My first outing at the German cinema (kino)

Tonight I went to see the social network at the Sony center.  It's the only place in the city that plays original versions of movies without being awkwardly dubbed over in German.  The being dubbed over thing is actually wildly annoying.  A suppose it makes sense when you have a population of 82M to dub everything so it can be mass distributed, but it's weird to see jennifer anniston's mouth moving and some german voice quacking in a completely different tone...


So the movie theatre experience.  I must say, Germans have a pretty great movie theatre thing going on.  The seats are big and plush and the screen is HUGE.  oddly, you have assigned seats though, and as germans do...90% of the people bring in .5l beers to the show with them.

Also peculiar, they have a big red curtain that covers the screen and if the movie says it starts at 8 that just means that's when the curtain opens and they played 35 minutes of commercials and previews!  This was one of the commercials i found particularly entertaining.  (I don't think you need to understand German to get the gist)  Click here

Anyway, the movie, i thought was excellent.  I'm not sure how much of it is based on fact but it is weird to think that i joined in march of 2004 which was 2 months after it was launched and unknowingly signed up for what it's become.  Do you remember when in the left column it listed all the other schools you had friends at and in parentheses how many friends you had was written?  To be honest, it was a lot more manageable back then.

My friend bought me a little notepad to write down all the little things i think about over the course of the day to blog about and i really wish i had it today because i know i'm missing a  lot of things i wanted to say.  I also need to write about London.

Tomorrow, i will celebrate my friend Henrik's birthday and then Saturday the intense housing search truly begins!  I MUST HAVE DRAWERS...I hate living out of a suitcase.