Just to catch up on some loose ends ...
Star Wars opens this week. I'm inclined to hit a matinee showing on Thursday as opposed to the 12:01 am showings. I lack the costume to fit in with the dweebs who insist on being the first, I get to see it soon enough, and I'm just not as jazzed about this conclusive episode as I think I should be to take in a midnight movie.
Via Kottke, there's this wonderful little how-to on explaining away an affair with Cameron Diaz to one's significant other:
In fact, I told my wife, "One of the reasons this is so stupid is because you know that if I was hooking up with CD you'd have been the first one I high-fived."
God as my witness, I'm saving that excuse for a good cause.
With the social and work calendar getting booked up, there's already plans afoot to take in local legends Beetle at the Continental Club on the 26th. There's free hot dogs, which are somewhat of a draw on their own. But legend has it that the band is pretty faithful to the dress of the early 60s Beatles. If that's not enough to interest anyone, there's a gig over at the Big Top next door whereby Sean Reefer does some Hank Sr. Gotta admit, I might be bouncing back and forth depending on level of interest or inertia caused by inhaling freebie dogs. Molly & the Ringwalds return to Houston this coming weekend, also. Hopefully, Austin treated em nicely.
Two discordant thoughts that bring me to the same conclusion ... hopping a bus today, I arrive on the 17-Gulfton heading home to pick up on a convo between the driver and an old lady about "stupid people." Among such types, it seems, is the guy who pulled in front of a METRO light rail and got himself killed. According to the lady, he was a very stupid person. I wasn't looking to argue, but I couldn't help but chuckle when she continued with "I bet he never does that again."
Thought #2 involves a viewing the night before of Bill Maher's HBO show. Among the guests were Gore Vidal, a heretofore noted intellectual ... right? Somewhere in the convo, Maher and Vidal are rapping the GOP and Vidal lets out with "Well, they are the party of masochism." Maher stops his own self-indulgent rant to ask "Why is that?" To which, Vidal rejoinders with "I don't know, ask them." Now, I ask you ... how in the holy hell did Gore Vidal ever get street cred in the intellectual community for such pearls of wisdom as THAT?
Stupid people, indeed.
Ya know ... smart move on there never being a Spinal Tap sequel. I think if they ever did something of that nature, it'd end up being a documentary.
Recently on Letterman ... Nicole Kidman and Robert Plant. I, somehow, found a way to miss it. Pretty sure this puts me in the same class as the old lady on the bus and Gore Vidal.
One minor American Idol thought ... seems the oddsmakers are putting high odds on my own fave: Carrie Underwood. Good sign, I hope. Last episode was rather week all the way around and one of those that makes a fan nervous that their rooting interest will be offed. Seems like everyone stunk on some level or another.
Now THIS is just good clean fun! Safe for work unless they have issues with tossing things at clowns or feeding crap to Ashlee Simpson. Wild guess ... they'll have no prob with the selling of your soul to the devil, though.
Nothing to do with nothing ... but jeez how I miss Greg Kilborn.
My opinion of the Brits has gone up significantly as of late, it seems. First, they re-elect Tony Blair ... then they show America how to deal with that pesky little problem of teenagers going goth. Jolly good move, blokes!
Combining satanic rituals and stupid people, there's also a funny story out of Canada about some severed goat heads. Seems the townfolk suspected some severed goat heads as being a result of local satanists. Stupid canucks ... they managed to forget all about that there slaughterhouse in the neighborhood. D'oh!
Enough of this madness for now ... I've got dinner to kill and cook up.
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Best costuming for the Midnight shows would be any unrelated to the movie. Consider a plumber's uniform with toolkit, a clown suit, a Godzilla suit, two guys as the Blues Brothers, four as the Village People...
just thought i'd tell ya, the tossing tomatoes at the clown is not a joke- its actually a real win a free ipod ad....