Cool News
Harry & Yoko on the road to Cleveland, Ohio for A CHRISTMAS STORY with the Rolling Roadshow tonight! & Golden Memories!
Hey folks, Harry here - taking I-71 north from Louisville, through Cincinatti & Columbus - with my ultimate destination for the day being... Cleveland, Ohio and the beautiful memories of Bob Clark's awesome film... A CHRISTMAS STORY.
It's a bittersweet screening. Bob passed away tragically with his son this year in a terrible car wreck. I used to correspond with Bob's son through the internets - and not being able to have them join us at this screening is a sad mark on an otherwise awesome evening we have in store.
As much as I love A CHRISTMAS STORY - I kinda wish we were doing HOWARD THE DUCK... but that's cuz I'm a quackpot.
The screening tonight will be right in front of the classic CHRISTMAS STORY house - the street is being closed for the event - and the VIP ticket holders will be treated to an awesome after party at the very same Chinese Restaurant that the family ate at in the film!
As for GOLDFINGER - I wish I had video or pictures from the event - but due to National InSecurity - that isn't allowed. Although if you want pictures of EVERY ASPECT of the Gold Depository building - go here Google has approximately 714,000 pictures, so if you want to plan your evil heist - you'll have to make do. I can't help you with my own pics, cuz even though NOTHING HAS CHANGED - pics taken in 2007 pose a dangerous threat that could destroy the security of the United States. THAT said - since our monetary system isn't even based on Gold anymore, I don't see what difference it would make.
Sorry - I was a bit perturbed that I couldn't take photos - so I could show you folks just how awesome the screening was. Literally - we were RIGHT THERE. Right in the midst of it all. My father was an MP at Fort Knox when GOLDFINGER was shot there, though he wasn't shown in the film, though his barracks were... no big deal - I think all the barracks were.
We had to go through security, which was just an ID check. Then Yoko and I got lost on base, almost instantly and we began to worry about Homeland Security swooping in and taking us to Gitmo. But we wound up at a Burger King on base (seriously) and as we waited for a helpful Roadshow person to drive up and help us find the screening location... a Crow swooped down and picked up a full slice of GODFATHER'S pepperoni pizza and flew off with it. Weirdest damn thing ever.
The print Tim showed was immaculate - The crowd was smaller than the other screenings, but then... the mass of troops that you'd expect weren't on base - they have shipped out for duty abroad... When we all realized this - we were saddened, especially at the after party at LEADERS - the officer's club - there were no officers - just a few wives, killing time for their husbands to return.
The families of the military personel that were on base, loved the screening - soldiers' kids on the swingset watching Bond kick ass where they swung. It was great.
Meanwhile - I found Louisville to be an amazingly cool place - nearly Austin cool... ok, not really, but it's a really cool city. The weird Art Cars, the bizarre 21C HOTEL that I was in, the wonderful food of Bristol - that ribeye was amazing... as was the Derby Pie! MMMMM... Then there was WILD & WOOLY VIDEO which I stopped in at - Damn - this is a cool place - not only because they have an awesome STAR WARS pinball machine - that cheats... but because they stock the best quirky weird titles around. And yes, I did buy a copy of Lucio Fulci's PERVERSION STORY aka ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER! and a copy of the original BEDAZZLED on dvd.
To the friends I made in Louisville - hope I have a reason to return... To the couple that flew to Louisville from Korea for the screening of GOLDFINGER - you rule like few on the earth have ever ruled!
As for you folks in the Cleveland area coming to A CHRISTMAS STORY tonight - or that want to... Here's the info on the screening tonight: A CHRISTMAS STORY!!!
-
+ Expand All
-
Makes me all misty
-
I'd be there with ya, Big Red. C'est la vie...
-
please do a big write up on the whole trip when you're finished, pretty please, with a cherry on top?
-
Can they throw landry detergent everywhere to make it look snowy out?
