I Want To Go To There

from TheChicagoTheatre.com

Actors/Directors/Musicians and comedy icons Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are doing something they have never done before; performing a six week, 30 city multi-media acoustic tour without wigs and electric instruments.

UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED are the guys behind Spinal Tap and The Folksmen (from A Mighty Wind) coming out from behind the hair, the facial hair, and the absence of hair, to perform as themselves songs from both films, and more, in a rare acoustic setting. You'll never hear Tap songs less loud!

UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED will feature songs from the original soundtrack This Is Spinal Tap (1984), the studio album Break Like The Wind (1992), and A Mighty Wind (2003) along with some special surprises and rarities thrown in.

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Just got tickets for that concert. SO pumped as This Is Spinal Tap is my favorite film of all time! Between DMB, Jason Mraz, & The Travoltas, it's going to be a busy summer of shows this year...and I'm not complaining.

Saw Watchmen last night at the midnight screening.

Believe the hype. It's really well done.

Now they're naturally going to be haters out there (regardless of if they actually enjoyed any part of it or not) as I'm sure it'll be the cool thing to bash the film because it's popular right now. To this vain attempt to gain some sort of 'cred' in between getting another piercing or tattoo so that you can stand out and be so different - just like everyone else - I offer the following: it's a popcorn blockbuster film & doesn't runaway or try to hide from that. Enjoy it for what it is or don't pay the money to go see it because you should know by now what you're getting into.

I'm not saying you're not entitled to your opinion, but those people that are already going in with the mindset that they're going to hate it and have already passed judgement (graphic novel purists and film snobs alike), your pre-bias is unwarranted and not needed.

What Watch Would A Watchmen Watch If A Watchmens' Watch Wouldn't Work?

The Jason Mraz concert @ NIU was surprisingly short, but very fun - & it was great to get a chance to reconnect with B-Lo.

The real surprise was the opening act called Vedera. They were AWESOME & I can't recommend them enough. They're based out of Kansas City so I'm wondering if Pete and rest of the K.C. crew has ever heard of them before. You can find them on MySpace and on iTunes.

Religulous is out on DVD. Buy/Rent it. Watch it. Discuss.

We finished principal photography on The Adventures of Brad & Chet, our follow-up pilot to Reality Check, last weekend & now it's off to editing. It was great to be a part of the filming this time and getting to meet and hang out the cast. We're hoping to duplicate and exceed the success from last year as promoting and traveling cross-country with the pilot was a blast.

Now, I tried to steer clear of the Watchmen craze, but also admit that the graphic novel has been sitting unread on my bookshelf for about 4 years. One of those things I always was going to get to, but never did. So I pulled it down, dusted it off, and proceeded to read it cover-to-cover a day or so ago & now I get what all the hub-bub is about. It's an amazing read and really was one of the forefront "anti-hero" comics. It presents super-heros with human flaws and I couldn't put it down.

Who watches the Watchmen? Well, I can tell you it will be myself and millions more when it drops this Friday (midnight showing on Thursday, if you're a hardcore fan).

Knight rides again

Whole. Lee. Crap.

Through some friends of mine, I was able to get comped tickets to see The Dark Knight at our local IMAX Theatre.

Granted, I already own it on Blu-ray, it was like a whole different experience and I can't recommend seeing it in this format enough. Almost vertigo inducing at times, the performances seem even more intense and I was actually more impressed with it than I was on previous viewings.

Just stop reading & go see it.

You're welcome.

Going to see Jason Mraz (for the 6th time) in concert next week at Northern Illinois University, and also got tickets to see Dave Matthews Band (for the 35th time) in Nashville, TN, with Mraz opening for them. Woot!

Now get off my lawn, you crazy kids.