Live Blogging – Listening to a Neighbors Movie
This is a completely improvised, written as it happens blog post. I’ve never done one of these before so it is a bit of an experiment. I am currently sitting in the front room of a friend’s house in Amsterdam. He’s not here. He’s in Australia. Don’t worry. I’ve not broken in. I’m house sitting for him. It is 11:45 at night. My girlfriend is asleep downstairs and for the last 15 minutes I have been listening to someone in the street watching a very loud movie while I try to write another not so improvised blog post.
At least I assume they are watching a movie. Maybe they are just having a shoot-out/car chase/military incursion going on in their living room. Either way I have become too intrigued in trying to work out what movie they are watching to write what I was originally writing.
I’ve not worked out much about the movie so far but the plot seems to be something along the lines of; “Argh!” Bang! Bang! “Go, go, go!” Bang! Bang! “We have a situation here.” Bang! “Argh! Go, go, go!”
In fact, for the last 15 minutes someone in the movie has been shouting “go, go, go” every few seconds. It must be a very exciting action movie or they really have to go somewhere. Maybe they are very late for a meeting.
I think someone just gave a motivational speech but it’s hard to make out the words. The music was very motivational though and there was a lot of cheering at the end. Could it be Brave Heart? There was a very motivational speech in that movie. Were there any shoot-outs or car chases in Brave Heart? I’ve not seen it.
No wait… That was a roar. I just heard a roar. It must be a monster movie. That or I just heard a drunk tourist in the street… No, I think it is definitely a monster movie. Maybe dinosaurs if I had to make an educated guess.
Someone is shouting “go, go, go” again. They must be really late for that appointment.
I could swear I just heard the voice of Jar-Jar? It’s hard to tell above all the gun fire and screaming. It could have been Shawn Connery. Were they ever in a movie together? Maybe some kind of buddy cop movie?
There was a loud crash but that was not the movie. Someone just fell off their bike in the street.
Now I hear emotional music. I think someone just died. I hope it was Jar-Jar and not Shawn Connery.
And now a car alarm has been going off for the last 10 minutes. There is no way of me knowing how the Brave-Heart-Buddy-Cop-Late-For-Meeting-Monster-Movie ends now. It will be a mystery that will go forever unanswered and torment me till my grave. At least they were nice enough to let me and the rest of the street hear their movie.
I bid you all goodnight.
(Posted at 1:00am. This is what happens when I try to write when I should be sleeping)
Are you talking about Shawn Connery in Brave Heart? I think you mean Mel Gibson :P
Lol. Goodnight, Stuart. You need to “go, go, go!” to bed. *crash, bang*
Maybe someone just really needed the toilet (I’ve got to “go, go, go”), but had to face all these obstacles, such as dinosaurs, Sean Connery, Braveheart, and a war or two. Sadly, that doesn’t sound like such a far-fetched premise for a movie these days. ;)
I hope you were finally able to get some decent rest, but I can’t help but laugh a little about the idea of Jar-Jar and Connery in a buddy cop movie ;-)
I vote for Cloverfield :-) But at least it wasn’t…er, love-noises?
Rob – No. I honest to good thought I heard the great Shawn Connery himself at one point but I don’t think it was really him. It just sounded like him.
French Bean – I’m glad I did go, go, go to bed. Who knows what I mikght have started writing next if I stayed up any longer.
Alison – I hear they have Michael Bay working on just such a movie.
A Touch of Dutch – But would it make people forgive Jar-Jar for The Phantom Menace?
Jules – Oh dear god. I had not thought of that. It could have been very loud, very complicated love noises :S
I guessed Godzilla at the time, but looking back, I think it might have been a video game. No film is that repetitive, unless it’s directed by Michael Bay.
Well, thank those antisocial neighbours for this great post! :D I hope you got some rest after all the bang-bang-go-go was done!!
May be they were watching Predators ! Just a guess.
SO how many days you are going to house-sit for them? May be then you can catch up with many such audios movies and also some more posts about that ;) hehe
Andrew – Or a computer game directed by Michael Bay. Now there is something to fear. (Video game did cross my mind at one point but I’m 99.9% sure it was a movie or TV show).
Aledys Ver – I did in the end luckily. I could have slept during it but I might have had some strange dreams :)
Lopa – It’s funny you should say that. I thought Predators at one point as well. I kept on listening for some to give the advice “get to the chopper now” but it never came.
I’ve got just a few more days house sitting so I’m sure there will be more.
hmm, a load movie? was is oploaded, or downloaded? :p
I know the movie! I watched it the other night and remember thinking gee that sounds like JarJar Binks!!!…but im not telling
Iooryz – Oh it could have been a very downloaded movie :p
Irishangell – oh you are evil. Dangaling the carrot of false movie knowledge in front of me :p
If you’re house-sitting for a friend, who is watching over your house?
Bart – Burgles