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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Part 3 – Night Warning
After Earthquake, I worked up the courage to go down and harass Harry Knowles for an autograph. I don’t really know what I was expecting, but he was very gracious, personalizing it and writing “It ain’t cool that this is the last night at the Original Alamo! He also drew his signature doodle of his face, and signed his name. Geek heaven. While he was signing, they threw a few more blasts from the Earthquake sound system our way, and I got the full effect of the subwoofers at relatively close range. I think I’m sterile. Here’s hoping, anyway. I also noticed that the only ceiling tile that had come loose was directly above Harry. No biggie; the novelty hard hat would protect him. I stuck around long enough to wish him luck on his upcoming wedding and collect my autograph before triumphantly walking back to my seat where I attempted to explain to my uncle who Harry Knowles is, and why it’s a big deal that I got his autograph.
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Part 2 — Earthquake
After Big Night, Harry Knowles presented ADH founders Tim and Karrie League with a painting of the original Drafthouse by local artist Gordon Jones. While this was going on, and Tim was introducing the next movie, the staff was passed out yellow hard hats. Tim explained that the waiver we had signed and the hard hats were necessary because of the insane sound system that they had constructed for this movie, and because 10 years ago Tim personally installed the drop ceiling in the theater and did “a shitty job.” We also learned that they specifically chose this movie and created the sound system as a final “fuck you” to the neighboring clubs, who had subjected moviegoers to years of “shitty, badly programmed, techno music” on an almost nightly basis between midnight and two. I can really appreciate that Tim is a guy who likes to do things right.
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
On June 27th, I attended the final night of the original Alamo Draft House in Austin, TX. I was fortunate enough to obtain tickets for the entire triple feature of Big Night, Earthquake, and Night Warning. It included a 6-course Italian feast during Big Night, hard hats during Earthquake, and a Q&A with Susan Tyrrell before and after Night Warning. To top it off, my tickets included 4 of the seats from the theater.
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
First, a little background: I was a comic book geek. I spent a good portion of my prepubesence reading, pawing over, and coveting the tri-colored accounts of modern mythology. See, that’s totally what a comic book geek would say. For what it’s worth, I was also a baseball card geek and a Star Wars geek, but not a Star Trek geek. Not until college, at least. However, all that’s really germane to the topic at hand is that I loves me some Marvelly goodness. So when a superhero movie comes out, The Boy and I are there. We’ve watched them all, from the good (X-Men), to the great (Spiderman 2), to the horrific (Ghost Rider). Spiderman 3 was no exception.
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