the working title

so cat and i got to the knitting factory friday night and after hanging out on the main floor for a while, decided to go upstairs to this little balcony thing they had. it was a little colder up there, but the view was pretty good and i knew we wouldn't have to worry about tall people standing in front of us. so we were up there for the first two bands and while the second one was playing i look over and there is this guy tuning a guitar and i think he looks kind of like the lead singer from the working title. so i just kind of stare at him and stuff and act a bit like a creeper and cat says i should say hello and see if it's him. and after much convincing and much creeper-like behavior, i shuffled over.

me: um, are you from the band 'the working title'?
man with guitar: yea.
me: YOU'RE JOEL.
joel: yea.

and there was a little more to the conversation than him just saying 'yea,' but you get the idea. he was supernice and i even got to talk to him a little after the show. here's a pic:


anyway, they started with one of my favorite songs, 'the crash,' and played a bunch of new stuff (good, although i would have liked to hear more of their oldies). here's a clip of one of the newer songs, called 'wolf' i think. this was my favorite new song of the night.

can't wait!

snagged some tickets for tomorrow's show at the knitting factory...one of my favorite bands of all time will be there: the working title. vvvvvveeeeeerrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyy excited!!

the only reason i want to see "dark knight"

heath ledger is most definitely the only reason i want to see dark knight, opening next week. he looks unbelievably creepy and mesmerizing.

and get this! oscar buzz already for him. i kind of saw this coming, we'll see if people are just being generous in his memory or if the performance is actually just that good.

hm.

kudos to my sister for informing me of this. the long-lost footage from fritz lang's metropolis has been found in argentina.

"In the 1980s, Argentine film fanatic Fernando Pena heard about a man who had propped up a broken projector for "hours" to screen "Metropolis" in the 1960s. But the version of the film he knew was only one-and-a-half hours long. For years, he begged Buenos Aires' museum to check their archives for the man's longer version."

obviously it's pretty dern cool that they found the footage, but...um...it was in a cinema museum. not too exciting. like, you'd kind of expect it to be there, right? i was hoping it might be found buried under some ex-nazi's house. oh well.