Seattle / Daft Punk / Sunset

(1. Seattle Public Library, 2. WoD, 3. the Gum Wall (yes), 4. view from Gas Works Park, 5. Fantagraphics, where I met an old friend of Kurt Cobain, 6. Man vs. Wild)

So I was in Seattle for 5 days last week during my Spring Break. It was a perfect trip. Like, perfettissimo. Everything went according to plan - the weather was surprisingly lovely and non-rainy, public transport turned out to be a piece of cake (after you live in LA you never, ever take this for granted), our hostel was located right in the middle of downtown, the best area, and the city itself was better than I'd hoped. Compact, elegant, eccentric and modern. And bursting with quality eating.
One of the best things we did out of the bajillion things we did was see a laser show at the science center called "Laser Daft Punk." It was awesome to the point of orgasmic. Lying on the planetarium floor for an hour, staring up at the ceiling, a hundred beams of colored light framing a gaping maw, a bottomless orifice, descending on me to the sounds of Daft Punk... all I could think was that I wanted it to devour me. Afterwards we ran out delirious and caught the last bus of the night back home.
When I got back to LA, I took my first driving lesson, which took the form of me driving around Bel-Air (oh thank god for quiet, wealthy, clean Bel-Air roads) for an hour and then down Sunset Blvd and back to UCLA. It all went freakishly well and I didn't have a single accident and only got honked once. Can you believe that? Me? In traffic? LA traffic? I was quite flabbergasted at my own bravery the whole time, but my instructor didn't seem too surprised. He turned out to be a movie buff so we spent the whole lesson discussing the finer points of Inglourious Basterds, Memento and Kevin Spacey, interrupted occasionally by him reminding me to check my rear view mirror. A very surreal experience in all.