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Scrap Metal to the Drive In
May. 18th, 2025 11:12 amI had gotten some news on Friday that the bassoonist had a schedule change on something she was going to do out-of-town to where she could no longer play the festival. But then yesterday she got back to me with a replacement flutist! So when I was about to get ready to load for rehearsal yesterday, I figured I needed to write an introductory email to this person as I'd be indisposed for a good while. So was running behind getting to rehearsal, but I only arrived like one minute late, haha (I guess I like to give myself padding!). But then setting up all my shit takes a long amount of time. We were going to do it again where we play along to the movie. Since Graham B couldn't be there (even though we practice at his house, he set it up so we could get in, very solid dude!) and he had the projection setup before on his laptop, Jacques was going to run the movie off his laptop. But then he got there and realized he didn't bring his laptop. So he went back home to go get it. We were taking a long time to set up anyway. He gets back and then realizes he didn't download the movie onto his computer. So he went back home for nothing. But then we also couldn't find Graham's projectors anyway so it was all futile. But since I set up my tablet with the timer that I'd set up with all the sections of the movie, it's like we're playing along with the movie without seeing it. First we worked out the encore (cover of the original theme) for the first time. Had a couple of metronome options (because its time signature is so weird and hard to count) but we decided just playing it without a metronome and going off the natural feel of it (even though it's hard to count, once you're locked into its own groove it feels kind of natural). That worked quite well. And sounding good. Then we went through a bit of the "movie". It went pretty well starting to come together.
After that I came home. It's getting a little bit hot now! Carrying all that crap back and forth up the stairs. I was pretty sweaty so I took a cold shower when I got home. Then we had just enough time for Mary Beth and I to eat before going to the drive in...for the last night of it ever! (They've sold the drive in and it will be no more...) So many good memories of it. (The first Kubrick marathon where 2001 ended it and the sun was just starting to rise as the starchild came on the screen at the end...one of the most magical and serendipitous things in my life...or at least that's how the sleep deprivation made it feel!) We were planning on going to go to this one anyway, but the fact that it was ending made it all the more urgent. Given time constraints we weren't able to get there as early as may have been ideal, it may have actually been pretty decent on a normal night but since it was the last one it was packed as fuck. We weren't in the very back but we were pretty close. It was the perfect group of movies for that though, to be fun but not something to take too seriously: the Bill and Ted trilogy. I hadn't seen the original two since I was a kid (and didn't see the last one before). The weather was such that after the sun wasn't right up in the sky, it was actually very nice and cool (or at least not at all hot). We had to maneuver to avoid the suvs in front of us with their "trunk" doors popped up blocking the view (and god, the number of times the one car turned on their headlights at us). But overall it was fun. The movies have some surprisingly funny moments (and some of that thing of smart hidden funny bits in the midst of a bunch of dumb stuff...sometimes dumb-funny and sometimes just dumb). I'll say now that Bogus Journey is probably my favorite. The one thing I really remembered from my youth (the Seventh Seal parody with the game contest...hadn't seen the Bergman when I was thirteen, but one was still at least familiar with the imagery of it from cultural osmosis), I'd really only remembered the "sunk my battleship" part but I probably laughed a lot at the whole sequence. Also the evil Bill and Ted robots are mostly pretty funny (in line with the first movie where them meeting themselves is one of the funnier bits). Though the stuff with the puppetry in Bogus Journey leaves a bit to be desired (the Easter Bunny in hell and Station the Martian(s), apparently Station has a cult following but I thought it was probably the weakest part). The last one was probably the least good but it still had good stuff in it. The stuff where as they try to track themselves in the future things just further and further devolve is nice. Overall maybe it feels a bit force (and it has that contemporary style of humor that no comedy for the past decade seems to be able to not have, that's a little meh). But it was fun to finally see and a fun night. Goodbye, Summer Drive In. You're already missed.
After that I came home. It's getting a little bit hot now! Carrying all that crap back and forth up the stairs. I was pretty sweaty so I took a cold shower when I got home. Then we had just enough time for Mary Beth and I to eat before going to the drive in...for the last night of it ever! (They've sold the drive in and it will be no more...) So many good memories of it. (The first Kubrick marathon where 2001 ended it and the sun was just starting to rise as the starchild came on the screen at the end...one of the most magical and serendipitous things in my life...or at least that's how the sleep deprivation made it feel!) We were planning on going to go to this one anyway, but the fact that it was ending made it all the more urgent. Given time constraints we weren't able to get there as early as may have been ideal, it may have actually been pretty decent on a normal night but since it was the last one it was packed as fuck. We weren't in the very back but we were pretty close. It was the perfect group of movies for that though, to be fun but not something to take too seriously: the Bill and Ted trilogy. I hadn't seen the original two since I was a kid (and didn't see the last one before). The weather was such that after the sun wasn't right up in the sky, it was actually very nice and cool (or at least not at all hot). We had to maneuver to avoid the suvs in front of us with their "trunk" doors popped up blocking the view (and god, the number of times the one car turned on their headlights at us). But overall it was fun. The movies have some surprisingly funny moments (and some of that thing of smart hidden funny bits in the midst of a bunch of dumb stuff...sometimes dumb-funny and sometimes just dumb). I'll say now that Bogus Journey is probably my favorite. The one thing I really remembered from my youth (the Seventh Seal parody with the game contest...hadn't seen the Bergman when I was thirteen, but one was still at least familiar with the imagery of it from cultural osmosis), I'd really only remembered the "sunk my battleship" part but I probably laughed a lot at the whole sequence. Also the evil Bill and Ted robots are mostly pretty funny (in line with the first movie where them meeting themselves is one of the funnier bits). Though the stuff with the puppetry in Bogus Journey leaves a bit to be desired (the Easter Bunny in hell and Station the Martian(s), apparently Station has a cult following but I thought it was probably the weakest part). The last one was probably the least good but it still had good stuff in it. The stuff where as they try to track themselves in the future things just further and further devolve is nice. Overall maybe it feels a bit force (and it has that contemporary style of humor that no comedy for the past decade seems to be able to not have, that's a little meh). But it was fun to finally see and a fun night. Goodbye, Summer Drive In. You're already missed.