-
where they made Stripes, the Bill Murray/John Candy classic. The opening sequence was filmed in downtown Louisville. My older brother skipped school to watch the film it.
-
PORKY'S remains one of the all time great comedy films. I'm gonna check A CHRISTMAS STORY out.
Hope yours and Yoko's trip continues to be great. -
Toledo gets the second vote and Dayton the 3.
But yes the Christmas Story Rocks to bad it in Cleveland. -
Mainly because the ending was ruined in the remake when he finds a girl who looks exactly like the girl he was pursuing...or in simpler terms, she was played by the same actress. LAME. I prefer the original where they might have had a chance together.
-
Is an update about A Christmas Story so overtly political?
-
Aug 06, 2007 12:45:13 AM CDT
NO WAY Eh Nam1313, Toledo's 999x worse than Cleveland.
by daddylonghead
Toledo ranks up there at the top with Gary IN, Utica NY and Flint MI, in "cities that are like a horrible northern-urbanized Castlevania level with no ending, except not fun nor a game" Cleveland is more on the Buffalo NY / Detroit MI level... bleak, tragic, violent, yet also weirdly, soulfully compelling, ripe with piquant hints of what could have been in some better reality.
-
I guess this will have to suffice: http://tinyurl.com/ywstzq
-
....but I don't think Cleveland is a bad place at all. I'm an English dude, born here and live here (in a small Cotswold village much like the one seen in ‘Hot Fuzz’) with my wife and x2 kids but my older sister (a nurse) married a doctor in the states and so I have been to visit them on at least half a dozen occasions as they’ve moved around the US over the last 15 years. I know my knowledge of great US cities is woefully limited (bound to be seeing as I don't live there) but I've been to New York, Boston, Miami, Chicago, Birmingham/Alabama, Cleveland and good old LA. I'd agree Cleveland isn't the prettiest city I've ever visited but it seemed to me to be openly cosmopolitan, embracing most cultures and races without prejudice - I guess it was the most like places I've lived in the UK (Brighton being the most openly receptive to all cultures and ideas/ideals). I’d say the worst city I visited was in Alabama, which was also one of the most beautiful – just seemed to me that not a lot has changed since the bad, bad old days of the slave trade – agreed there are now wages but the jobs haven’t changed a lot and I found neither have some of the prejudices. As I said I’m probably talking shit, would love to be better informed – just going by what I’ve experienced…..so sorry if I’ve offended anyone – hell, every city is great! ;) Oh and the clam chowder I had in Boston was mind blowing, and LA is just a trip! – not sure I could live there but hell it’s a great place to visit!...had my first visit to a titty bar there (The Body Shop on Sunset Blvrd after a sweet trip to ‘Barney’s Beanery’ – home of LA’s second finest chili) was just the best….ahhh, halcyon days.
-
I really don't mean to offend anyone (well except maybe Tylanol/Tylernol (sp), Mr Incredible and classicgamenerd)...after re-reading my post I admit I've been very unfair to the southern belle states - dang!...must engage brain before engaging fingers!...anyways love to all…peace.
-
....down the steps of NY public library waving my arms in the air and screaming. I guess the cop had seen Ghostbusters as well and just looked at me and shook his head in a sad way before approaching my wife - I'm a twat I know but heh I was an Englishman abroad and was stoked to be there - my wife was recording the sad sordid incident...the cop actually gave my wife his condolences before looking at me one last time and walking away – oops!
-
But I'm from there, so I'm kinda biased. Oh, and Fuck New York!
-
based on everything you hear. Now, if you've spent time living in Cleveland, you've earned the right to say whatever you want. But fuck all to people who bash cities they've only read about or visited briefly. I've spent 30 years living in Cleveland, and no, it's not the best city in the world, but it's MY city, damn it (sniff, sniff) so you just shut your pieholes!
