Normally, when we get back from work, we cook, eat, talk, sleep. It's fine with me because I get tired after work, especially from sleep debt and the fact that I've been working extra hours without break these couple of days. Occasionally, Dionysis will call us to hang out and catch up and occasionally, we'll go, but weekdays are generally reserved for stocking up for weekend trips, and the like. This wonderful Tuesday, we discovered that Eclipse was playing in the open air theater at Zappion until Wednesday. Now, I've been asked before why #19 on the List is "See a movie in an open air theater" and not "See a play in a real theatre." There are two reason for this. One, I didn't think I was going to be able to see a play in a real theater. That costs money that I wasn't sure I'd have. Two, the open air theater is a integral part of Greek culture, especially of Athens culture. A lot of the time, when people go to see a movie, they bring their beers, bring their cigarettes, and go sit out in the coolness of the evening and watch the movie with their friends on the big screen in the open air. There aren't any open air movie theaters in LA as far as I know and even if there were one at Yale (people have projected stuff onto the side of LDub), I wouldn't go out in the middle of winter to watch it. So, even having seen Oedipus at Epidaurus, I fully stand by #19 as a part of Athens that people coming should definitely experience, especially if coming here for any extended period of time. Also, the American movies are still in English.
So on this fine Tuesday, we scorned dinner, went and got ourselves some 1.80 Euro gyros [how do you pronounce this??] and ambled down to Zappion, which is where we went our first second day in Athens and saw the book fair. Here's us with our humungor yummy yummy gyros.
Here's the theater as we approach it:
And so we went in, with a bottle of wine, and took our seats. Although none of us are Twilight fans (I actually abhor the writing in the books, and because the dialog in the movies is exactly the same, I'm not really a fan of them either), we are fans of shirtless Taylor Lautner [I'm allowed to say this because he's 18 now] and we thought, what a great apartment/suite-bonding time! So we take our seats...
And actually, before I knew it, the movie had begun. As in, I didn't know it had begun until a couple minutes in. When Jacob came on screen, a little squee went up in our row.
He's depressed because Bella is with Edward. I can't believe I just wrote that line. *facepalms*
When he was shirtless for the first time, I swear our row cheered. People probably looked at us funny.
Now, I'm not an advocate for taking mind-altering substances to make your world better, as we all know that after the effects go away, your world is not better. BUT. I'll say that the wine and the happy being with Marj and Shivani made the movie significantly better than it was. Yeah, the dialog was still horrendous and the cinematography wasn't all there either, but, some quotes:
- In the tent in the snow where Bella is shivering and cold and Jacob is STILL SHIRTLESS and offers to warm her up. Jacob to Edward: "Face it, I'm hotter than you." <-- Truth
- In the tent in the snow where Jacob is spooned around Bella warming her up. "You'd warm up faster if you took your clothes off...survival 101."
- After Jacob uninvitedly kisses Bella and she whacks him for it. Jacob to Bella's dad: "I kissed Bella...and she broke her hand...punching my face." *fave*
Anyways, looking back on this entry, it's much more superficial than my previous ones in terms of physical superficiality. And that's the way the night went. I'm not going to pretend that we're not all superficial sometimes. And I'm not going to pretend that the evening wasn't one of the most awesome I've had in Athens. It was a much needed fun-filled, relaxed night out where we were just happy. And I'm ok with that. So,
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