Beck, Bus and Over Budget

Got the new Beck album today, sweeeeeeeeeeet. I highly recommend it, I can't say it's like anything else he's done because he's ever-evolving. But it is classic Beck style. Not only is it an album, but it comes with a DVD that has a video for each song in the album and it's in 5.1 surround sound, tiiiiiight. I just thought I'd also tell of a brief encounter that happened on the bus the other day on my way home from class. I decided to ride the 49 bus home. I thought I was used to all the strange happenings that come up while riding the bus...but not so. At the Balboa Park BART station stop I guess the driver decided to skip the stop and continue driving. Some guy who I suppose was waiting for sometime began to slam his palm on the side of the bus yelling "STOP MOTHER F***ER!" But you know how bus drivers are, they never stop. So the bus rides on down to Mission St., we reach Mission and 24th st. and THE SAME GUY hops onto the bus and starts to chew out the driver. This dude was really funny lookin', he had a huge Weird Al Yankovich afro goin and he was carrying a gigantic cello case. He told the driver he was going to sue MUNI for $5000 for endangering his life and refusing him public transportation. The driver just told him that with his hair the way it is and the huge bag he has he looked "scary", so he didn't want to stop the bus. But this guys wouldn't have it, he continued curse at him and argue his case. Meanwhile a really cool girl who was sitting across from me started yellin' "Yeah! You tell him! Hell yeah!" It took me a minute to realize how he caught up with the bus. But then he started yelling "I got straight onto BART and got off at 24th street just so I could catch you and get the Bus number and information for our court case!" Man, this guy was psycho, but at least he had some persistence. Too bad he can't really channel that energy towards more worthy causes rather than taking it out on the public transportation system. Anyway, Weird Al got off about 3 stops later, then once he got off 3 black gangsta guys snuck on through the back door. The driver noticed them, stood up and started shouting at them telling them to pay their fare. They didn't answer him so he sat back down and announced "OK, this bus is out of service!" At which point the lights in the bus went out. We sat there for about a minute in the darkness, I was about to put my head back for a nap but our 3 gangstas got up and left the bus. So the driver turned the bus back on and continued to take me home. The rest of the ride was quite uneventful, and for once there wasn't a horrid smell coming from the back of the vehicle. If you live on Nob Hill you may have noticed a film crew roamin' around. I noticed that it's probably just the second unit doing stunt shots, but man all the equipment they have, it's ridiculous. Most of it is just off the truck and bundled up not even ready for use. I don't see why they have to have all that for such a small production, but I guess producers just want to see their studio's money at work. I saw a brief shot being shot, nothing special, but it was interesting to see so many people in a crew doing nothing while a few key people were working frantically to get the shot done. This only inspires me more to work with a smaller crew on most everything I do.