MARIE ANTOINETTE [2006] review
August 14, 2007
I was with this movie for most of its first half. Then it became totally about nothing and highly repetitive and it was no longer enjoyable watching Kirsten Dunst play MARIE ANTOINETTE. I just kept thinking what time do these people wake up in the morning to put on that many clothes? Must have been an ungodly hour. And why was her husband always gone from the bed before she woke up? And it didn’t even look like she woke up in the same bed she went to sleep in.
I didn’t care at all about the film’s historical accuracy or lack thereof as I have no idea what it should be. Hell, I didn’t even remember she got killed until 3/4ths of the movie.
A very pretty film, but I see no reason for it to exist.
ANNIE HALL [1977] review
August 14, 2007
This can’t be an official review of Woody Allen’s ANNIE HALL, as I turned this utterly crap movie off after just 15 minutes. I really can’t think of maybe more than one other time I’ve just up and stopped watching a movie. Really, 15 minutes was even way too long. All I could think about is who can enjoy seeing that whining worm on screen? By that I mean Woody Allen. What junk. Talking to the audience? Gimmick. Now I know I officially don’t like Woody Allen. What a travesty this trash winning Best Picture over STAR WARS in 1977. Beyond ludicrous. All prints of this movie should be burned to save anyone from having it thrust upon them. How can anyone watch Woody Allen for more than a minute and not want to punch him? Waste of film.
Summer Sonic 2007 in Tokyo!!! [part 3 of 3]
August 12, 2007
SUMMER SONIC 2007 TOKYO PHOTOS
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The “Marine” stage, headliners played here
Exterior of Chiba Marine Stadium, scorchingly hot area
Me after rocking out for four hours
The crowd waiting for Avril
Avril rocking out with guitar
My ID tag, amazing that it never got torn off in the crowds
My wristband indicating one day pass, the 11th, “R” section entrance only for the Marine Stadium
This towel (¥2,000) saved my life from the sun at Summer Sonic
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Summer Sonic 2007 in Tokyo!!! [part 2 of 3]
August 12, 2007
I refilled my two water bottles and entered the Marine Stadium around 5:45pm pleasantly surprised to find that I could still get fairly close to the stage with somewhat ease. I saw that there was a big Avril-punk-style banner hanging over the stage and that the stadium wasn’t as quite as full as I had expected it to be.
| Avril on stage with guitar | Avril rides into the crowd |
I saw the most foreigners in the crowd that I had all day. … When she finally did take the stage, preceded by the opening notes of “Girldfriend,” there was a MASSIVE surge which I was caught in that took me from my merely decent vantage point to an amazingly close one, just about 10 people back from the very front. … Here though, I really felt bad for the little j-girls as the crush was once again huge and took a lot to survive it, even for me, and I’m tall enough to always be able to keep my head above the crowd in the fresh-ish air.
…I don’t know if it was because I felt sheepish about rocking out to Avril, or I really was at last sapped of all energy, but I didn’t really rock out during her performance. … She is a proper singer and can rock, but her show also has a lot of performing with a few background dancers and a bit of stage craft even.
…After Avril, having sat only 5 minutes in the past 9 hours and eaten only 4 Soy Joys and not really knowing the Black Eyed Peas I considered just going home, which would have been extremely foolish.
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| Black Eyed Peas BLOWING up the stage!
…I was completely out of gas, so I had no illusions of getting up close to the stage, but found a very nice spot in the latter half of the general admission area with a nice railing for me to lean on. From then on I was just BLOWN AWAY by how RIGHT Black Eyed Peas were to end this Summer Sonic Saturday. … They bounded the vast length of the stage, always giving the crowd multiple things to look at, though I suspect many kept their eyes on the smoking hot Fergie [she changed outfits twice]. …Up ahead, in the dense crowd before the stage, I could see them bob up and down as well, and when commanded to jump, the very ground shuddered throughout the stadium. … BEP whipped the crowd into a climatic frenzy culminating with a giant monkey head (symbol of their latest album) inflating behind them on stage and fireworks bursting just over the upper rim of the stadium. …Even once I got back to my closest station, Okubo, some 43.4 km away from Summer Sonic, there were 3 dudes with wristbands and tags hanging out. … Then on the small side street, some musicians were hanging outside holding guitar cases and seeing me and my haggard look and apparently tell-tale signs of being at Summer Sonic, one guy said the Japanese saying for when someone finishes a hard day of work. … I walked the final bit to my apartment building with a big smile on my face and an amazing feeling of community, all brought about by music. Summer Sonic 2007 in Tokyo!!! [part 1 of 3]August 12, 2007 There were literally too many bands I liked playing the all-day event for me to see, and others overlapped a bit so that I had to leave them early to catch another act. … It took a bit to get going though as I spent the first few hours getting my wristband, tags and orientation of the massive site housing 5 major stages of music. ALL PHOTOS
I was getting a bit frustrated as I walked miles around in the hot, baking sun only getting to hear a few songs by three bands. After getting my wristband I went to checkout OK GO’s set in progress, but realized that in the middle of the open Chiba Marine Stadium I needed some protection from the sun. So left there and went to the “official goods” area and bought a towel, not a Summer Sonic branded one, as though those were already sold out less than 90 minutes after the music started! …They have several songs I like and I got to hear them play their best song, Munich, during which I rocked out for the first time that day. …I think I have seen the Goo Goo Dolls in concert before, and I know for sure I’ve seen Soul Asylum on my college’s campus way back when. … I got to hear one of their rocking songs from “A Boy Named Goo” then not really being able to stand the sun anymore bailed to go and secure a good spot for MxPx at 4:05pm. …However, I totally have to give it up for the crowd at Summer Sonic’s performance, they were real punks and they made it a real punk rock show. … J-girls left in droves as this was to be a man’s punk rock show, at least up in the front right before the stage. …But the show was so awesome I thought I couldn’t leave, so I rocked on, but with much less fervor and I often had to lean on the shoulders of my younger punk rock brethren. I was waiting for one more of my most favorite songs before I’d leave, and then they played “Chick Magnet” and I gave it my all. … I made my way through the thick crowd toward the back a punk rock hero, patting my fellow punk rockers on the back as I went showing my appreciation for them and getting patted on the back in return. … | Me after totally rocking outThey played a few songs from their new album, and an obscure one I didn’t recognize, which kept me standing limply listening, not really rocking out. Then, they broke into “Little Fury Things” which has an insanely kick ass opening and I SHOT back to life, like a machine that had been left unplugged but was suddenly jacked right into the power plant. … The clock was ticking too as though Avril’s showtime didn’t directly overlap with Dinosaur’s, I had to go all the way back to the Marine Stadium for it. I was hoping Dinosaur would play some of the songs that I truly love, and hoping they hadn’t already played them in the few minutes of the opening that I missed while I was recovering from MxPx. |
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