Only in LA

So here's further proof that The New Beverly Cinema is the coolest place on earth.

This month the theater is celebrating their 30th anniversary and to commemorate that they're duplicating the original schedule from their first month as a theater. They are also showing their longest running midnight movie, Reservoir Dogs, every Friday of this month. You can read all about it here - http://www.newbevcinema.com/

So last night I went and saw Reservoir Dogs and it was quite a memorable experience.

As I was standing in line I notice that the man behind me was Clu Gulager. If you look at his filmography you'll see that this man has been in a ton of movies and tv shows but I've always been really fond of him in Return of the Living Dead. So it was really cool when he just started up a conversation with me and as he talked the only thing I could think of was this...


He shows up about 1:20 into it.

After conversing with Clu Gulager for a bit my friends Phil and Jackie show up, showed me their boxes o' vhs tapes they just bought, and then drove off in a puff of smoke. It was hilarious.

When they finally started selling tickets, they were giving away Michael Madsen's book of photography and poetry. Apparently Quentin Tarantino had boxes of these things in his garage and gave them to the theater to give out to everybody. Now, I like Michael Madsen. I got nothing against him. But this book is hilarious. Here take a look...



On the back of the book is what I can only imagine is Madsen's artist statement which says, "I got an idea to shoot different kinds of signs while I was in Toronto working on Tilt for ESPN." Brilliant. Here's some of the photos...



That's a poorly lit, out of focus shot of a widow.



And that is a picture of a dashboard with a steering wheel in the way. Sorry about the flash glare on the pictures, but if anything they make them more interesting to look at.

Here's an example of the poetry in the book as well...

CASH

Driving Max to a birthday party in the rental
and we put Johnny Cash on the music thing...
it was his last album

I got an envelope from the post office for Harvey,
to send him a white rose from a sad Saturday
and feeling lucky to be above ground.

I hope it doesn't sound like I'm making fun of Michael Madsen. I'm just making fun of his book.

So once I got into the theater this girl spills beer all over my pants! Not only did that smell really bad but it was cold too.

There was an amazing trailer reel before the film which included (but was not limited to); Mean Streets, The Getaway, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the most rockin' trailer for John Woo's The Killer, Scarface, Goodfellas, and a cartoon for Dudley Dooright. Now when the trailer for The Getaway was playing, that girl who spilled beer on my pants said sarcastically, "Oh this looks good." Granted, the trailer was extremely cheesy, but if you're going to spill beer on me and then talk trash about Peckinpah, I will mess you up. She then proceeded to text message during the whole movie and sing the lyrics to "Stuck in the Middle with You" during that scene! DAH!

Regardless, it was totally awesome. Reservoir Dogs is still pretty sweet even though I hate Mr. Orange's entire flashback with his stupid restroom story.