So, how was your trip to wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen, John? Well, quite good, actually. We came over Friday afternoon and some of us went out to this incredibly cheap Spanish restaurant and had a nice meal. Most of the stuff on the menu looked the same, so I ordered the chimichanga, because it's fun to say. After that we went and saw 28 Days Later.

We actually wanted to see Rules of Attraction, but it was sold out, so although none of us really knew what 28 Days Later was about we went with the brand name recognition of Danny Boyle. Because it was so cool to see a movie I had no idea what was about I won't reveal anything about it here except for one thing: The movie is crazy scary, yo! People were jumping around in their seats throughout the movie and afterwards you could hear people going "Damn, homie!" (or, you know, a Danish equivalent) and talking about how freaky this movie had been. The script is written by Alex "The Beach" Garland and has a couple of cynical plot twists along the way, which just makes the movie even more nasty. I'm not a big horror/splatter movie fan, but this one has that creepy Invasion Of The Body Snatchers feel to it, which I dig. So afterwards we were on such a high that we had to drink weiss beer and talk about the movie for hours.

Saturday, two of us went shopping (I picked up three old CDs), then we watched Kissing Jessica Stein (which is very funny and has a very cool soundtrack), and later everyone came by for some food before the show. I was in the fortunate situation that I had a huge apartment to my disposal for the entire weekend, so we used "my place" as a base for everyone else, who was going with us to the show.

Eventually, we went to the show and although I'd been to the venue before (I was there in 1993 to see Extreme who, no mattter what anyone says, totally rocks!) I didn't recognize it at all. The others hadn't been there before, so they were equally surprised to see what is basically the kind of venue you'd use for a Microsoft convention or something. It's located next to a hotel, so all the people working the bars were hotel people in white shirts and black vests, there were water fountains there, and the whole place was just decidedly anti-rock and roll.
But it didn't really matter, because we were excited to see Aimee Mann. She has refered to her show this summer at the Roskilde Festival as one of her best shows ever, so we figured she'd be happy to be back. She went on after nine (her support act was her bass player Paul Bryan) and played about an hour and a half including two sets of encores. The show started off slowly with a couple of slow songs from the new record, but soon she started playing some of the better tracks of that record, tracks from Bachelor No.2, and especially tracks from I'm With Stupid, which really got the crowd going. She played Wise Up and Save Me back-to-back, but for some reason she didn't quiet the band down, so people could sing along, which would have been the stadium rock way of doing things.

She played a bunch of encores, went off stage and came back and announced that it was request time. People started screaming all kinds of titles, but thankfully she heard someone ask for One, so she played that and then The Other End of the Telescope, which is a song co-written by Elvis Costello, and ended the show with Deathly.
I thought the show was really great. She played a lot of stuff from Stupid and frm Bachelor and although she seemed a bit frosty at first she warmed up to the crowd really quickly. One amazing moment was her introduction to You Could Make a Killing, where she explained how the song was written about Noel Gallagher before she meet him. And after she'd hung out with him after a few shows she realized the song was really more about herself, which I took to mean that she wasn't quite as hot for him after she'd actually talk to him.

After the show we went out and ended up at Vega. Apparently. some super DJ was playing there (DJ Cosmos I think), but we went into the lounge, which was like a Motown party. Every track had a Jackson Five/Stevie Wonder bassline and a lot of the tracks were funky cover versions, so the whole joint was jumpin', jumpin'. Unfortunately, I didn't feel so hot, so after a couple of hours (this is like at 3 in the morning) I had to bail, but it had been a sweet party until then.

So Sunday all I did was watch movies and drink coffee. I sat through both discs of An Evening with Kevin Smith (which is extremely funny. I'm a sucker for Hollywood anecdotes, so all the stories about making the movies, working on other scripts, and especially the Prince story was just fantastic. However, I wish they'd edited out some of the annoying stoner kids), Robin Williams - Live on Broadway (which wasn't as funny as I though it would be, but it definitely had some hysterical moments), Igby Goes Down (which I didn't know anything about, but really enjoyed. Bill Pullman is totally underrated (see Zero Effect for further evidence), Amanda Peet is totally hot, and Kieran Culkin has a ton of great lines), and finally Bottle Rocket (gotta love those Wilson boys).

Monday, I watched Mystery Men, because Ben Stiller is always funny and then I took the bus home. Although I was pretty beat (I'm even more beat now, so sorry if this post is a bit rambling and disorganised) I managed to read a hundred pages of The Corrections, which I still think is totally great.
Now I have to get a truck load of stuff in order, because I'm going back to Copenhagen on Thursday for the Flaming Lips/Brendan Benson show. So things will probably get a little hectic here over the next couple of days. Also, now I'm unbelievably broke, so I have to figure out how I get through this month, where my calendar is pretty packed with fun, but expensive things I'd like to participate in.