Saturday Night at the Movies

Blog Boy takes time out to go to the movies.

As busy as I am this term, I had to get out for a bit.

There is a funky theatre on Hillside and Quadra that looks like a warehouse. It seats about 450, and it's called the Roxy. How good is that?

It gets better. It has a real Cheapo Tuesday - $2.50 a show.

"Knocked Up" was on at 715 and "Ocean's 13" at 930 but i only stayed for the first one.

Good fun!

I do see the Judd Apatow recipe at work.

Chick Flick at the heart - "he's a slob with a golden heart" who will win over the outstanding girl at the end.

Add lots of swearing and dope, and the guys will sit through the movie until the end(see Talledega, Ron Burgundy, 40-yr old virgin, etc)

Bestest most redeeming quality of the movie - bro in law is a wimp not a cheat. not to give away plot lines but the movie has been out for two months.

Harold Ramis and Kristen Wiig stole every scene.

But I am sorry the entire premise is mucho loco.

No way in the world a spectacularly good looking woman (with a high paying job) is going to take Slobbo the Hut back to her place.

No way.

Doesn't happen, not even in Hollywood.

So there is no movie.

Despite all the great lines and the laughs i couldn't get past that part so it all got filtered a bit at that point.

But Hey - $2.50?

And the company was great; they always are.

A much welcome break.

Two other interesting bits to the day...

1) I got an email from an old friend who gave me good advice

2) I was forced to look down the gun barrel of my own athletic mediocrity

so -

Old friends with advice, 20 years of relative mediocrity and a band that looks like the people in Knocked Up formed a band. Sounds like:

Yo La Tengo: Mr. Tough

sigh

bonus! Yo La Tengo: Spec Bebop

for those times you just need to let the noise become music and morph back into noise again. i love this cut. there, i said it.