I feel like David E Cobb (pt 2)

Last night, er, this morning, the guys and I went to the midnight showing of Tron Legacy in stunning IMAX 3D.

We got there and hour and a half early, but so did every other hypergeek in the greater San Diego area. Luckily we had our iPhones.



There were like 15 of us, so we didn't all get to sit together. I got to sit with my new friend Henry and also kingfuraday, who I can debate with for days. We have uncannily opposing opinions on everything!

The movie was great. I very much enjoyed it. Unlike the original, they don't dive right in to the plot, but they also don't waste much time with exposition. I felt the story moved along fairly quickly and evenly.

The special effects were state of the art, and the lead female character was very pretty. Also pretty? Jeff Bridges's hair.

I want to see it again, preferably during the day. I'm totally a morning person. The drive home at 3am was brutal.



And here I am at work, 6 hours later. Where the coffee at?!

Mama Said

I forgot how great this album is.





Back in the 90's, like most music geeks, I built up a substantial portion of my music collection using Columbia House and BMG. Remember that? It was like sign up, get 12 cds for FREE, buy a few for $20 each, cancel, then repeat. I liked the song It Ain't Over Til It's Over so much that I had no problem dropping $20 for it.

If memory serves me correctly, Slash (post-Guns, pre-sell-out, pre-c'mon-just-reform-Guns-already) appears in the first two songs. And then there are wonderful gems like Stand By My Woman and What Goes Around Comes Around. This is back when LK was really on that 60's/70's vibe and just nailing it. Mama Said has a laid-back, effortless vibe that he was never able to reproduce in any of his subsequent albums.

And of course, It Ain't Over Till It's Over is bliss.

Fun Fact:
Lenny Kravitz wrote a song that appears on the new Michael Jackson album. It's a good one.