The Premiere Cultural Spectator Of Our Generation: Japanese Food And Tommy Wiseau- Stellar Combination.

Item 1 On The Adjenda

I don't think I have enough energy to write a full fledged restauraunt review, so I will provide a simple list of why I recommend the San Sai Japanese Restauraunt on 21st avenue in Portland, Or.

1. Very inexpensive.

2. Great Service.

3. Fast Service. The Food was delivered about five minutes after we ordered it despite the place being packed.

4. The food was delicious and very fresh.

5. It was quite filling.

I realize the list lacks the eloquence one would expect from a food review, but I typed the stuff below first, and I am exhausted.

Item 2 On The Adjenda

For those of you unfamiliar with filmmaker "Tommy Wiseau" and his film "The Room" which is already on its way to becoming a major cult classic. As much as I pride myself with the ability to communicate with my writing, words fail me when it comes to the Wiseau Phoenominon. I will let Tommy Wiseau and Malhalo.com's channel on youtube paint a little picture I will elaborate on. Please, watch.

As you could probably tell, the film is a bit cheesy to say the least. The acting is terrible- the script and story is very unrealistic, and the dialouge is simply ludricris- but somehow, Tommy Wiseau's The Room has brought people together and has created a brand new cultural phonomon in the vein of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Surley you are already aware of the nicities that go on during a screening of the Picture Show, but just incase you have been living under a rock since the 1970s, dreading the apoclapsye with out ever knowing what the word really meant, here is a little background information- At The Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings, there is a certain amount of interaction between the audience and the characters on screen. There is a scene where one of the characters proposes a toast- and right when he says "A toast!" the audience members chuck pieces of toast toward the screen.

Wiseau's film screenings go along the same line- When Wiseau was filming, he rented a pre-built set that had pictures of spoons set up. When ever one of the spoon pictures show up on the screen, the audience throws plastic spoons at the screen. You have not lived until you have seen the silloetted images of throusands of spoons fly across your view of the screen. There is a danger of being constantly pelted with the spoons, but my friend and I were resourceful and sat in the back row, free from the terrible bombardment. Though, I must confess I did enjoy throwing my spoons when there were none on screen. I know what you are thinking- and yes. I am an unfeeling rebelious rapscallion.

If you ever expect to see the room without distraction, buy the DVD. As long as you watch it in a theater, you will not beable to hear alot of the dialouge. The audience cheers at it like they are watching a football game. One of the chants (the only one I picked up) is when they show a pan across the Golden Gate Bridge, the audience members yell "go go go go go go go go go" Mostly, people shout extremely obniouxous and sometimes raunchy comments at the screen- just to enhance the atmosphere of audience comradery. There were about 100 instances where somebody in the crowd made fun of a character's breast cancer. (Watch the film, and you'll understand why.) During one scene, my friend and I started singing the theme song to "Mission Impossible."

Also, we got to meet the big man himself. That's right. Him. Tommy Effing Wiseau. We were in line coming into the theatre, (if you expected this blog to follow events chronilogically, you are in for a big disappointment) and I purchased a few souviners. On a wall above the entrance foyer, there was a sign:

The sign pumped our anticipation, though my friend and I had already seen him outside of the theater. (Tommy even threw my friend a football.) But now we would be able to talk to him, get autographs, and even pose for a picture with him- which both of us did.