Homesick

Seeing Milk made me miss San Francisco. I know I don't say that much (or maybe I do, but I feel as if it's usually Togatown for which I pine) but I do. I really, really do. Right now, anyway.

I saw the film alone this afternoon because no one wanted to as much as I did. I felt like I had some sort of civic duty to see it, but an enjoyable one, a sort of homage to my youth, to my neighborhood/neighboring neighborhood: I lived in the Castro, or within 5-10 minutes of it for all of my time in SF, and I attended Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy for three important years (K-2). One of my mom's friends was one of the main characters in the movie, too. Not an actor friend acting in the movie, but a friend, a photographer to be precise, who was part of Milk's cute camera shop crew. He wasn't played by any of the big-ish names (Franco, Hirsch, or Luna) also playing characters in that circle, but that was still exciting as heck to hear the name Danny Nicoletta and know the real Danny. Also that hunky guy who played the Titanic designer/engineer in Titanic played Mayor Moscone. I have no personal connection to him; I just liked him in Titanic.

Diego Luna's character was kind of annoying at times, but I think he was supposed to be, and it was oh so clear that Emile Hirsch was wearing American Apparel, but all in all it was a good film. When looking for a photo of the American Apparel 'fit, I found out that Emile Hirsch and I share the exact same date of birth AND imdb.com trivia says "Was often seen singing karaoke alongside Lindsay Lohan." Birthday twins + karaoke + LiLo = SoulM8s.

I saw some previews today, too, and was telling my dad about them on the phone after the movie. I was telling him about this movie called Sunshine Cleaning and said it must have been Alan Arkin's last film. My dad was confused and corrected me. Why did I think Alan Arkin died? Weird. Anyway, he's not dead. He will also be in the upcoming movie Marley & Me, which I guess is how Jennifer Aniston's been wasting her time recently when not busy telling magazines how mean and cruel Angelina is/was. Seriously, why is that on so many magazine covers now?? Didn't this all happen years ago?

Maybe I need to sit down with a US Weekly and stop reading magazines only by their covers.