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August 30, 2007
DVD coinkidinks
We're finally back on Netflix after taking a break for a couple of years, and the first two movies out of the gate both have weirdness to them.
Terminator 2: Has anybody ever noticed that the predicted Judgement Day when the world is destroyed by nuclear war is August 29, 1997? Fucken weird.
You're Gonna Miss Me: This 2005 documentary about the life of Roky Erickson and about his younger brother Sumner's struggle to get him the psychiatric care he needs is f-ing brilliant. You get to see a lot of footage of Roky's decline while under the care of his anti-doctor mother, and then a brief glimpse of the new Roky near the end.
The weirdness is in the Epilogue special features. There is footage from Roky's re-debut at the 2005 Austin City Limits fest, and Cassidy and I are in several crowd shots. And not in a "I know I was standing right about here" kind of way, but in a "holy shit, that's me and Cass!" kind of way. We were directly in front of Roky against the front of the stage; I blogged it here.
And then the other weirdness is in the same epilogue. They show Roky getting ice cream at the Amy's on 6th Street, the same ice cream place where I ran into him in August 2005. I don't remember cameras being there that night but there is a guy visible very very briefly in the background who kinda sorta might be me.
I'll be in Austin next week, and I'm going to Amy's to get the Roky special. I'll let you know how good it is.
Posted by ray at August 30, 2007 9:15 AM | Permalink
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Ah! It's out on dvd. Thanks. Just put it on my netflix queue.
I already wanted to see it - you and cass in it just makes it that much better.
I just watched T2 with Olivia. Still a pretty damned good flick, actually!
Posted by: Karl Elvis MacRae at August 30, 2007 12:41 PM
I would be delighted to get just about any kind of smoothie with you that doesn't involved durian. I don't know if I mentioned, but I tried durian a second time a couple of months ago and I think it cured me of any lingering notions that I might actually like the stuff.
Meet you at Amy's for a Roky? It's a date.
Posted by: Ray at August 30, 2007 10:42 PM
So T2 is one of my favorite movies (I even own the soundtrack) though I've never noticed that! Weird-o-rama! I'll have to look for it next time!
BTW - I enjoyed typing "gumbo" as we just completed "Gumbo Week" in math/science class - hee hee!
Posted by: G in N'Awlins at September 1, 2007 12:35 AM
Roky seems to go in there a lot, or did at the time. Unless that was the very same night I was out giving my mother-in-law a tour of the glories of Austin. It was a bit of a challenge explaining to her just what degree of greatness we were in the presence of....
Posted by: MiGrant at September 3, 2007 8:44 AM
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