Tonight I treated my self to David Fincher's Zodiac.
I've seen it a couple of times, and really, it's just for this sequence:
The Transamerica Building is probably one of my five favorite buildings ever. A few years ago I was in San Francisco and I decided to go for a walk; I left my hotel, turned the corner and there it was. The sudden THERE is one of those wow experience I'll always remember.
I need to get out more.
From Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City:
"There's a theory," said Anna, handing him a cup of tea as she climbed back into bed, "That we are all Atlanteans."
"Who?"
"Us. San Franciscans."
Edgar grinned indulgently, bracing himself for another yarn.
Anna caught it. "Do you want to hear it... or are you getting stuffy on me?"
"Go ahead. Tell me a story."
"Well... in one of our last incarnations. We were all citizens of Atlantis. All of us. You, me, Frannie, Dee Dee, Mary Ann..."
"Are you sure she's out of the building?"
"She's gone to her switchboard. Will you relax?"
"OK. I'm relaxed."
"All right, then. We all lived in this lovely, enlightened kingdom that sank beneath the sea a long time ago. Now we've comeback to this special peninsula on the edge of the continent... because we know, in a secret corner of our minds, that we must return together to the sea."
"The earthquake."
Anna nodded. "Don't you see? You said the earthquake, not an earthquake. You're expecting it. We're all expecting it."
"So what does that have to do with Atlantis?"
"The Transamerica Pyramid, for one thing."
"Huh?"
"Don't you know what dominated the skyline of Atlantis, Edgar... the thing that loomed over everything?"
He shook his head.
"A pyramid! An enormous pyramid with a beacon burning at the top!"
"Who?"
"Us. San Franciscans."
Edgar grinned indulgently, bracing himself for another yarn.
Anna caught it. "Do you want to hear it... or are you getting stuffy on me?"
"Go ahead. Tell me a story."
"Well... in one of our last incarnations. We were all citizens of Atlantis. All of us. You, me, Frannie, Dee Dee, Mary Ann..."
"Are you sure she's out of the building?"
"She's gone to her switchboard. Will you relax?"
"OK. I'm relaxed."
"All right, then. We all lived in this lovely, enlightened kingdom that sank beneath the sea a long time ago. Now we've comeback to this special peninsula on the edge of the continent... because we know, in a secret corner of our minds, that we must return together to the sea."
"The earthquake."
Anna nodded. "Don't you see? You said the earthquake, not an earthquake. You're expecting it. We're all expecting it."
"So what does that have to do with Atlantis?"
"The Transamerica Pyramid, for one thing."
"Huh?"
"Don't you know what dominated the skyline of Atlantis, Edgar... the thing that loomed over everything?"
He shook his head.
"A pyramid! An enormous pyramid with a beacon burning at the top!"
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