| Saturday, September 29, 2007 |
| Fall flops |
I went to a wedding today where the bride & groom used a recording of ABBA's 1976 instrumental "Arrival" as their processional. I don't know how many other people in the crowd ever delved deep enough into the ABBA back catalog to recognize it, but can I just say that I found it to be the coolest thing ever? If Joe & I ever renew our vows, maybe we'll make our entrance to Pavement's "Rattled by the Rush." (In fairness to Joe, our recessional can be something from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.)
Ah, October. The weather's getting crisp, and the fall arts season is in full swing. Ordinarily, that means I'd be accumulating stacks of tickets to all sorts of events, but this month I have commitments that will prevent me from spending too much time on the town. (More on that later, perhaps.) So I'm compiling a list of the 10 upcoming Bay Area events I would least like to attend. These are all real events that were advertised in the Chronicle, Bay Guardian or online.
1. The Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular featuring Barry Manilow live, performing the Great American 1970s Songbook (Dec. 5, AT&T Park): Take heart if you don't agree with me that this event would be icy-cold torture; it's being recorded for eventual broadcast on network TV.
2. "High School Musical -- On Ice!" (Oct. 24-28, HP Pavilion): That's right, if it's on ice, I probably won't want to go. Especially if the audience consists mainly of shrieking 12-year-old girls.
3. The Van Halen Reunion Tour with David Lee Roth (Dec. 22, Oracle Arena): What are the odds this train won't derail long before they hit Oakland?
4. "Transformers: The Movie: Now in IMAX!" (now playing, Loews Metreon): Blowing it up so it's 10 stories high won't make me any more interested in going.
5. The Good Vibrations Amateur Erotic Film Festival (Oct. 12, the Parkway Speakeasy Theater): Worst case scenario: "Oh my God, honey, isn't that your boss (dentist, mailman, accountant) and his wife?"
6. The Exotic Erotic Ball (Oct. 27, Cow Palace): The annual party for everyone who thinks it would be fun to submit a DVD to the Good Vibrations Amateur Erotic Film Festival.
7. Fifth Annual Rock Paper Scissors Championship (Oct. 6, Flamingo Resort, Santa Rosa): Amazingly enough, ESPN2 broadcast a RPS championship game a few months ago, and I TiVo'd it just to see if it was as boring as I imagined it would be. It was.
8. "Postal" (Oct. 12, in theaters nationwide): Uwe Boll tries to be funny -- on purpose. Sure to be the wackiest 9/11 comedy since "American Dreamz."
9. Beth Holloway signs her book Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith (Oct. 20, Book Passage in Corte Madera): You know, that whole Natalee Holloway case got so little media publicity, I just found myself wanting more.
10. Sing Blue Silver: A Tribute to Duran Duran with Japanese Baby: A Tribute to The Cure (Oct. 26, The Rockit Room): Because I feel old enough already, thanks.
Best band name I saw in the Guardian this week: The Fuxedos |
posted by 125records @ 7:07 PM  |
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I believe Mike Oldfield covered "Arrival." There. Do I win the Geek Crown this week?
Also, you wrote: Worst case scenario: "Oh my God, honey, isn't that your boss (dentist, mailman, accountant) and his wife?" No, the worst case scenario is "Oh my God, honey, isn't that your boss (dentist, mailman, accountant) and our daughter?"
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Re: #10 - also appearing - a Weezer tribute band. They must have a short set. Let me guess - most of the blue album, plus "Hash Pipe" and something from PINKERTON, to prove they're edgy.
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High School Musical is peppy and promotes acceptance and the goodness of following one's dreams instead of one's crowd (though it helps if one's crowd is all too happy to sing and dance backup for one's dreams). There, I've admitted something. But I'm down with the horribleness of your other 9 choices.
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Janet, it wasn't so much HSM that bothered me, it was the fact that it was HSM ON ICE. A lot of our local high schools are doing their own productions of HSM (apparently, Disney has made it very affordable for schools & community groups to license it) and I'm sure even with a bunch of amateur teens, there's a lot more heart in those versions than the $60-a-ticket ice show.
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I believe Mike Oldfield covered "Arrival." There. Do I win the Geek Crown this week?
Also, you wrote: Worst case scenario: "Oh my God, honey, isn't that your boss (dentist, mailman, accountant) and his wife?" No, the worst case scenario is "Oh my God, honey, isn't that your boss (dentist, mailman, accountant) and our daughter?"