Just had to share that I’m watching a movie I’d never gotten around to: Woodstock. It’s excellent, and the stage announcements are a classic part of hippiedom (“The brown acid is NOT poison… It’s just BAD acid.”).
Well, just as the rain’s starting you hear:
"Hey, maybe if we all think real hard we can stop
this rain, now, we’re getting stuff set up here
for Country Joe and the Fish–Jody, get off the stage–and we need everyone
to be cool while we do this… everyone, could you please move away from the towers… "
“Jody, get off the stage.”?* Wait, did I hear that right? No change of timbre or volume, it’s just one more request from The Voice of God. I went back, and, yep, some Jody annoyed the announcer enough to be immortalized in Woodstock lore (and in what’s looking like one of the best music documentaries I’ve ever seen).
*I repeated it in surprise, not unlike “‘And how are you, Mr. Wilson?’ Who in the dictionary wants to know?” (Harvey reference)
If you know Jody, if you are Jody, let us know.
And since this really isn’t worth its own thread, feel free to post your own minor WTFs or odd little incidents. Movie, TV, book-on-tape, real book, I don’t care.
Bonus points if it jerked you out of the story: “Jody, get off the stage?!? Is she really that much trouble?”