Overview of one of the best days of my life...
I intended to go into laborious detail about how and why I love movies but I eventually came to think of it as unnecessary in the context of the main reason for the post and also because most of you don't want to read about such tedious trivialities...so I'll just discuss the event...
I know that most of you don't give a shit about any of this so I'd like to state that this is practically just so I have a detailed account explaining that day SOMEWHERE in the case that I get amnesia or something and I forget about the wonderful series of event on September 23rd 2006.
This all began out of visiting The Horror Channel every weekend, for about a month, to indulge in some cult horror films most Friday and Saturday nights. (Seriously you should visit that site if you are a self-respecting classic horror movie buff.) I eventually added them to my MySpace being that I'm a nerd and all. I find a bulletin from them saying that George Romero will be doing a q&a event. I thought nothing of it until I actually read it and it said that he'll be in Concord, New Hampshire. Holy fuck that was a surprise. I later read on and saw that he'd be showing The Dark Half and Creepshow plus the q&a, signing,...all that jazz. So immediately I think that Josh might be interested in all of this...and he was. Literally around 15-30 minutes after finding out about this, not knowing whether I'll be able to go or not, I call Josh and tell him about it and he's pretty damn interested. Next day I find out he's all ready for it. He'd be driving because he loves to drive... Me and him are all pumped until, the day before the event, he stops me in the middle of Pinkerton Academy and tells me he can't go. You see he has a job unlike your narrator for this story so he isn't available whenever. He WAS though because some girl was going to fill in for him and all that but she pulled out for some reason at the last moment so he just couldn't go.
So I'm completely bummed...I thought for a bit that I wouldn't be able to go. After grousing around for the majority of the day I figure that my sister might drive me since I also don't have a license...that's the reason for my worrying...I can't drive...sheesh you people. I say, like the idiot I am, "Can you pick me up around 7" and she said yes. That morning I woke up really early and call her around 6. I hear her yawn and realize she was sleeping before the call. I ask why. She thought 7 PM...I tell her ok...No ride. My mom call two other people in vain to see if they can drive me but no luck. She calls my sister again wondering why she can't pick me up. She explains and I can't go. I'm completely bummed and practically wanting to go back to bed...until my sister calls back, out of pity, saying that she asked her manager if she can take a break between 9:00-10:30. I have to pay 5 bucks for the ride and another 2 for tolls. I expected that so I was ok.
I arrive there around 9:45. I was dropped off at Cinema 93 Video to pick up my ticket that I reserved. I must admit that the place was so damned cool with actual movie posters and lobby cards and figures for sale too. They had TONS of videos to rent there...Videos I mean by VHS. They had everything there...seriously. Anything you'd want was there. I looked over their horror section mostly and...man...everything was there. They had alot of the rare titles only true film nerds would want to rent. It was a cinema lovers wet dream in there. I guess this type of thing is pretty new to me since I'm accustomed to really dinky rental stores thanks to me living in Derry and plus the fact that ones like this are actually pretty rare.
My sole monetary transaction to this place (which made me wish I had more money to buy one of their cool lobby cards which were 7-10 bucks if I remember well), besides the tickets, was a gumball and off I left. I noticed it was raining pretty bad so I put my hood on. Needless to say I got pretty drenched after a while. I walked everywhere to waste my time. I love Concord and I mean it. Unlike Derry, which has been slowly dying historically, Concord is very rich in the past. It feels like the most old-timey town in New Hampshire to me. They seem like they don't tear down much of their buildings which is pretty nice to know. They also have a “We Sell your stuff on Ebay” store there which I wish I wanted to take a picture of for Josh because of The 40 Year Old Virgin. I would like to say it's my favorite town in New Hampshire but there's so much of New Hampshire I've yet to see I'd say that that is an unfair statement.
There's an abandoned theater there which (when peered into through the tough glass window) looked to be that way for a while. It had it's old ticket booth in the front with some food signs just collecting dust in the lobby. They also had some famous-faces-caricatures drawings adorning the awning around the front door but most of them have since molded. The one of the highest interest to me, of Fredric March with his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde makeup, has deteriorated to the point where you can only see most of Hyde...sigh.
I dropped my camera off at the Capitol Center for the Arts (which is a very good place if you haven’t been there) after realizing that it was not charged…silly me. I could still use the Adaptor though but that also meant no picture taking for the area. I really wish I could have because I would've gone all out Tovah-style and took pictures of every beautiful detail of that town.
I then trekked all the way to IBallards ,about a mile away from where I was, which were giving away free makeup and also had two people applying makeup for zombie freaks. Since I had no money and also didn’t want to come off as, well, stupid, I decided to just visit the place. It’s pretty good…full of novelty stuff and gimmicks galore…my type of store.
I then walked all the way back to the center. I walked through where the houses were and, yep, they all retain that old feeling/look to it…Love it. It was raining pretty bad the way to IBallards and the way back so I was completely soaked not to mention tired from walking that distance. I got back to the place around 1:30 and stayed there…for a really long time.
