Posts Tagged ‘spiderman’

Midnight movies

May 3rd, 2007 • general
Tags: , ,

In a few hours I’ll be leaving the apartment to get in line to see Spiderman. I got the tickets a few weeks ago. This will make Spiderman III the latest in a long line of movies I’ve insisted on seeing at midnight on opening day. Other films include:

Spiderman II
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Matrix: Reloaded
The Matrix: Revolutions
Star Wars episode II: Attack of the Clones
Stars Wars episode III: The Revenge of the Sith
(Multiple Harry Potter films that I cannot remember)

I’m not sure why I like going to midnight shows. I never read Spiderman comic books, never read Tokion or played D&D. I didn’t even see the original Star Wars trilogy until after I saw the new movies. I was never into Meat Beat Manifesto or Nine Inch Nails, so I don’t have an excuse for the Matrix. But I am a fan of people who are fans of these movies. And you don’t get to see people dressed up as movie characters when you show up on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Just the midnight showing.

Before I left Tucson and my brief Arizona Daily Star-related column got co-opted by other staffers, I wrote about waiting in line for 5+ hours to see Star Wars III, a pretty terrible movie. Together with waiting in line, seeing Star Wars took up 8 hours of that day. The last three hours weren’t great. But for the first five hours I stood in line watching couples dressed up as Jedi, and talking to kids who came at 5 a.m. with Star Wars Stratego and sleeping bags. This stuff is always better than the movie.

Who is this?

I'm Jessica, a freelance writer and editor. There's more here.

You can also find me on Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, Goodreads, Facebook, MySpace, Qik, and Delicious. I like over-aggregating.

Flickr

Seized_Avalon-1 Breakfast At Roebling Tea House 10-22-2006 1-23-54 AM Tokyo_Police-1 Of Montreal

Also

  •  I talked to Ryan Leslie for Paper Magazine. I met him at a studio while he was working on tracks for Jennifer Lopez. His shoes were nice. He insists on dressing up to record in a studio, which I think is really funny.

    - #

  • Talked to Black Lips for Monday's Progress Report on Steregum. I mentioned their studio walls covered in inspirational quotes, but didn't mention that they also put up lots of girlie pictures (girlie is probably not the right word, since that makes you think of tasteful 1940s nude pinups. Pretty sure Black Lips are more the Barely Legal / High Society type).

    - #

  • New Progress Report on Giant Drag. The Giant Drag story got picked up by the NME. Writes Annie: "It's funny how all of a sudden people i haven't talked to in awhile are
    calling or texting me about shows or whatever after the article." She's a great lady.

    - #

  • I wrote a Band On The Street on Welcome Wagon for the Village Voice. They are the nicest band in the world, probably because they didn't start out as a band, but as a married couple. I'm working on a review of another couple band. I am sorta grossed out about how cute every couple band is.

    - #

  • Kings of Convenience Progress Report went up yesterday. ØØØ!

    - #

Categories

Blogroll

Friends & Music Sound Of The City  /   De File  /   Kat's Scribbles  /   Lisa Smith  /   Jacob Cooper  /   Mark Sussman  /   Mairead Case  /   Sean Fennessey  /   Amrit Singh  /   Kory Grow  /   Daphne Carr  /   Brooklyn Vegan  /   Fluxblog  /   Poisson D'Avril  /   Amanda Petrusich  /   Andy Beta  /   Nick Sylvester  /   Tobias Carroll  /   Maura Johnston  /   Stereogum  Sponsored by Nylon  /   Paper  /   Paper Thin Walls  /   Paste  /   Pitchfork Media  /   Resonance  /   Rhino.com  /   Spin   Style & Street Fashion Cat Party  /   Face Hunter  /   Altamira NYC  /   Hint  /  Style Bubble  /  The Sartorialist   Other Print Culture  /   Vulture  /   Projectionist  /   The Fanzine  /   The Smart Set

Lifestream

  • (Show Details)

  • Progress Report: Röyksopp

  • (Show Details)

  • JessicaSuarez: I could go to the gym, or watch Elvis '68 Comeback on TV Land. Luckily, Watch More Elvis was one of my New Year's resolutions.

  • Jessica is cleaning up soot from her space heater catching on FIRE. Thank God for BB&B liberal return policy. And that I was awake when it happened.

  • Jessica Mark got me a Swiss Army knife, Sontag journals, and a Ravenclaw scarf for Christmas. Together that about covers everything I like ever.

  • JessicaSuarez: I had a four-hour dream about Thom Yorke last night.

  • Jessica saw Yes Man tonight. Seeing Criss Angel tomorrow night. Family fun @home.

  • JessicaSuarez: Just found my childhood baseball card collection! Shit's gotta be worth something. http://twitpic.com/vit9

  • JessicaSuarez: My brother's Xbox is out for repair, so no Halo 3 and Guitar Hero over vacation for me this year. Now I just want my own Xbox.

  • JessicaSuarez: At the jetblue terminal, going to las vegas. And I only have one bio, one Progress Report, and three album reviews due between now and xmas!

  • JessicaSuarez: The new Secretary of the Interior is in a cowboy hat and bolo tie--the official state neckwear of Arizona.

  • Progress Report: Cursive

  • JessicaSuarez: MTV's announced a TV version of How's Your News? Did they fire their reporters and hire handicapped people? Does that save money?

  • Jessica just thought of a possible EMP proposal 20 minutes ago. Stupid.

  • JessicaSuarez: Screw this band: http://tinyurl.com/6zhvf8

  • Jessica is thinking of learning to use Drupal or Joomla.

  • JessicaSuarez: @selftitledmag Say hi for me!

  • JessicaSuarez: Tonight's the biggest full moon in 15 years. Hit me up if you need quicksilver or wolfsbane.

  • JessicaSuarez: At dirty projectors-how does this guy get his voice to do that thing?