Peaboy

The Mural Amphitheater used to be one of my favorite places back in the Pain in the Grass days. Now they have weekend movies which I didn't know about till just now and its the last weekend. The Seattle center emails were going in my junk mail, doh!

The line up this weekend is as follows:

Friday - 8 August

• Dusk - The Goonies
  Yes back when Cyndi Lauper and Cpt. Lou Albano were buddies she was in a movie that I don't even think I liked as a kid although I did like Cyndi Lauper's music. Hey, Girls just wanna have fun is a classic and now I know you will have that song stuck in your head all weekend! She doesn't really have anything to do with the film, but for me they both mark the same moment in time.

Saturday  - 9 August

• Dusk - Batman Begins
  The year is 2005, and everyone has realized how stupid it was that Michael Keaton played Batman so they decided to remake the series but now they are gory and the heroines are hotter. I must say, big improvement. Oh yeah the 1989 Batman movie also wasn't making money so they needed to rip off today's HS and College kids who could have just rented the original.
• 11:59 - Rocky Horror Picture Show
  All you need to know about this is Meatloaf rocks and Susan Sarandon is very hot in a sort of innocent girl goes wild kind of way. Oh yeah you also need to bring about 150 different props, dress as your favorite character, memorize the lyrics, the dance, and the lines and the crowd refrains to the lines and then while the movie is on you need to sing and speak over the top of the movie and if you're good act out the whole thing on stage in front of the movie and basically not watch the movie at all. That's the sign of a good movie, when no one watches it for 33 years and yet its still being played every Saturday night at Midnight.

I might have to stop in to check out the crowd for RHPS. I had my high school moments of attending that every weekend back at Shawnee HS in Medford Lakes, NJ... ah the memories... RockyCon2008 is in Atlantic City, NJ, of course!

BTW, whatever DID happen to Saturday night?

Seriously once Springsteen is on your side, there is no way you can loose...

http://brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html

Must listen to Nebraska this week... awesome album (and no I'm not 40 +_y.o.)

Sangean ATS-909 Shortwave Radio Receiver

This will replace my broken Radio Shack radio that I'm giving to Divide who will probably fix it in 2 hours. :-)

The show was amazing last night. I've not been in such a great crowd of people at Nuemos since it Moes Mo Roccin' Cafe and matty and I were seeing 7 Year Bitch. Bass was totally reorganizing my DNA! The crowd was great. It was a good night to say the least, restored my faith in the beats.

Here's a little Tweet poem I wrote while I was there....

Peaboy With every thump thump thump the sweet sweat drips drips drips on and on the beats will not relent
Sat, Feb 23 00:53:16 from txt

Dawn and I saw The Spiderwick Chronicles this weekend and I must say I loved it. Its got that Harry Potteresque fantasy thing going for it but with more present day characters and settings. The basic concept is that every imaginary being (ogres, goblins, hobgoblins, fairies, pixies, etc..) are real and of course there's always the good vs. evil thing. The special effects are great and while this will clearly be an series you get the sense there is a lot more story to tell and a lot more amazing creatures to meet.

Its based on a series of book which I have never read. The Harry Potter films never made me want to read the books, but based on the movie, these look like 'young adult' books I might actually enjoy.

Definitely worth seeing. My only warning would be to avoid matinees as you will be swamped with kids. We went to an 8 o'clock show in Ballard and even then there were a lot of kids, some younger (and louder) than should be out that late (go on a school night).

Wind driven kinetic sculptures:

http://www.glumbert.com/media/kineticsculpture
http://strandbeest.com/

I was an EMusic subscriber years ago back when I discovered they pretty much had all the punk you could every want. Well now that I've had all the punk you could every want and downloaded the Johnny Cash Sun Records I decided it was time to say the $15 a month. At some point I'll want to sign up for something again but for now I was feeling like I had to find something to download as opposed to wanting to download something. Buy Emusic.... see you again someday I'm sure....