I legitimately do not know how much of the "regular" moviegoing public reads about movies and the making of movies and the buzz about movies and all of that. I guess that's another way of saying that I don't know what the regular moviegoing public is like. I can only guess based on what I see and overhear when I go out to the movies. Otherwise I'm ( Read more... )

When we last left Slow Club in concert, it was a good show that should've lasted longer, held at a cramped venue. For this tour, they got upgraded to the Bell House, and played for over an hour, so we're getting there. Marisa and I and Sara (note: neither of the Saras I've known for longer. A third, entirely different Sara; "Sara" might be ( Read more... )

Marisa and I have never really made a big deal out of Valentine's Day, which is good because if we did, taking her to see Daredevil or Ghost Rider in close proximity to said non-holiday would weigh a lot heavier on my conscience and/or any potential divorce proceedings. I'm pretty sure all a lawyer would have to do is say "Ghost Rider" and I'd get ( Read more... )

(I'll save "it started recreational, it ended kinda medical" for when I actually get hurt at one of these ( Read more... )

Maybe a month or so ago, Marisa emailed me and asked if we should be going to this even though we didn't really know what it was. But it seemed like we should and then about half an hour later we were buying out an entire table of reservations for the usual cross-section of Hold Steady and Mountain Goats and Eugene Mirman fans fans (Katie, Kate, ( Read more... )

I was pretty sure I was going to see a show this week but I didn't really think it would be the show I saw.

Let me explain.

I had toyed with the idea of going to see the Felice Brothers at Webster Hall tonight. I haven't seen them since Celebration, Florida, and Webster, sucky as it is, is convenient to both my work and my home. But then the ( Read more... )

Hurricane Irene pretty much took out the summer. I'm sure it'll feel a little resurgent next weekend when we're upstate for Labor Day, assuming we go to some parks and/or the drive-in and/or the track, but right now, between the weekend mostly indoors and the new job, summer 2011 is well on its way out the door. Not just because we had to cancel ( Read more... )

Last week I went to three museums in three days! Hello I live in New York!

On Thursday, Marisa and I rode Nathaniel's hobbled but still handsome coattails to the opening reception for this exhibit at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image. We saw real-life Muppets and a bunch of Jim Henson drawings I had only seen in books or never. There ( Read more... )

In my column column on Friday (which also includes a brief review of Submarine, which I liked a lot), I indulge in some requisite bashing of X-Men: The Last Stand, in the context that there are a lot of nerd-hated genre movies that I am fine with, even love, but the third X-Men movie, even moreso than that incredibly cheesy Wolverine movie, is one ( Read more... )

I was only in Manhattan over the long weekend for the movies. The rest of the time, it was all Brooklyn and mostly celebrations.

First: Cristin turned thirty! And in the middle of turning thirty, she wrote a killer wedding toast! You can read about that toast, and the toast itself, here. You can also read about the great saga of tricking Maggie ( Read more... )