-
Why did you skip Detroit?! Hometown of Bruce F-ing Campbell and Sam Raimi?! Origin point of Beverly Hills Cop?! Home of 8 Mile?! I'm sure Jeff Daniels would have met with ya too!
-
...I said I liked the place fella, in fact my favourite of the small number I've visited (spent 2 months there)...please guys don't turn this into a huge issue!...I spent about 10 hours hiring a pedal bike and cycling around some of the lakes (probably rode maybe 1% of the total perimeter)...heh...what was the name of the coffee shop in Shaker Square?...served the best tuna salad sandwiches and some amazing mocha choca coffees!....damn what was it's name?!
-
probably changed hands over the years.
-
I am from Ohio, born in Steubenville, and have a lot of family in Clev. I hated going there for the summer to hang with the cousins. Just a shithole of a city. I snicker everytime I hear "Cleveland Rocks" WMMS is still the shit though. I went back there alot in 2005 to visit my sick mother. The town is still a gray spot.
-
Fort Knox is a military base and as such always has had security restrictions.
-
So Harry goes to Mt. Rushmore because that's where North By Northwest took place... not where it was filmed.
Then Harry goes to Fort Knox because that's where Goldfinger took place... not where it was filmed.
So then Harry goes to Cleveland Ohio... because that's where A Christmas story was filmed... not where it took place... -
Glad you had a good time in the old home town. I hope you were able to partake of the Green Chili Wontons at the Bristol....they are divine. Sounds like you stuck close to Bardstown Road...which is a good place to be a geek. Wild & Wooly is a great place to shop for video...hell...the "Robot" from Lost In Space made a brief visit there three or four years ago when the DVDs first came out. Too bad you didn't make it to "The Great Escape" (think "The Android's Dungeon") or Electric Ladyland (the requisite head shop) or Ear Xtacy...just like South by Southwest, without all the pretension. My main man Randy B. is a manager there...we go all the way back to "Tesla/Def Leppard" in the round concert days. The wife I I won't be moving back for four or five more years (when the soon to arrive baby becomes school age) but now you know why all of us backwards ass types get all misty when they play "My Old Kentucky Home" right before the Derby on NBC. When we do move home, you are invited to the Derby. I shot horses at Churchill Downs for a living for a couple of years...with my TV camera, that is... C'MON BACK NOW, YA HERE!
-
I was thinking about getting one of those $30 tickets.
Also, I've heard tale that MP's from Ft. Knox have pulled over people who have photographed the gold vault from the road (US 60/Dixie Highway) and then confiscated the film. But we can't find Osama. "What a wonderful world it would be...."
See you in Ball-more, Chuckles! -
a death notice! lose weight. take care of yourself.
think about it. a crow grabs A PIECE OF PIZZA!?!? was it yours harry? tell the truth. -
Only they were the Black Crowes, they were in Loudon Co, VA and it wasn't pizza them boys were flying away with.
-
And if you ever come here and your car breaks down..just email me and I will give you a ride. We're like that here.
-
People playa' hate on something for a reason. If Cleveland was as bad as these people say, then them making fun of it would be akin to making fun of a retarded kid. So, either these people are complete A-holes, or else they are simply playa' haters. Cleveland is the probably the most real city in the States.
-
Hey Harry, you've got my addie, stop by if you got time on the trip. Shoot me an email if you've lost the info.
-
I'm from New York city and i've been living in Cleveland for a couple of years. I have season tickets to see Lebron & the Cavs play and I can drive anywhere in the city within 15 minutes, no matter what time of day it is. The museums are awesome, and the cinematheque has some fairly interesting films scheduled. Some of my favorite restaurants are here in Cleveland, most notably The Saffron Patch and Phnom Phen. Best of all, all the entitled jackasses from the coasts who are "working on their screenplay" are nowhere to be found.
