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I went to the Century NORTHGATE CINEMA 15 in San Rafael, CA, yesterday, September 22nd, 2020, to watch the 4:20 p.m. showing of, TRAIN TO BUSAN: PENINSULA, in auditorium 1 seat E-8; and the 7:20 p.m. showing of, INFIDEL, in auditorium 2, seat H-8.
The Peninsula movie is a sequel (?) to the Busan movie. It's a good Zombie movie. Zombie movie fans should have this on their watch-list.
The Infidel movie, starring Jim Caviezel, is about an American Christian imprisoned in Iran on drummed-up charges for contradicting a moslem talk show host. I like how it gives one a glimpse of the underground Christian movement in Iran. And it's humbling to see how we, Christians living in relative peace and comfort, don't know what it is like to live in a country where Christians are Hunted & Persecuted Simply For Their Faith!
Here's an interesting trivia that I came across a few days ago: In THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, Jim Caviezel spent most of the film's shooting in the crucifixion scene. Because of it, after the film wrapped production, Jim had to have two ( yes, 2 ) open heart surgeries! 😨
Korean cars are featured in these movies. The 1st movie is obvious. The 2nd one, not so much. 😕
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On my way to the cinema, just before I passed by the Skaggs Island exit on Highway 37 West, there was an overturned mobile home trailer at the shoulder.
And at the intersection right after the Sonoma/Infinion Raceway, there was an overturned tractor-trailer headed in the opposite direction. Emergency 1st responders were on the scene. And traffic was backed-up.
I have not been to this cinema in about 18 years ❗ I frequented this cinema back when I used to work in San Rafael in 2000. They have done a bit of remodeling here. And I remember how the box office used to be in the middle of the hallway.
The Northgate Shopping Mall was relatively empty. There's an Sbarro restaurant open for pick-up & take-out nearby. But there were hardly any customers.
I went to the wrong theatre wing before the 2nd show, thinking that auditorium 2 was there, because the concessions counter was closed in the other wing!
And I got somehow lost on my way back home because I decided to take a back road way to my former workplace. My cellphone's map directions didn't help me to find it in the dark. 🤷🏽♂️ So, I just gave up and headed on straight for home.
What A Difference 18 Years Of Absence Make❗❗❗
I'm gonna have to frequent this mall/cinema once the nCOVID-19 restrictions are lifted just to re-familiarize with the area.
P.S. There are now 5 cinemas open within 50 miles of where I live. One of them is a drive-in. I think that the nCOVID-19 ELECTION YEAR "pandemic" will bring back the drive-in theatres. ☺️
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Well, today, Friday, September 4th, 2020, was the first day of Century Napa Valley 12's Re-opening. It's the only theatre that's open within, at least, a 70-mile radius of where I live! They're only showing three new movies this week: TENET, THE NEW MUTANTS, & UNHINGED. Plus, they have a Private Party showing of the first INDIANA JONES movie.
I went to see the 1:00 p.m. showing of TENET, in auditorium 9, seat C-7; the 4:25 p.m. showing of THE NEW MUTANTS in auditorium 5, seat D-11; and the 7:15 p.m. showing of UNHINGED in auditorium 7, seat B-3.
TENET is a confusing and complicated movie that goes back-&-forth in time, and has scenes where forward time occurs concurrently with reverse time! It's about Uranium 241 and the manipulation of time and a dying man's wish to end the world with him.
THE NEW MUTANTS' first half is mostly uneventful. The last half is where it gets going.
UNHINGED is about a man who loses his mind because he lost his job, lost his cheating wife, and has an encounter with an unapologetic woman which causes him to have a road rage like no one had ever had before!
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The 1st movie had only me and a couple in the auditorium. The 2nd movie had a few more people in the auditorium. The last movie had more people in the auditorium.
They take cash at the box office. But, at the concessions counter, they only accept cards. I had to buy a gift card to purchase concessions items. The good news is that the concessions prices are discounted. But I couldn't use my refill Popcorn Tub and my refill Soda Cup because of the nCOVID-19 Virus!
I've been out of work for a month now because of an acute bacterial infection of my exercise injury. I had to drive myself to the emergency wing of Vallejo, CA's, Kaiser Permanente Hospital on August 6th, but I suffered since the last week of July. The Emergency Room Doctor didn't operate on me but told me to wait for a call from my Primary Care Physician, which I got a week later. Then, my Primary Care Physician told me to wait for a Urologist to call me. I got the call a week after that. All of those weeks that I was in pain, I barely ate because standing up and even sitting down caused me such intense pain. I ate very little before I had to go back to bed because lying down and keeping the affected area warm was the only thing that kept most of the pain away. Prescription strength Ibuprofen 800 mg. only worked for a few days and then I was left with no other form of pain relief other than staying in bed.
Hours before I got the call from the Urologist, the inflamed area burst painfully and woke me up. 😖 I didn't even know that I was bleeding until I went to the toilet to empty my bladder. The Urologist told me to come right away so that she could perform surgery on me. She used a big, fat needle to anesthetize the area. 😲 Then, she used a scalpel to cut into the right side of my Scrotum to drain the area of blood and puss! Finally, she stuffed the area with a Surgical Packing Strip.
And the Urologist told me that I would have to replace the Surgical Packing Strip twice a day. I made sure that I had taken Prescription Strength Ibuprofen at least 2 hours before I had to change the Surgical Packing Strip or the pain would just make my right hand tremble and make it hard for me to apply the packing strip with a pair of tweezers!
All in all, 2 emergency room nurses, an emergency room doctor, an Ultrasound Tech, and a Urologist "fondled" ( examined ) my genitals. That's 5 female strangers getting their way with me. When I received the hospital bill, I was shocked to see what I owed them: $1,000.05! That worked out to $200.01 for each of the times a female stranger "fondled" my privates. A massage parlor would have charged me less---Of course, it wouldn't do much to relieve me of my pain but "relieve" me in some other way. 😏
Anyway, I could only wear an Athletic Supporter as recommended by the doctors. I would line my supporter with a paper towel folded 3 times. But the surgical site would drain and soak through the folded paper towel and stain my supporter with a blood-tinged fluid. Then, I decided to line the paper towel with plastic to keep my supporter from getting stained.
Then, it finally hit me: Feminine Sanitary Napkin ❗😮 🙃 I now line my Athletic Supporter with a Maxi Pad; and it works ❗👍👌 I'm probably the only man in the world that you know of who uses feminine sanitary napkins! I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner ❗🤦🏽♂️ 🤷🏽♂️