area to begin with. And the person watching over the self check-out just stares at you while you struggle instead of being helpful. I end up looking like a crazy person because I start talking back to the calm robot lady sayng “but you JUST TOLD me to place the item IN the bagging area – make up your mind!”

The same goes with those automated calling robot people who want me to tell them outloud what I need on the phone. Today I call Sprint to make an account change and I get “please say outloud what you would like to do today. You can say something like ‘make payment’ or ‘billing question.’” So I say “upgrade my plan.” And the machine says “did you say ‘billing question? please say YES or NO.” I say “NO.” Robot lady says “our billing options have changed, please hold while I transfer you.” CLICK. I call back and finally get it to understand “upgrade my plan” and she says “ok, I will transfer you to a representative.” I hold for fifteen minutes. I can’t take it anymore. I go clean my bathtub.

 

Hello world! Sunday, Jun 10 2007 

Uncategorized sleepypasture 3:11 am

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

 

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.