Best Experienced Entertainment Event

[Random_Spock]

I would've LOVED to see the Smothers Bothers!

Yea they were pretty neat. I remember one routine where Tom was introducing his brother and he said 'I'm Tom and I play guitar and this is my Dick and he plays the base (para-phrasing here).' And then Dick said to him 'Next time call me Richard'.




We were very lucky to get tickets. It was a radio station contest. Someone had won, but the radio person was so nice that he let us have a pair of tickets anyways. I wanted them as a birthday gift for my mom.

 

[Sibyl]

Yea they were pretty neat. I remember one routine where Tom was introducing his brother and he said 'I'm Tom and I play guitar and this is my Dick and he plays the base (para-phrasing here).' And then Dick said to him 'Next time call me Richard'.




We were very lucky to get tickets. It was a radio station contest. Someone had won, but the radio person was so nice that he let us have a pair of tickets anyways. I wanted them as a birthday gift for my mom.

Very cool!

 

[Random_Spock]

Very cool!

Thanks.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I was staying with my cousins the summer before my senior year who live just north of Pittsburgh. A friend of theirs had tickets to see Rush in Toronto that he couldn't use. So we took 'em, obviously. This was the day before the show, so we all went to bed early and drove the six-hour drive, saw the show, caught a few winks in the car, and then drove back in the early morning.

I've seen a lot of great shows, so it's really hard to pick a best one. But that gets bonus points for being Rush. In Toronto.

My best movie experience was, without a doubt. Attack of the Clones. It was the midnight show and a small arthouse in Minneapolis. It was the kind of place that usually only showed foreign/indy stuff. But they jumped on the bandwagon with the caveat that to get in, you had to be in cosplay.

So everyone was.

I went as a redshirt Jedi carrying both a glow stick and a Type-2. Luckily, everyone got the joke.

The place was really small and it was obvious they over-booked. My friend was with his girlfriend, so I was kind of third wheeling it. And ended up having to sit by myself. But some people started lightsaber dueling in the front and so I joined in and ended up getting thwapped across the face by a gal. (Not nearly as meet-cute as you'd think.) She laughed at me, we flirted some, and she had me come sit with her. I 'acquiesced,' having lost the other two in the sea of stormtrooper helms. She ended up sitting on my lap.

It wasn't quite as great as it sounds. The seats were really small, I was pinned up against the wall, and there was a big guy in the seat next to us. Plus, I spent most of the movie super conscientious about not getting too handsy. I actually ended up with some pretty bad back pain for about a week. None the less, I got her digits and we ended up dating on and off for about a year afterward.

As far as the movie itself, it was clear to everyone within the first 15 minutes it was going to be terrible. So the MST3king started up. At first, it was only a few, but more and more people joined in. By the time Pads and Ani were rolling in the grass, everyone was having their turn. Everyone was laughing and clapping when someone said something cleverer than most. It was just a really fantastic atmosphere. Though, Redshirt Clegg was the butt of a lot of the jokes.

 

[Sibyl]

I was staying with my cousins the summer before my senior year who live just north of Pittsburgh. A friend of theirs had tickets to see Rush in Toronto that he couldn't use. So we took 'em, obviously. This was the day before the show, so we all went to bed early and drove the six-hour drive, saw the show, caught a few winks in the car, and then drove back in the early morning.

I've seen a lot of great shows, so it's really hard to pick a best one. But that gets bonus points for being Rush. In Toronto.

My best movie experience was, without a doubt. Attack of the Clones. It was the midnight show and a small arthouse in Minneapolis. It was the kind of place that usually only showed foreign/indy stuff. But they jumped on the bandwagon with the caveat that to get in, you had to be in cosplay.

So everyone was.

I went as a redshirt Jedi carrying both a glow stick and a Type-2. Luckily, everyone got the joke.

The place was really small and it was obvious they over-booked. My friend was with his girlfriend, so I was kind of third wheeling it. And ended up having to sit by myself. But some people started lightsaber dueling in the front and so I joined in and ended up getting thwapped across the face by a gal. (Not nearly as meet-cute as you'd think.) She laughed at me, we flirted some, and she had me come sit with her. I 'acquiesced,' having lost the other two in the sea of stormtrooper helms. She ended up sitting on my lap.

It wasn't quite as great as it sounds. The seats were really small, I was pinned up against the wall, and there was a big guy in the seat next to us. Plus, I spent most of the movie super conscientious about not getting too handsy. I actually ended up with some pretty bad back pain for about a week. None the less, I got her digits and we ended up dating on and off for about a year afterward.

As far as the movie itself, it was clear to everyone within the first 15 minutes it was going to be terrible. So the MST3king started up. At first, it was only a few, but more and more people joined in. By the time Pads and Ani were rolling in the grass, everyone was having their turn. Everyone was laughing and clapping when someone said something cleverer than most. It was just a really fantastic atmosphere. Though, Redshirt Clegg was the butt of a lot of the jokes.

OMG, that is fantastic! Well, other than that last bit.

Was this at the Lagoon?

Seeing Rush in Toronto would have been amazing, too.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Was this at the Lagoon?

Yup.

I saw a few movies there around that same time. The Cowboy Bebop movie was one. I think Final Fantasy might have been the other.

Sadly, they don't have anything like that here. There used to be one, but the tore it down and put up a mall.

 

[Sibyl]

Yup.

I saw a few movies there around that same time. The Cowboy Bebop movie was one. I think Final Fantasy might have been the other.

Sadly, they don't have anything like that here. There used to be one, but the tore it down and put up a mall.

Where are you now?

 

[CorporalClegg]

Albuquerque.

 

[Sibyl]

Albuquerque.

Ah.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Though, Redshirt Clegg was the butt of a lot of the jokes.

Though you apparently survived. I'd have worried you had died of embarrassment

 

[CorporalClegg]

 

[Obsidian7]

Best convention experience? Probably meeting Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) for the second time and nailing the photoshoot with a hilarious shocked expression. It was a fun moment. He complimented me on my jacket afterwards. He's a true gentleman and really interesting guy.

Best concert? That's a really hard question. Wait... I know. I was second row at Lady Gaga's Artpop concert on my birthday. I spent most of the day waiting outside the arena. It started to get a bit wet and cold but everyone kept their spirits up with singing.

During the concert, I held eye contact with Gaga for what felt like forever but it was probably around 30 seconds. I had to look away, distracted by a dancer approaching on the left, because it was so intense lol.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Concert: Tegan and Sara. Their on-stage banter is so entertaining and fun!

Movie: As a kid it was seeing the first Harry Potter. As an adult, The Last Jedi.

I was supposed to see Taylor Swift on the Reputation Tour last year. The day of the concert I got sick and didn’t go. I was BEYOND EXCITED because I’ve loved her for so long and never seen her live. Luckily it was put out as a movie on Netflix. I’ve watched it a couple times and it’s helped lessen the pain of missing out.

 

[Owain Taggart]

As a followup to my posting about my Tonight Show taping experience, one of the more interesting experiences related to that was getting there in the morning to wait in line. The way it works, and this might be similar to how it happens with other tapings, is that even if you have tickets, it doesn't guarantee you getting in. They give out more tickets than there are available seats in order to fill out all of them in case some don't show up. Because it's taped for TV, you really want to fill those seats. So you want to get there early enough, because by a certain cutoff point, (I think it was around 2pm for me) they'll be advancing the line and told you can't proceed. But anyway, as I waited, I felt the waiting was part of the fun, because those of us waiting in line got to chatting and learning about them and what they were doing and it felt like we were all sharing in an intimate moment. It felt like a special experience.