Friday night, I went over my friend Tricia‘s house for a little food and knitting. When I got there, we prepared the veggies and bread for dipping and a Tricia made a pizza. The topic then moved on to what should we watch or listen to while we knit? I hadn’t even given it a thought. So Tricia suggested that I look at the movies she had.
First I chose something with an incredibly young Vince Vaughn in it called Swingers but it so wasn’t my style and I did not even find a second of it (well a second of the amount we actually watched) funny.
So Tricia pulled out a few more movies and while she was listing off what was in the “movie drawer” I looked on the floor and saw this.
Yes, my friends, Labyrinth from 1986. I was 9. I remember loving this movie and amidst hysterical laughter on my part I informed Tricia that we had to watch that one. She had a very precious look of shock on her face. We watched the movie.
There was much laughter during this as we both believe that David Bowie was wearing shall we say “a piece”. Funny how your attention shifts to different things when you watch a kids movie as an adult huh?
This was taken from Nuclear Boy:
See what I mean???
We also had a very adult discussion regarding the “Bog of Eternal Stench”. Tricia commented that it’s just a pond of many big dirty anuses. Then she corrected herself stating that perhaps she should have used the word anii for plural? WHAT? Are you people laughing as hard as I was yet? ANII? Plural for Anuses? Actually the Urban Dictionary site seems to agree that the word anii refers to “the hole in your butt in plural form”. Well, you learn something new every day yes?
Anyway, for knitting, I did finish one side of my Stafford bag, I knitted a bit on my Lopi sweater, and worked on Green Gable. I just have to work through some body shaping on the next 15 rows then it’s on until it’s long enough. I’ll probably do some increases towards the end to allow for the fact that I am a woman with hips and curves. I can’t wait to see how this works out.
Then, Saturday, Marianne and I went to the Tweeter Center to see The Fray and Ok Go!
It was fun, but we realized amidst the sea of screaming fourteen year old girls, that we were perhaps a wee bit TOO OLD for this particular venue. Quite depressing. But still fun! The Fray was fantastic and put on a stellar performance even working in Oasis’s Wonderwall and Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie ala Barenaked Ladies style.
Here’s Marianne and I at the concert (notice the very necessary wine):
Can I just take a moment here to repeat how much I love my glasses? In May I got some Transitions lenses and I love them more than anything. Here they are a little dark as the sun was still out. I’m way too lazy and forgetful to deal with having separate sunglasses so these are perfect for me.
Anyways, there was a girl sitting next to us that was ga ga over the other opening act Mae. Never heard of them myself. She was nuts. “Like omigod, they are so great, and, I’m only here to see them, who care’s about The Fray?”. So she and her little friend took off for a while and we breathed a sigh of relief. More wine would have been necessary if she continued to insist on talking with us.
She came back later to happily announce that she had been walking around and somehow managed to meet the band (Mae) and get them all to sign her shirt. She looked at us curiously and said, “Have you two been sitting here the whole time?”. I, of course, responded “Yes, I’m not sure what else we would do”. Duh. No, I’m going to troll around the Tweeter Center looking for band members that I wouldn’t recognize if I bumped into them (never mind on the street, at the concert even)!
So anyway, it was fun nonetheless except for the two hours it took to get out of the parking lot at the end of it all but I digress.
Sunday, I felted my Stafford bag (just need to put it together with lining and handles that I have yet to acquire), re-felted my hat (I think I may knit and felt some flowers for it too), spun a bit and dusted off worked on that old Mika sweater that’s been hanging out since this past December. I hope to finish sometime soon.
So, I hope you all had a good weekend! I’ll have progress pics soon!
Sounds like a great weekend! I love The Fray, and probably would have felt the same way to with the teeny-boppers! Mae?? Never heard of them. More wine please 🙂
What a great weekend… I think I am even further behind on music culture than you… I don’t know who either of those bands are ;-O
I somehow made it through the 80s without ever seeing Labyrith. I’m starting to think that’s a good thing. 🙂
OH MY LORD! LOVE the Bowie picture! hahahhahahhaha Nice post Erin! Oh how much I loved the Labrynth too! – I’ll lend you my soundtrack! “Dance Magic, Dance!” “You remind me of the babe – what babe?!”
Glad you and Marianne had a great time!
~ Tricia
now i look back on that movie and see the funnyness you refer to, but when i was a kid i had a feeling something was “off” about that movie…