Sunday 2.21.2010

We slept in til noon and it was fucking exhilarating. The fucking was exhilarating, but the sleeping was more exhilarating. 818 made me a lovely omelet with all the right amount of swine and then we decided to hit the movies.

We went to see Avatar in 3D at Citywalk. BTW I need these for my loft! Giant pocorn hanging from my 50 foot ceilings would be pretty dope.

I have to admit I knew nothing about this movie, except that folks were seeing it 3 and 4 times and claiming it to be the most amazing thing ever. I literally didn’t know it was an alien movie until we walked into the theater and I saw the little blue guy. Here is my take on it all: it is the same old storyline, but then again, what movie isn’t a version of the same basic 8 storylines. This was Harry Potter (flying creatures), Alien (Sigourney Weaver) and every Disney love story where the boy meets the kings daughter in the forest, blah blah blah. Would I sit through it again? Hell no! It was awesome and I would love to visit a place like Pandora one day and have the ground turn lime green when I walked on it, but sitting through 3 hours of that again? no thanks.

Before I caught the train back to San Diego we decided to grab some sushi at Sushi Go 55 downtown inside the Little Tokyo shopping center. Any sushi in this area was sure to be authentic and we were most likely going to be the only white people in there. We were our usual brave selves and ordered a bunch of wacky stuff off the menu. Tempura battered shiitake mushrooms with minced shrimp served with a bowl of salt and brown flecks of who knows what. The mushrooms were good, but the rest was too greasy.

Yellowtail collar. Confirming that I don’t really like cooked fish. This was nothing special, just tasted like regular old cooked white fish. It didn’t stop us from destroying it, though.

Your average sushi order: maguro, toro, mackerel, red snapper, and a soft shell crab roll.

And now here is the winner of the night in disgusting. Shark fin with pickled ginger. Most of the shark fin was gone at this point, but here is the other stuff in the bowl, which we think was like jicama. The shark fin had the texture and stiffness of cartilage (go figure! lol) and the white vegetable stuff you see here was covered and oozing with a snot like substance very similar to what you would expect to be covering an alien.

We didn’t leave there hungry by any means, but I definitely won’t be going back. Next time I will make sure I am there on a night other than Sunday and hit up R23 which I absolutely love in downtown LA.

I snoozed the whole way home on the train and then went straight to bed. I love to sleep.