Day: October 1, 2008

Last night after watching the concert DVD, Pascal, Mike and I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall which is one of those lovely Judd Apatow productions (Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, etc.).  It was quite hilarious.  It follows Jason Segel (who actually wrote the film) and Kristen Bell (our very own Veronica Mars) as they end a five year relationship.  Jason Segel is having a tough time getting over her so he takes a vacation to Hawaii and happens to stumble into Kristen Bell with a new man in tow and pity takes over the film but is interspersed with hilarious parts.

I found the funniest part about this film are all the secondary/cameo roles in the film.  My favourite was when Jason Segel is in bed with a woman and it turns out to be Carla Gallo who played his girlfriend in the Apatow ‘Undeclared’ tv series (where a lot of the Apatow alumni appear).  There was also Jonah Hill (of Superbad fame…a film I still have yet to see) who plays a hilarious waiter.  So there are definitely a lot of cameo roles that keep the laughter up.

The only complaint I had about the film is that they make Kristen Bell out to be a harsh, harsh woman and she just can’t be that.  She’s too hot (and Vero agrees) to be an evil person.

Go rent this now.  It had us laughing all night.  Too bad Pascal realized she had already seen it 30 seconds into the film.

Turns out Gdansk is in Poland.  I didn’t know that until watching this concert DVD.
Last night after class I head home on a dreary, rainy night and have a welcome surprise at the door waiting for me.  My shipment from Amazon!  In it is the holy grail of David Gilmour…his new live concert DVD.  Instead of paying $60 for this package I opted for ordering it from the States and only paying $30 + Shipping.

This set includes a two CD set of the entire concert, a DVD of ‘most’ of the concert (only missing six songs) and a bonus DVD which includes a bunch of other appearances in promoting his live disc “On an Island” as well as the On An Island album mixed in 5.1 surround sound.  This particular concert in Gdansk was the final concert of his tour, the only one to feature an orchestra, the only one to feature the song ‘Good Day for Freedom’ and may very well be the final concert Richard Wright (keyboards for Pink Floyd) played before passing away.  Quite the monumental event which was captured on film.

I popped in the DVD, cranked the stereo and enjoyed the sweet, sweet sounds from Gilmour’s guitar coming through the speakers.  It was a great concert and I enjoyed the orchestra bits as well.  It wasn’t a grand contrast like Metallica’s S&M film considering Pink Floyd is nowhere near heavy metal so the orchestra fit well.  They even played Echoes with is 30 minutes of greatness.  All in all, this is a great concert DVD for David Gilmour fans and I haven’t even touched the second disc yet which seems to be even more entertaining with it containing Echoes (Acoustic) as well as three jam sessions with the band.  That shall be cool.  Plus there is a web access portion of the disc to get limited edition audio tracks.  Haven’t checked out what they are yet however.

iplaying: Echoes – David Gilmour (Live in Gdansk)