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By Tgreen, April 20, 2010 11:21 pm

You now what makes me sad? This makes me sad:

How the hell is it possible that The Empire Strikes Back is turning 30? I’m almost positive I just went to see it at the Brook Theater on Flatbush and Flatlands maybe 2 or 3 years ago. Certainly not 30 years ago. That can’t be possible. I’m not that old.

Whether I’m old enough or not, this surprising news means I’ll probably go and dig out the Star Wars essay I wrote for T & Sympathy at the Treetop Lounge a couple of years ago and add it here, maybe with an edit or two. And then I’m gonna write one up for Empire, because I’ve got some similar stuff to say about that movie. And then I’ll go get drunk over the very real possibility that I might be so old that I saw this movie premiere 30 years ago. Though I still don’t completely believe it.

I could also use a time machine to help me out with my Script Frenzy script. I’m back to writing regularly, but I’m way behind, which we’ll get to in a post tomorrow, I believe. And a time machine might ensure that I actually get around to creating some of the action-packed Tgreen vs Walt Disney World content that I want to post to this blog. But mostly, the time machine would help me go back and prove there’s no way I’m old enough to remember this movie’s premiere and must be thinking of its latest DVD release. Any other possibility is not worth considering.

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By Tgreen, July 13, 2009 12:02 am

Last Thursday night I was on the F Train, minding my own business, trying to read a magazine, when I heard it. I didn’t know what it was right away, but it sounded like the song Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head. Coming from an amplifier. Accompanied by what sounded like a kazoo or something. Take a listen…

f-train-interlude

Somewhere in there I think you can here the moment when I caught the eye of the girl sitting across from me and we both busted out laughing once we saw that this sound was coming from a guy carting around a small speaker and playing along on something that looked like it was half-kazoo/half-keyboard/all cheesy musical goodness.

And yes, in case you were wondering, that s a segue into How Deep Is Your Love that you hear at the end there.

Maybe the city sends these guys through the system now to keep us entertained so that maybe we won’t mind the fare increase.