Yesterday we went to the movie “We bought a Zoo”, directed by Cameron Crowe. The best scene in the movie was when Matt Damon goes to pay for his purchase at home Depot with a Capitol Federal debit card. Capitol Federal is a bank with its headquarters in Topeka, and doesn’t do business in Southern California, where the movie is set. Also, it’s the bank we use.
The movie was enjoyable but not rememberable. Best part of the movie was watching the development of Cameron Crowe. He’s gone from writing “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” to writing and directing “Almost Famous”, both of which were about him, to writing and directing this movie, which was not about him. Watching his movies always makes us think of the Rolling Stones performance in Topeka, which he chronicled in “Almost Famous”, and which Laura was at! A San Diego boy makes good.
As we left the movie Bangkok had a huge thunderstorm. Thunder and lightning everywhere, so we headed back to the hotel. Once there we saw on the television that there had been three bomb explosions in Yala, in Southern Thailand, set off by Muslim extremist, who want the three southern Muslim state of Thailand to separate from Thailand. And, there had been a gas explosion in Hat Yai. We recognized the area of the gas explosion in the center of town. We had been in the area as recently as January. It was the same area where Muslim extremists had set of bombs in 2006. We had gone through Hat Yai on the train just a few days ago.
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