I had a pretty crazy time this past weekend. on Friday night, I made a trip to Criminal Records to see a band I really like, Surfer Blood, play in-store before their actual concert. I bought some records, and then I talked to a homeless guy for like 15 minutes about music on the way back to my car. I went home and then headed back out to Midtown Art Cinema to see 'Creation', a great little flick about Charles Darwin and his internal/external struggles while writing The Origin of Species. It was a pretty good film, and I enjoyed it for the most part, though I wish they would have shown even more of the conflict between him and the church, and the impact his book had, though it was still pretty interesting to see how much his studies conflicted with his wife, who was in actuality, his first cousin, played by Jennifer Connolly (<3).
Then Saturday night, I went with some friends to East Atlanta Village to try and get in The Earl to see a sold-out show featuring a great soul/blues band, called Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears. That didn't turn out so well, and in 5-10 minutes we were headed back to our car to leave and find something else to do. It was then, that we discovered in our brief absence from the car, someone had placed a boot on my friend's wheel. We were then notified that not only was a tow-truck on the way, but it would cost us $75 to get the boot off there and then, and $200 total if we were towed. So we hit up an atm and got the hell out of there. We came back to my apartment, and decided we would go to a nearby gentleman's club. So that was pretty entertaining, albeit nowhere near as cool as a Black Joe Lewis concert. But my friend was pretty bummed about getting booted, and this seemed to lift his spirits.
Upon departure, we all agreed we could eat, so we headed to a Waffle House in Buckhead. When we arrived we were greeted by an elderly man in police-uniform with a cowboy hat. He was policing the line and making sure people didn't skip, because the place was packed!! It took forever to get our food, and our server confused mostly everyone's orders, except yours truly, so it was nice to finally be done and ready to head home. As we were standing at the register waiting to check out, it was then that a large group of 7 people decide they would piggyback onto a table that these 2 other people had already sat down at, even though nobody knew anybody else. Well Ole Major Tom(I like to think his name was Tom, but the people who worked at the Waffle House kept calling him simply:"Major". But come on, Major Tom? That just makes this whole story even better doesn't it?), he wasn't having any of this line-skipping, standing around a table cause there's no seats left business. He walks over and starts berating the offenders, and one of them, a very afeminite Hispanic young man started to give Ole Major Tom some lip. It was then that Tom started yelling and slamming his hands on the table ordering everyone there to the back of the line, which was practically out the door. This didn't seem to really convince any of them to get up and move, so Ole Tom pulls out his handcuffs and slams them on the table and yells some more. It was then, finally, that the offenders figured it would be a good idea to listen to Tom.
Absolutely hilarious.
In other news, nothing KREJ-ey going on lately, Trent and Grantz are kinda doing their own thing and starting their rap careers. So look forward to hearing samples of that some-time soon. It's starting to look like nothing really big will be going on this summer, which is a pretty big bummer. Hero Sandwich is moving along but I had really hoped to do another feature-length film this summer, as it was a lot of fun to get lots of friends and friends-of-friends involved in something everyone could be proud of. But here we are.
Not-so-much KREJ-related, but yesterday I rendered a clip of my in-progress animation I've been working on off-and on for my reel:
Hope you all have a great week, and you enjoyed my story.
-Matt
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