Chewbacca, What a Wookie!
(No, I don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep up with the song names as post titles. My Magic 8-ball says “Forever”, but then again, you never know…)
The other day, I got an e-mail from my mother asking me what I was planning to do for the Episode III premiere. Which is on May 19th. May 19th also happens to be in 2 weeks. 2 weeks is, in my hometown, known as “Not a lot of time to go”, especially for a groundbreaking event like this. Because I, as you may know, am a proud waiter-in-line (As in, I have my pride. Unlike these guys). So, my mom’s e-mail actually caught me off-guard. You see, I pictured May 19th, and the Episode III premiere, as still being a-ways off, which probably says a lot more about my life now that I’ve moved than me not caring about this kind of stuff anymore. Because I can still remember a couple of months ago watching the trailer and going “Wow, May 19th… Do I have to wait that long?”. The answer, ghost of alvarete past, is “No, you’ll actually be blogging about it in about 2 months time. Oh, by the way, April 24th, don’t eat that pudding. It’s spoiled”.
So, back to the matter at hand, premieres here don’t work like they should. You see, Spain’s inhabitants, being all educated and european, don’t like going into a movie theater and fighting over the best seats. We have numbered seating, except on crappy movies like “Smoke: the secret life of cuban lesbian albino tobacco leaf harvesters”. Which, of course, takes away all the fun in line-standing. It’s no longer “SUCKERS! WATCH ME TAKE CENTER SEAT, CENTER ROW!”, but “Gee, I wonder how quickly I can call the toll-free line and reserve my seats”. Sure, I could’ve tried and stood in line outside a phone cabin the night before the tickets went on pre-sale, but it’s not the same. Oh, this is for the 19h00 showing, on THURSDAY!
“Dude, no Wednesday midnight showing? What the FUCK, man?”
Precisely. You see, being civil and european also involves caring about how people go home. So all public shows are timed to end before 01h30, which is the time when the subway stops making its rounds. I’ve asked around, but there’s no (to my knowledge) intention of showing it at midnight on wednesday anywhere. So, my plans for the premiere:
- Buy tickets online or through the toll-free number (Check)
- Show up 30 minutes before the movie starts (Pending)
- ???????????
- PROFIT! (Also pending)
So, there’s no pre-movie excitement. No time to hang out with the peeps outside the theater and poke fun at the Jedi-clad losers. Just… A movie. Mr. Lucas, this time, more than ever, you have to make it up to me.
I want to believe…
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