This goes down as the most belated movie “review” I’ve ever done, as I went to see this fine, fine, funny movie over a week ago with Duane. It’s not because it’s bad or anything, quite the opposite, I’m just really lazy like that.
So in case you’ve been living under a rock, Robyn and I spent a week in Walt Disney World, and when you spent a week in a world where the outside world rarely leaks in, it can be quite bizarre…
This was taken on September 7th 1999, nearly 2 years to the day before hand, from the observation deck on the Empire State Building, during my first and currently only trip to New York City.
It’s been a while since I last did this, and this time it’s my work edition, here’s what get me through the day.
Well, after all the anticipation, Robyn and I, along with a group of Flickrites, went to Atlantic Station to see Motherfucking Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane… And honestly? I doubt they could have made a better film than they did…
It’s been a while since I had a musical entry, so in honour of me picking up Saint Etienne’s Travel Edition, here are two of my personal favourites from the true proponents of the much loved UK indie/dance crossover scene of so very long ago…
You never know what you’re getting with a Kevin Smith movie, it might be another Chasing Amy or it might be another Jersey Girl… Clerks II has had divided opinions also, on one hand it got an 8 minute standing ovation at the Cannes film festival, on the other, movie critic Joel Siegel walked out after 40 minutes apparently screaming obsenities…
Finally I got to see Superman Returns, in IMAX 3D no less, and suffice to say, it was all that and then some… But before I begin, a little history lesson.
So now begins the infamous recap of our whistle stop tour of the UK, I have no idea what to even write as we saw and done so much (sometime too much) in the short space of time… I’ll start as most do in the beginning.
Yesterday was my 28th birthday, and Robyn thought it would be a good idea to invite a group of friends to go to the ballpark and celebrate with us. So about 20 or so of us piled into a Party Bus outside Robyn’s office and off we went…
I was born in a World Cup year, the day before the start of the 1978 Word Cup in Argentina to be exact, so every 4 years I get the double whammy of my birthday quickly followed by the start of the World Cup. Actually, last time around it started on my birthday, but I digress… This years World Cup is just around the corner, and, as usual, I’m pretty psyched about it.
First a bit of a backstory, for the last few months I had been chasing a job, a very nice job by all means with very nice people who waited and waited on me to get my work authorization card and social security number but after all was said and done, they decided I wasn’t the right fit for them. Now I was more than a little disapointed by this, especially after all the time and effort I had put into it, like the six hour interview last month. I had to pick myself up the next day for my driving test, which I duely passed so I was pretty proud about that, it was then Robyn came up with an idea…
One of the joys (and believe me there aren’t as many as you would believe) of being, well let’s just say, in a state of flux between employers, is the ability to just go and do things at a moments notice. Like today for instance, I had nothing to do so I went to see Mission: Impossible III. I knew Robyn wouldn’t want to see this as she has no love for Tom Cruise, so it was a guilt free excursion…
Just for you Duane, here’s the music from the Coke advert mentioned previously…
It’s been a while? What’s happened between then and now? Well, Sunday and Monday, Robyn and I were down in Peachtree City offering help to the family of Eric Ulrich, the man murdered by his wife last week, and while we did what we could, I think we made a difference, especially on Monday when I helped them move the big, heavy furniture items out of his house. On Halloween we fought through traffic to get up to Buford so we could see Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas… In 3D!