All the years that I lived here, I never did much stuff like this: my brother has a friend who works at a cinema in Hollywood, and they spontaneously invited me to a "special screening" there on Friday night. It was a cinema screening of some episodes of "The Guild," a web-based video series, followed by a screening of "Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" - the title alone should give you some idea of the sheer extent of the genre-bending that was going on. I liked both - I had actually been aware of (but had never seen) "The Guild," but "Dr Horrible" was completely new to me, though I'd have been interested in it immediately, since it's a Joss Whedon project, in part (Whedon created Firefly / Serenity, for example).
And several of the actors / directors / producers of the projects were there, too, as a "panel" to answer audience questions, afterwards. So I got to see Whedon and several of his talented brothers and other various writers and collaborators in the two projects (which were intertwined creatively but not at all plot-wise).
Overall, it was a fun night.
Today, I went to Mojave (a small town out in the Mojave desert about 70 miles north of L.A.) where my dad's significant other's house is, and my dad and she and I hung out for the day just chatting and such, mostly.
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