Tonight and tomorrow, Spokane's Empyrean café will be hosting Song Fight's annual live show, this year titled Rock & Rocker (in a bottom-of-the-barrel "blank & blank" format the concert's had since at least 2003).
Theophilus Monk, my band with my friends Casey and Stu, will be performing Saturday afternoon sometime. Lots of other great acts are scheduled to perform, including my friends Octothorpe. Nominal cover.
I caught Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (rendered above in unfixed T9) Wednesday morning circa 12:01 a.m., the first showing at Pullman's nice theatre. My friend Kelsey invited me along, and then bought nachos and soda and Reese's Pieces.
Briefly, my experience with the multimedia franchise: I haven't read any of the books. (I think I might start once the last film is out, in 2011.) I've seen all of the films, now. The first was excellent. I mean, really, it was exciting, compelling, a real treat. The second is sort of ruined for me by Dobby, who was terrible. The rest have been mediocre-to-bad.
But this new one was all right. Like I said, I saw it late and so maybe I wasn't thinking as clearly as I could've, but I thought it was the most legit since the first. We showed up at 10:30 p.m., and we found ourselves near the end of the line (which is tautological, but I mean that it was still near the end of the line an hour and a half later).
Lots of dressed-up nerds attended, and tons of kids who were dropped off by their folks, things of that nature. I'm at peace with the Harry Potter phenomenon, though I once loathed it. I look forward to reading it through in a few years.
Nachos review: so good. So, so good.
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