ich bin ein auslander

In the spirit of the kid with the “lightsaber”… can’t wait until someone gives this the after effects treatment.

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edit: i’ve now watched this multiple times. the true genius of it only really begins to emerge around the 15th viewing. Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Death! Sleep! Mace!

well, there ya go. saw the 10pm show last night at mann’s chinese, or the chinese man, as wendy likes to call it. So, we had 22 tickets at one point - 10 for the chinese, 12 for the westwood theater. As of Monday, it looked like we couldn’t give away the westwood tickets, and we had a bunch of wafflers happening with the chinese tix. Tuesday, the wafflers fell back in line… Wednesday, we started getting calls about the westwood tickets. By the time we were standing in line - thanks Dave and Will for being lineboys - at 8, all of our tickets were bought. Except for Heather’s, of course. But we know she’s good for it. Hah.

We had a big damn group… Wendy and I roped in Simon, Heather, Greg, Anna, EJ and his new girl and Brian Blondell, and our last ticket went to Jen… with Dave and Will, we had Will’s sister (I lived with the guy and didn’t even know he had a sister), Jon, Steve, and a smattering of other folks who’s names escape me.

The line was interesting… seems everyone had a spoiler or two but nobody wanted to share info, so we kept wanting to talk about the movie but not wanting to. In & Out, cold, loud motorcycles. Stupid fucking TV cameras every 5 minutes sweeping the line. Saw Chuck Henry inside getting ready to do a dumb broadcast. “Look, they built it and people came!”…

Once they started letting people it, it turned into madness. Grown men and women sprinting through the gates, trying to spread one loose jacket over entire rows and claiming they’re holding the whole left quadrant of the theater… our group split into two, with the Dave and Will axis going way too close up to the screen for us, so our group heading back a bit and then losing the two new couples who flitted off a few rows to be alone in a crowded theater…

Waited in the horrendous line for snacks… that line had more cutting then the line to get in…

a bunch of crap trailers, but NO ADS… excellent

then, finally, the movie. I won’t do spoilers or discussions yet. I felt about it the same way I felt about the animatrix. Some parts were great, some parts were ok, some parts sucked and the rave scene / love scene was fucking horrible.

Tonight’s the bowling party, and come midnight I’m officially old. Ta for now.

second day in a row i woke up at 6am and could not get back to bed. On the plus side, yoga and an hour on the bike are knocked off the list pretty damn quick. Watched Spinal Tap this morning, too. I have no idea why. But it was fucking funny.

Tonight’s the matrix… kind of excited, but prepared to be disappointed. The best part about the original matrix was I walked in having no idea what it was going to be about, or if it was any good… this time, there are expectations. That’s bad.

wendy and i have been invited to partipate in some big ol’ art festival out in lovely buffalo, ny june 14th and 15th… it’s being sponsored by the albright, which kicks ass. Wendy can basically bring anything she wants and put it up, and i’ll be doing two 20 minute sets of music. should be interesting. time to get on cheaptickets.com and sort something out.

in other news, still gearing up for the matrix: reloaded tomorrow. watched the original today to wash the semi-bad animatrix taste out of my mouth. tomorrow should be a blast… cheers to dave for being line bitch… i’m assuming we’ll be seeing jen, jon, will and maybe steve there… and wendy and i will be bringing along simon, heather, greg, anna, ej, brian b and an unspecified friend as well. I can’t help but feel Barney’s Beanery will be a required post-movie stop.

And then, of course, it will be Thursday, which means drunken birthday bowling. That evening looks to be shaping out nicely… over 40+ rsvps… and apparently an awful lot of booze related gifts. Friday, which is my actual birthday, will most likely be spent in recovery. And then another birthday bbq party on Saturday, this time not for my birthday…. some other jerk. jeez, stealing my thunder…

simon brought over an early release of the animatrix dvd tonight, so we had a few brews and entered into “the world of the matrix”… no spoilers ahead, just some strong opinions.

first off, “the world of the matrix” is pretty fucking shallow. I love it for what it is, but this isn’t the Lord of the Rings or Dune or anything like that. The bros wach-tever have not created a significant backstory, languages, tons of history, etc for this so these half-assed philosophical ramblings and animatrix story lines kind of fall short. Let it be, for fucks sake. It’s great as a kung-fu, comic book, semi-mystical full of shit story. We like it that way, please don’t pretend to be any deeper. Unfortunately, the animatrix tries to provide a bit of depth, generally through presenting every single female character as perpetually walking around in a halter top and a g-string. What the fuck is up with these animators? Can you guys PLEASE hire someone who has actual contact with a real, live, human female so they don’t feel the need to spend five hours modeling erect nipples and butt cheek muscles? Really, that’s just fucking creepy.

Ok, so that said… of the 9 stories, i liked four, thought two were ok and hated two. The remaining one was one of the worst pieces of crap I’ve ever had to sit through in my entire life.

And the “special exclusive DVD content only available on your PC”? Geez, that would be an interactual player install and links to the website. Wow. Thanks for that. With the link to the website, I can download the trailers already provided on the DVD! Cool! Even better is knowing you paid Interactual 10k to license their “technology”! And the damn soundtrack sucks ass, too.

Movie better be good. I’m starting to have severe matrix doubts.