Dollar Movies and Music

This past weekend I went down to visit my friend Kris in the St. Louis area. Everytime I go down there, we plan on doing a bunch of things and end up doing nothing--which I have absolutley no problem with. This time we watched a few movies, including an independant film called Park with Ricki Lake, Cherie O'Terri, and Billy Baldwin, that was pretty funny. If you happen to see it on HBO it's worth watching. So, yeah, we did that, played some wii, and then ventured out to see Shrek 3 at the theaters.

I know you're thinking, Shrek 3? That was out months ago. You're right my friend, but could you see it for a dollar a few months ago? No, no you could not. The movie theater by Kris' house is a regular theater but had a few older movies playing for a dollar. Honestly, who could beat that? We went and got our cokes and Kit Kats, found our seats and sat in anticipation of the third Shrek. The previews started, well, actually the commercials. Why do they have commercials before movies these days? It's so annoying. I go to the movies to get away from commercials and there they are, creeping up on me. Anyways, a commercial for the St. Louis Ambassadors of Harmony comes up. Well, at least I thought it was a commercial. It started out pretty corny..."Did you know that St. Louis had a harmony choir? Well, they do..." Ok, so it goes on and the choir starts singing. This choir is made up of 150 highly animated men singing their hearts out. They're singing and singing....and singing...ok, they've been singing for a pretty long time. If you have a commercial, you have 30 seconds tops of singing, right. Well, these guys have been singing for a couple of minutes. In fact, they're singing an entire song. Kris and I seem to be the only two people in the theater that find this both odd and amuzing. We try our hardest to contain our laughter but it slips out and we're stuck in a talespin of giggles. Luckily, the choir has finished their song. Good. The movies should be starting soon. Wrong again. The choir starts singing a new song. This time it's about a fiddle and they have a massive fiddle standing up in the middle of them and are playing it with a huge bow that one of their choir mates are sitting on. What the hell? Is this why we paid a dollar for this movie? It's not really Shrek 3, but Shrek 3 as interpreted by the St. Louis Ambassadors of Harmony. At this point, I have lost all restraint and start laughing the hardest I've laughed in a long time. I have a hard time catching my breath. I'm sure I'm bothering all of the other patrons in the theater, who obviously are intrigued by this harmony choir. Sorry people. Thankfully, the end of the fiddle song, was the end of the promo for the choir. Phew. I can breath again. Thank you St. Louis Ambassadors of Harmony for making my day.

If anyone wants to check them out, their website is www.aoh.org. Sadly, you can't watch any of their performances on their stie. Appartenly, you have to go see a dollar movie to do that. Ah, or go to one of their shows.

My Beef- September Edition

It's been a while since I've complained about random things. So, here it is people. Enjoy!

1. What genius came up with the idea of the peanut butter twix that has the chocolate cookie? I'll admit, I tried it, cause it was something different, and it tasted like crap. Don't they test products anymore? The peanut butter twix was perfect and then they had to go and change the cookie. It was just a bad idea. The worst part of this experiment is that they have taken the old version of the peanut butter twix off of the shelves, so I can't enjoy the classic taste even if I wanted to. Note to candy people: don't mess with the originial, and if you do, put both versions on the shelves so we can snub your experiment if it's terrible.

2. Daytime TV is getting boring. You never realize how many times Full House is on everyday, until you flip through the channels just about every hour throughout the day. If I could have just been one of DJ's or Stephanie's classmates and on for a few episodes, I could totally live off of the royalties. Too bad that show was too expensive to keep running, (Yes, I watched the E! True Hollywood Story on it.) we could be enjoying many more years of their re-runs. Oh well.

3. What's that saying...take a picture, it'll last longer. I almost said this to a lady driving down the street who was obviously staring at me walking my sister's dog. I guess I would have stared at us too. See, the dog had one of those cones on her head, to keep her from rubbing her face on things, she has allergies. She got the cone yesterday. I have never in my life seen a dog that is so embarassed of the cone. She didn't want to go outside and when she did, the lady drove passed and stared at her, she turned to go back in the house. Awww, poor puppy. I think it's one of the saddest sites in the world...but one of the funniest too!

4. The new Fall season is starting for many shows this week and next. Well, with the exception of LOST. Ok, I'm a season behind anyways, but come on! I can't buy the third season on DVD until December! December! LOST is like a drug! I watched the first season and the night I finished it, I went out and bought the second season. It's just so good! I guess I can't re-watch the other two seasons in anticipation, or I could just keep watching Full House. Cut it out!

5. Next month I have three weddings to go to on the same day! What? Apparently, everyone wants to get married on Sweetest Day (October 20th). I still have yet to decide which one to go to. This is a tough decision! One is for a girl I went to college with, another I went to grade school with and finally a former co-worker (who just so happens to be on of my best friends' brother's). I verbally agreed to go to the last wedding, but now I'm not so sure. I wish I had like a helicopter, so I could go to all three. But, then which one would I choose to eat at? Oh decisions decisions.