I’m starting off today’s post with a request for a little help from my readers. Please watch the YouTube movie below,
(Edit: Crap, it’s not loading. Go here to watch the video.)
then go to ArtsMemphis.com and vote for it. My friend Harmony Stewart is a semifinalist in their film competition, and she needs your votes for her film “Blues” (which is the YouTube video shown here).
In other news… my friend AngieDawn sent out an e-mail that went something like “OMG OMG OMG Eddie Izzard is coming to Memphis.” Eddie Izzard is a comedian. I’ve never heard of him but according to Angie he’s awesome. You can read more about him and why you should go see his show on Angie’s blog.
Now that I’ve recommended a comedian I’ve never heard of, let me follow it up by recommending a band I’ve never heard of. My friend/trivia teammate Eric writes that a band called 500 Miles to Memphis will be playing at the Buccaneer this Sunday the 23rd. Eric says they’re a punk/rockabilly band that he digs with 2.5 shovels. You can read more about them on their website. Hmmm. The pic on the front page of their site shows the lead singer holding a tallboy can of PBR. That’s a good sign. Eric guesses they’re named 500 Miles to Memphis because that’s the approximate distance from their home town of Cincinnati.
Sunday the 23rd is also Easter Sunday, so I’m sure you know where I’ll be that morning… in a bar, drinking mimosas and bloody marys. It will be week 2 of our brunch rotation at the Majestic. However, this week plans are screwed up afterward, as the Saucer will not open until 5 that day. Hell if I know why, from what I remember last year Easter was as busy as any other Sunday. But, when they do open at 5, they’ll have an Easter egg hunt. Find an egg, get a free beer.
Not sure what I’ll do between 1 and 5 that day. Maybe go outside and sit on the blocks on Beale and drink a Call-a-Cab if the weather is nice. But the current prediction is high 51, low 35 and rain, so that plan is not very likely. March Madness will be on and the Tigers will likely be playing a second-round game on Sunday, so that will figure into things. Hmmm. Maybe McGuinness for a bonus Sunday with Amy… hmmm… Big Foot has $5 34 oz. Blue Moons, that’s an option as well… absolutely not walking farther south than Linden to watch the game when there are good places to watch it in the Downtown core.
Back to the Easter egg hunt… dammit, every year we say we’re going to do this and then forget! There’s been a long-standing plan to buy a bunch of large-sized plastic eggs, hide those little 50 ml “airplane bottles” of cheap booze in them, and then hide the eggs in Court Square for the bums to find. Hey, bums deserve to have a little Easter fun too. Hmmm maybe Saturday.
In the CA this morning: The Downtown branch of the public library, the Cossitt branch at Front and Monroe, will close July 1. King Willie says the closing, along with four others around the city, is part of a move to “reposition assets.”
Random commercial jingle from the past before I head to work:
“The Defender sees lots of alien ships
The Defender sees lots of radar blips
Every blip is a ship
On a body-snatching trip
Now it’s up to Defender to save them
Defender, a great Atari game!”
– Atari commercial advertising Defender video game cartridge, June 1983