USA Today is reporting that moviegoers will be subjected to ever-increasing amounts of pre-movie advertising in the coming year. Supposedly we can expect up to 20 minutes of advertising prior to the movie trailers.

Personally, I love movie trailers and am quite annoyed when other advertising is interjected before the upcoming attractions begin. If a movie is scheduled to start at 8:00pm then I want the lights to dim and the movie trailers to begin showing right at 8:00pm. I do not want to sit through 20 minutes of advertising and then 10 minutes of upcoming attractions and have the movie I paid for actually begin at 8:30.

Some pre-movie material I do enjoy. The Coca Cola student films are always enjoyable. However, I don't want Sprite ads or MovieTickets.com/Fandango ads taking up my time after the scheduled start time. Yes I enjoyed the Lego ads, but just because I enjoyed them doesn't mean others didn't hate them.

I am perfectly fine with the theatre running high quality video advertising before the lights dim instead of the current crop of bad music and community college slideshow advertising. However, when the time on the clock matches the time on my ticket I want the lights to dim and the movie (and movie trailers) experience to begin. Sometimes the trailers are more exciting than the movie...

I just returned from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert. The performance was quite good and the theatrics were very impressive. I'm a sucker for laser shows and pyrotechnics. They said that Oklahoma City is their fastest growing venue (1500 tickets sold last year and over 6000 sold this year).

Here is a video of someone's Christmas lights display synched to the TSO song, Wizards of Winter.

I just read on the Interweb that the powers that be might bring us a new Ghostbusters movie, entitled Ghostbusters in Hell. Ben Stiller could join Rick Moranis and Dan Aykroyd in the first Ghostbuster's movie in over 16 years.

http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3467374

Make yourself at home.

Well, I just got back from my Sunday evening league bowling. My grandmother who is 88 bowled with us tonight as a substitute for one of our teammates. I am glad she was there to witness my all time high game. I bowled a 256 in the final game with 7 strikes in a row. In the same game my father bowled a 234. We had a blast.

My game was 8/ 8/ X X X X X X X 8/ X. The 8 in the 10th frame was a 5-10 split which I picked up perfectly. All in all my game was much more than 100 pins over my average (yes, my average is horrible this season).