bucket list, #345

i wish i actually had a bucket list. an official one. where items on said list had numbers, and could be crossed off or check-marked, providing the immense satisfaction that us virgos can only get by crossing things off lists.  sadly, i don't.

i should add that to my 'to do' list.

suffice it to say that even though it's very unofficial and does not require ink or a keypad to log completion, i do have a running list of things i want to do, try, see, in my head. one of those things was to see one of the summertime movie screenings in the hollywood forever cemetery.

check.

having removed myself from a work trip to vancouver canada due to sheer travel exhaustion, i was home for an entire weekend.  when my friend jami asked if i'd be interested in seeing 'dawn of the dead' at the hollywood cemetery, i jumped at the chance.

we were joined by a newish (to me) friend, whitney, and came prepared with our chairs, snacks, and mst3k (mystery science theater 3,000) style commentary. having never seen the movie before, i was fascinated to learn how many story lines from my current obsession, the walking dead, seemed very similar to its zombie predecessor.

we enjoyed the movie, the people watching, and the cemetery itself. we wandered the portions of the ground that the security guards would allow, enjoying the sheer grandeur of site.

we also wandered into a line that turned out to be a themed 'photo booth'  with a professional photographer, and assistants carefully directing the smoke, providing a perfectly eerie setting for our group photo.

it was a perfect way to cross this one off the intangible but completely real, bucket list.