4th of March
Woah, I cannot believe we got through that in one piece! And all in time for GDC, I bet no one will believe that it actually happened! Anyway today was GDC, and it was cool, I got up a little too late and went down to a copy store to make some xeroxes of the title for the CD's with Machine Island I burned out for GDC while fighting the [this text has been scratched of somehow] yesterday, multitasking does come in handy when saving the world.
Anyway I got the copies and headed down to meet with bo at montgomery station, before heading to GDC, I got a cup of coffee and we headed towards the event, when we arrived we got on some computers and filled out a form and went on to a counter where we got the pass for GDC, excited we went down some escalators and into the expo, we went around for a bit and became increasingly aware that the majority of the companies weren't really interested in talking with people as they would just ask us to go to their website and apply for a job. But I had the chance to give away a few copies. We met with michelle, the head of the animation workshop while waiting around for a guy from blizzard bo knew, and decided to grab lunch soon, while we waited around for the guy michelle went around passing out the bachelor filmsto the companies and when she came back we were already talking with the blizzard guy, I gave him a copy of machine island, and he said he would look forward to playing it, also he was pretty stoked to finally meet bo, the guy who had not only corresponded with him several times about art related stuff, but had saved his favourite [again a word is scratched off] just yesterday.
Anyway, we went for crepes at one of michelle's favourite places in san francisco, it was pretty good, and it was nice to talk to michelle again and being able to brag about saving the world now for the fifth time. When we went back to the city michelle had to be going so bo and I went back to the GDC as the dynamic duo we are (like batman and superman, not like batman and robin). When we got there it was closed, and to make a long story short we suddenly found ourselves in the double fine headquarters, never before had I seen such homely office space and neither will I again if all transpire as the fortune-teller told me wednesday. We then met the guys who made Limbo, Playdead and talked about our bachelor projects and the prospect of applying for a job at playdead, also I got a tour of the famed, nay the legendary double fine studios, seen by few know by many, on the walls were etchings of the legend of psyconautica, a story so ancient that time and space itself may not yet have been around when it happened.
We left the double fine HQ, and went home to bo's place to play guitar and hang around, and so we did for a little while until we agreed to go to a bar in north-beach, we went past a lot of bars until we finally found one we thought looked like a bar and not a club, so I got a beer, and we sat down, but apparently we accidentally joined a birthday-party, the birthday-girl was really drunk and screeched everything she said at us, not unlike the [again with the scratching out, this is really annoying..] we fought off monday evening.
So we left as soon as my glass was empty and an opportunity arose, we then went to sutter street and found a pretty decent bar there, decent meaning all the women were clearly worn out, and all men were bearded drunk and older than forty. I enjoyed a beer here and the lack of screaming when suddenly I realized that if I wanted to take the metro back I would have to finish my beer soon, I told bo what I had come to realize and I drank my beer and we left, when I got home I went straight to bed, luckily I had been able to get a train-car that went to the closest station so I didn't have to climb the mountain of 17th street.
