The Cinemat

I came into work last week and was informed by Steve that The Cinemat finally got a PA (that stands for public address for all you technologically impaired people, like me). This is a piece of sound equipment that we have long been needing, and the getting of it worth hearty celebration.

Steve then asked Nathan to show me how it works. Now, what followed may have been the most perfect movie moment of my life, but for you to appreciate it, I must first explain that Nathan is extremely mellow. So when he was pointing out which cables were connected to which speakers, his tone was characteristically low-key.

Which only made what happened funnier.

As soon as I entered the screening room, I saw the new PA illuminated beneath the stage lights...and what should issue forth from the store stereo but "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Strauss (the monkeys finding the monolith music from 2001: A Space Odyssey)? Nathan's narration seemed to be timed to the phrases of the music. It was simultaneously epic and banal.

Not all of his instructions may stick in my head, in light of the fact that I was working so hard to stifle peals of laughter. I kept thinking of the bicycle reveal scene in "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" (which may utilize that same piece of music now that I think about it).

Anyway, for all you bands out there: we have a new PA.