So that’s Cloverfield as seen on my iPhone. Sorry for the crappy shot, but hey what can you do when you don’t have a digital SLR yet?

I do have to admit that Cloverfield on the iPhone doesn’t have the same nauseating effect that watching it in the theater gave me, but it’s still a very fun and engaging movie to watch nonetheless. I actually wonder if they’re going to release a sequel.

In other news…

There’s this local dive bar that The Secret Drinker pointed me out to after I posted about Bolivar, Missouri one Saturday. It’s called Virgil’s Bar and Self Storage (that is the name of it, I’m not lying) and I stopped in the parking lot to take a few photos of it. Looks like a pretty scary place, and it even has a southern feel to it that I didn’t even need to go inside to catch:

Glad I didn’t even step foot into the place. I had to get out before some dude in all leather who pulled up on a fake Harley ran over to me. An Acura TL looked a little out of place there, I think.

Oh, check out the rest of the photos that I had to shoot under the crook of my arm. The place looks like Bobby Boucher’s house.

Speaking of local dives that just looked plain awful — there was this place back home in Rainier, Oregon simply called Topless (I don’t know if they were talking about the beer bottles, the women or both) right near the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. Its proximity to the power plant was evident, according to a few friends, as they saw some of the women who “worked” there and they were apparently of a not-so-comely-looking heritage.

At any rate I remember Topless operating until about 1998 or so, until the place got shut down and boarded up. Last year when I drove Hwy 30 from Portland back home, someone had put a B in place of the P in Topless, effectively naming it Tobless, and the place was rotting. Tobless was known for its massive drug and prostitution activity out back, and us Rainierians always claim that to be the birthplace of meth.

I just typed that as if I were proud of it. I’m not.

At any rate, watch out for those local dives. They’re rather scary.

If you have a hankering to know where Virgil’s Bar and Self Storage (I don’t know how those two entities combine) is, it’s just off Highway 13 about 4 or 5 miles north of Springfield on the way up to Bolivar. Hang a left at Highway WW and there you are.