Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Two Part Story!
Well: Story #1...Algonquin Park
LT and I were scheduled to go to Algonquin on the weekend for some interior hiking. We were both sick though, and decided to modify the plans....we decided to change our reservations to do car camping on saturday night instead...We drove up in Laura's parents car...an old '93 Accord Sedan
We got up there mid afternoon and decided to drop off some of our stuff at the site then go for a quick day hike. Well...we pull out of the lot and are about 50m down the road from the site when the car dies. Yup, just...dies.
After a couple of tries restarting it, it still doesn't do anything. CAA showed up about 2 hours later, and to keep a long story short, the car was towed to Huntsville(maybe 30-45 minutes away), and wouldn't be fixed until atleast tuesday.
Fortunately we weren't too far from the site and we able to make due without the car....but it was definitely an interesting twist!
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Story #2 - Big night in the Big Apple
After work today I decided to catch a concert at the Knitting Factory. The band I was seeing was Panic! At the Disco, this kick ass dance-punk band. I saw them 2 weeks ago in toronto, but the show was only $5, so I figured what the heck.
Anyways, when i got there, I decided to watch from up on the balcony(*cough* I was wearing a shirt and tie since I went straight from work). It was the weirdest thing...as I was standing around waiting for the show to get started, I noticed that there were a handful of people walking around with fancy video cameras, and a handful more with microphones and serious audio/electronics. The weirdest part was that there were about a dozen people with secret service type ear-pieces...and to top things off, there were atleast 5-6 other people in ties/suits, all fiddling with their blackberries,
there was this one dude, probably in his late thirties, maybe early 40s standing in front of me. He seemed pretty...well...full of himself from some of the things he was saying and just the way he was carrying himself. At one point this other middle aged guy, certainly no bodybuilder but not an especially unfit person, started talking to him, and what I overheard of the conversation was something like "Thanks for emailing me...look...to i'll get right to the point. If you want to be successful, you need to lose weight. You're carrying a good 15-20 extra pounds and that's not doing you any favours."
I'm thinking "who the hell talks to someone like that?" who the heck does this guy think he is!?!
A few minutes later the plot thickened. One of the "AV" guys came over and was working to hook this dude up to one of those fancy little mics that attaches to your collar.
Just before the show started, this dude made his way over to this group of people my age that were standing a couple of feet from me. They all seemed very eager to speak with this guy...and as soon as he got over there *WHAM* about 5 video cameras started filming the conversation, with a pair of other people holding these bright lights. It was SO weird!!!!
On his way back, buddy bumped into me and almost tripped over me. I really felt like saying "who exactly do you think you are, and what the heck are you doing here!?". Better judgement told me not to say anything.
When the show started, the film crews were having a hay-day with the people standing next to me. I kid you not, cameras a mere 6 inches from their faces as their fake-rocked out to the music. One of the dudes, this BIG/large dude was dancing funny to the music...dancing like his life depended on it.
At one point during the show the band said something like "in case anyone's wondering, they're filming the concert today for this show called The Biz". That explained that.
Well, when I came home I checked out the website for The Biz. Turns out it's this web-based reality tv show by AOL Time Warner where these contestants compete for a chance to help run a record label...sort of like The Apprentice, but for the record industry.
Well...within minutes I was doing a double take. The Competitors for this show were the people that had been standing a few feet from me.
The best part though...the loud guy that almost tripped over me?
Check out his bio.
Yah you read that right...Chairman/CEO of the US branch of Warner Music. The guy that signed/managed the Beastie Boys, DJ Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince, Run DMC. Murtle would have had a hay-day....I wonder if SHE would have known who he was?
LT and I were scheduled to go to Algonquin on the weekend for some interior hiking. We were both sick though, and decided to modify the plans....we decided to change our reservations to do car camping on saturday night instead...We drove up in Laura's parents car...an old '93 Accord Sedan
We got up there mid afternoon and decided to drop off some of our stuff at the site then go for a quick day hike. Well...we pull out of the lot and are about 50m down the road from the site when the car dies. Yup, just...dies.
After a couple of tries restarting it, it still doesn't do anything. CAA showed up about 2 hours later, and to keep a long story short, the car was towed to Huntsville(maybe 30-45 minutes away), and wouldn't be fixed until atleast tuesday.
Fortunately we weren't too far from the site and we able to make due without the car....but it was definitely an interesting twist!
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Story #2 - Big night in the Big Apple
After work today I decided to catch a concert at the Knitting Factory. The band I was seeing was Panic! At the Disco, this kick ass dance-punk band. I saw them 2 weeks ago in toronto, but the show was only $5, so I figured what the heck.
Anyways, when i got there, I decided to watch from up on the balcony(*cough* I was wearing a shirt and tie since I went straight from work). It was the weirdest thing...as I was standing around waiting for the show to get started, I noticed that there were a handful of people walking around with fancy video cameras, and a handful more with microphones and serious audio/electronics. The weirdest part was that there were about a dozen people with secret service type ear-pieces...and to top things off, there were atleast 5-6 other people in ties/suits, all fiddling with their blackberries,
there was this one dude, probably in his late thirties, maybe early 40s standing in front of me. He seemed pretty...well...full of himself from some of the things he was saying and just the way he was carrying himself. At one point this other middle aged guy, certainly no bodybuilder but not an especially unfit person, started talking to him, and what I overheard of the conversation was something like "Thanks for emailing me...look...to i'll get right to the point. If you want to be successful, you need to lose weight. You're carrying a good 15-20 extra pounds and that's not doing you any favours."
I'm thinking "who the hell talks to someone like that?" who the heck does this guy think he is!?!
A few minutes later the plot thickened. One of the "AV" guys came over and was working to hook this dude up to one of those fancy little mics that attaches to your collar.
Just before the show started, this dude made his way over to this group of people my age that were standing a couple of feet from me. They all seemed very eager to speak with this guy...and as soon as he got over there *WHAM* about 5 video cameras started filming the conversation, with a pair of other people holding these bright lights. It was SO weird!!!!
On his way back, buddy bumped into me and almost tripped over me. I really felt like saying "who exactly do you think you are, and what the heck are you doing here!?". Better judgement told me not to say anything.
When the show started, the film crews were having a hay-day with the people standing next to me. I kid you not, cameras a mere 6 inches from their faces as their fake-rocked out to the music. One of the dudes, this BIG/large dude was dancing funny to the music...dancing like his life depended on it.
At one point during the show the band said something like "in case anyone's wondering, they're filming the concert today for this show called The Biz". That explained that.
Well, when I came home I checked out the website for The Biz. Turns out it's this web-based reality tv show by AOL Time Warner where these contestants compete for a chance to help run a record label...sort of like The Apprentice, but for the record industry.
Well...within minutes I was doing a double take. The Competitors for this show were the people that had been standing a few feet from me.
The best part though...the loud guy that almost tripped over me?
Check out his bio.
Yah you read that right...Chairman/CEO of the US branch of Warner Music. The guy that signed/managed the Beastie Boys, DJ Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince, Run DMC. Murtle would have had a hay-day....I wonder if SHE would have known who he was?
# posted by Greg @ 9:00 PM 
