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Impressions from SPACED-NUMB-A-THON...





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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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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