Here is a hilarious video made by G4’s Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn for Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest. I saw the video before watching Ninja Assassin as part of Alamo’s Quiet Zone. I couldn’t help laughing out loud. I don’t really like the vampires in the Twilight movies. I guess I like classical vampires that burn up when in the Sun.

Last night I went to the Alamo Drafthouse 1997 Sing-Along with several friends (Check out David Wogan’s 1997 post). For the those who haven’t been to an Alamo sing-along it is akin to group themed karaoke with dancing at your seat or on stage. They pick their favorite music videos and subtitle them. This sing-along was especially great because I was in 7th and 8th grade in 1997 and most of the songs remind me of the awkward school dances. I even saw a friend from middle school. It is amazing how many great songs came out that year and that our parents let us listen to them. Alamo is going to have a 1999 sing-along this coming spring. We shall see if 1999 can beat 1997 at having better (more nostalgic) songs. I doubt it!

Alamo Drafthouse is one of the many things that makes Austin great. Some of their other special events include quote-alongs, themed dinners, rouge caroling, master pancake theater (like mystery science theater 3000), heckle vision (text in heckles to bad movies that they show on screen), and Foleyvision (taking old films and creating live dubbing, sound effects, and music instead of the original audio).

Here are the songs that they included in the sing-along in no particular order (I probably forgot a couple):
Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve
Crash Into Me – Dave Matthews Band
Quit Playing Games (with My Heart) – Backstreet Boys
You Make Me Wanna – Usher
I’ll Be Missing You – Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
Wannabe – Spice Girls
MMMBop – Hanson
The Impression I Get – Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Barely Breathing – Duncan Shiek
Karma Police – Radiohead
I Love You Always Forever – Donna Lewis*
Criminal – Fiona Apple
One Headlight – Wallflowers
I Believe I Can Fly – R Kelly
My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
Torn – Natalie Imbruglia
Walking on the Sun – Smash Mouth
The Freshmen – The Verve Pipe*
Semi-charmed Life – Third Eye Blind
What I Got – Sublime
Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems – The Notorious B.I.G., Ma$e, and Puff DaddyEverlong
Song 2 – Blur
Don’t Speak – No Doubt
Push – Matchbox 20
Tubthumping – Chumbawamba

Just saw a commercial for Oxi Clean with their new spokeswoman. Sadly she isn’t as memorable as Billy Mays though she does sound similar. Even though I never bought any of the products, his commercials are kinda nostalgic. Out of the 34 products he advertised, I especially liked the putty adhesive, Mighty Putty.

Another great invention is the iTie (www.theitie.com). It is a tie with a pocket that attaches to your shirt buttons so it never is out of place. This invention gives me hope for all the wild ideas i have ever had.

Wikipedia Page that lists the products he pitched

I recently read an interesting article by Cabel Maxfield Sasser (http://www.cabel.name/2009/09/kashiwa-mystery-cafe.html) about a cafe in Japan. The idea behind the cafe is you order for the next person and you receive what the person before you bought so you get a surprise for your meal/snack.
I like the idea and would like to try it out but I would be worried about going there regularly because I am a very picky eater. It would help if they served a lot of food that I liked. One thing that would suck would be to find something that they served that you really like and not be able to order it and know you were going to get it.