[vox] Oh, shit.

It's funny how many of the places that I used to hang out at as a kid are gone now. My favorite high school coffee shop (Coffee Manoa) went down years ago. The pool hall that I used to love in the building with all of the Korean bars and cheap parking (Keaumoku Billiards) has been gone so long that even most of my friends don't remember it. My favorite record shop has moved and changed hands so many times I wouldn't even know where to find it anymore (not that I have much of an interest in physical music media anymore, but still - I used to, goddamnit). The first bar I ever drank at (CD Cafe), as well as all of the clubs that I used to go to have all shut down for one reason or another. Even the fucking Wave, Honolulu's longest running cheesy meat-market club (26 years!) is no more.

Today I found out that the art house theater that I spent so much time at in both high school and all though my college years shut down recently. I spent so many nights at the Varsity, I think I would be hard presed to remember a fifth of the movies that I saw there. Here's a few of the ones that I can remeber:

Dangerous Liasons
The Blade Runner Director's Cut
Zentropa
Farewell My Concubine
The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Kafka

Actually, working on this list is depressing me more. I think I'll go off and have a good cry instead. I'm glad I wasn't planning on having children. I wouldn't have much of my youth left to show them. Goodbye old friend, I'll miss you.