michaelhayes (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} michaelhayes) wrote,@ 2008-04-07 10:23:00 |
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Well, not a bad weekend at all really.FRI
Got a haircut. It's pretty short. It was an impulsive move, something men in their "golden years" of hair shouldn't do very often, but the response has been positive.
Spin the Bottle. Pretty all-consuming too after arriving early to setup. Hung out late and drank afterwards until Kendra did a surprise drop-in after her own show downtown. The mix was a huge hit. Kendra and I got home and stayed up a few more hours winding down and catching up after a crazy week and launch into the weekend.
SAT
We actually slept in a little bit, and then I went to the home store and tried to ignore everybody (this was pre-coffee). Managed to get by goods and get out without the death march that is getting stuck in line normally is like.
Finally fixed the frickin' fence! It technically is the neighbor's fence, but I didn't mind fixing it. Of course, that neighbor's landlord is a major butt-face. A week after complaining to me about the lack of lid on our garbage can, our garbage can magically disappeared. Totally gone. Nothing like this has ever happened at our house either, which of course makes me pretty suspicious. But, I fixed the fence anyway, and got us a new can. Is this really what people in the burbs freak out about regularly?
SAT Night
Went out to see a show in Fremont, carting along Alicia Dara as my substitute special guest date (Kendra was previously booked). Of course getting to music nerdz out to a KEXP-sponsored music night was ripe for us to critique, and the night didn't disappoint. I was interested in seeing two of the bands, and while they were good they didn't bring anything to the live show that blew me away. The first band in particular seemed like it consisted of insurance claims adjusters and the mail room clerk from a small town.
Let me tell ya, people, Fremont is a meat market now. What a shame. The staff at the High Dive were pretty cool, so big ups to them. Random post-frat dudes though? I'm all set. When the aggro art-punk band came on I watched all the dudes start to pogo, with their beer cup held high, and tell you it was 1993 again.
Had a great hot dog on the street, with cream cheese on it. Mmmmmmmm good.
I got home SAT night and Kendra was just wrapping up a tarot reading, so we chilled out some more and crashed.
SUN
Rehearsal was pushed back an hour, so we ate breakfast and eased into our day. Spent some time in the studio an then schlepped off to rehearsal. Afterwards Kendra and I hit up the video store after trying in vain to find a movie worth paying for and failing horribly. Of course, we didn't fare much better at the video store:
I am Legend. BLAH! OMG, how dumb is the average American movie-goer? You know, the ones who support $100million tent-pole movies that Will Smith stars in? Because they sure made it so that movie was about as easy to understand as cardboard. It's not "SYMBOLISM" is you TELL US WHAT THE FUCK THE SYMBOL IS! Plus, sheesh man does the good guy HAVE to be the most honestly pure American wholesome blue-blooded, CHRISTIAN, hero? I'm okay with taking a few liberties with a book if it's because the medium of cinema allows you to enhance the story, but COME ON!
"Oh, we're re-making Dracula... but this is a mainstream Tom Hanks vehicle, so how about instead of a vampire, he's a neuro-surgeon who saves the spinal cords of puppies... and he crash lands on an island of cats... and he saves all kittens and wins over the cats, but then a troop of puppies also crashes on the island, and he has to help them all love each other... oh and a dance scene, we need that too. Oh and he teaches them all 'America the Beautiful'.... we'll call it: Dracula."
So, yeah, I am Legend? How about "I am AWFUL". how do you go wrong with a premise like that? End of world, zombie/cannibal/vampire manimals... I mean COME ON! Plus, oddly enough the CGI was pretty crappy. Will Smith's pecs, however, have never looked better.
