on Sunday night. Down in Palm Springs, BigBoi and I went to see the movie Block Party. As we were waiting for the movie to start, I mentioned I would probably have a blog post that looked something like this.

Title: You owe me $4.25...
Body: Because I paid $9.25 to see Block Party and it was maybe worth $5.

Then I would've ranted for a while about how it was disappointing, etc. However, I actually really enjoyed it. I thought it had a good positive vibe throughout, and I thoroughly enjoyed the collaborative nature of the music.

So, as difficult as this is to say, thanks GA for getting me to go see the movie.

On a slightly more shocking note. On a 3 day vacation, BigBoi and I only drank a combined 24 beers. As someone with a guitar once said: "Times, they are a changing."

UPDATE: Glad you enjoyed it, gage. I was going to finally write my review on it tonight, but instead of burying this post and being redundant, I am going to piggyback this one.

I say redundant because that is exactly what I thought of it. It was a very happy film. Mrs. GA Hill and I left the theater with smiles on our faces. A great day of positivity. The music was (predictably) fantastic. But I really enjoyed the behind-the-scenes aspect of it. And the labor of love that Chappelle puts into this entire deal really shines through--it suprisingly lacked a lot of jackass moments, but had an abundance of feel-good moments. Don't get me wrong: it definately has hilarious moments. But it was inspirational, as well. In particular, one of the final scenes where Wycleff is talking to this college marching band and asking them what would they do if they were president. And I tell you what: I turned into a Democrat at that moment in the theater (don't worry, I went back to hating small children and exploiting poor people a couple of hours later).

All boiled down, it was a fantastic movie. A+ in my book. And it was very different than what I expected.