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Even so, this is pretty darn cool. I agree with dersins - sometimes they miss the mark, and I just hated the thing they did to that band, the stunt that got on This American Life. But this had a beauty to it.
I think they could easily have been recording the frequency. Still, he did sound a little too Boston or something.
Anyway, there are times to absolutely NOT do this, but there's hardly a GOOD time. Obviously they wanted an audience, not a crush.
If you pass through past midnight, sometimes it's actually quiet enough that you can hear your individual footsteps echo, and not just the omnipresent rumble of everyone else's.
Also, the concourse looks so much better since they took down the illuminated Kodak billboard that took up one whole balcony end (the one opposite the oyster bar). Ah, yes -- the Colorama.
What's weird for me is that people still fall for this stuff - I would just see in and go. I wish IE would do something different - they have so many events like this - Freeze Time in A Dept. Store, blah blah blah.
I like em and all, I just want something different - although their Best Buy store impersonators event was absolutely brilliant.