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Published on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 4:03am |
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Impressions from SPACED-NUMB-A-THON...
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Hey folks, Harry here... I spent the better part of 8 to 9 hours tonight at the Alamo Ritz watching the entire series of SPACED with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg and a couple of hundred Peggsters, Spaced folks and just fans in general that wanted to experience this marathon with a pair of talents that they sincerely admire.
What a fucking blast!
I've seen SPACED several times. I can quote episodes, do routines from the show and I feel it is the single best show about people like me... Geeks. A generation that love the pop culture that sprung them to adulthood with an effortless collective connection to a series of sounds, images and information that unifies them into a strange evolved state of Geek.
SPACED is a truly great television show - and watching it play out from the first episode to the last with a full standing room only audience that came from Austin and parts from throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.... well it was something special.
I asked Simon if he sticks to his belief that odd Star Trek films must suck. He feels that this is not the case anymore. As Edgar pointed out - Star Trek 10 blew... which threw the whole theory into cosmic shift. Coming off of a double negative, mathmatically - the next one must Rule. Simon feels the next two at least will rule, because he'll be in both of those. Cheeky bastard.
The questions were about 98% from the audience and they were all sorts of fun. Hopefully we'll have some footage for y'all... But the best moment of the night was when a fella from the audience asked if there was a chance of watching Simon and Edgar in a Slo-Motion Pantomine Gun Battle... which quickly became the entire theater audience vs Simon & Edgar in the WILD BUNCH of Pantomine Gun Battles. Sadly - our Ernest Borgnine and William Holden substitutes had a similar fate - though they took a great many of our brutal audience with them. It was classic hilarity.
I'm sorry all of you couldn't be there, but I do want you to know there are a limited number of SPACED event posters for sale at MondoTees.Com which you can click there for - or the Tyler Stout poster at the top of the page. Personally - I had Simon sign my Chris Pine as Kirk STAR TREK teaser poster with, "Harry, I'm Givin' Er All I Got Ensign - Scotty - SIMON PEGG" - somehow that makes me smile.
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Reader Talkback
sounds like a blast by PrincessLeias_Poohole | Jul 28th, 2008 04:09:19 AM | Didn't get to go, nor to the
Arclight screening... by Sherman_Lives | Jul 28th, 2008 04:37:00 AM | Lucky Bastards. by The Equalizer | Jul 28th, 2008 04:41:38 AM | Sometimes living on the far
side of the earth... by The Grug | Jul 28th, 2008 04:51:27 AM | Pics and Vids from the Spaced
Marathon by onboleman | Jul 28th, 2008 04:59:16 AM | Spaced Out by deanbarry | Jul 28th, 2008 05:13:43 AM | Man, I miss good Star Trek by kwisatzhaderach | Jul 28th, 2008 05:14:01 AM | Everyone in the cinema doing
the Slo-Motion Pantomine Gun
Battle by TheBoyFromUlster | Jul 28th, 2008 05:49:29 AM | Spaced SUCKS!!! by lost.rules. | Jul 28th, 2008 07:58:30 AM | Kwisatz: I already asked
Nicholas Meyer if he would... by Sherman_Lives | Jul 28th, 2008 08:26:28 AM | That Spaced-Wild Bunch
gunfight by O_Goncho | Jul 28th, 2008 08:54:36 AM | NukedMyFridge / ShitYourBed by JimBobCooter | Jul 28th, 2008 09:43:35 AM | Was Jessica There? by Rando Calrisian | Jul 28th, 2008 10:03:53 AM | Shia "The Beef" by fishpillow | Jul 28th, 2008 10:36:05 AM | If there's one thing ... by DeadPanWalking | Jul 28th, 2008 10:37:43 AM | check that by DeadPanWalking | Jul 28th, 2008 10:38:49 AM | SPACED is very funny by FILMFUNK | Jul 28th, 2008 10:49:26 AM | TWO new Star Trek movies? by Lloytron | Jul 28th, 2008 10:54:58 AM | Just got my copy by deadnotsleeping | Jul 28th, 2008 12:35:15 PM | Testricals by Lloytron | Jul 28th, 2008 01:19:50 PM | Last Night by justwestofaustin | Jul 28th, 2008 02:12:56 PM | Only motherly dedication by BDT | Jul 28th, 2008 02:49:59 PM | Sherman_Lives by ByTor | Jul 28th, 2008 03:56:57 PM | Whoa, there, ByTor... by Sherman_Lives | Jul 28th, 2008 04:13:47 PM | Danniel DickBLood by FILMFUNK | Jul 28th, 2008 05:46:44 PM | what happened to jessica? by lex romero | Jul 28th, 2008 06:22:10 PM | lex romero by wookie1972 | Jul 28th, 2008 07:27:34 PM | Soylent Mean...Poster art... by BDT | Jul 28th, 2008 09:07:31 PM | Just picked up my dvd by kingben | Jul 28th, 2008 10:43:42 PM | KNOCK KNOCK 'Who's there?'
'Father Christmas' by Curtis Spicoli | Jul 29th, 2008 12:26:39 AM | TWIGLETS ! by Dude_gimme_tabs | Jul 29th, 2008 05:22:37 AM | Marmite! by Lloytron | Jul 29th, 2008 07:11:37 AM | Chips ! by Dude_gimme_tabs | Jul 29th, 2008 08:44:32 AM | best line of the evening by EKLIPSE | Jul 29th, 2008 05:41:31 PM | Thanks by joelvallie | Jul 29th, 2008 10:36:40 PM | woot! by mcavity | Aug 2nd, 2008 10:20:49 PM |
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