{"id":234,"date":"2008-07-23T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=234"},"modified":"2019-01-15T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T23:11:39","slug":"sketch-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/07\/sketch-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pretty crappy week in the job search department.&nbsp; I applied to a bunch of positions, but didn&#8217;t hear a peep from anyone.&nbsp; Most disappointing was the wine store position that I applied for.&nbsp; Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get into a free screening of The Dark Knight at USC on Thursday, however not much of the wait list made it in for that one.&nbsp; So I ended up riding my bike over to the Arclight Hollywood and to see a show Friday afternoon.&nbsp; The build-up to the movie was completely over the top, and therefore expectations were quite high.&nbsp; The movie didn&#8217;t disappoint.&nbsp; I think pretty much every one of the main actors did a fabulous job in their roles.&nbsp; Sure, Heath Ledger is getting the bulk of the press in light of his passing, but he also did a pretty fabulous job reinventing a character played brilliantly by Jack Nicholson in the first Batman movie.&nbsp; Both Christian Bale and Aaron Eckhardt were great as Batman and Harvey Dent as well.&nbsp; One of my friends thought it might have been a little long, and I can see that position, but I didn&#8217;t mind the length either.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday I went and saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iscla.org\/\">Independent Shakespeare Companies<\/a> performance of Twelfth Night at the Barnsdall Arts Park in Hollywood.&nbsp; Basically, its free Shakespeare in the park, Th-Su, during the months of July and August.&nbsp; It was fun, and I think I&#8217;ll go again, though with a picnic dinner this time.<\/p>\n<p>After spending the morning job searching on Monday, I decided to take a little diversion and do some more exploring of LA.&nbsp; So I got a Metro Day Pass and hit the rails.&nbsp; This time I took the train to Universal City and went up to Universal City Walk.&nbsp; Basically its just a collection of stores and restaurants just outside of Universal Studios.&nbsp; Touristy for sure.&nbsp; After walking around the City Walk, I decided to head back into Hollywood to catch a movie.&nbsp; I was initially thinking about seeing Wall-E at the El Capitan Theater (owned by Disney), however the movie had already started by the time I got there.&nbsp; Luckily, Hell Boy II was playing across the street at the Chinese Theater.&nbsp; Check one more touristy thing off the list&#8230;See a movie at the Chinese Theater.&nbsp; Like the first Hell Boy, it was directed by Guillermo del Toro.&nbsp; A great movie as well, and not as dark and sinister as The Dark Knight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pretty crappy week in the job search department.&nbsp; I applied to a bunch of positions, but didn&#8217;t hear a peep from anyone.&nbsp; Most disappointing was the wine store position that I applied for.&nbsp; Oh well. 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