so the arts district festival thing was actually pretty ok and i had a
good time. i saw all the DC-FIY kids,
and phil macnamara as a clown made me a balloon guitar, and i saw a mess
of great local painters (whose work i had never seen before). i made a
special “art is shit” button but no one really said anything except nicky
revs. my defense: i got nothing against shit. there was a rock stage
(which was pretty boring, despite seeing my favorite ex-dimwit (that being
the gremlin-voiced 2nd guitarist)’s new band) and a poetry / synthesizer
stage (an odd combo to be sure but who cares) and a stage in front af
santiago’s that had some sort of speed latin band (i don’t know exactly
what the style of music was and i don’t want to mis-label it– it was fast
and had one of those rectangular tex-mex concertinas and the singer gave
great eyes to everyone). afterwards me and little andrew made fried
zucchini and watched the new spiderman movie. my review: i like the idea
“spiderman” and the execution was decent. j jonah jameson was spot-on and
george jones as uncle ben was a great choice. the latex costumes were
busted and with the mouthlessness of the masks and the fight-scene banter
(and willem dafoe’s atrocious green goblin voice) conspired to remind me
of the mighty morphin’ power rangers (not like campiness is so bad, just
why couldn’t they err on the side of the old campy spiderman
effects?). also the cgi stuff looked like crap for days, the ridiculous
post-production “new yorkers / america united” insertions were, well,
ridiculous, and a single homophobic remark by peter parker (to macho man
randy savage, not like it makes any difference) spoils toby maguire as a
lovable nerd. but really, these are petty things– people are living and
dying while i rewind videocassettes.
to last week’s lists mike leslie adds “vincent van halen”, “knick knack”, and “mish mash”. i add “ping pong”, “flim flam”, and “hip hop”, but abstain from “flip flop”.
