Gigantic: a story of two Johns, three Dans, a tape player, an accordion, a guitar, and...
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zaph, was that really you in the Tower Records concert scene? I mean, so I'm watching this movie entirely figuring I'll see you or jish somewhere, and then BAM they show the crowd in the store during them playing New York City and well, you're pretty recognizable.
Yeah, so anyway, today I went to work, which wasn't anything special except the part where we ended our team meeting and went into the hallway to see like 50 people standing out there and Jeff Bezos was letting people try his Segway. Well, and the part where I got invited to go drinking with some guys on my team but I had already made plans to go see Gigantic with Eli.
I took the bus after work up to the U-district. I thought I sawelphie walking down the Ave as the bus approached 50th and the Ave, where I got off to catch dinner at Sushi Express. I think I am about as close as you can get to being a "regular" there, the sushi chef even offered me tuna tataki this time because he remembers I like it. After dinner I walked down to the Varsity Theatre, bought two tickets to the movie, and read until Eli showed up.
The movie itself was like watching the last 13 years of my life flash before my eyes. I mean, it's like, a lot of the audience was laughing at the early videos and stuff because I guess they'd never seen them before, but for me it was just like a trip down memory lane. From the minute they started the movie with the Johns sitting in practically the exact same place they filmed the Puppet Head video (well, at least that's what it sure looked like), I was just watching all the old footage like "eeeee!" Some of the interviews were kinda disappointing (the worst was Syd Straw; I've always had a lot of respect for her as a musician, and heck, I EVEN SAW HER WHEN SHE SANG WITH TMBG IN 1992, but man were her interviews just plain annoying), and there was not nearly enough old footage to make me happy; almost all the concert footage was from some show in 2001. Oh, and having the random celebrities recite random TMBG lyrics was silly at best and annoying as hell at worst (I just have four words: End of the Tour. Ugh). Overall however, it was fun to watch, there were a lot of priceless jokes and such in there, mostly made by the Johns themselves. TMBG have been near and dear to my heart for over half my life, and as such I really enjoyed the movie. I think anyone who's a diehard TMBG fan would still enjoy this movie and should go see it now now now. And if you're not a diehard TMBG fan, what the heck is wrong with you?
Sigh. I hear CMU has a DDR machine in the UC now. I'm both happy and sad about that.
zaph, was that really you in the Tower Records concert scene? I mean, so I'm watching this movie entirely figuring I'll see you or jish somewhere, and then BAM they show the crowd in the store during them playing New York City and well, you're pretty recognizable. Yeah, so anyway, today I went to work, which wasn't anything special except the part where we ended our team meeting and went into the hallway to see like 50 people standing out there and Jeff Bezos was letting people try his Segway. Well, and the part where I got invited to go drinking with some guys on my team but I had already made plans to go see Gigantic with Eli.
I took the bus after work up to the U-district. I thought I saw
elphie walking down the Ave as the bus approached 50th and the Ave, where I got off to catch dinner at Sushi Express. I think I am about as close as you can get to being a "regular" there, the sushi chef even offered me tuna tataki this time because he remembers I like it. After dinner I walked down to the Varsity Theatre, bought two tickets to the movie, and read until Eli showed up.The movie itself was like watching the last 13 years of my life flash before my eyes. I mean, it's like, a lot of the audience was laughing at the early videos and stuff because I guess they'd never seen them before, but for me it was just like a trip down memory lane. From the minute they started the movie with the Johns sitting in practically the exact same place they filmed the Puppet Head video (well, at least that's what it sure looked like), I was just watching all the old footage like "eeeee!" Some of the interviews were kinda disappointing (the worst was Syd Straw; I've always had a lot of respect for her as a musician, and heck, I EVEN SAW HER WHEN SHE SANG WITH TMBG IN 1992, but man were her interviews just plain annoying), and there was not nearly enough old footage to make me happy; almost all the concert footage was from some show in 2001. Oh, and having the random celebrities recite random TMBG lyrics was silly at best and annoying as hell at worst (I just have four words: End of the Tour. Ugh). Overall however, it was fun to watch, there were a lot of priceless jokes and such in there, mostly made by the Johns themselves. TMBG have been near and dear to my heart for over half my life, and as such I really enjoyed the movie. I think anyone who's a diehard TMBG fan would still enjoy this movie and should go see it now now now. And if you're not a diehard TMBG fan, what the heck is wrong with you?
Sigh. I hear CMU has a DDR machine in the UC now. I'm both happy and sad about that.
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