Ohh back to school…
I had lunch with my pops before class today…we went to Perry’s, an infamous loop deli who’s sandwiches are high reaching mounds of food I can’t begin to describe. Or maybe I should. For example, I had the #21 or Peter Panski which consists of baked ham, peanut butter, bacon, lettuce & tomato with mayo on wheat. This was a sandwich I could not conquer even on my best day…it was incredible! Great sandwich place…
Perry’s has a strict policy about no cellphones in the restaurant. Signs stating the policy are up all over the place, although there is a lot of stuff all over the walls - pictures, menus, posters, etc. Knowing that, there will always be someone who uses or heaven forbid…answers their cellphone in the deli. One such woman did this…and the entire restaurant gets quiet. I start hearing snickers and whispers of “Ohhh shit, here he comes…”. The man himself…Perry comes out from the back, speaks into an intercom and begins to rail into this woman:
“Ahh excuse me ‘mam…yeah, you…ahhh I’m not sure if you noticed the signs up about every 6 feet in the place, including the one right next to your booth…but ahhh NO CELLPHONES ARE ALLOWED!!!!”
The woman was terrified and embarrassed until the whole restaurant starts laughing and then I think she realized that it was just all a part of Perry’s charm…and she got off her phone.
I had my first class of the semester…Image Design for Cinema. I am extremely excited about this class…my prof is pretty cool, the class seems to be not…stupid…and the course material is great. We’re going to be working mostly in 35mm stills/slides but I get to shoot 200feet of color negative film…so I don’t feel so bad about not being in Production II this semester. I was also excited to see that Marshall McCluhan is on the suggested reading list…I think taking Aesthetics of Interactive Multimedia was a very wise choice.
So now I’m about to go into History of Cinema…which I’m sure will be a lesson today on everyone’s favorite filmmaking Klansman, D.W. Griffiths…
I was just listening to the piano jazz in the internet cafe at my school.