More like Jerks II
I am a semi-regular reader of Kevin Smith’s blog My Boring Ass Life, so when he mentioned there, that he would be visiting Melbourne when his new film Clerks II opened on August 31, I made a note of the date in my phone.
Then I read in Hit that the Melbourne premiere will be at The Astor on August 25, with Mr. Smith in attendance, and that tickets are available from Ticketmaster. I eagerly jumped on over to Ticketmaster, only to discover tickets had sold out. It seems that although Hit had mentioned it on Thursday as though it was recent news, and despite my existing membership to Ticketmaster’s newsletter, neither had alerted me to the fact that tickets had not only gone on sale on Monday, but that there was also a pre-sale on Sunday. I didn’t stand a chance.
We rang Ticketmaster numerous times to check for cancellations, to no avail. I trawled eBay, but was outbid by an incomprehensible margin by some lunatic who paid $404 for two tickets!
If you haven’t guessed by the title of this post yet — I didn’t get to see it. Bad publicity, bad venue, bad timing — it’s everybody’s fault but mine! I might do an update to this post when I actually get round to seeing the film. Or not.
On the positive side though, I did get a new job, and house, and it’s my birthday in a couple of weeks, so two out of three ain’t bad.