I will finish this tomorrow or the day after if I'm really lazy...
I know that most of you don't give a shit about any of this so I'd like to state that this is practically just so I have a detailed account explaining that day SOMEWHERE in the case that I get amnesia or something and I forget about the wonderful series of event on September 23rd 2006.
This all began out of visiting The Horror Channel every weekend, for about a month, to indulge in some cult horror films most Friday and Saturday nights. (Seriously you should visit that site if you are a self-respecting classic horror movie buff.) I eventually added them to my MySpace being that I'm a nerd and all. I find a bulletin from them saying that George Romero will be doing a q&a event. I thought nothing of it until I actually read it and it said that he'll be in Concord, New Hampshire. Holy fuck that was a surprise. I later read on and saw that he'd be showing The Dark Half and Creepshow plus the q&a, signing,...all that jazz. So immediately I think that Josh might be interested in all of this...and he was. Literally around 15-30 minutes after finding out about this, not knowing whether I'll be able to go or not, I call Josh and tell him about it and he's pretty damn interested. Next day I find out he's all ready for it. He'd be driving because he loves to drive... Me and him are all pumped until, the day before the event, he stops me in the middle of Pinkerton Academy and tells me he can't go. You see he has a job unlike your narrator for this story so he isn't available whenever. He WAS though because some girl was going to fill in for him and all that but she pulled out for some reason at the last moment so he just couldn't go.
So I'm completely bummed...I thought for a bit that I wouldn't be able to go. After grousing around for the majority of the day I figure that my sister might drive me since I also don't have a license...that's the reason for my worrying...I can't drive...sheesh you people. I say, like the idiot I am, "Can you pick me up around 7" and she said yes. That morning I woke up really early and call her around 6. I hear her yawn and realize she was sleeping before the call. I ask why. She thought 7 PM...I tell her ok...No ride. My mom call two other people in vain to see if they can drive me but no luck. She calls my sister again wondering why she can't pick me up. She explains and I can't go. I'm completely bummed and practically wanting to go back to bed...until my sister calls back, out of pity, saying that she asked her manager if she can take a break between 9:00-10:30. I have to pay 5 bucks for the ride and another 2 for tolls. I expected that so I was ok.
I arrive there around 9:45. I was dropped off at Cinema 93 Video to pick up my ticket that I reserved. I must admit that the place was so damned cool with actual movie posters and lobby cards and figures for sale too. They had TONS of videos to rent there...Videos I mean by VHS. They had everything there...seriously. Anything you'd want was there. I looked over their horror section mostly and...man...everything was there. They had alot of the rare titles only true film nerds would want to rent. It was a cinema lovers wet dream in there. I guess this type of thing is pretty new to me since I'm accustomed to really dinky rental stores thanks to me living in Derry and plus the fact that ones like this are actually pretty rare.
My sole monetary transaction to this place (which made me wish I had more money to buy one of their cool lobby cards which were 7-10 bucks if I remember well), besides the tickets, was a gumball and off I left. I noticed it was raining pretty bad so I put my hood on. Needless to say I got pretty drenched after a while. I walked everywhere to waste my time. I love Concord and I mean it. Unlike Derry, which has been slowly dying historically, Concord is very rich in the past. It feels like the most old-timey town in New Hampshire to me. They seem like they don't tear down much of their buildings which is pretty nice to know. They also have a “We Sell your stuff on Ebay” store there which I wish I wanted to take a picture of for Josh because of The 40 Year Old Virgin. I would like to say it's my favorite town in New Hampshire but there's so much of New Hampshire I've yet to see I'd say that that is an unfair statement.
There's an abandoned theater there which (when peered into through the tough glass window) looked to be that way for a while. It had it's old ticket booth in the front with some food signs just collecting dust in the lobby. They also had some famous-faces-caricatures drawings adorning the awning around the front door but most of them have since molded. The one of the highest interest to me, of Fredric March with his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde makeup, has deteriorated to the point where you can only see most of Hyde...sigh.
I dropped my camera off at the Capitol Center for the Arts (which is a very good place if you haven’t been there) after realizing that it was not charged…silly me. I could still use the Adaptor though but that also meant no picture taking for the area. I really wish I could have because I would've gone all out Tovah-style and took pictures of every beautiful detail of that town.
I then trekked all the way to IBallards ,about a mile away from where I was, which were giving away free makeup and also had two people applying makeup for zombie freaks. Since I had no money and also didn’t want to come off as, well, stupid, I decided to just visit the place. It’s pretty good…full of novelty stuff and gimmicks galore…my type of store.
I then walked all the way back to the center. I walked through where the houses were and, yep, they all retain that old feeling/look to it…Love it. It was raining pretty bad the way to IBallards and the way back so I was completely soaked not to mention tired from walking that distance. I got back to the place around 1:30 and stayed there…for a really long time.
I will finish this tomorrow or the day after if I'm really lazy...