Friday, August 04, 2006

Head off to Coney Island with Dagfinn to check out the free outdoor screening of The Warriors, which is being shown as part of Netflix's Rolling Roadshow thing.

I hold down the fort as Dagfinn goes off in search of Nathan's. It's early, and there's already a ton of people in the park.

The movie is projected from a truck onto this funky inflatable movie screen thing. The elevated train tracks are about a block away, and trains rumble past atmospherically about every ten minutes. Trippy.




After the show, pretty much every surviving cast member of the movie (including the oft-rumored-dead Roger Hill, who played Cyrus) takes the stage to field questions from the audience.


Can't end the night without taking one iconic Coney image:


The event is "hosted" by Lisa Loeb, inasmuch as she takes the stage before the movie and gives a little welcome speech, wherein she manages to mispronounce "Coney Island" - she says it like "Connie". I like Lisa Loeb a lot (despite how badly she came off in that tv show she did), but it's still funny.

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