Update
In reverse chronological order:
Ears are still ringing from last night's final Sleater-Kinney show. They were in rare form. Eddie Vedder made a special guest appearance and played two songs. One a Dylan-ish folkie fuck-you to George Bush and the other a sweet duet with Janet Weiss on ukelele. This was the second time in my life I'd seen a beloved local group play their last show forever in front of the hometown crowd. The last time was when I saw the Hartford Whalers lose 3-2 to the Tampa Bay Lighting in their final NHL game in Connecticut.
The night before we went to The Best of the Best Sketch Fest which was nothing if not well organized. We showed two minutes late to the first set and had to wait 50 minutes to get into the next one. The whole thing went briskly on schedule with just ten minutes between sets.
The highlight for me was local boys Hoskins & Breen who brought a real three piece Mariachi band for accompaniment. Breen, the bald thin one, has a big part in the movie I was working on all of July. But more on that later.
The afternoon before the Sketch Fest I got the High Score on Lord of the Rings Pinball at Beulahland. I did this despite a highly promblematic table that had to be bumped and jostled to release the ball at certain points. I will now of course have to go to Beulahland every day to check on my high score from now until I am dethroned.
The evening after that (uh-oh, a wrinkle in my reverse chronological order!) Alison and I attended a sold out preview of Marky Mark Wahlberg's new uplifting football movie, Invincible the heartwarming tale of Vincent Papale the local doofus who went to an open try out for the Eagles and made the team.
He scores one touch down. On special teams. That's it. No super-bowl, no nothing. He's on kickoff team for three years and I'm supposed to be impressed. That's a movie? Guy try's out for team. Try outs are hard. He makes the team. Roll credits. At least call the stupid thing something realistic like Making the Cut or The 30 Year Old Rookie. But Invincible? Come on. I kept waiting for the part where he gets struck by lighting and becomes impervious to pain.
That's most of the recent stuff. I'll continue my tour of the recent past at a later date...
Ears are still ringing from last night's final Sleater-Kinney show. They were in rare form. Eddie Vedder made a special guest appearance and played two songs. One a Dylan-ish folkie fuck-you to George Bush and the other a sweet duet with Janet Weiss on ukelele. This was the second time in my life I'd seen a beloved local group play their last show forever in front of the hometown crowd. The last time was when I saw the Hartford Whalers lose 3-2 to the Tampa Bay Lighting in their final NHL game in Connecticut.
The night before we went to The Best of the Best Sketch Fest which was nothing if not well organized. We showed two minutes late to the first set and had to wait 50 minutes to get into the next one. The whole thing went briskly on schedule with just ten minutes between sets.
The highlight for me was local boys Hoskins & Breen who brought a real three piece Mariachi band for accompaniment. Breen, the bald thin one, has a big part in the movie I was working on all of July. But more on that later.
The afternoon before the Sketch Fest I got the High Score on Lord of the Rings Pinball at Beulahland. I did this despite a highly promblematic table that had to be bumped and jostled to release the ball at certain points. I will now of course have to go to Beulahland every day to check on my high score from now until I am dethroned.
The evening after that (uh-oh, a wrinkle in my reverse chronological order!) Alison and I attended a sold out preview of Marky Mark Wahlberg's new uplifting football movie, Invincible the heartwarming tale of Vincent Papale the local doofus who went to an open try out for the Eagles and made the team.
He scores one touch down. On special teams. That's it. No super-bowl, no nothing. He's on kickoff team for three years and I'm supposed to be impressed. That's a movie? Guy try's out for team. Try outs are hard. He makes the team. Roll credits. At least call the stupid thing something realistic like Making the Cut or The 30 Year Old Rookie. But Invincible? Come on. I kept waiting for the part where he gets struck by lighting and becomes impervious to pain.
That's most of the recent stuff. I'll continue my tour of the recent past at a later date...
posted by E at 11:30 AM
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