I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead... and missed Gary Oldman and Tim Roth
Posted by divadavoo in Cinema, Dramatic Plays, Theater on 29. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
My favorite movie of all times is
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990) ~ the screenplay was done by Tom Stoppard, the same man who wrote the play by the same name (first staged in 1966). The movie stars Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss and Joanna Roth. I actually still have a VHS [...]
I saw The Decemberists... I saw The Decemberists at Marymoor
Posted by opinionbastard in Alternative, Music on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
This was my wife’s and my second time seeing the Decemberists. Last time at the Paramount, this time at one of the nicest outdoor venues in the Puget Sound area. Their opening guests were Blind Pilot and Andrew Bird, both of whom were extremely good in their own right.
The Decemberists were amazing. I appreciated the new music and [...]
I saw Winnie the Pooh... ~ and wore mouse ears all day long ~
Posted by divadavoo in Parks on 16. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
These pix and tix are from my trip to Disneyland in 1997 ~ which is funny to me now (12 years later) because I now live so close. I had never been to Disneyland as a child, but got to go as an adult (I was 23 or so). The cool part was that my [...]
I saw Long Kiss Goodnight... and loved the banter ~
Posted by divadavoo in Cinema on 15. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Not everybody keeps movie tix, not every movie would be worth it anyway, but I used to keep my movie tix to keep in my photo albums. It is fun to look back at pictures to myself, my friends, where I used to live ~ and see the movies I was seeing at the [...]
I saw Ladysmith Black Mambazo... And It Was Mellow Like Jell-O™
Posted by Benjamin Holcomb in Music, Worldbeat on 07. Jul, 2009 | 2 Comments
The best part about this show was seeing it with my father. I only saw two shows with my dad (the other being 10,000 Maniacs). This show happened in 1988, my senior year in high school. I wasn’t a big fan of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but everybody knew who they were; Their collaboration with Paul [...]
I saw Laurie Anderson... And She Signed My Ticket!
Posted by Benjamin Holcomb in Alternative, Music on 05. Jul, 2009 | 4 Comments
This was an interesting show for me. I bought tickets with the following thoughts: a) I was a huge fan of Laurie Anderson’s “Strange Angels” (1989) and; b) I wanted to hear her music from earlier albums I’d never heard.
Neither ticket-purchasing criteria mattered. This was a spoken-word tour, devoid of any music. Not that I [...]
I saw The Smithereens... in Atlanta in 1991
Posted by ottolange in Alternative, Music on 05. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Yeah, I saw the Smithereens with a little group of pals in a venue that at one point had been a K-Mart. I always love the album “Green Thoughts”, and had not gotten the album they were promoting ( I think it was “Blow Up”… I still never got that one). I just remember that [...]
I saw Lollapalooza '91... with Jane’s, Siouxsie, NIN, Ice-T, Surfers and Rollins!
Posted by Benjamin Holcomb in Alternative, Festivals, Music on 02. Jul, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’m proud to say, “I was there” for the inaugural “Lollapalooza Festival” in 1991.
The brainchild of Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, this was the first major concert festival of my generation… a veritable Woodstock for us Gen-Xers.
The line-up was astonishing, and included Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Ice-T & [...]
