No, Can I take a message?

Third day of freedom and I get a rainy day. I ventured out in the showers to get some groceries, mostly because I was now ambitious about my night of cooking supper. TexMex Mac n Cheese... it was alright :) Tonight was an Art Event with CS, we went to the Steppenwolf theater just north of here to Dead Man's Cell Phone. I really enjoyed it in all its quirky-glory!

It begins with, as suggested, a cell phone ringing in a cafe but after no motion to answer by the owner, the annoyed (alive) patron answers for him. Upon realizing he is no longer breathing, she continues to answer this formerly busy man's cell phone. After talking to a few people, including his mother, and not mentioning that he is dead, she calls 911, but keeps the phone. It brings her to many people from the life of Gordon (said dead man). She begins to create little white lies about what happened in the last moments of his life as a way to bring comfort to those he knew. She later comes to find that his life was not so grand, in fact almost morally reprehensible. Through all the humor it touches on some topics like how we are remembered in life, or death rather, and the issue of technology. At one point the protagonist says something like: " when you have your cell phone on you are supposed to be there. But when everyone has their cell phone on, no one is there. Its like we are disappearing the more we're there. " At one point she also enters the afterlife which I thought was a unique interpretation. Anyway, it was good, if you get a chance go, I also hear its coming out in book form so you could also read it :)

After the show we took a short bus ride and were walking the rest of the way back to our apartment. In the play they mentioned the street Goethe (pronounced something like gurta), so as we live a block south of Goethe, Susan decided to take that street home. Janice and I kept walking a different route but soon got an excited call from Susan. We had finally located a current set of the new Johnny Depp/Christian Bale/Channing Tatum movie, Public Enemies!!! We were kind of excited, not gonna lie. After waiting around for a bit though, a nice crew member came over to let us know that in fact none of the big name stars were going to be there tonight. Sad news for us, and that means this story isn't so good afterall, but just pretend. Apparently Johnny actually went back to France for Jack, his son's, b-day... we also heard they were 5 days behind schedule filming so maybe we still have a chance :)

"Set is upstairs guys!" says pink sign




the trucks, vans, the lights




semi from Universal Studios! :D