Right now, on this dreary Sunday afternoon, I'm not really doing anything. I'm sitting at my computer watching very old episodes of The Simpsons, trying to avoid bringing down the suitcases from the attic (I will be holidaying very soon) and thinking about all the things going on in the world that I would rather be doing!
I am a massive fan of the Hard Rock Cafe chains (I have been to several!) and I have always wanted to go to Hard Rock Calling; Hard Rock Cafe's music festival that takes place every year in London's Hyde Park. This year would have been a belter of a concert, the line up includes: Iggy and The Stooges, Tom Morello, Paul Simon and the Boss himself, Mr Bruce Springsteen! Although Bruce Springteen's career has spanned almost 4 decades, he is someone I have just recently got into (better late than never, I suppose!). So I would have loved to have seen him live, but again finances have held me back (London is more expensive than ever in 2012 due to The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations and of course the 2012 Olympics being held in the glorious English capital city) but I did apply to win tickets for the event from Hard Rock's website. I did not win *sad face*.
I was quite disgruntled, appalled even, to read this morning that Bruce Springsteen had been 'silenced' by London City Council during the encore numbers of his set (also featuring my hero Sir Paul McCartney!!!). What the hell???? IT WAS A ROCK CONCERT! You do not cut off the Boss and the Knight because they ran a few minutes over the curfew. These are two music legends who are both well known for performing long and energised set lists and who don't get the opportunity to perform together often. It was a rock concert that they were invited to play at, with thousands of fans who paid good money and travelled far and wide to see them perform live. It's probably a good thing I hadn't been there to be honest. I got angry reading about this from my house in Scotland! If I had been there in Hyde Park watching the Boss rock his ass off, then get the surprise of seeing Sir Paul walk on stage with his Hoffner bass strung over his shoulder to join him for an encore of Beatle classics..then for the microphones to be switched off because they had gone a over the curfew!!!! I would have gone 'Hulk Mad'***. Both Springsteen and McCartney were forced to walk off the stage to complete silence, and they couldn't even thank the crowd. I'm sorry London City Council, I know you have a job to do and I don't mean to bad mouth you but this to music fans is pretty unforgivable. I hope for all sports fans sake you don't make a similar mistake when it comes to the Olympics - I think the general public would be less forgiving of that!
So while my inner Rock Star is missing out on Hard Rock Calling, my inner Geek is equally sad as I am also missing out on San Diego's Comic-Con! I've never been into comic books per say or even comic book movies...until Iron Man was released in 2008! I am such a huge fan of Robert Downey Jr. I think the man is incredible and without question one of the greatest actors of his generation...or any generation for that matter. I watched it because of him and I loved it. I didn't know comic book movies could be that good. I never liked Spider Man and couldn't stand any of the late 80s/early 90s Batman movies as a kid, but Iron Man was amazing. I'd never even heard of a superhero called Iron Man, but I loved it, and the love of that movie has led to my love of Captain America, Thor, The Hulk and ultimately The Avengers (or to us Brits, Avengers Assemble?!). Since it was released in May, I have been to see Avengers Assemble 7 times with different people on every visit. It's a new record for me, the previous cinema visits for one movie was Mamma Mia in 2008. I saw that 5 times, again with different people on every visit. Avengers Assemble was something very special indeed, I absolutely adored it. Movies like that are quite rare, but the film industry is quite a competitive one and there are hundreds of film makers who are determined to out do it within the next year or so. But until Avengers Assemble 2 (I am of course assuming they will be calling it that :-S) we have more Marvel sequels to look forward to that will be building up to the sequel of all sequels. They were announced yesterday at Comic-Con: Iron Man 3 in 2013, Thor 2: The Dark World and Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. Excited much????
Apart from the Marvel movies, my other Geek pleasure is Doctor Who! I have been a fan of it since it was revived in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston playing the enigmatic Doctor, but I became slightly more obsessed with it when he regenerated into the lovely David Tennant. It is such a great show, and I'm so glad to see that it is now doing so well in the USA. I love the current line up; Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill as the main characters and they are all there at Comic-Con this weekend. Bummer! Ah well, there's always next year.
So while all that's going on I plan on bringing down the suitcase and trying to figure out what I'm going to pack for the holidays! But I can't be bothered to do that right now so maybe I'll just keep on watching very old episodes of The Simpsons (so old are these episodes that Waylon Smithers is actually black with blue hair!!!!)
Happy Sunday everyone!
Peace and Love
TT
***Hulk Mad - a phrase I made up. People close to me now know that when I use the phrase 'Hulk Mad' they need to step away as I am too angry for words! I may use it more on here if I feel like having a rant!
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