Feature Article: Spontaneous mothers?
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     Inside each mom is a ball of random events waiting to happen. This
will be my testimony (yeah).
     Last Sunday, I finally convinced my mom to go see Fantasia 2000 with
me. It was a pretty uphill battle for a month. The feature only plays in
IMAX theaters, and is about ten bucks for an hour and a half, so Mom kept
pulling the "not-monetarily-efficient" argument. But I convince her and
we make our plans to go Saturday (Mar. 4).
     Saturday comes, and we take the train up and make it in time. We
watch the flick and for once, Mom doesn't fall asleep during a movie I
pick. It actually happens a lot. She fell asleep in the middle of "Robin
Hood: Prince of Thieves," for crying out loud! So she didn't fall asleep,
which is a good thing. It was a really good movie. Disney's managed to
put out a pretty good film. This time around, the classical pieces are a
little bit more famous, like Beethoven Fifth and "Pomp & Circumstance,"
the ole graduation song. The animation was interesting, with stuff like
Donald Duck's part in Noah's Ark and a pod of flying whales. My two
favorite parts were "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" piece and Gershwin's
"Rhapsody in Blue."
     So we watch the movie and it's all good. We get out of the theater
and we're trying to figure out what to do now. As Mom put it, it'd be a
waste to go all the way to New York and go home at One in the afternoon.
So we walk around for a while, and we come across the New Amsterdam
Theater, where "The Lion King" is playing (Don't worry, I haven't become
Disney's corporate whore, I assure you. More on that later). So on a
whim, Mom decides we should watch it! So we walk into the ticket office
and they're sold out. Until JUNE. I figure that's the end of that and we
walk out. When we get outside, mom darts off and when I find her, she's
standing in the cancellation line! FYI, that's where people stand on the
off hopes that there are people that don't show up for the show and we
get there tickets. So we stand there for 45 minutes, and we get in!

News Boxers:
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     - Okay, We've got an idea for a music video, but we're searching for
some footage. IF ANY OF YOU HAVE "IRRESPONSIBLE CAPTAIN TYLER" DUBBED OR
ON LASERDISK, TELL ME. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't
worry about it.
     - Got Fantasia 2000 soundtrack. It's kinda strange, how it took a
movie to get me interested in classical music again.
     - Started work on a Compilation CD. It's something I'll keep in the
car, since it was inspired by "Crazy Taxi" got a bunch of what are in my
opinion, essential driving songs.
     - Disney/ABC is really pissing me off. Go to www.newsaskew.com for
the 411.
     - Clerification: Justin was trying to get me to marry Steph, not me
trying to get him to marry her.

I don't know what it is with me and "The Older Generation" of stuff.
I guess I was just born anachronistic. Anyway, Ole Gary has twenty-five
years worth of anecdotes and humorous tales to share, if only you'd tune
into National Public Radio once in a while. Never would I have thought,
if you had presented this to me five years ago, that some monotonous
speaker from St. Paul Minnesota would make me laugh. but he does. It's
really weird. It's not sarcastic humor, and it's not Lukas-type humor (if
there is such a thing) but it's some type of humor that somehow everybody
finds funny. A definite must-hear. www.npr.com for more details
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