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I will start out by saying that I initially did not want to go to the Outside Lands Festival, at least not for 3 straight days.  I was thinking maybe I’ll go for one day, two tops; but in no way did I want to go for three days.  My girlfriend planned on going to all three days from the beginning and harassed me enough until I caved in and gave her the go ahead to get me a weekend pass.  I wasn’t too fired up to go for a couple of reasons.  First off, I wasn’t huge in to too many of the bands that were performing.  There were plenty I wanted to see and even a few who I am a big fan of but nothing I felt that I couldn’t miss.  The main reason I didn’t want to go was just the simple and plain fact that I know myself pretty well by now and I don’t have the best track record of rocking out for three straight nights, especially without a solid amount of couch time in between.  With all of that said I had a great time and will definitely do it again.  For those of you that couldn’t make it or didn’t have any desire to make it, I thought I would give you a little run down of how the weekend went.  Sort the good, bad, ugly and weird of it.  At least the way I saw it. This write up went a little bit longer than I planned, but I think it’s worth it if you are curious about the show or some of the goofy things that went down. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been completely slacking on these.  If I am going to count all the way down to number one before the apocalypse I better get cracking.  Anyway, here is the first Woody Allen movie on my list, Zelig.  You will see quite a bit of Woody Allen on my list.  I saw the majority of his movies at roughly the same period in my life.  I was about a year out of college and my sister and her then boyfriend (now husband) lived just a few blocks from me in San Francisco.  I had seen just a few of Woody’s really famous late 70’s/ early 80’s movies and loved them.  My brother in law either had just gotten into Woody himself or was sort of rediscovering and re-watching his movies at the same time.  He was more familiar with some of the “early funny ones” and we started renting them together.  I would usually go over to their place and my sister would occasionally make dinner and then sit unamused on the couch as my b-n-law and I laughed our asses off.  During this period we watched almost the entire Woody Allen collection and for better or worse were hooked.  Movie #94 was one of the first I remember watching with him. Read the rest of this entry »