-
I had one King Hell of a time in Cleveland when they opened the R&R Hall of Fame back in 1995. The concert alone is one I'll never forget (at least, the parts I can remember). And they get a bunch of that "Lake Effect" snow...which I envy to no end. Only been there the once, but what a great first impression!!! Plus, Cedar Point...not far away!!! Oh, yeah, and the wife is from there, too...
-
Please tell me there's going to be a guy there dressed in a similar pink bunny suit. Or maybe a 21-air-rifle salute to Bob Clark?
-
...less with the hate and more with the love! =)
-
That would've been the cherry on the sundae. Also, asking again, are you and Patricia making it out to Atlanta for Dragon Con? Well?!?
-
Siegel and Shuster were from Cleveland. That makes C Town the birthplace of the superhero.
-
Nothing in that state sucks more than Columbus.
-
I wouldn't recommend driving through that place, especially if you're black, they're a bunch of racist motherfuckers down there.
-
Its part of Kentucky, thats why its been renamed Cintucky..
Worst City in Ohio is easily Youngstown aka Murdertown -
Jesus, I hate Cleveland!
-
I should kill you for that alone.
-
They used to be great, even if they never played Metallica when they were good. But since the buyout, they mostly play nu-metal, and they play Metallica at least once an hour, I shit you not, which is okay if it's old metallica. But I can't put up with the other crap on there, so I don't bother with it at all.
Can't wait for Spidey 3 on DVD this Oct 30, so I can watch the making-of, which I was on hand for, and I'll be able to jackoff with the great memories, even if the movie was disappointing. -
Back in the day...home to world class hookers & bootleggers. Thems was the days! Also, the National Amusements Cinema (Showcase Cinema) for ages had "cardboard cutouts" of Han, Leia & the gang over the marquee. I'm talkin like ten years or so. Cicny is indeed very racist & not very attractive. It does have two of my favorite places to chill out, though...Riverbend & King's Island. Also, Proctor & Gamble slaughters thousands of animals a year just so we know that if you consume a pound of TIDE you might get sick. Fuck P&G...I stopped buying their garbage years ago.
-
But then again, it's a "Clear Channel" property.
-
The future is now in Browns town!!! WOOF WOOF WOOF!!!!!!
-
Finally my two fav things in one spot. Harry and Wild & Woolly. Go there every Wednesday night for Ladies Night...enuf to make a thoroughly modern spinster rapture out of this world. Glad you enjoyed your visit to the Ville....come back for Derby!!!!
-
Man, now THERE'S a hard fuckin' town!
-
Dude burger king, tacobell, popeyes, all that shit can be found on military bases. They need to wise up and throw in Arbies as well.
Readers Talkback
User Login
Top Talkbacks
- Whitney Houston 1963 - 2012 -- 273 total posts 271 posts
- New JUDGE DREDD post production footage pops up -- 92 total posts 92 posts
- AVENGERS enemy revealed as pink boardgame pieces... You might suffer some form of elation... SPOILERS!!! -- 160 total posts 69 posts
- There's a STAR TREK video game that is going to lead into JJ's STAR TREK 2 apparently... -- 151 total posts 63 posts
- Does ‘SNL’ Rhyme With ‘Deschanel’?? Learn Which SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Vet Hosts After Sexy Zooey!! -- 67 total posts 59 posts
- HANNA's Saoirse Ronan to boss around seven little people -- 60 total posts 57 posts
- To Commemorate The 3D Release Of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, George Lucas Wants You To Know...Greedo Shoots First!! -- 484 total posts 49 posts
- Here's The Red Band Trailer For Drafthouse Films' THE FP! -- 69 total posts 42 posts
- Friday Brings SWEEPS DAY NINE!! Gab Here About Tonight’s FRINGE!! Plus Einstein on TIM, Wiig On PORTLANDIA, MAHER, CLONE, GIFTED, GRIMM, SPARTACUS, SUPERNATURAL, GOLD RUSH And More!! -- 120 total posts 32 posts
- SPACE 2099!! -- 183 total posts 24 posts